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Welcome! This is where Women in Red plans future events and discusses ideas for more general improvements. Everyone is welcome to make suggestions or work on tasks. What we decide to do is based on consensus. No one is in charge. You don't have to be a member to participate. Like elsewhere on Wikipedia: be polite, be bold. Join the discussion here or on our project talkpage.

Year-long focus for 2025

Common tasks for each event.; This list is incomplete. Please add to it
.	identify sponsors and/or WikiProject hosts; create list of potential participants, including active editors from the area(s) to be covered; create editathon banner; create/find editathon icon; develop the WiR redlist, find related redlink lists; create meetup page, completing sections on; "Add these to articles" (stub templates, applicable categories, useful lists); "Add these to article talkpages" (WikiProject banners, editathon banner for the event); create the invite; distribute the invite; develop social media campaign (FB, Twitter); We haven't been doing this but it would be great if we had a social media volunteer; add Authority Control if missing to all the articles created during the event; double-check each article for categories; double-check each article for talkpage banners; create the thank you and/or barnstar; develop a list of contributors (overlaps to some degree with registered participants); distribute the thank you and/or barnstar after the event to the contributors; create Wikidata entry if none exists;

This is under discussion on the WiR talk page. Please help us to reach a consensus.--Ipigott (talk) 09:20, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

2024

Dec 2024

Firming up for December

ONGOING -  
** Event #293: #1day1woman #1day1woman 
** Event #294:  Education Year long initiative Education Year long initiative

NEW - Women who died in 2024 (two months Dec and January - 291 as go by)
* Women who died in 2024
** Event #324: Women who died in 2024 Y

NEW - Religion (or how about "Religious, spiritual, and wisdom traditions"?)
* Religion 98 as go by)
** Event #325: Religion N
:::I think we should stick with the simple heading Religion. Despite Figureskatingfan's comment, it already covers a wide range of beliefs and is widely understood.--Ipigott (talk) 15:18, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ANNOUNCEMENTS (EVENTS FACILITATED BY OTHERS) 
*  TBD N

INVITATION: 
* Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/2024#December 2024 -  N
** logo  Y

COMING UP:
* Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Events

TIP OF THE MONTH:
*  Think of rewarding contributors, especially newcomers, with a barnstar. Significant progress should not be forgotten. N

Oronsay, Ipigott, Rosiestep, Lajmmoore, CT55555, Victuallers, Cielquiparle, SusunW, Chocmilk03, Penny Richards, Silver seren, PamD, Curbon7, MSGJ, TheResilientEngineer, Grnrchst, TSventon and all WIR helpers: Here's a rough draft of the to-do list. I am pretty burnt out on this task, so I leave it to y'all to hash out how you would do Winter sports, Get to 20, and/or De-orphan December. Religion and 2024 need text. We need a Tip of the month and any announcements. There shouldn't be coding issues at this point. Just look at a relevant page and work it out. It wouldn't be a template that needs editing, it would be putting info into the page correctly. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 02:03, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks @WomenArtistUpdates for getting us started for December. I will draft W324 Women who died in 2024. I have just this week created the WiR Redlist for Deaths 2024, which I have just added to the Redlist page. Oronsay (talk) 02:59, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you @WomenArtistUpdates for getting us started. Perhaps we can agree someone else to get things started next month/year. Between Religion and the deaths in 2024 and the push for 20% I think there is a danger of spreading ourselves too thin if we also add in the De-orphan december. I wonder is @Lajmmoore might agree that this could actually be a tip? I like that you've highlighted how doing some de-orphaning can also help identifying new biographies to cover which then contributes to the push for 20%. TheResilientEngineer (talk) 08:45, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@TheResilientEngineer: To be honest, judging by how close we're getting, I'm not sure we'll end up needing a dedicated "Get to 20" event. Maybe a notice on each of the monthly events (and maybe on the Project front page) encouraging people to help us get over the line will be enough? --Grnrchst (talk) 10:06, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I'll be happy to look things through as they develop. Figureskatingfan and other members of WikiProject Women in Religion may be able to help with #325. As for a tip, could we advise against overlinking based on this? I seem to be spending more and more of my editing time on reducing unnecessary or repeated wikilinks in articles, especially those created by less experienced contributors.--Ipigott (talk) 11:24, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

See above. I've offered a potential alt title for "Religion". Am travelling now. Can look at things more closely later. --Rosiestep (talk) 15:05, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We at the other WiR would be happy to help. This weekend, many of our members are presenting an editathon at a religious conference in San Diego, but I'll let them know. Personally, I like the longer alt title, since it's how we describe things. Please direct users to our project page. Our next editing session is December 9 at 10 pm UTC; here is the link: https://tulane.zoom.us/j/95434400202?pwd=N0lEQzFFTHZNRXk0NE44M3RxUWtkUT09#success. Thanks and best, Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 17:31, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Annual 2024

