October 2018

    Women in STEM

    Continuing: #1day1woman Global Initiative

    Happening now: Clubwomen Women + Science Fiction & Fantasy Women in STEM Geofocus: Mediterranean

    Coming in November: Religion Deceased politicians Geofocus: Asia

    See also: Future events


    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. 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
    1–31 October 2018
    Agnès Acker French astronomer
    Use social media to promote our work!
    FacebookWiki Women in Red
    Twitter@wikiwomeninred
    PinterestOctober 2018 editathons
    Hashtag#wikiwomeninred
    Add to articles
    .
    • Authority control should be included at the foot of every biography: {{Authority control}}. It will remain hidden until relevant identifiers have been added to Wikidata.
    • Choose applicable Categories including relevant subcategories of Category:Women.
    • If applicable, add a stub template at the foot of an article:{{stub}}.
    Add to article talk pages
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    • {{WikiProject Biography| }} or {{WikiProject Biography}}
    • {{WikiProject Women}} if born after 1950; or {{WikiProject Women's History}}:: if born before 1950.
    • Editathon banner: {{WIR-96}}
    • {{Image requested|people}}, if it needs a photograph

    In October 2018, Women in Red is focusing on women in STEM. We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about women in all fields of interest in these countries, 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.

    Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created) edit

    In addition, we have Crowd-sourced and Wikidata red-link lists on women from all countries can be found in the Women in Red navbox.

    Crowd-sourced (CS) and Wikidata (WD) red-link lists: women's biographies in other language versions of Wikipedia:

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

    Works in progress (Drafts, AfCs, AfDs,…) edit

    You can improve articles that have already been started which match this month's theme but need more work. Drafts may be listed here or on the Crowd-sourced lists above. Editors may list their userspace drafts here if they want assistance. Skilled editors can review articles submitted for creation (AfC). Articles considered for deletion (AfD) can be listed if they need improvements, such as adding citations to establish notability (use WP:HEY when done).

    Participants edit

    1. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 18:28, 22 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    2. Ipigott (talk) 12:09, 23 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    3. Penny Richards (talk) 19:59, 23 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    4. Rosiestep (talk) 14:49, 28 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    5. SusunW (talk) 15:46, 28 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    6. LLMHoopes (talk) 06:54, 29 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    7. Nizil (talk) 11:19, 29 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    8. Victuallers (talk) 16:00, 2 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    9. Omotecho (talk) 05:27, 3 October 2018 (UTC) will update wikidata for Japanese STEM.[reply]
    10. StrayBolt (talk) 00:47, 10 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    11. Kangarooth (talk) 11:06, 10 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    12. Suman chowdhury 22 (talk) 11:52, 10 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    13. David Eppstein (talk) 07:38, 11 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    14. 🝨⚬ʍP (talk) 00:16, 13 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    15. Thine Antique Pen (talk) 23:02, 14 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    16. Ursula Georges (talk) 15 October 2018
    17. PamD 22:14, 15 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    18. Big_iron (talk) 18:27, 20 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    19. Zanhe (talk) 06:58, 21 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    20. Zakhx150 (talk) 17:16, 21 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    21. Thsmi002 (talk) 22:30, 24 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    22. Polyamorph (talk) 19:08, 28 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    23. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 23:35, 31 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    Outcomes (articles) edit

    Promote our work edit

    Key:

    • Add FB after the article if you mention it on Facebook
    • Add PIN after the article if you pin the image on Pinterest
    • Add TW after the article if you tweet it on Twitter

