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Women in Red conducts Wikipedia
2011
(Nov. 2010-April 2011) an
November 2011
(April – October 2011) The Women in Red participants help to collate 150 work lists of red linked articles to make it easier to find and create the missing articles. , Women in Red volunteer editors added over 45,000 articles, and the percentage of tallied articles increased marginally to 16.8 percent of English-language biographies (from 15 percent in July 2015).
BBC Viewpoint: How I tackle Wiki gender gap one article at a time
By Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight Wikipedian of the Year 2016 ''7 December 2016'' {{authority control Internet properties established in 2015 Wiki communities Wikipedia Women's empowerment Women's history Women's studies
WikiProject
A WikiProject, or Wikiproject, is a Wikimedia movement affinity group for contributors with shared goals. WikiProjects are prevalent within the largest wiki, Wikipedia, and exist to varying degrees within sister projects such as Wiktionary, Wikiq ...
addressing the current gender bias in Wikipedia content.
The project focuses on creating content regarding women's biographies, women's works, and women's issues.
The project is named after the hyperlinks in existing Wikipedia articles that display in red to indicate that the linked article has yet to be created. Since the inception of Ada Lovelace Day, Wikipedia edit-a-thons have been popular activities. Research at these events often discovered notable women in STEM who did not have Wikipedia pages, therefore a Red link
Red link may refer to:
* Red Link Communications, an ISP in Myanmar
* Red Sex Link, a cross-breed of chicken
* A link to a red node in the red–black tree
In computer science, a red–black tree is a kind of self-balancing binary search tre ...
could be created for that person.
History
Women in Red was conceived by volunteer Wikipedia editor Roger Bamkin in 2015, and volunteer editor Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight joined forces soon thereafter. Bamkin had initially coined a name for the project, "Project XX", but that was quickly scrapped in favor of ''WikiProject Women in Red''. After the project was up and running, volunteer editor Emily Temple-Wood signed on. Her specialty is adding a new Wikipedia article about a female scientist each time somebody harasses her about her volunteer editing efforts. AtWikimania
Wikimania is the Wikimedia movement's annual conference, organized by volunteers and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. Topics of presentations and discussions include Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, other wikis, open-source software, f ...
2016, in Esino Lario
Esino Lario (; Lecchese: ; locally ) is a municipality (''comune'') of the Province of Lecco in the Italian region of Lombardy. It is about north of Milan, northwest of Lecco, and about from the eastern shore of Lake Como.
The area aroun ...
, Italy, Jimmy Wales, who co-founded Wikipedia in 2001, named Stephenson-Goodknight and Temple-Wood the Wikipedians of the Year, for the prior 12 months, for their effort to fill the gender chasm.
Methods
Women in Red conducts Wikipedia edit-a-thon
An edit-a-thon (sometimes written editathon) is an event where some editors of online communities such as Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap (also as a "mapathon"), and LocalWiki edit and improve a specific topic or type of content. The events typically ...
s in cities around the world, and continuously hosts a virtual one. The all-day in-person edit-a-thons are focused events conducted to train new contributors so that the Wikipedia gender gap
Gender bias on Wikipedia, also known as the Wikipedia gender gap, refers to the fact that Wikipedia contributors are mostly male, that relatively few biographies on Wikipedia are about women, and that topics of interest to women are less well-cov ...
can become narrower and include more content on notable
Notability is the property
of being worthy of notice, having fame, or being considered to be of a high degree of interest, significance, or distinction. It also refers to the capacity to be such. Persons who are notable due to public responsibi ...
women. Another goal is to increase the number of female editors. Though Wikipedia is "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit", as of 2015 about only 10 percent of editors were women.Statistics based on Wikimedia Foundation Wikipedia editor survey2011
(Nov. 2010-April 2011) an
November 2011
(April – October 2011) The Women in Red participants help to collate 150 work lists of red linked articles to make it easier to find and create the missing articles. , Women in Red volunteer editors added over 45,000 articles, and the percentage of tallied articles increased marginally to 16.8 percent of English-language biographies (from 15 percent in July 2015).
Awards and honours
* 2016, shortlisted, ITU/UN Women's GEM-TECH Award (category: Apply Technology for Women's Empowerment and Digital Inclusion)See also
* Art+FeminismReferences
External links
*BBC Viewpoint: How I tackle Wiki gender gap one article at a time
By Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight Wikipedian of the Year 2016 ''7 December 2016'' {{authority control Internet properties established in 2015 Wiki communities Wikipedia Women's empowerment Women's history Women's studies