Religion

To be more inclusive, would we want to consider referring to it as Religious, spiritual, and wisdom traditions (a descriptor used by Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Religion)? However, this is quite long. --Rosiestep (talk) 17:06, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Winter sports
Women who died in 2024

Get to 20

According to my projections of the increasing numbers of women's biographies, the number of women's biographies should be hitting 20% of all biographies by the end of the year. I wondered if it would perhaps be worth doing an end-of-year edit-a-thon to help us nudge it over the line. Unlike the usual themed characters of our monthly edit-a-thons, this one could be more of a free-for-all to encourage as much creation as possible. Just an idea. --Grnrchst (talk) 08:14, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

De-orphan December

Adding a suggestion here for a deorphaning theme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Women_in_Red#de-orphaning_as_monthly_initiative? However, looking I wonder if December might be a bit full with other themes? Lajmmoore (talk) 06:23, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"De-orphan December" has a nice ring to it. Also, I think some editors will be grateful for this option in this month. --Rosiestep (talk) 07:08, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I did quite a lot of deorphaning in August-September and think that making it one of several themes is a good idea. There is little point in several people trying to deorphan the same article and finding it has already been done. We should encourage volunteers to add links which improve the articles edited, rather than to deorphan articles at any cost. Deorphaning is also a good opportunity to see whether the article can be improved in other ways. TSventon (talk) 16:54, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

2025

Jan 2025

Annual

~~Women whose works have entered the public domain~~ This topic seems to be country specific. We haven't done it in years --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 20:38, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Women who died in 2024 (this is usually a Dec/Jan event)

Alphabet run A and B

Alphabet by month
Month	Letters
January	A & B
February	C & D
March	E & F
April	G & H
May	I & J
June	K & L
July	M & N
August	O & P
September	Q & R
October	S & T
November	U, V, W
December	X, Y & Z

Women with highest links to other Wikipedias, but not EN

As per this discussion, perhaps a focus on women who are well represented in languages that aren't English, using this list. Might need a catchier title though? Lajmmoore (talk) 17:26, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Lajmmoore: I actually already proposed an "Interwiki edit-a-thon" along these lines (see below). --Grnrchst (talk) 10:26, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
When I sort one of our geofocus redlists on the "number of links" column, a depressing number of the top ranking are usually porn stars. Do we want to focus our editors' minds on them? I'm showing my biases here, but I can't help but think there are more worthwhile contributions we could make to en.wiki. But as long as we remind our editors to skim through the highly-linked lists looking for someone who seems a real gap in en.wiki, it could be useful. PamD 18:40, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@PamD: I understand the hesitation, it's something I find a bit jarring about some of the geofocused redlists as well. But there are redlists for different occupations, which by their nature would preclude these kinds of article. For example, the woman with the most interwiki links on the revolutionaries list has 8 interwiki links; there's also 10 interwiki links for the most inter-linked in economists, 6 for judges, etc. --Grnrchst (talk) 10:33, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

#PendingDrafts

As per Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red#Women-related articles at AfC, suggesting that we begin a never-ending event (along the lines of #1day1woman) focused on women-related AfC articles. This will take some set-up work, but the idea is that methodical awareness of these articles and collaborative assistance with improving them will increase the possibility that the draft will make it to mainpage, and that the newbie editor will come to know they aren't alone. --Rosiestep (talk) 08:34, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe this is our year-long event in 2025? Lajmmoore (talk) 08:52, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Feb 2025

Black women

Annual event

Alphabet run C & D

Alphabet by month
Month	Letters
January	A & B
February	C & D
March	E & F
April	G & H
May	I & J
June	K & L
July	M & N
August	O & P
September	Q & R
October	S & T
November	U, V, W
December	X, Y & Z

Mar 2025

Artists+Activists

Annual Event

Alphabet run E & F

Alphabet by month
Month	Letters
January	A & B
February	C & D
March	E & F
April	G & H
May	I & J
June	K & L
July	M & N
August	O & P
September	Q & R
October	S & T
November	U, V, W
December	X, Y & Z

Apr 2025

Alphabet run G & H

Alphabet by month
Month	Letters
January	A & B
February	C & D
March	E & F
April	G & H
May	I & J
June	K & L
July	M & N
August	O & P
September	Q & R
October	S & T
November	U, V, W
December	X, Y & Z