    New or upgraded articles edit

    Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new

    1. Timeline of women in computing, broken off and upgraded
    2. Systers upgraded
    3. Women in computing upgraded
    4.   Jane Cronin Scanlon upgraded
    5.    Maria E. Schonbek upgraded
    6.   Linda B. Hayden
    7.   Dawn Lott
    8.   Tracy LaQuey Parker
    9.   Helen Moore (mathematician)
    10.   Linda Bauld TW, PIN
    11.   Angelika Bunse-Gerstner
    12.   Dominique Picard upgraded
    13.   Irena Peeva upgraded
    14.   Alison Marsden
    15.    Joan Hu
    16.   Amy Braverman
    17.   Mildred Barnard upgraded
    18.   Dalene Stangl
    19.   Barbara Niethammer upgraded
    20.   Kaisa Nyberg upgraded
    21.   Li Yiyi
    22.   Alissa Crans
    23.   Jean Pedersen
    24.   Lianne Sheppard
    25.   Leysia Palen
    26.   Silvia Calvó i Armengol
    27.   Colette Heald - PIN
    28.   Rosalind Rickaby
    29.    Ruth Gates -upg
    30.   Melina Schuh
    31.   Virginia Lesser
    32.   Carol Joyce Blumberg
    33.   Chen Saijuan
    34.  Elizabeth A. Winzeler upgraded
    35.   Barbara A. Romanowicz - PIN
    36.    Tianxi Cai
    37.   Leigh Royden
    38.   Linda Gilbert Saucier
    39.   Sherry Gong upgraded
    40.   Anne-Marie Lagrange - TW, PIN
    41.   Sharla Boehm - PIN
    42.   Klavdiya Latysheva
    43.  Sofia Danova
    44.   Drude Berntsen - PIN
    45.    Yongjie Jessica Zhang
    46.   Jean Scholtz
    47.   Tatiana B. Yanovskaya
    48.   Elaine Cohen
    49.   Daniella Tilbury
    50.    Jana Košecká
    51.    Greta M. Ljung
    52.    Alexandra M. Schmidt
    53.    Raquel Prado
    54.   Zhang Yonglian
    55.   Zofia Szmydt - PIN
    56.   Johanna Piesch
    57.   Mary Jo Baedecker
    58.   Catherine Hollingworth
    59.   Yang Dan (chemist)
    60.   Muriel Médard
    61.   Tanja Lange
    62.   Susan R. Fussell
    63.   Maria Dzielska
    64.   Sabiha Kasimati
    65.   Edna Butfield
    66.   Pamela Gorkin
    67.    Malgorzata Dubiel
    68.    Jelena de Belder-Kovačič - PIN
    69.    Sisi Zlatanova
    70.   Maha Ashour-Abdalla
    71.   Olga Gil Medrano
    72.    Pinar Heggernes
    73.   Teresa W. Haynes upgraded
    74.   Lisa Anthony AFC, PIN
    75.   Yvonne Stokes
    76.   Marija Vučinović
    77.    Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop
    78.   Ayellet Tal
    79.   Christine O'Keefe
    80.   Wang Enduo
    81.   Marta Losada
    82.    María Falk de Losada
    83.   Marian Croak TW, PIN
    84.    Beatrice Rivière
    85.    Guergana Petrova
    86.   Li Minhua - PIN
    87.    Helen Popova Alderson
    88.   Linda Pagli
    89.   Élisabeth Lutz upgraded
    90.   Beatrice M. Sweeney upgraded
    91.   Christine Guthrie TW FB
    92.     Christine Jacobs-Wagner
    93.   Genevieve Estelle Jones
    94.   Joan Crowfoot Payne TW, PIN
    95.   Marion Griswold Grey
    96.   Marjo-Riitta Järvelin
    97.   Caterina Consani TW, PIN
    98.   Heike Riel
    99.   Joan L. Mitchell
    100.   Gillian Dorothy Kennedy
    101.   Danielle M. Dick
    102.   Ruth M. Davis
    103.    Yang Dan (neuroscientist)
    104.   Shiri Artstein - PIN
    105.   Mythily Ramaswamy - promoted from draft
    106.    Esther Arkin
    107.   Margaret Cicely Langton Greene
