Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/20

Fuchs medallists

Starting to research a couple of women from the redlist, who seem to be perhaps a bit marginal (coverage mainly a "Gee whizz a woman is working in Antarctica", where an equivalent man would really struggle to be notable) has led me to the list of Fuchs Medal recipients, and I'm now working on the earliest woman of those, Eleanor Honnywill. Some others might be worth a try too. PamD 10:44, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

• PamD Good list. I am putting it on the front page with other links. SusunW (talk) 17:26, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

August 2016

What do you think about each of these events running the whole month, simultaneously? --Rosiestep (talk) 18:11, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

• Indigenous Women

• Indigenous People's Day is August 9
• possible sponsor:
• Redlink lists: Wikipedia:WikiProject Women/Women in Red/Indigenous Women

• From Pole to Pole

• Sponsor: The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
• SCAR conference: 20-30 August
• SCAR "wikibomb": Tuesday, 23 August 2016, 6.00 - 8.00pm local time, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, 50088 Malaysia
• Redlink lists: Wikipedia:WikiProject Women/Women in Red/Antarctic women

• Olympics women (new request; see below for discussion)

• Rio Olympics will take place from August 5, 2016 – August 21, 2016

Comments - Aug

What if we changed the title of this redlist to "polar women" and include a section on Arctic women, e.g. "Pole to Pole"? Or we could just have a separate redlist for Arctic women and that would be fine, too. --Rosiestep (talk) 17:04, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

I'm good with whatever just felt like if we didn't get it on the calendar, it'd get scheduled over. Ipigott was working on Greenland links, so may want to list Arctic separately, but I figured that there would be Arctic indigenous women in the earlier one. SusunW (talk) 18:27, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Maybe it would be a good idea to have a separate list for Arctic women given the large Inuit populations of Greenland, Canada, Alaska and the Russian Far East. We already have three Lists of Inuit. It may also be useful to make a distinction between native Arctic women and female Arctic explorers (the latter could possibly been combined with female Antarctic explorers as several seem to have explored both areas). Megalibrarygirl may have some views on this.--Ipigott (talk) 08:40, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

@Ipigott and SusunW:I like the idea of separating the explorers from the people who actually live and work in the polar regions. But I'm happy to start a list for whatever we choose. I'll look at the inuit lists too. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:52, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

@Megalibrarygirl and Ipigott: did we ever get the Inuit list/Arctic women made? I love our new tab system so that we can do multiples and was just curious. No pressure to do it, but it is creeping up on us. SusunW (talk) 17:43, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

@SusunW and Ipigott:, I should split the polar explorers to the arctic list? I'm confused what list I need to make, but I'll make it as soon as I'm sure what to focus on. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 01:59, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

@Megalibrarygirl and Ipigott: The lists that exist which Ian highlighted don't have any redlinks. Seems to me Inuit women could go on the indigenous list, but I read Ian's note that they should be separate. Maybe I misunderstood? Definitely think we need Arctic explorers on a list. SusunW (talk) 02:20, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

@Megalibrarygirl and SusunW: "Polar women" seems to me to be quite a good compromise as it doesn't seem to me to be too important whether they are associated with the Arctic and/or the Antarctic. Maybe we could just divide it into explorers and others if you think that is necessary. As for the "Lists of Inuit", I simply included it as I thought some of the women we cover could be included on it. But maybe it would also be useful to have a list of red links for Innuit women (or indigenous women living in the Arctic). I leave it entirely up to you.--Ipigott (talk) 06:58, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

@Megalibrarygirl and Ipigott: Brilliant! Weird how we sometimes get tunnel vision, I totally did not think of that option. I'm all for one list of polar women. Arctic and Antarctic on one list makes sense. Location will show whether they are north or south. I think the same goes for Inuit women, they can just be added to indigenous women and again, location will dictate, but with the added ethnicity. SusunW (talk) 14:58, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

@SusunW and Ipigott: Whew. OK. I didn't want to miss anything I should be working on. I'm very ADHD, so if I don't do something right away, I may forget about it. :P So I should rename the list to "Polar Women" and I can include women from places like Greenland, upper Canada, Arctic circle.... Siberia? How far does the Arctic extend? Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:25, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Megalibrarygirl yes, let's just call it polar women and per the Wiki on the Arctic, it covers Alaska, Canada, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, and Sweden, i.e. cold places, so yes, Siberia. (Did you get the labor organizers list started? What's it called? I have names to add.) SusunW (talk) 16:30, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

• @Rosiestep, Megalibrarygirl, and SusunW: At the moment we have about a week's gap between Indigenous Women and Polar Women. How about starting Polar Women on the 15th and continuing for the rest of the month, i.e. until the 31st?--Ipigott (talk) 07:00, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

@Ipigott, Rosiestep, and Megalibrarygirl: Personally, I like Rosie's statement at the top of the thread that they both run through the whole month, but I'm okay with whatever. SusunW (talk) 13:58, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

@Ipigott, SusunW, Megalibrarygirl, and Victuallers: IMO, each editathon for the whole month is better than splitting. Shall we go for it? --Rosiestep (talk) 14:11, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

I like the whole month. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 18:15, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Fine with me too. It will be much easier to make the announcements for both over the whole month.--Ipigott (talk) 06:14, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

• Any interest in an Olympics themed project, either aimed specifically at Olympians or even a broader women in sports event? There are a lot of reliable sources currently writing about Olympic athletes. The Rio Olympics will take place from August 5, 2016 – August 21, 2016. Knope7 (talk) 15:44, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

@Knope7 and Rosiestep: Previously LovelyLillith had asked for a focus on sports. I have no problem with another editathon running simultaneously with the others, but you will need to expand the redlinks list and provide RS. Would the Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's sport be willing to help with links and/or promotion? SusunW (talk) 15:26, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

I can expand the list of red links. WP:Olympics has an article for each country's Olympic delegation which provides the names of each athlete from every (or nearly every) country. Based on a few searches I've tried, recent Olympians tend to have articles from reliable sources readily available. Knope7 (talk) 23:32, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

I've added a couple dozen names from the U.S., Great Britain, and Australia (picked because I figured they are more likely to have reliable sources written in English). If there's interest I can add more either from other countries (probably Olympic powerhouses like China, Russia, Germany, etc) or past Olympics (U.S. athletes from 2012 look well covered, although many could use updates, but athletes from earlier Olympic games have more gaps. Looking at the first women Olympic athletes could also be interesting).

Just to put in another plug for this idea, the Olympics will likely drive a lot of interest to athlete pages. In the U.S., NBC has extensive coverage across multiple channels as well as online coverage. It's also an event with international reach. The most buzzed about athletes, like Simone Biles, already have articles but a lot of the lesser known athletes don't. It's unlikely most of the women without existing articles will win, but you never know who will have the competition of their life and suddenly find themselves in the spotlight. There is also a lot of room for improving athlete articles if anyone is interested in that too. Knope7 (talk) 21:15, 16 July 2016 (UTC)

The Women's Football / Soccer taskforce has a fairly long list of missing players here. There are numerous editors who would probably love to contribute. Hmlarson (talk) 04:59, 13 August 2016 (UTC)