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    Wikidata and Sister Projects: an online event

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    Hello WiR project members, I’m reaching out to ask if Women in Red would be interested in hosting a session at an upcoming online conference Wikidata and Sister Projects; which is focused on how Wikidata connects or supports Wikipedia, Commons, and the other Wikimedia projects.
    The event will run from May 29 to June 1, with 3–4 hours of programming each day, divided into 30-minute or 1-hour slots.

    I hope this would be a great opportunity to showcase how Wikidata supports your project—whether through structured data, tools, or workflows that assist in article creation, (perhaps something like using ListeriaBot or Wikidata-generated lists to track missing articles and guide editors in bridging content gaps). We would love for you to share your experiences, highlight useful tools, or present any Wikidata-related initiatives that have helped advance Women in Red’s mission.
    If you’re interested in hosting a session, please submit your proposal here: Session Proposal template. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions! Looking forward to your thoughts.
    - Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (talk) 13:02, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Hello @Danny Benjafield (WMDE) thanks so much for this. I think @Oronsay has presented on how we use Wikidata elsewhere? It seems like a great thing for Women in Red to be involved in. I'm struggling for time at the moment as I'm finishing my phd, but perhaps @Rosiestep or @Victuallers might have time too? I know there are lots of others who are expert! Lajmmoore (talk) 13:31, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks for the ping, Lajmmoore and hi, Danny Benjafield (WMDE). I have a WikiPortrait photoshoot during that period, but June 1 is possibly okay. I'll take a look at the "Session Proposal template" later today. --Rosiestep (talk) 14:39, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Hello @Rosiestep, thank you so much for having a look. If you have any questions about the event, please reach out. - Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (talk) 12:45, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Hi Danny Benjafield (WMDE). I did look and my only issue is with time due to heavy travel schedule. --Rosiestep (talk) 13:40, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Maybe @Dsp13 you'd be interested? Lajmmoore (talk) 13:32, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Simple EN-WP

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    Does anyone here have experience with it? Besides writing in simpler language, are there policy differences between it and EN-WP? Might there be some articles within the scope of WiR at EN-WP Articles for Creation, that are stuck there but would be okay for Simple EN-WP? -- Rosiestep (talk) 23:05, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    I've only had one major interaction with Simple Wikipedia and it was...not great. It was back during this discussion and this Afd (RfD over there). Apparently it's commonplace over there to delegitimize non-English sources as contributing to notability and also the idea of having to look for sources at all? That was the impression I got, at least. SilverserenC 23:31, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Simple:Wikipedia:Notability (people) looks similar to Wikipedia:Notability (people). Simple en seems to be a much smaller project, with 75,000 bios rather than 2 million, so adding bios that are not notable on en Wikipedia would not necessarily help their project.
    Asilvering seemed knowledgeable when Simple EN-WP was discussed a few weeks ago. TSventon (talk) 14:35, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Rosiestep I spent some time working on Simple English Wikipedia in the Summer of 2023. The criteria for notability are the same as English Wikipedia. The oversight is not quite as robust as on English Wikipedia, but the effect would be to "sneak" pages onto Simple English Wikipedia. BTW - it is hard to write for Simple English Wikipedia! You have to use a different composing part of your brain. I liked working over there, but it was a learning curve to write for that audience. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 14:38, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    To add to what others have said, I wouldn't recommend doing this, but I really would not recommend doing this for BLPs in particular. Fewer active patrollers means dodgy changes are more likely to stick, and the smaller editor base will tend to make it less likely that anyone will ever update an article if you don't as the original drafter. -- asilvering (talk) 18:41, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I'm a bit late, but there are no real differences in notability requirements between the two projects. Also, as an avid simplewiki editor, we could use some extra editors. It's shocking how many obvious topics are either two-sentence stubs or missing entirely. Also, DYK at simplewiki is much less restrictive than at enwiki, because simplewiki doesn't have a newness requirement or a QPQ requirement, making it much easier to nominate a hook. QuicoleJR (talk) 18:41, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Also, this page provides a basic guide to all of the major differences between the two wikis. QuicoleJR (talk) 18:59, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    The European Destubathon

