Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/337

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 20.10% 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!

Revolutionary women edit‑a‑thon
Online event May 2025
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This month, Women in Red is focusing on the topic of revolutionary women to highlight women who have been responsible for or have attempted to bring about a great social change.

Throughout history, women have been in the vanguard of revolutionary movements. In 1774, fifty-one women in North Carolina formed the Edenton Tea Party, a boycott on British goods leading up to the American Revolution. In 1789, it was a Women's March on Versailles that forced King Louis XVI to submit himself to the will of the French Revolution. In 1917, it was an International Women's Day demonstration that kicked off the February Revolution and ousted the Russian Tsar Nicholas II from power. In 1994, women in the EZLN led an uprising against the Mexican state. And in 2014, the Women's Protection Units made headlines throughout the world for their fight against ISIS.

This edit-a-thon aims to improve our coverage of women involved in revolutions and in revolutionary movements. Whether they fought on the front lines or in a supporting role, whether they were part of a mass movement or a small group, and whether their movement was successful or not, we would like to see more articles about the women that made their revolutions what they were. Below we have collected a number of red-lists that include hundreds of revolutionary women to write about, so feel free to have a look at these if you want to know where to get started.

We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about notable women.

The main goals of the event are:

• to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of prominent women
• to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
• to promote the new and improved articles and images through social media

What else?

• Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you created 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 share any of the articles or images on social media, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.