May 2025

Alphabet run I & J

Alphabet by month
Month	Letters
January	A & B
February	C & D
March	E & F
April	G & H
May	I & J
June	K & L
July	M & N
August	O & P
September	Q & R
October	S & T
November	U, V, W
December	X, Y & Z

Jun 2025

LGBTQ+ women | Wiki Loves Pride

Annual event

Alphabet run K & L

Alphabet by month
Month	Letters
January	A & B
February	C & D
March	E & F
April	G & H
May	I & J
June	K & L
July	M & N
August	O & P
September	Q & R
October	S & T
November	U, V, W
December	X, Y & Z

Jul 2025

Women in Red turns 10

Celebrate WiR's 10th birthday - let's discuss how best to do this. --Oronsay (talk) 19:05, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Alphabet run M & N

Alphabet by month
Month	Letters
January	A & B
February	C & D
March	E & F
April	G & H
May	I & J
June	K & L
July	M & N
August	O & P
September	Q & R
October	S & T
November	U, V, W
December	X, Y & Z

Aug 2025

Indigenous women

Annual event

Alphabet run O & P

Alphabet by month
Month	Letters
January	A & B
February	C & D
March	E & F
April	G & H
May	I & J
June	K & L
July	M & N
August	O & P
September	Q & R
October	S & T
November	U, V, W
December	X, Y & Z

Sep 2025

Women writers & their works

Annual event

Alphabet run Q & R

Alphabet by month
Month	Letters
January	A & B
February	C & D
March	E & F
April	G & H
May	I & J
June	K & L
July	M & N
August	O & P
September	Q & R
October	S & T
November	U, V, W
December	X, Y & Z

Oct 2025

Women in STEM

Annual event

Alphabet run S & T

Alphabet by month
Month	Letters
January	A & B
February	C & D
March	E & F
April	G & H
May	I & J
June	K & L
July	M & N
August	O & P
September	Q & R
October	S & T
November	U, V, W
December	X, Y & Z

Nov 2025

Asian women

Annual event

Alphabet run U, V, W

Alphabet by month
Month	Letters
January	A & B
February	C & D
March	E & F
April	G & H
May	I & J
June	K & L
July	M & N
August	O & P
September	Q & R
October	S & T
November	U, V, W
December	X, Y & Z

Dec 2025

Women who died in 2025

Annual Event

Alphabet run X, Y & Z

Alphabet by month
Month	Letters
January	A & B
February	C & D
March	E & F
April	G & H
May	I & J
June	K & L
July	M & N
August	O & P
September	Q & R
October	S & T
November	U, V, W
December	X, Y & Z

Tip of the Month

Table of annual events/collaborations

Month	Annual event considerations
January	Public Domain (Public Domain Day, 1 Jan) Women who died in 202x Education (International Day of Education, 24 January[1])
February	Black History Month (with AfroCrowd) (see also WP:BLM) Justice
March	Artists+Activists (with Art+Feminism) Folklore #VisibleWikiWomen (photos/Wikimedia Commons; with Whose Knowledge?)
April	Gender studies Health (World Health Day, 7 Apr) Earth Day (22 Apr) Dance (International Dance Day, 29 Apr)
May	CEE women (with CEE User Group)
June	Pride (with LGBT+ User Group) Music (World Music Day is 21 Jun)
July	Sports
August	Indigenous women (International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, 9 Aug) (see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red/Archive 117#Please_vet_Native_claims) Stage+Screen m:Interwiki Women Collaboration
September	Writers (with WP:WPWW est. 30 Aug 2014)
October	STEM (Ada Lovelace Day, 2nd Tue of Oct) Women in Green Good Article Editathon
November	Politics Wiki Asia Month
December	Religion Women who died in 202x

Potential/Suggestions

Starting over as of Dec 2023 see Potential/Suggestions Archive. Bring back any ideas for reconsideration. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:46, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Geofocus ideas

Non-geofocus ideas

Revolutionary women

Hey all. For quite a while now I've been working on articles about revolutionary women (i.e. women who either participated in revolutions or were involved in revolutionary movements/organisations). Most of my submissions have been to other themed events, but I was thinking it might be fun to do a specific edit-a-thon focused on revolutionary women. I can try putting together a red list for it, perhaps we could do it some time next year? --Grnrchst (talk) 14:39, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey @Grnrchst I think this should go on the agenda next year. April 2025 does not have a theme attributed. Perhaps we add it to the list? When we get round to March it would be great if you can help create the event page, would you be happy to do that? TheResilientEngineer (talk) 08:48, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Interwiki edit-a-thon