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    Somebody should count how many women bios are being improved. The output in the first week has been amazing. Could even be a record of most existing women bios improved, not sure. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 07:25, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    I've been adding the ones with pictures to the WiR pinterest board for April. It's a lot! Penny Richards (talk) 14:11, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Rather than going through them all manually, once the contest is over it should be possible to see how many were related to women on the basis of the categories in the articles or perhaps the wikiprojects on the talk pages. Does anyone know how to obtain results along these lines?--Ipigott (talk) 12:29, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    It looks like 331 women's bios destubbed so far, out of 1,002 articles listed. That shows about a third of the articles listed are women's bios and, if the current productivity is maintained, a thousand women's bios could be destubbed in the course of the competition. TSventon (talk) 17:10, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    A bunch of those women bio destubs are mine. I won't have the same productivity for the rest of the month, I don't think. I have a few left to expand from Ladies in the lab III, but have done all the ones in the other sources I had (Dictionary of Women in Science, vols I and II, and International Women in Science: a biographical dictionary to 1950). So now I am reduced to Googling for sources for bios I find through stub categories, which is a lot slower. Very happy to be pointed at any good resources if anyone has a bunch of stubs they'd like expanded with a source I can get hold of! DrThneed (talk) 00:08, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @DrThneed:, if you want another encyclopedia, you could try the Biographical Dictionary of Swedish Women. Is there an easy way to find stubs related to an encyclopedia? TSventon (talk) 23:18, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    That's a good question @TSventon! I was really lucky that @Rosiestep had made this redlist for one half of the Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science that isn't Wikidata generated, ie it includes all the blue links as well as the red. It is so useful, and made me wish we had more lists that include the created articles as well as the red ones. So I was able to click all of those to find the stubs (there's a few left still stubs as I have focused on certain countries, and also cos some entries just aren't long enough to support >1500b of article). I took photos of the contents for the other volume and turned it into an open refine project to find some stubs from the other volume. I don't have it completely matched to Wikidata yet (in order to find those with articles, and then in order to find the length of those articles), but at some point I'll try to finish it and turn that into a list like Rosie's that we can all see.
    Otherwise I've made my worklists by getting hold of a decent source (eg Norton/Grove women composers) and working through the stub category for those articles in a certain country. It's a bit tedious! And then Petscan is good for finding articles that are shorter than a certain size but not tagged as stubs.
    Thanks for the tip for the Swedish women's biographical dictionary - I'm on Romania at the moment, and will turn my attention to Sweden when I can! DrThneed (talk) 00:04, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @DrThneed:, I tried going to Wikidata and getting a list of items linked to the BDSW item and then copying the list back into en Wikipedia, so I suppose that is similar to Rosie's list. There are 2,000 articles in the encyclopedia, so the list is quite long. TSventon (talk) 00:37, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Dr. Blofeld: up to now (according to my list as of 11:59 today) 501 women's bios have been destubbed. TSventon (talk) 12:20, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    That's awesome TSventon, appreciate you counting! 501 articles in 13 days has got to be a record for women article improvements. Sorry Ipigott and co that they're not new articles!♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:50, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    But some of them are practically new, even if they aren't turning up as new in stats; some of those destubbed biographical articles were formerly one-sentence microstubs. Penny Richards (talk) 14:27, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Agreed! its annoying to look up a French scientist and to find that the article says she was a scientist and she was French! Victuallers (talk) 15:28, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Dr. Blofeld: according to my list as of 23:59 yesterday, 859 women's bios have been destubbed so far (with a week to go). TSventon (talk) 00:09, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    That's amazing TSventon, appreciate it. Penny Richards and Victuallers True, though many such "articles" are often mere placeholders to identify what articles are missing and just have tags saying they need to be transwikied. My point was that these full expansions of micro stubs won't register as new articles on your system, which is a shame.♦ Dr. Blofeld 04:21, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you all, 1,222 women's bios have been destubbed and I have made a list here