    108.   Michelle L. Wachs - upgraded, PIN
    109.   Frances Naomi Clark
    110.   Afërdita Veveçka Priftaj - PIN
    111.   Věra Kůrková
    112.   Noriko H. Arai
    113.   Chelsea Walton - pIN
    114.   Susanne Bødker
    115.   Adela Žgur TW, PIN
    116.   Karen Holtzblatt
    117.  Lalage Bown
    118.   Fran Balkwill - upgraded
    119.   Mor Harchol-Balter
    120.   Margaret Burnett
    121.    Edith Cohen
    122.   Clara Latimer Bacon
    123.   Fatima Marouan
    124.   Evelyn Telfer
    125.   Louiqa Raschid
    126.   Wang-Chiew Tan
    127.    Meral Özsoyoglu
    128.   D. M. Napper
    129.   Allison Druin
    130.   Yolanda Gil
    131.   Milly Koss
    132.   Carla Brodley
    133.   Adriana Briscoe
    134.   Elizabeth C. Miller
    135.   Jadwiga Ostrowska-Czubenko
    136.   Agnes Ullmann
    137.   Gertrud Meissner
    138.   Geneviève Comte-Bellot
    139.    Tanja Eisner
    140.   Jill Belch
    141.   Limin Peng
    142.   Amita Manatunga
    143.   Dionne Price
    144.   Giuseppina Masotti Biggiogero - PIN
    145.   Aleksandra Slavković
    146.   Sharon Xiangwen Xie
    147.   Margaret Barnes (marine biologist)
    148.   Simone Warzel - PIN
    149.   Jennifer Scott (mathematician)
    150.   Anne Watson (mathematics educator)
    151.   Joan E. Walsh
    152.   Elizabeth Mansfield (mathematician)
    153.   Janet Morgan, Lady Balfour of Burleigh
    154.   Rachel Ford Thompson
    155.   Penny J. Davies
    156.   Elizabeth McHarg
    157.   Eva-Maria Mandelkow
    158.   Sue Singer
    159.   Viola Vogel
    160.   Karen Bryan
    161.    Mirjam Brusius
    162.   Jeanette McLeod
    163.   Giulia Di Nunno
    164.   Vivien Kirk
    165.   Chawne Kimber
    166.   Women's WIRE
    167.   Julie Arenholt
    168.   Emma Yhnell
    169.   Kunie Miyaji
    170.    Raffaella Ocone
    171.   Francisca Mutapi TW
    172.   Johanna Stachel - PIN TW
    173.   Isabella Gifford (botanist)
    174.  Margalith Galun - PIN
    175.   Julia Lee-Thorp - upgraded
    176.   Frances Harriet Hooker - PIN
    177.   Mari Wolf
    178.   Daisy Lee Bitter
    179.   Josephine D. Edwards
    180.   Johanne Martel-Pelletier
    181.   Agnès Acker - PIN
    182.    Khouw Keng Nio
    183.   Maria Forsyth
    184.   V. R. Lalithambika
    185.   Anna Grassellino
    186.   Natalia Toro
    187.   Lesley Ward
    188.   Livia S. Eberlin
    189.   Maeve McCarthy
    190.   Atsuko Miyaji
    191.   Magnhild Lien
    192.   L. D. Adams
    193.   Lynne McClure
    194.   Margaret Brown (mathematics educator)
    195.   Margaret Hayman
    196.   Mary Bradburn
    197.   Sofia Olhede
    198.   Anne M. Leggett
    199.   Jacqueline Dewar
    200.   Marilyn Strutchens
    201.   Nora Cate Schaeffer
    202.   Ranee Brylinski
    203.   Ulrica Wilson

    Did You Know features edit

    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. Agnes Ballard - 16 December
    2. Tracy LaQuey Parker - 7 December
    3. Anne-Marie Lagrange - 4 December
    4. Yang Dan (neuroscientist) - 29 November
    5. Yang Dan (chemist) - 25 November
    6. Joan L. Mitchell - 16 November
    7. Chawne Kimber - 15 November

    Outcomes (pictures and videos) edit

    Press about the event edit

    Event templates edit