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| Welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR)! |
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| 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 20.13% 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! |
| Geofocus: Ten for Kenya edit‑a‑thon | |
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| Online event July 2025 | |
 Kenyan Women in Red | |
| Meetup | 343 |
| Type | Edit-a-thon |
| Series | Geofocus |
| Articles | Meetup 343 articles (9) |
| Use social media to promote our work! | |
| Wiki Women in Red | |
| @wikiwomeninred | |
| @wikiwomeninred | |
| July-2025-editathons | |
| Hashtag | #wikiwomeninred |
| Add to articles | |
| Authority control | 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. |
| Categories | Choose applicable categories including relevant subcategories of Category:Women. |
| Stub | If applicable, add stub template at the foot of an article: {{stub}}. |
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{{WikiProject Biography}} | |
{{WikiProject Women}} if born after 1950; or {{WikiProject Women's History}} if born before 1950. | |
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July 2025
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This month, Women in Red is focusing on its tenth anniversary and on Kenya. We chose Kenya because it will be the location of this year's Wikimania. It's not our first editathon regarding Kenya. We did one some years back when Women in Red held a 24 hour editathon. Part of the editathon was hosted in Nairobi by Carol Mwaura and she is one of the co-authors of a paper that will be presented at m:WikiWomen* SummitWikiWomenSummit, a Wikimania Day 0 pre-conference.
By all means, donate an improved article or two but the challenge is "Ten for 
Kenya": a new article for every year of Women in Red.
Below is a collection of a number of redlists that include lots of Kenyan women to write about. 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 these notable women. By doing so, we think you will find some interesting insights into life in Kenya and its rich history. An updated/improved article is a very welcome contribution ... one or two might manage "Ten for Kenya!"
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.
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