August: Alphabet Run: C to D Indigenous women Refugees Comedians, Comics and other Performers

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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 19.76% 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!

Welcome!

Online event 1–31 August 2022
WiR Indigenous women annual editathon

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.	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)).

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.	((WikiProject Biography| )) or ((WikiProject Biography)) ((WikiProject Women)) if born after 1950; or ((WikiProject Women's History)):: if born before 1950. Editathon banner: ((WIR-237))

Every August, we give special attention to Indigenous women from around the world. We hope both new contributors and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies about Indigenous women, as well as articles on their achievements, writings, organizations, and awards. You can of course also write articles on any other notable women, 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 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

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 share any of the articles on social media (thank you!), please indicate you have done so next to the article name.

Thank you!

Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)

We have a wide variety of red-link lists. In addition to those on women from pertinent countries, the following should be particularly useful in identifying indigenous women who deserve to be covered:

Add other red links here, if possible with a source:

• Native Women's Association of Canada is poorly sourced and could use some editing. Might be a source for sister organizations and names of indigenous women leaders.

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
• Add IG after the article if you post it on Instagram
• Add LI after the article if you post it on LinkedIn

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

• Add here – most recent at the top with date of publication
• 3 September 2022: ... that Mihi Edwards did not use her own name as a young woman because of discrimination against Māori people in New Zealand?
• 30 August 2022: ... that New Zealand composer Maewa Kaihau sold her rights to the song "Now is the Hour" for £10, a decade before it became a hit in the United Kingdom and United States?

• Please add this category to the image if you're uploading it to Commons: Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2022

Add here – most recent at the top

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  Emma Kickapoo 1913
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  Maewa Kaihau, c. 1900
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  Atalie Unkalunt, 1918
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  Atalie Unkalunt by Remington Schuyler, 1923
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  Atalie Unkalunt, 1926
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  VP Charles Curtis and Atalie Unkalunt, 1929
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  Camille Callison at IFLA WLIC
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  Ulla Pirttijärvi performing at the Etno-Espa music festival in Helsinki
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  Ulla Pirttijärvi performing at the Etno-Espa music festival in Helsinki

• Invitation: August 2022
• Editathon banner for talk pages: Template:WIR-237: ((WIR-237))