I was just fiddling around with the number of links redlist, as I noticed it hadn't updated in over a year, and managed to get it back to working order. It got me thinking whether we should have an edit-a-thon focused specifically on creating articles with a high number of interwiki links; the redlist includes articles with 7 or more interwiki links. This could be a nice way to focus on the higher importance (for lack of a better term) articles that other language wikis have recognised as worthy of articles. --Grnrchst (talk) 09:46, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support! as I think it's an interesting perspective. --Rosiestep (talk) 19:10, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nobility

Following publication of ODNB's August update and WiR talk page discussion.--Ipigott (talk) 09:20, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ideas page administration

Checklist for updates of virtual meetups

This section is purely administrative. It is not about the ongoing discussions of topics.

WiR generally has a variety of monthly, quarterly and annual events. WiR also sends out an “invitation” to its registered participants notifying them of those events. This is an effort to list tasks associated with the administrative tasks of updating and adding pages. We will be maintaining this list to assist with Quality Assurance. This is a working document and should be maintained to reflect current bast practices. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 16:52, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

As of March 2024 we are working with a new set of cascading templates. Because the template speak to each other the preview of the template might not be as expected. For example 302 might look like 304. Additionally some pages won't preview correctly unless the editor purges the page to update the cache.

The interrelated templates allow us to make changes and pages once, without updating new and past events throughout the WiR ecosystem. This will ultimately reduce mistakes, bad directs, and misinformation. The coders involved are watching these pages to ensure they work correctly. March 2024 is the first iteration. If direction are not clear it is the drafter's fault - not the coders, so please be gentle.

This is a working document and should be maintained to reflect current bast practices. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 21:43, 6 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Basic overview of tasks using March 2024 as a guide

Each month there will be new events and ongoing events

YEAR-LONG INITIATIVES
#1day1woman 2024 
** Event #293: #1day1woman #1day1woman 
Education  - Year long initiative 
** Event #294:  Education Year long initiative Education Year long initiative

NEW - Alphabet run Q & R 
* Alphabet run Q & R
** Event #299: Alphabet run Q & R

NEW -  Women's History Month | Art+Feminism  - 260 as go by
* Art+Activism
** Event #300: Art+Feminism Y

NEW -   Find Her  
*  Find Her  
** Event #301: Find Her Y

ANNOUNCEMENTS (EVENTS FACILITATED BY OTHERS) 
* All content gender gap events, in every language Wikipedia, in March 2024
* Francophone Women★ Writers Fortnight 2024
* Feminism and Folklore 2024

INVITATION: 
* Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/2024#March 2024 Y
** logo 

COMING UP:
* Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Events 
TIP OF THE MONTH:
* When creating a new article be sure to check various spellings, including birth name, married names and pseudonyms, to be sure an article doesn't already exist. Y

Step 1 - Add details of the event to Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/events (see instructions at Template:WikiProject Women in Red/doc#Technical info). This will automatically update the various lists of events, and also allows editors to tag the article talk pages with {{WikiProject Women in Red}} or its shortcut {{WIR}}.
Step 2
Create the event page at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/n where n is the number of the new event. You can use the {{WIR meetup header}} template to help you. {{WIR meetup header}} will populate the event header and right side infoboxes. * Then copy and sections from previous month to add boilerplate language. For example, start at Participants copy through the bottom of the page (XYZ as an example). update month and event number in the pasted sections.
Then add the "body" of the page (welcome, redlists, purpose) using a similar editathon as a starting point.
Step 3 Create a new category for meetup articles (e.g. at Category:WikiProject Women in Red meetup 325 articles). Add the template {{WIR category}} to the new category.
Step 4 Create the invite (e.g. Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/2024#March 2024) using the previous month's invite as a go-by.
Step 5 Invite and receive feedback from a sufficient number of WiR enthusiasts that the event page and invite are okay. Mark reviewed items with {{ok}}
Step 6 Send out MassMessage notification.

(For ongoing re-write of instruction Archived: Basic overview of tasks using March 2021 as a guide)

NEW
* Art+Activism
** Event page: Art+Activism 
** Talkpage template: Template:WIR-192
* VisibleWikiWomen
** Event page: VisibleWikiWomen
** Talkpage template: Template:WIR-193 
CONTEST (Jan/Feb/Mar)
* Africa
** Event page: Africa
** Talkpage template: Template:WIR-186
CONTINUING
** Women's rights
**Template:WIR-188
** #1day1woman2021
** Template:WIR-184 & Template:WIR-00-2021 
INVITATION: 
* Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/2021#March 2021