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On Wikipedia[edit] Our Wikipedia WikiProject focuses on creating content regarding women's biographies, women's works, and women's issues. Our editors create articles in many different language Wikipedias. The objective is to turn " redlinks " ( like this one) into blue ones. That's why we are called "Women in Red".
This project addresses the under-representation of content on Wikipedia about women (both real and fictional) and covering women's perspectives. According to Humaniki only 19.66% of English Wikipedia biographies are about women as of 9 October 2023. WikiProject Women also addresses women's works, such as the paintings they created, books they ...
Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red. project created 18 July 2015 by Victuallers and Rosiestep. group of editors of all genders living around the world focused on reducing systemic bias in the wiki movement focusing on the creation of content regarding women's biographies, women's works, and women's issues.
Apr 9, 2022 · In November 2014, just over 15% of the English Wikipedia's biographies were about women. Since then, we have brought the figure up to 18.99%, as of 19 July 2021. When: since 2015, active Primary language: English no frame. en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Women/Women in Green. What: an attempt to bring core articles on women up to minimum Wikipedia ...
Mar 1, 2023 · Nearly eight years later, Women in Red has helped tremendously in closing the gender gap. Their hard work and perseverance have significantly increased the number of women’s biographies on English Wikipedia, adding over 200,000 new articles. This enormous contribution has led the number of women’s biographies to increase from 15% to 19.47%.
Oct 18, 2018 · The news that more people are interested in contributing biographies about women to Wikipedia is gratifying to Stephenson-Goodnight, who co-founded Women in Red in 2015 after learning that only 15 percent of biographies on Wikipedia at the time were about women. (That number has since jumped to 17.67 percent, meaning an average of 72 new ...
October 3, 2019 Cynthia Simpson, MLIS 2 Hesse, M. (2019, February 17). History has a massive gender bias. We'll settle for fixing Wikipedia.
