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Women in Red
Women in Red is a WikiProject which started in 2015 with the aim of addressing the gender bias in Wikipedia content. The project focuses on creating content regarding women's biographies, women's works, and women's issues. The project is named after the hyperlinks in existing Wikipedia articles that display in red to indicate that the linked article has yet to be created.
Since the inception of Ada Lovelace Day, an annual event held to celebrate and raise awareness of the contributions of women to STEM fields, Wikipedia edit-a-thons have been popular activities. Research at these events often discovered notable women in STEM who did not have Wikipedia pages, revealing red links that represented nonexistent articles awaiting creation.
Women in Red was conceived by volunteer Wikipedia editor Roger Bamkin in 2015, who subsequently joined forces with volunteer editor Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight. Bamkin had initially coined a name for the project, "Project XX", but the name was soon changed to WikiProject Women in Red.[citation needed][original research?] After the project was up and running, volunteer editor Emily Temple-Wood signed on. Her specialty is adding a new Wikipedia article about a female scientist each time somebody harasses her about her volunteer editing efforts. Jess Wade has written thousands of articles about women and minorities to address the gender gap in the sciences and engineering on wikipedia.
The project was influenced by academic studies that presented gender bias within wikipedia. One paper about the issue is entitled "First Women, Second Sex: Gender Bias in Wikipedia" and was published in 2015. One example of the gender gap was that physicist Donna Strickland did not have a biography on wikipedia until she won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018. Before she won the award, Strickland's page had been rejected by editor who wrote: "This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article." However, the men with whom she shared the Nobel Prize both had biography articles.
According to some researchers and observers, articles about women are disproportionately nominated for deletion on Wikipedia. Others have noticed articles about women being flagged for deletion on wikipedia. Francesca Tripodi, a sociologist, monitored deletion discussions for years. She noted: "[articles about women] met the criteria for inclusion at a point where they shouldn't have been (on the Articles for Deletion list) to begin with. If there weren't networks like Women in Red devoted to saving these articles, these articles would have been deleted."
Women in Red conducts Wikipedia edit-a-thons in cities around the world, and continuously hosts a virtual one. The all-day in-person edit-a-thons are focused events conducted to train new contributors so that the Wikipedia gender gap can become narrower and include more content on notable women.
Another goal is to increase the number of female editors. Though Wikipedia is "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit", as of 2015 about only 10 percent of editors were women.
The Women in Red participants help to collate 150 work lists of red linked articles to make it easier to find and create the missing articles.
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Women in Red
Women in Red is a WikiProject which started in 2015 with the aim of addressing the gender bias in Wikipedia content. The project focuses on creating content regarding women's biographies, women's works, and women's issues. The project is named after the hyperlinks in existing Wikipedia articles that display in red to indicate that the linked article has yet to be created.
Since the inception of Ada Lovelace Day, an annual event held to celebrate and raise awareness of the contributions of women to STEM fields, Wikipedia edit-a-thons have been popular activities. Research at these events often discovered notable women in STEM who did not have Wikipedia pages, revealing red links that represented nonexistent articles awaiting creation.
Women in Red was conceived by volunteer Wikipedia editor Roger Bamkin in 2015, who subsequently joined forces with volunteer editor Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight. Bamkin had initially coined a name for the project, "Project XX", but the name was soon changed to WikiProject Women in Red.[citation needed][original research?] After the project was up and running, volunteer editor Emily Temple-Wood signed on. Her specialty is adding a new Wikipedia article about a female scientist each time somebody harasses her about her volunteer editing efforts. Jess Wade has written thousands of articles about women and minorities to address the gender gap in the sciences and engineering on wikipedia.
The project was influenced by academic studies that presented gender bias within wikipedia. One paper about the issue is entitled "First Women, Second Sex: Gender Bias in Wikipedia" and was published in 2015. One example of the gender gap was that physicist Donna Strickland did not have a biography on wikipedia until she won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018. Before she won the award, Strickland's page had been rejected by editor who wrote: "This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article." However, the men with whom she shared the Nobel Prize both had biography articles.
According to some researchers and observers, articles about women are disproportionately nominated for deletion on Wikipedia. Others have noticed articles about women being flagged for deletion on wikipedia. Francesca Tripodi, a sociologist, monitored deletion discussions for years. She noted: "[articles about women] met the criteria for inclusion at a point where they shouldn't have been (on the Articles for Deletion list) to begin with. If there weren't networks like Women in Red devoted to saving these articles, these articles would have been deleted."
Women in Red conducts Wikipedia edit-a-thons in cities around the world, and continuously hosts a virtual one. The all-day in-person edit-a-thons are focused events conducted to train new contributors so that the Wikipedia gender gap can become narrower and include more content on notable women.
Another goal is to increase the number of female editors. Though Wikipedia is "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit", as of 2015 about only 10 percent of editors were women.
The Women in Red participants help to collate 150 work lists of red linked articles to make it easier to find and create the missing articles.
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