Continuing global initiatives: #1day1woman Focus on Suffrage

February: Social Workers Black Women Geofocus: Ancient World

March: Women's History Month: Art+Feminism & VisibleWikiWomen Francophone Women

See also: Future events

Welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR)! Our objective is to turn red links into blue ones. Our project's scope is women's representation on all language Wikipedias (biographies, women's works, women's issues, broadly construed). Did you know that, according to Humaniki, only 19.73% of the English Wikipedia's biographies are about women? Not impressed? Content gender gap is a form of systemic bias, and this is what WiR addresses. We invite you to participate, whenever you like, in whatever way suits you and your schedule. Editors of all genders are equally and warmly welcome at Women in Red!

Online event 1–28 February 2019
Christine Eyene

In February 2019, Women in Red is focusing on black women in conjunction with Black History Month.

We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about black women, as well as their achievements, writings, organizations, and awards. This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in our initiative. You are of course also welcome to add articles on any other notable women who deserve to be covered, for example under our #1day1woman priority.

The main goals of the event are:

• to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of some of the world's most prominent women
• to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action on a specific area
• to support Wikipedia in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
• to promote the new/improved articles and images through social media (Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter)

What else?

• Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you create this month, and another section where you can add the images you have uploaded to Commons.
• This essay on creating women's biographies and our Ten Simple Rules might be helpful to newer editors.
• If you tweet about any of the articles, or upload any of the images to Pinterest, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.

Redlists

These are lists of redlinked articles to be created. A wide variety of redlink lists can be found on our Redlist index. Those relating to black women are listed below:

• Black women in the visual arts (created automatically from Wikidata)
• Black history (crowd sourced list)
• Black women in the US (crowd sourced list)
• Indigenous black women in Australia (crowd sourced list)

Redlinks

If it's not already on a list, you can make specific article suggestions here. If possible, please include a source.

• Add here

Works in progress (Drafts, AfCs, AfDs,…)

You can improve articles that have already been started which match this month's theme but need more work. Drafts may be listed here or on the Crowd-sourced lists above. Editors may list their userspace drafts here if they want assistance. Skilled editors can review articles submitted for creation (AfC). Articles considered for deletion (AfD) can be listed if they need improvements, such as adding citations to establish notability (use WP:HEY when done).

• Lottie 'The Body' Graves - article proposed for deletion 3 February 2019, tagged for multiple issues since 2017  Done
• Edythe Lewis - article nominated for deletion 4 February 2019, a stub since 2004

Add to articles

• Authority control should be included at the foot of every biography: ((Authority control)). It will remain hidden until relevant identifiers have been added to Wikidata.
• Choose applicable Categories including relevant subcategories of Category:Women.
• If applicable, add a stub template at the foot of an article:((stub)).

Add to article talk pages

• ((WikiProject Biography| )) or ((WikiProject Biography))
• ((WikiProject Women)) if born after 1950; or ((WikiProject Women's History)):: if born before 1950.
• Editathon banner: ((WIR-110))
• ((Image requested|people)), if it needs a photograph

Link to

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Promote our work

Key:

• Add FB after the article if you mention it on Facebook
• Add PIN after the article if you pin the image on Pinterest
• Add TW after the article if you tweet it on Twitter

New or upgraded articles

Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new

Did You Know features

New/expanded articles featured in the Did you know... column of the Wikipedia Main page

• ... that Venezuelan journalist Luz Mely Reyes was one of the "Guardians" highlighted for Time Person of the Year 2018? (17 March)
• ... that Véronique Aka (pictured) was the first woman to be elected president of an Ivorian regional council? (14 March)
• ... that Joyce Sumbi, one of thirteen black librarians in the 242-librarian LA County Library system in 1971, charged her employer with discrimination against minorities? (25 February)
• ... that Madame A. C. Bilbrew directed the choir that appeared as cotton pickers singing spirituals in Hearts in Dixie, one of the first all-black talkies? (24 February)
• ... that, influenced by the Harlem Renaissance, Los Angeles teacher Dorothy Vena Johnson wrote poems such as "Epitaph for a Bigot" and "Post War Ballad"? (23 February)
• ... that Jennie Jackson, an original member of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, performed with the ensemble before US President Ulysses S. Grant, Mark Twain, and Queen Victoria? (20 February)

Add here – most recent at the top

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  Mary A. McCurdy
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  Vivian Osborne Marsh
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  Janie Porter Barrett
• Painting by Elizabeth Colomba
  Painting by Elizabeth Colomba
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  Lavinia B. Sneed
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  M. Cravath Simpson, 1910
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  Gbemi Olateru Olagbegi
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  Samke Makhoba
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  Mamodibe Ramodibe
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  Nadia Nakai
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  Moonchild Sanelly
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  Bontle Modiselle
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  Lerato Walaz
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  Dee Rasedile
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  Mamodibe Ramodibe
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  Thishiwe Ziqubu
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  Lerato Walaza
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  Keitumetse Sefothelo
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  Mohau Mokoatle-Cele
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  Samke Makhoba
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  Nadia Nakai
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  Moonchild Sanelly
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  Atiya
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  Tolani
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  Cee C
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  Ella D. Barrier
• Renee Powell
  Renee Powell
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  Alice Wiley Seay
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  Ione Wood Gibbs
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  Sarah Garland Boyd Jones
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  Jennie Jackson
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  Sara Winifred Brown
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  Amelia Tilghman
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  Northeastern Federation of Colored Women's Clubs
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  Thyra J. Edwards
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  Eva Roberta Coles Boone
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  Althea Brown Edmiston
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  Mary Eliza Walker Crump

• Invitation: FEBRUARY 2019
• Editathon banner for talk pages: Template:WIR-110: ((WIR-110))