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| Any chance someone could throw something together on civil rights activist ]? She has 102,000 Google News hits and no article. It's something that plenty of people are likely to be looking for considering the huge media coverage of her heart attack this week.. ] (]) 10:56, 29 December 2017 (UTC) | Any chance someone could throw something together on civil rights activist ]? She has 102,000 Google News hits and no article. It's something that plenty of people are likely to be looking for considering the huge media coverage of her heart attack this week.. ] (]) 10:56, 29 December 2017 (UTC) | ||
| :* To get something done, then it's good to make a start, even if it's incomplete — see the ]. So, in that spirit, I have created a brief ]. ] (]) 12:10, 29 December 2017 (UTC) | |||
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Scope
- The problems we’re trying to solve:
- Systemic bias towards women’s biographies;
- … and their works -- broadly construed -- such as books, paintings, etc.
- … across all languages
- Off-topic:
- Editor gender gap
What is it?
- WikiProject Women in Red, a community-led project, was launched this week.
- It is intended as a parent project for other projects in all languages whose scope covers women and their works, such as WikiProject Women Writers.
- WikiProject Women in Red is a collaborative space across languages to track all things related to content gender gap.
- creation of new articles, Featured Articles, Good Articles, DYK articles
- events
- news articles
- scholarly publications
- metrics
- hackathon challenges
- WikiProject Women in Red is a container project with links for blogs, conferences, contests, discussions (Misplaced Pages; Wikimedia), editathons, Inspire grantees’ projects, mailing-lists, meet-ups, newspaper articles, scholarly articles, social media campaigns, workshops, etc.
Wikidata will be used to manage the project because of its size and scope.
- We hope to collaborate with international festival organizers (example: Litquake).
- A global community-run project:
- In addition to needing editors to write the articles, several key volunteer positions have been identified: Data Coordinator; Promotions/Events Coordinator; Lead Coordinators for each language.
- We hope to establish a teaming arrangement with the Wiki Education Foundation as we believe university students are important to this endeavor. We would like to build on the education outreach efforts described by user:Kruusamägi (Wikimania submission: Possibilities for university cooperation: Estonian example) “Every academic year more than 500 articles on Estonian Misplaced Pages are created as part of local cooperation with universities.”
- We will seek out the expertise of WikiProject X, a project dedicated to improving WikiProjects, in order to create an appealing work space.
- Work together with the Chapters
- Build on Wikimedia’s “Address the gender gap/FAQ“
- Consider the creation of a Wikimedia User Group
April 7: Update on Wikimedia movement strategy process (#12)
From: Katherine Maher
I apologize that we have not had a formal update the last couple of weeks — with Wikimedia Conference, the associated Board meeting, and our regular annual planning, I dropped the ball. The good news is that — as you have probably seen and heard — a lot of discussions are taking place!
This week, I’m experimenting with a different type of update: now that the conversations have launched, I will be sharing fewer bullet points about the process, and more paragraphs about the overall work that is going on around the movement. As more conversations happen, I hope future updates will continue to be substantive, sharing key themes and discussions as we see them emerge.
Last week, more than 350 Wikimedia community leaders from 70 countries and many different stakeholder groups converged on Berlin, during the annual meeting of movement affiliates, the Wikimedia Conference. This year, leaders from movement affiliates were joined by an additional 200 leaders from across the Wikimedia movement to participate in a program track focused on movement strategy. In addition to participating in some in-person discussions about our shared future direction, volunteers also discussed ways to help spread this effort across their activities and groups.
You may be wondering — where are the minutes from our meetings in Berlin? Great question. Unusually for our community, the Berlin strategy track was almost entirely analog, with markers and paper and sticky notes. The facilitation team is in the process of digitalizing all of these materials, from session notes to summaries and final statements. You can keep an eye (or watch) on the Sources page to keep track as additional materials are posted - and jump in to respond and discuss as appropriate!
