Celebrating Women's art from the Collection of the Met: June 2017

July: Women in dance July: Women in music July: Indian women

June: Met's art by women June: WiR Loves Pride June: Pre-20th-century women

See also: Future events

Hello and welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR) whose objective is to turn redlinks into blue ones. Our project's scope is women's biographies and women's works. Did you know that according to WHGI only 16.99% 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. Women in Red warmly welcomes you!
Edmonia Lewis' statue of Hiawatha at the Met.
About
Affiliated organizationsMet Open Access Challenge
FacilitatorsPharos
Online event
1-30 June 2017Join the Women in Red online editathon from anywhere in the world.
Use social media to promote our work!
FacebookWiki Women in Red
Twitter@wikiwomeninred
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.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.
.Choose applicable Categories such as: Category:Women and relative subcategories
.If applicable, add a stub template at the foot of an article: Women Stubs, or {{Women-stub}}
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  • {{WikiProject Biography| }} or {{WikiProject Biography}}
  • {{WikiProject Women}} if born after 1950; or {{WikiProject Women's History}}:: if born before 1950.
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Women in Red is hosting a virtual editathon from June 1 to 30, 2017, on Women's art from the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The virtual edit-a-thon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in the work. The main goals of the event are:

  • to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of some of the world's most prominent women
  • to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action on a specific area
  • to support Wikipedia in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
  • to promote the new/improved articles and images through social media (Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter)

Focus and lists of red links edit

In collaboration with the Met Open Access Artworks Challenge, Women in Red is focusing on artwork created by women.

Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created) edit

Add other red links here, if possible with a source:

Participants edit

  1. SusunW (talk) 23:10, 29 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Rosiestep (talk) 04:35, 4 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Ipigott (talk) 14:07, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Jane (talk) 20:55, 24 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Penny Richards (talk) 23:32, 24 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Camelia (talk) 21:52, 30 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Netherzone (talk) 13:40, 31 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Victuallers (talk) 17:11, 1 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  9. PamD 23:19, 1 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 00:15, 10 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Outcomes edit

Promote our work edit

Key:

  • Add FB after the article if you mention it on Facebook
  • Add PIN after the article if you pin the image on Pinterest
  • Add TW after the article if you tweet it on Twitter

New or upgraded articles edit

  • Add the titles of your new or upgraded articles here created in June – most recent at the top, specifying upgraded if not new

Did You Know features edit

New/expanded articles featured in the Did you know... column of the Wikipedia Main page

  • Add here - most recent at the top with date of publication

New or improved pictures edit

Press about the event edit

Event templates edit