    Monthly newsletter template

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    I wanted to bring up the white background of the newsletter template not working with dark mode on Wikipedia. What can be done about that? Thanks. I just went and removed the white background for another template and it works fine without it being set like that. —DIYeditor (talk) 05:08, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi DIYeditor. Thanks for noticing the problem and fixing it! --Rosiestep (talk) 05:30, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Before I go poking around I wanted to make sure it is ok with everyone that I remove the forced white background. Does anyone know the location of that template offhand? —DIYeditor (talk) 22:59, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Hi DIYeditor. Can you provide a link to an example of the "newsletter" you refer to? Thanks. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 16:54, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    It's all over your talk page. —DIYeditor (talk) 00:02, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    DIYeditor, I think WomenArtistUpdates means can you provide a link to "another template" that you removed the white background from?
    I haven't tried producing the WiR news letter, but the instructions are at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Ideas#Basic overview of tasks using March 2024 as a guide. TSventon (talk) 00:35, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    @TSventon: I don't see the newsletter mentioned specifically there. It's a about real world meetups and events as far as I can tell. Maybe these end up in the newsletter.

    Basically this is being put on every WIR member's talk pages every month, and it is presumably being subst: from a template somewhere. I just need to find that template:

    == Women in Red January 2024 ==
    {| style="border: 5px solid #ABCDEF ; background-color: #FFFFFF;"
    ...

    It may be as simple as removing background-color: #FFFFFF; from the template. This is as far as I understand a basic part of implementing "dark mode" on Wikipedia. If it's a bot doing it from off Wikipedia, the bot needs to stop putting that white background. It's a significant accessibility issue. —DIYeditor (talk) 05:15, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Ok I see that the newsletter is called "Outreach". It is genereated by the Wikipedia MassMessage facility. What you linked does relate to that. I'm not clear if there is a template or if the newsletter is simply being copied by hand on e.g. Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/2024#March 2024 —DIYeditor (talk) 05:36, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    I've removed the background from the May 2025 version. —DIYeditor (talk) 05:42, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    May looks great. Thanks, all! Much easier on my eyes. —DIYeditor (talk) 13:14, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Edeline Lee

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    The Edeline Lee biography needs refs for the awards, etc. If someone who has access to UK sources could help with this, I'd be appreciative. -- Rosiestep (talk) 19:56, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    I've added a couple. It's probably worth looking through Drapers, which is a trade mag. For example: https://www.drapersonline.com/people/my-fashion-life/designer-edeline-lee-how-britney-spears-gave-me-my-first-break
    EEHalli (talk) 15:58, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    DYK potential: Hazel Vincent Wallace

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    Hello! I plucked 'Hazel Beatrice Wallace' from the redlist for this month's A to Z. I've created a page under her more commonly used name of Hazel Vincent Wallace. Given the length of it, and the number of sources, I'd like to nominate it for a DYK in the next few days. Wallace is said to be the first woman to have a new theatre built in Britain.

    I can sort out a redirect from her birth name, and start linking to it from quite a number of pages. And dig in the newpaper archives for more details.

    The one thing I've never mastered is connecting the wikidata entry, which in this case isn't helped by her preferred name. Could someone help me connect https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130236536 with the biog?

    I don't want it failing a DYK nomination because I'm rubbish at a bit of admin!

    EEHalli (talk) 18:42, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    EEHalli, I have added a Wikipedia link to the Wikidata item and tidied up the English language description in Wikidata. There is a short Youtube instruction video by DrThneed here. I don't think DYK is interested in the Wikidata item, but if you make the link yourself it stops a bot creating a duplicate item. You could nominate the article now, but you have seven days. Ideally suggest a couple of different hooks as DYK admins are wary of claims of firstness. TSventon (talk) 20:23, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks!
    EEHalli (talk) 21:14, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    The DYK nomination is now up here: Template:Did you know nominations/Hazel Vincent Wallace
    Thank you to all the editors who have made tweaks to it over the last few days. I honestly didn't expect it to be such a rich article when I started! EEHalli (talk) 20:13, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Time 100 women

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    Hi all, I just threw together articles on Cordelia Bähr and Julie Burkhart, two women without articles who were listed on Time 100 2025. They, particularly Bähr's article, are somewhat bare bones so any help would be appreciated. I get the impression that Bähr has some more coverage in German, which I cannot read. Cheers, Eddie891 Talk Work 08:57, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    I've slightly expanded Bahr, from a source which is a portrait of her in her alumni magazine - but my German isn't up to much. Got her approx date of birth, and the fact that she's an alumna. PamD 11:12, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Submission Declined - Seeking Advice on Edits

