Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red#By occupation from Wikidata

Welcome to Women in Red (WiR)! We are a group of volunteer (unpaid) editors of all genders who live around the world and speak dozens of languages. Across different language Wikipedias, we focus on reducing systemic bias regarding gender representation (content gender gap) in the Wikipedia movement. Our goal is to "move the needle" in terms of statistical representation of women and other gender minorities on Wikipedia. We recognized a need for this work in 2014 when we learned that, as of October 2014, only 15.53% of English Wikipedia's biographies were about women.{{cite journal |last1=Graells-Garrido |first1=Eduardo |last2=Lalmas |first2=Mounia |last3=Menczer |first3=Filippo |title=First Women, Second Sex: Gender Bias in Wikipedia |journal=Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext & Social Media - HT '15 |date=2015 |pages=165–174 |doi=10.1145/2700171.2791036|arxiv=1502.02341 |s2cid=1082360 }} Without a particular percentage in mind, we recognized that with persistence, we could increase it, one article at a time. With only this in mind, Women in Red was established in July 2015, at Wikimania Mexico City, by {{u|Victuallers|Roger Bamkin}} and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight.

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According to [https://humaniki.wmcloud.org/search Humaniki], the percentage of women's biographies on the English Wikipedia is now over 20%: specifically reaching 20.003% by 16 December 2024. As of 14 April 2025, it had risen further to 20.085%. That means that of 2,060,228 biographies, only 413,796 are about women.{{cite web |title=Humaniki |url=https://humaniki.wmcloud.org/search}} Not impressed? "Content gender gap" is a form of systemic bias, and WiR addresses it in a positive way through shared values.

Can we increase the percentage still further? Yes! But we need you in order to do so. How? There are more than 34,000 general forum comments from over 1,200 different editors on our talkpage.{{cite web |title=Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red • en.wikipedia.org |url=https://xtools.wmflabs.org/articleinfo/en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia%20talk:WikiProject%20Women%20in%20Red |website=XTools}} Ask there. You don't have to be a member in order to participate in the conversations; just please be civil.

Do the articles have to be perfect when they are created? No. But establishing them according to Wikipedia's policies is the first step, and that's the focus of Women in Red: new article creation. Over time, other editors will improve these articles; maybe that's you.

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".

We take an inclusive view towards subject matter, editors, and language communities:

• Editors: We do not focus on the gender of the editor. Anyone/everyone is welcome to be a member, participant, enthusiast of Women in Red. If you participate in WiR, you can join up officially using the box in the top right-hand corner of this page. You are also welcome to add our userbox template {{tlx|User WikiProject Women in Red}} to your user page, to produce:

• Language communities: While Women in Red began on English Wikipedia, it is an international commitment with dozens of other language communities. Please add a link to your language's coordination page [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23875215 here].
• Subject matter:

:* If the subject of the article self-identifies as a woman, a non-binary person, and/or any other gender minority, that person is included within the scope of Women in Red. Historic cases where it's unknown how they self-identified also count. The goal of the project is to increase inclusion, and we'd rather not block article subjects from being included in an article creation drive.

:* In addition to creating new articles, we create and maintain hundreds of lists of "missing" notable women. Some of these women have an article on some language Wikipedia, while others have no article in any Wikipedia. We call these lists, "redlists".

:* Click on our Redlinks index to see our lists of missing articles by focus area, occupation and nationality. Like everything else on Wikipedia, this is incomplete, so feel free to add pertinent items to our crowd-sourced lists.

:* While all redlists have redlinks, our redlists are generated in numerous ways:

::*crowd-sourced (example, Crafts)

::*Wikidata-generated (example, Herpetologists)

::*based on a dictionary or other reference book (example, Encyclopédie Larousse)

::*based on a website (example, BBC 100 Women)

::*based on an international Authority Control (example, VIAF)

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Every year, our members upload thousands of images to Wikimedia Commons: photographs of women, their signatures, their works, etc. In turn, these images can be added to Wikipedia articles. This is another way people can be involved in improving women's representation on Wikipedia. Over 10,000 new images were added in 2022.

We create and improve Wikidata items related to women, women's works, and women's issues.

::Please post recent announcements directly on this page for improved page editing history, watcher alerts and greater visibility

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• New redlists: Internet Speculative Fiction Database, Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia, A Historical Dictionary of British Women, American Women Artists, Past and Present, Dictionary of Wisconsin History, Italian Women Writers, Mujeres de Nuestra Tierra (Argentina), Representative Women of New England, Encyclopedia of China

:For a complete list of events, visit Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Events.

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WiR works by filling in missing articles based on extensive lists of needed topics. The index to our wide range of topics and nationalities can be found at the Redlist index. Please make these red links blue. Notable women without a Wikipedia biography can be added to any crowd-sourced redlists they match; and added to wikidata such that they're included in wikidata-derived redlists. We also have a guide to adding names to redlists, and to creating new redlists.

:See Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Women for articles about women that are nominated for deletion.

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Thanks firstly to {{u|Ronhjones}}, and now to {{u|Galobtter}}, we have a bot showing declined drafts submitted to AfC. Weekly updates highlight those most recently listed under New Additions. With a little bit of attention, some of them could well be moved to mainspace, encouraging the editors who created them to progress on Wikipedia.

WiR maintains resources to help you contribute, including lists of topical books and external links, information on editing in general, and contacts you can reach out to for specific needs. They can be found at Resources.

Academic research on Wikipedia's content gender gap is also documented at Research.

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WiR is amazing and has way too much to showcase here. Please see Showcase for our recent and past achievements.

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There has been considerable press coverage of WiR, to the point where the project has its own Wikipedia article. Below are some recent articles. To add articles to the list, visit Press.

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In addition to listings under Research, academic papers on gender bias in Wikipedia (as recorded in Wikidata) are [https://tools.wmflabs.org/scholia/topic/Q17002416 listed in Scholia].

To include a paper, create an item about it on Wikidata (check first to avoid duplicates) and give it {{Wikidata entity link|P921}} = {{Wikidata entity link|Q17002416}}.

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