Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Monthly achievement initiative: August 2018

WiR Monthly achievement initiative: August 2018

The August entries are now complete. Please continue to participate in the September Monthly achievement initiative.


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 19.86% 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. Editors of all genders are equally and warmly welcome to participate in the work of Women in Red!

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The Women in Red Monthly achievement initiative is being trialled from 1 to 31 August 2018. It is intended to encourage editors to adopt a more rewarding approach as an incentive to turn red links into blue. It is hoped it will bring about progress in both quantity and quality. See here for more information on the Wikiproject Women in Red, including how to become a member.

While the initiative will run in parallel with the other priorities for the month, it will not add any further focus and can be to list any new biographies of women, including of course those specially targeted for the month. At this stage the initiative is limited to biographies although it might later be adapted to cover other articles about women, their works and their contributions.

In view of encouraging results for August, the Monthly achievement initiative is to be continued in September. Those interested in participating, should do so on the initiative's September page.


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