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    The following draft was declined: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Ann_Orel

    Details: This draft's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article. In summary, the draft needs to meet any of the eight academic-specific criteria or cite multiple reliable, secondary sources independent of the subject, which cover the subject in some depth

    Do you think she meets notability requirements? If so, how might we show that on her page? Edenraviv (talk) 12:38, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi @Edenraviv: the same question was asked in March, you can see the detailed answers here. MerielGJones, you did a lot of work on the article, do you think it is ready to be resubmitted? TSventon (talk) 14:34, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes. MerielGJones (talk) 17:59, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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    Hello! While this draft is pending approval, does anyone recommend any changes to increase chance of meeting notability requirements?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:Angela_Fan Edenraviv (talk) 15:24, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    My suggestion would be to trim the minor details to focus on the major accomplishments and major career steps. In the current version you can't see the forest for the weeds. I think she does pass WP:PROF#C1 for heavily cited contributions, but that's a difficult case to make for draft reviewers. —David Eppstein (talk) 18:58, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Submission declined—looking for advice on edits to make

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    The following draft was declined: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Karen_Schindler

    Details: This submission does not appear to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. Entries should be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources. Please rewrite your submission in a more encyclopedic format. Please make sure to avoid peacock terms that promote the subject.

    Does anyone know which language in particular might be causing the problem? Edenraviv (talk) 15:54, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    I think it might be the frequency of the text saying "she says" since that is language you typically find in interviews and press releases (ie Puffery). It also means that everything that follows is being read as what she claims to have done, not what secondary sources say she's done.
    I'm also not sure mentoring is worth including since I believe most academics do it as part of their work?
    EEHalli (talk) 20:24, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Orphan Article

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    Hello! This article is marked as an orphan (no other articles link to it). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Shandor_Miles

    Any advice on how to resolve this? It also says it needs more specific sections... any advice on what that may look like?

    Thanks! Edenraviv (talk) 16:20, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    So how I de-orpahn articles @Edenraviv is to click on the existing blue links and add a sentence somewhere in the linked article, that then links back to the original - so here for example if her college has an alumni list you could add her to it, using the references from the original article. Lajmmoore (talk) 18:38, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Edenraviv, my rule of thumb is to never create an orphan (to avoid some other editor placing the orphan-template on the subject's page). How I accomplish this is by creating a redlink in the subject's given name and/or surname article(s) before saving my first edit on the new biography. As for Margaret's biography, I see that the article is no longer an orphan, but ditto to what Lajmmoore noted, for example, adding Margaret here: Miles (surname), List of Boston College people#Notable Boston College alumni, List of University of Pittsburgh alumni, List of University of Missouri–Kansas City people#Notable alumni. --Rosiestep (talk) 14:38, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Another semester coming to an end...

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    Alas, many classroom assignments heading this way! WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 16:37, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Lilli – Ein Mädchen Aus Der Großstadt

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    The lost German film Lilli – ein Mädchen aus der Großstadt [de], starring Ann Smyrner and featuring the character Bild Lilli, has recently been found and uploaded to YouTube in its entirety. The article about the film is available in German and Welsh, and now also in Spanish. Hopefully, someone will be encouraged to translate the article into English as well.--Peridotito (talk) 08:09, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    @Peridotito: unfortunately translating the de article into an article suitable for en Wikipedia will not be straightforward, as most of the de article does not have inline citations. The main author has died, so they can't assist. If you could add some citations to the es version, that would be a great help. TSventon (talk) 20:22, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Women in Green's May 2025 edit-a-thon

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    Hello WikiProject Women in Red: WikiProject Women in Green is holding a month-long Good Article Editathon event in May 2025!

    Running from May 1 to 31, 2025, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) editathon event – Wildcard Edition! Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to any and all women and women's works during the event period. Want to improve an article about a women's rights activist? Go for it. An Olympian gold medallist? Absolutely. A famous painting by a woman? Yes! GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to receive a special WiG barnstar for their efforts. We hope to see you there!

