Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/211/US
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Ada Lovelace Day:
24-Hour Global Edit-a-thon -
American timezones
12 October 2021[edit]
Date: Tuesday 12 October 2021
Online (via Zoom) hosted in Salt Lake City. More trainers are welcome—as well as new editors of course!
| Session | Local Time | UK time | Register | |
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| Salt Lake City, USA | 16:30 - 18:30 pm MDT | 23:30 - 01:30 am | Salt Lake City session, slapdash coaching available from KarenJoyce - more coaches welcome | Zoom link via Meetup |
 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 19.83% 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! |
| Online event 12 October 2021 | |
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 Portrait inspired by Ada Lovelace, wearing a Women in Red badge. Original by Electronic Frontier Foundation's Hugh D’Andrade. |
Goal[edit]
- Increase biographies of women in STEM on Wikipedia to address the existing bias
- Recruit and teach new users how to create a biography
Articles to do[edit]
Here is a "redlist" for women in STEM in Latin America who do not have Wikipedia pages: Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Scientists - Latin America. Likewise for the United States: Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Scientists - United States.
Creating a new article for any of them will reduce the gender gap and highlight women in STEM. The first step after you have identified a subject is to check that you can find three reliable sources to write your article. Want more then see the Resources tab at the top of the page.
Existing articles[edit]
Expanding or otherwise improving articles that already exist in Wikipedia, is also an excellent thing do. Here are a few suggestions:
- Victoria Luine - expand, illustrate?
- Paula Brown - expand, improve references, illustrate?
- Helia Bravo Hollis - check Spanish-to-English translation
- Eneida A. Mendonça - expand
How to proceed?[edit]
First Step[edit]
We have an automatic facility that will record the edits that you make on Wikipedia once you have an account. You need to click here to make this work. You can see the articles created by others at the same place.
Second Step[edit]
You need to register for the event and in return we will send you a zoom link which you should not share with others.
Third Step[edit]
Have a look at our red list and decide who you would like to write an article for. You should have three independent sources for their biography. Wiki dies not use trivial sources. "MyCelebityLife" and tabloids are not a good source. Journals, leading newspapers and citations for major awards are usually good.
Fourth step[edit]
If you have a new account then why not experiment? Try adding that missing comma or improving the phrasing of an article. Look out for peacock phrases in articles and remove them.
Fifth step[edit]
KarenJoyce will welcome you on zoom on October 12th at 16:30 pm MDT.
Sixth step[edit]
Afterwards, have a look again at the dashboard and see all the new and improved article. Add {{WIR-211}} to the talkpage of your new article so that Women in Red can keep an eye on it. Come and say "Hi" at www.womeninred.org and find some friends.