Women in Red

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Logo of "Women in Red"

Women in Red , abbreviated WiR , is a collaborative writing project within Wikipedia with the stated aim of reducing the gender gap in Wikipedia. The project seeks to create more articles about remarkable women who don't yet exist. The potential for such missing articles can be determined using the red wikilinks in existing articles.

history

Video: Women in Red presentation by Roger Bamkin at Wikimania 2017 (10 minutes)

Women in Red goes back to two Wikipedia authors: Roger Bamkin came up with the original idea in 2015, and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight soon joined him. Bamkin's original idea for the name of the project, Project XX , was quickly discarded in favor of WikiProject Women in Red . After the project started, feminist scientist and Wikipedia author Emily Temple-Wood joined. She's determined to write a new article about women scientists every time she is harassed for her volunteering work for Wikipedia.

At Wikimania 2016 in Esino Lario ( Italy ), Jimmy Wales , who co-founded Wikipedia in 2001, named Stephenson-Goodknight and Temple-Woods Wikipedians of the Year for their joint efforts to fill the gender gap.

Methods

Women in Red - Edit-a-thon at Newnham College (2017)
Button for the presentation of the WiR-Edit-a-thons at the International Women's Day 2017

Women in Red conducts Wikipedia writings - called " edit-a-thons " - in cities around the world, as well as a permanent virtual edit-a-thon. The all-day Edit-a-thons on site are focused events to train new contributors, to narrow the gender gap in Wikipedia and to include more articles about remarkable women. Another goal is to increase the number of female authors. In 2011 about 15% of all authors were women. A 2014 survey in the English language Wikipedia measured the proportion of women's biographies to be 14.5% of all biographies.

The participants of Women in Red help sort around 150 work lists of red-linked and therefore nonexistent articles in order to make it easier to find and create missing articles. On December 22, 2016, the core team of Women in Red editors had created over 45,000 articles and increased the percentage of recounted women's biographies to around 17% of all biographies on the English language Wikipedia.

See also

A logo of the Wiki project "Women in Red" (international: Women in Red) Wiki project “ Women in Red ”  - workshops for the creation of women's biographies

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Molly Redden: Women in science on Wikipedia: will we ever fill the information gap? In: The Guardian . March 19, 2016, accessed October 5, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Message: Sexism: How Emily Temple-Wood Makes Wikipedia More Feminine. In: Geo.de . January 6, 2020, accessed January 6, 2020; Quote: "Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales honored Temple-Wood as 'Wikipedian of the year' in 2016."
  3. ^ Claire Murray, Alice White , Jess Wade : Improving gender balance on Wikipedia. In: RSC.org . August 21, 2017, accessed October 5, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b c d Maggie Gordon: Wikipedia editing marathons add women's voices to online resource. In: Houston Chronicle . November 9, 2017, accessed October 5, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Andrew Lih: Opinion: Can Wikipedia Survive? In: The New York Times . June 20, 2015, accessed on October 5, 2019 (English): “[…] the considerable and often-noted gender gap among Wikipedia editors; in 2011, less than 15 percent were women. "
  6. ↑ Wikimedia Foundation : Wikipedia Editors Survey 2011 November . Study November 2011 (status: October 13, 2017).
  7. ↑ Lucia Stein: Wikipedia edit-a-thon tackles internet gender gap. In: ABC News . December 9, 2016, Retrieved October 5, 2019 (Australian English).
  8. ↑ Dimitra Kessenides, Max Chafkin: Is Wikipedia Woke? The ubiquitous reference site tries to expand its editor ranks beyond the Comic Con set. In: Bloomberg Businessweek . December 22, 2016, accessed October 5, 2019 .