    Grnrchst (talk) 16:34, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Listeriabot

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    Apologies if this is not the place to ask, but any idea why Listeriabot hasn't updated Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Writers - UK since October? I've tried manually summoning the bot, which hasn't worked. Starklinson (talk) 05:27, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    @Starklinson:, unfortunately Listeriabot not updating redlists is a longstanding problem, see a 2021 discussion. @MarioGom: do you have any ideas? TSventon (talk) 13:54, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I proposed it to the Community Wishlist a couple of times iirc, unsuccessfully. There's really no good solution until someone fixes the bot or rewrites it from scratch. Removing any column referencing places like place of birth of death might help with some queries. It is ok to use them as filters in queries, but not as columns in tables. MarioGom (talk) 19:02, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    It's been going on for a while; I made a template for the problem back in 2022: Template:Listeria fail. The only thing that can be done is to reduce the amount of processing it takes to create the list. Try making the list more specific or limiting the amount of data it pulls by removing columns. Shorter lists generally work just fine. Gamaliel (talk) 19:33, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I have split out the UK to 1927 and Listeria was able to run. TSventon (talk) 21:04, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I expect part of the problem is that the size of Wikidata and Wikipedia has increased since 2018, so the bot has to work a lot harder to produce the same reports. TSventon (talk) 01:27, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Last time I checked, it was a design issue in the bot. For each column, it would fetch every full entity into memory. Some entities like countries are huge. A column with many big entities will exhaust memory. MarioGom (talk) 21:41, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Presumably the design of the bot hasn't changed, but wikidata keeps getting bigger, meaning reports that could run 8 years ago are now more likely to fail. TSventon (talk) 05:32, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Sub-referencing: User testing

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    Apologies for crossposting

    Hi I'm Johannes from Wikimedia Deutschland's Technical Wishes team. We are making great strides with the new sub-referencing feature and we’d love to invite you to take part in two activities to help us move this work further:

    1. Try it out and share your feedback
      Please try the updated wikitext feature on the beta wiki and let us know what you think, either on our talk page or by booking a call with our UX researcher.
    2. Get a sneak peak and help shape the Visual Editor user designs
      Help us test the new design prototypes by participating in user sessions – sign up here to receive an invite. We're especially hoping to speak with people from underrepresented and diverse groups to get different perspectives. If that's you, please consider signing up! No prior or extensive editing experience is required. User sessions will start May 14th.

    We plan to bring this feature to Wikimedia wikis later this year. We’ll reach out to wikis for piloting in time for deployments. Creators and maintainers of reference-related tools and templates will be contacted beforehand as well.

    Thank you very much for your support and encouragement so far in helping bring this feature to life Johannes Richter (WMDE) (talk) 15:25, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Women in Red May 2025

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    Women in Red | May 2025, Vol 11, Issue 5, Nos. 326, 327, 337, 338


    Online events:

    Announcements (events facilitated by others):

    Progress ("moving the needle"):

    • Statistics available via Humaniki tool. Thank you if you contributed one or more of the 1,269 articles during this period!
    • 21 Apr 2025: 20.090% of EN-WP biographies are about women (2,061,363; 414,126 women)
    • 24 Mar 2025: 20.070% (2,057,083 bios; 412,857 women)

    Tip of the month:

    • Those of you who experience harassment while trying to create or improve articles about women
      are welcome to bring your problems to our attention on the Women in Red talk page.

    Other ways to participate:

    --Lajmmoore (talk 09:18, 29 April 2025 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]

    Women in Red May 2025

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    Hey just created my first article for this month Mitela Sumi Will appreciate help to expand this article :) Flyingphoenixchips (talk) 16:36, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Reminder: Submit Your Local Results for Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025 by 15 May

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    Dear WikiProject Women in Red,

    Thank you for your valuable contributions to Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025 in your communities!

    This is a kind reminder that the deadline to submit your local results is 15 May 2025.

    Please make sure to submit the complete and detailed results of your local contest on the following Meta-Wiki page: m:Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025/Results

    Additionally, feel free to add a brief summary of your local event under the Results section in your country/region’s row on the participants page: m:Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025/Participants

    If you need any assistance during this process, don’t hesitate to reach out.

    Thank you for your continued dedication and support!