The discussions in Berlin are just one of the many ways people across the movement have been able to engage in the strategy process since my last update. Approximately 50 volunteers and groups are helping coordinate discussions and several on-wiki discussions are already underway. This cycle (the first of three) will run until April 15th, so there’s still a week to share your thoughts - please do!
All of these are opportunities for you to contribute your thoughts on the question, "What do we want to build or achieve together over the next 15 years?" For example, if you think we should go to deep space (after all, we've gone to the Moon), tell us more! Have a quick thought you want to contribute? We want to hear it! Check out the participation page on Meta-Wiki's movement strategy portal for more information on where and how you can engage in this global conversation: https://meta.wikimedia.org/?curid=10152617
As conversations continue, we are busy following along. Summaries of the on-wiki discussions are being posted on Meta-Wiki, along notes from 64 recent discussions (and counting!) We are thrilled to see the many different ways and places our community are finding to have this important discussion about our future. As key themes emerge across communities, I hope to share them here.
About communications: recently, Nicole provided an overview of the progress and plans for Track A during our monthly activities and metrics meeting. We are also working on a blog post announcing the official start of the movement strategy process. In addition to these communications, we’ll keep updating these weekly updates. We appreciate all the positive and constructive feedback we have received on these updates so far, and invite you to send us more on-wiki. As we know, the more communications about what is going on, the better.
Thank you for your continued engagement in this process. I have to confess that while I’ve been excited about these conversations, I wasn’t fully certain how everything would go once we launched. There is a big difference between having a lot of notes on a whiteboard, and actually starting a free-wheeling, global, multilingual community conversation with such a wide and diverse group of people. Three weeks into the launch of the first discussion, I’m genuinely humbled by what everyone is bringing to the conversation. This community is brilliant, our vision is inspiring, our challenges are great (and exciting), and we have so much opportunity ahead. I’m grateful to be able to work alongside you.
Schönes Wochenende! (German translation: “Have a good weekend!”)
Cheers, Katherine
PS. A version of this message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Sources https://meta.wikimedia.org/Wikipedia_to_the_Moon https://meta.wikimedia.org/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Sources/Summary_14th_to_28th https://meta.wikimedia.org/Wikimedia_Foundation_metrics_and_activities_meetings/2017-03 https://meta.wikimedia.org/Talk:Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Updates https://meta.wikimedia.org/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Updates/7_April_2017_-_Update_12_on_Wikimedia_movement_strategy_process
Women with Michelin stars
Hi everyone,
Following the WiR World Contest, I've continued to work on my niche field as I want to create a specific list of all women who have ever held a Michelin star. While this might sound a little challenging, the number of women who have ever held stars is proportionately really quite low. I've been working on the list at my sandbox - User:Miyagawa/sandbox, so if anyone is looking for some red links to work on, then there's plenty there already and I've barely scratched the surface.
If you do work on this area, then be warned - I've found the press coverage to be extremely inaccurate for so called "firsts". One of the articles I expanded during the contest was Titti Qvarnström, whose reliable sources claimed she was the first female Nordic chef to win a star. She's not - you could argue that either Emma Bengtsson (Swedish chef, but working in NYC) or Anita Klemensen (Danish chef, working in Denmark and so in the Nordic edition) was the first. Likewise, Anne-Sophie Pic is often claimed to be the fourth woman to win three stars, there having been a 50 year+ gap between the third and fourth winners. From what I can tell, she's at least the eighth. She's not even the fourth in France, as she's at least the fifth there too. But this isn't really all that surprising, as I tend to find that the achievements of female chefs are often completely forgotten about by the media and certain sources. Take Marguerite Bise for example, her son had an article before she did, and in that article it claimed that he won three stars and popularised the restaurant. He did win three stars, but she won them first and made the restaurant's name. His daughter Sophie Bise also won three stars, and yes, she's a redlink at that.
