January: Alphabet run M & N Geofocus East Asia Women who died in 2022

2023 global initiatives: #1day1woman2023 Peace and Diplomacy

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 19.74% 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!

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In January, Wiki Women in Red's geofocus is on women from East Asia, namely China, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea and Taiwan. This will complete our four-month focus on Asia.

We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about notable women from or associated with these countries.

This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts wherever they may be to participate in our initiative. Contributors are of course also welcome to add articles on any other women who deserve to be covered, for example under the topics of the month or our comprehensive #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 in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
• to promote the new and improved articles and images through social media and via nominations to Main Page features "Did You Know?" and "In The News".

What else?

• Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you create month by 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 or images on social media, or successfully nominate for Main Page, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.

Thank you!

Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)

Red-link lists of women from a wide variety of fields can be accessed from the WiR Redlink index. Those which might be most useful for women in East Asia are listed below. Please note: listing does not guarantee qualification for inclusion in the encyclopedia. Please read Primer for creating women's biographies.

Redlinked names not currently included in a Women in Red redlist

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• Ritsuko Nagao - Japanese Justice minister (1996)
• Anabela Ritchie Speaker of the Legislative Assembly (1992-99). Macau
• Yun Gi-jong stub
• Jingyi Shi Genetics of acute myeloid leukemia
• Liu Zhihua (medical researcher), cancer research, [1]
• Mio Ozawa, nutritional epidemiology
• Barbro Beck-Friis — バルブロ・ベック＝フリース [ja]
• Atsuko Takagi, molecular genetics, lipoproteinmetabolism, [2]
• Kazuko Asai Japanese diplomat
• Mitsuko ItoJapanese Diplomat
• Takako Ito Japanese Consul General in Toronto ^[1]
• Keiko Haneda Japanese diplomat
• Kayoko Fukushima Japanese diplomat
• Sakado Ogata Japanese diplomat
• Nobuko Takahashi (ambassador)
• Zhang Jin Jie, china's only female masterchef, [3], [4]
• Chiho Kanzaki Japanese chef
• Maria Akasaka (赤坂マリア) 2019 Transgender Kameoka City Council member in Kyoto Prefecture

• Karen Liao, participant in the Gay Games VIII from China

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Did you know? articles

• ... that popular Korean folk singer Wang Su-bok was given birthday gifts by both Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il? (2023-02-14)
• ... that Kakusan-ni was the founding abbess of a Buddhist convent that was a refuge for women running away from their husbands? (2023-01-24)
• ... that Park Ji-hyun helped to expose an online sex-crime ring and later became the interim co-chair of the Democratic Party of Korea at the age of 26? (2023-01-17)
• ... that campaigning by climate activist Kimiko Hirata halted plans to build 17 new coal-fired power plants following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan? (2023-01-15)

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• Yang Yi (translator) (2023-02-02)

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