November 2018

Women in Religion

Online event 1–30 November 2018
Women in Church Vocations conference 1959

In November 2018, in collaboration with the 1000 Women in Religion initiative at the Parliament of the World's Religions conference in Toronto, Canada, Women in Red is focusing on religion. This will provide an opportunity for you to write biographies relating to women's leadership in religious and spiritual traditions around the world. In connection with the Parliament of World Religions meeting, there is a special Wikipedia session on Saturday, 3 November.

We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about women in religion, 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.

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.