So well, this is going to take a while and I have a feeling that the only way to be certain that I haven't missed anyone is to literally look through every edition of the Michelin guide from 1920 onwards when they first introduced Michelin stars. What I'll probably do is expand it a little more so that everything is sourced and then move it into the main space as I can then use the talk page to keep a list of which editions have been checked. I already know that there's a group of at least nine or ten German chefs to be added as I found a source online which said that there were ten female chefs in a recent edition of the guide, but annoyingly didn't name them. Miyagawa (talk) 00:18, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
- Miyagawa: Thanks for all the useful work you've already done on this and for the evolving list, already with 24 red links. We had an editathon on Food and Drink in November 2016. Perhaps we should revive the topic early next year.--Ipigott (talk) 08:33, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
Magda Fedor
I bring your attention to the article for Magda Fedor. She died recently, aged 103, and was an incredible 123-time national champion in sports shooting. If anyone has any interest in this area, either sports shooting or Hungarian people, please help to expand this article. Thanks. Lugnuts 09:07, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
Kate Sheppard
Hello, I'm working on a project with User:Gadfium to bring the Kate Sheppard article up to Featured Article status in time for the anniversary of suffrage in New Zealand in september 2018. I was hoping some people might lend their editing expertise to the project. While he has done significant expansions and I am about to finish going through with my own copyedits I am still quite new at this so was looking to see if anyone familiar with the requirements of Featured Article might want to get involved. I have just finished my classes for the year so have quite a bit of time to dedicate to this in the following weeks. Let me know if you have any questions! Gadfium has done a pretty good summary of things that need work on the Kate Sheppard talk page Susan Tol (talk) 05:14, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
- Susan Tol, Gadfium: It's already a very informative article. You'll see I've carried out a bit of copy editing. The main problem is the lead which needs to be significantly expanded, summarizing Sheppard's life and highlighting her achievements. The article would also benefit from more illustrations, for example photographs of Sheppard addressing meetings and portraits of some of the other figures mentioned. I expect Sheppard will also play a central role in the suffrage anniversary celebrations in September 2018. These could be summarized in the article. Let me know if you need further assistance.--Ipigott (talk) 10:43, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
- I have just come across this Kate Sheppard biography from NZEDGE which contains some useful illustrations as well as a number of details and quotations which could usefully be included.--Ipigott (talk) 11:33, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks, this helps a lot! Another newbie question, I'm a little confused with what the copyright restrictions are on those images from NZ edge. It seems each image that requires extra permission has it clearly stated beneath the picture, but there is a little copyright statement at the very bottom of the webpage. Can I assume the images with no instructions on reuse are able to be put on wikicommons? Susan Tol (talk) 02:35, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
- Susan Tol: As a general rule, copyright expires 70 years after the death of the author of a work. Most of the illustrations in NZ edge would appear to come into this category. The fact that they happen to be held by a museum is irrelevant in such cases. May I also suggest that you first concentrate on taking the article to GA. That would also encourage more editors to contribute to the article and would lead to a review with suggestions for further improvement. You could probably go for GA fairly soon, once you are happy with the general quality of the article and its coverage. One of the items which might require more attention is coverage of Sheppard's writings. These are referred to in the article but there is little detail. Sheppard appears to have published Woman suffrage in New Zealand in 1907. See this WorldCat item.--Ipigott (talk) 08:15, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
Women in Baike Baidu
Created in 2008, the online Chinese encyclopaedia Baike Baidu has just grown to over 15 million articles, as can be seen from its main page. By comparison, the English Misplaced Pages looks quite small. I've been wondering whether Baike Baidu's biographies of women would be a useful source for us. Do we have any participants who are sufficiently fluent in Chinese to look into the situation? If would be useful to find out, for example, how many women's biographies it contains, whether these are organized along lines similar to those in Misplaced Pages, and whether they are based on reliable sources. We could then perhaps have a look at the more frequently accessed women's biographies to look for red links. Any offers? Perhaps Zanhe?--Ipigott (talk) 11:18, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
- @Ipigott: yes Baidu Baike is huge and grows really fast, partly because they reward people for writing articles and partly because of China's relaxed attitude toward copyright. Lots of its articles are copy-and-pasted from online sources, and most people there don't really mind. However, it's really hard to find any aggregate information from Baidu, as it doesn't have a categorization system like Misplaced Pages's. AFAIK, there's no way to find all the women's biographies from Baidu Baike. -Zanhe (talk) 01:02, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
And how about Everipedia?