    For, Wiki Loves Ramadan International Team 11:51, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

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    I've been doing very little on wikipedia this year, as I've been concentrating on wikidata, adding women from 30 under-represented countries which together constitute 50% of world population. There were 35,500 women from these countries when I started, and now there are 10,000 more! I started working on this when I was vaguely appalled to find that women from this half of the world contituted only 0.83% of wikidata bios with country and gender assigned. I'm proud to announce that this is now 1.01%, so I've hit the 1% target I set myself :)

    This means that I've expanded the following WiR redlinks pages: Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Chad, China, DRC, Ethiopia, India, Laos, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Mosambique, Myanmar, Niger, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Turkmenistan, Vietnam, and Yemen. I'd love it if these countries got some special WiR love. (Basically there are three equally sized population blocs here: China, India, and the rest.)

    One of the countries I've worked on is Malawi. So one unexpected & lovely side-effect was learning of User:Victuallers's efforts to improve wikipedia representation of women there. He's looking to engage off-wiki partners in this. A '50-50 campaign' across Africa (setting explicit 50:50 targets for public decision-makers as part of various protocol agreements) initially arose from Malawian grassroots campaigners. The timescale for that has been pushed back, but it's had visible effects. Maybe Malawi can be similarly exemplary when it comes to wikipedia representation!

    This has been a bit of an obsessive slog, but I'm very pleased it's been possible to make a visible difference. Hope others here find it encouraging! Dsp13 (talk) 08:24, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Dsp13, are there WP:RS to establish the notability of the women you are adding to Wikidata? If there are not, it won't be possible to write en Wikipedia articles on them. And if the RS are offline or paywalled it will be difficult. If there are resources for writing women's biographies in your target countries, they could be added to Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Resources. TSventon (talk) 10:42, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Not all will meet en.WP notability standards, but many will. For example, plenty of national MPs and even government ministers weren't already in Wikidata (and aren't yet in en.WP). They usually have newspaper coverage in the country they're in. I'll have a think as to whether there are specific resources I could add. Thanks for the suggestion, Dsp13 (talk) 11:14, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    The redlist quality of the additions to Malawi's redlist vary, these are all WIR candidates although some do not have enough notability to survive on en:wiki (there are 2 other languages!). However some of the finds have the kind of notability you might be surprised to find in a missing woman on Wikipedia. One recent addition for Malawi was Ivy Kamanga a supreme court judge which is pretty notable but she was the only woman on a panel who overturned a presidential election!! They wore bullet proof vests to announce their findings. The judges won an international prize and were lauded in the UK parliament. She's one of the "100 WIR Women" list I'm curating and I'm hoping that WIR will give Malawi an extra push to 50:50 parity on en:wiki, Chichewe:wiki and tum:wiki. In preparation we are making some non:notable headlines as we gather partners to assist. When we started there were less than 100 Malawians on the WIR redlist. Since then that number should have gone down as we have increased the number of articles about Malawian women by 10%.... but actually it has ~quadrupled. Dsp13 has pushed the redlist up to c:350 Malawian women in Red. It's probably going to take a while to get this project ready as there are (ambitious?) plans to gather more external partners in addition to WIR, WMUK and the Scotland Malawi Partnership charity. Any more interest here? Victuallers (talk) 14:43, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    CONGRATULATIONS @Dsp13 this is such a fantastic undertaking! I'd defnitely noticed that some WD lists I was looking at regularly were expanding, this is so cool! Even if they're not EN notable, their presence undoubtedly enhances knowledge on the internet more broadly, and significantly connnects these women into the web of knowledge. @Victuallers I'd be happy to help out later in the year with the Malawi project. Lajmmoore (talk) 15:00, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    A "J" possibility

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    I've just come across Ellen E. Jones - film and tv journalist, much cited in en.wiki, and a nominating guest on Great Lives. Might be interesting for someone to create, but I mustn't fall down that rabbit-hole - have spent much of the morning on a "J" novelist already (as well as spending ages retrieving old work when a non-WiR article I'd invested effort in was deleted, along with its incoming redirects etc, because it had originally been created by a now-blocked sock: annoying!) PamD 13:43, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Draft:Lizzie May Elwyn

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    This playwright (real name?) and their work seem interesting. Is there coverage of them and or their works? FloridaArmy (talk) 19:38, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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