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Polar Women | August 2016

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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 19.81% 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. Editors of all genders are equally and warmly welcome to participate in the work of Women in Red!

Women in Red logo


Celebrating Polar Women

Between 1 August and 31 August 2016, Women in Red is focusing on creating new articles and improving existing articles in support of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) conference, which is taking place from 20-30 August, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Anyone can take part in this event. We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles regarding women, such as the works they created. The virtual edit-a-thon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in the work. See the list of red-linked Polar women for guidance.

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

Participants

  1. T. Anthony (talk) 17:52, 30 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  2. SusunW (talk) 23:55, 23 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Rosiestep (talk) 19:42, 24 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  4. PamD 21:13, 24 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Penny Richards (talk) 22:26, 24 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Nvvchar. 01:35, 26 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Ipigott (talk) 13:35, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Victuallers (talk) 16:09, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Janstrugnell (talk) 06:49, 3 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  10. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 00:41, 6 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Howkafkaesque (talk) 00:56, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Donald1659 (talk) 04:28, 13 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 20:35, 30 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

...add your name

Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)

  1. Crowd-sourced Polar women redlink list
  2. SCAR list of Antarctic Women

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

  1. PamD found a list which lists notable women who received the Fuchs Medal. SusunW (talk) 17:28, 1 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Kirsty Tinto 1 2

Add these to articles

  • Add to the foot of every biography: {{Authority control}}; it will remain hidden until relevant identifiers have been added to Wikidata.
  • Add a stub template if appropriate to do so.

Add these to article talkpages

  • {{WikiProject Biography}}
  • {{WikiProject Women}}
  • Important: Please also include the Polar women editathon template for this event: {{WIR-PW 2016}}

Outcomes

New or upgraded articles

  • Add the titles of your new or upgraded articles here created between 1 August and 31 August – most recent at the top, specifying upgraded if not new
  1. Ann Peoples
  2. Elizabeth Chipman
  3. Christine Muller-Schwarze
  4. Nel Law
  5. First women to fly to Antarctica
  6. Laurence de la Ferrière
  7. Viviana Alder
  8. Robyn Millan
  9. List of Antarctic women
  10. Veronica Vallejos
  11. Joanne Johnson
  12. Mary Odile Cahoon
  13. Women in Antarctica
  14. Timeline of women in Antarctica
  15. Amanda Davies (scientist)
  16. Hina Baig
  17. Alison Murray (scientist)
  18. Samantha Hall
  19. Lillemor Rachlew
  20. Edith Farkas
  21. Susana Agustí
  22. Jill Mikucki - tweet with 4 new pix
  23. Kelly Falkner
  24. Diane Patterson - need help fixing name, sources called her Diana, stub will be expanding
  25. Louise Allcock - tweeted at #wikiwomeninred
  26. Siti Aisyah Alias
  27. Annick Wilmotte many tweeted @wikiwomeninred, inc. this
  28. Cornelia Lüdecke
  29. Sally Poncet tweeted
  30. Gwen Fenton
  31. Janet Thomson
  32. Elisabeth Isaksson
  33. Monica Kristensen Solås - upgrade
  34. Eleanor Honnywill
  35. Irene Schloss tweeted at wikiWiR - thanks
  36. Corina Brussaard - tweeted too

New or improved pictures

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
  1. add here

Featured pictures

Press about the event

See also: Wikipedia:Meetup/SCAR_2016 § Press

Event templates

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Meetup/20