I've just seen that the English-language Everipedia now has six million articles, exceeding the English Misplaced Pages. One of the reasons is that all articles are considered to be acceptable if they are based on sources. Recently Larry Sanger, a co-founder of Misplaced Pages, became Everipedia's Chief Information Officer. He will be responsible for moving the entire process to the blockchain technology on which Bitcoin is based. One of the goals is to absorb the entire contents of Misplaced Pages (the EN version of Misplaced Pages forms the basis of Everipedia) and of other on-line encyclopeadias. Given the success achieved so far and the evolving ambitions, I find it most surprising that the Misplaced Pages deletionists have refused allow Misplaced Pages to include an article on Everipedia. Nevertheless, these developments should be followed carefully.--Ipigott (talk) 15:15, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
- Sanger's on about his third (at least?) Misplaced Pages clone, and they've been...disastrous, to put it lightly. The last one never took off because he acted as dictator-from-high and invited a bunch of oddball kooks as "experts", among many other screwups. There are many, many takes on "Misplaced Pages mirror + stuff Misplaced Pages doesn't want" and they're about as successful as any other random Misplaced Pages mirror (with the poor ability to meet ordinary notability standards to match). The Drover's Wife (talk) 08:31, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
- The Drover's Wife: The user access stats look disastrous. It'll be interesting to see if Sanger's involvement makes any difference.--Ipigott (talk) 17:21, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
- And this article on its extremely low bar on what it publishes. Alafarge (talk) 15:54, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks for this, certainly i hadn't heard of it yet! Just looking at some articles i follow on wikipedia, it looks sort of clone-ish but it does differ. This is very interesting tho. Sanger says "You’ll contribute to it using whatever system you’re most comfortable with."Quartz link so maybe we don't need to worry.Fred (talk) 23:34, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
How to add a potential article to Wikidata for Worklist inclusion?
Hi, y'alls. How do redlinked potential articles get added to the Wikidata routine for inclusion in this project's Worklists? What about articles that need expansion vs articles that need to be created? Are they pulled from article categories? Or, does a Wikidata statement have to be created? Is this automated? What qualifies them to be shortlisted? Alphasort pecking order? Ping me back. Having fun! Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 00:00, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
- Checkingfax: The Wikidata redlink lists consist generally of articles on women's biographies in other language versions of Misplaced Pages which do not yet have an article in the English wiki. They are created automatically and updated by the listeria bot. Once a name has an article in English, it disappears with the next daily update. The lists sometimes also include names which have been included in Wikidata from important biographical dictionaries. The Women in Red lists do not contain articles requiring expansion. Some WikiProjects highlight these but as Women in Red is about article creation, we do not use such lists. You can find month-by-month listings of articles requiring expansion under Category:Articles_to_be_expanded. You can also find lists of biographical stubs at Category:People stubs by nationality. I hope this answers your queries. Thanks for all your interesting articles including the one on Women in Red.--Ipigott (talk) 16:32, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
- @Ipigott:, I hope you can help me with a related issue. I was playing around with Wikidata for my own edification. I created a Wikidata item for Dorothy McAuliffe (Q45120525). She is does not have a Misplaced Pages article and is on this List of current U.S. First Souses. For some reason, she is not showing up on this list: Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/First Ladies. Any idea what I am doing wrong? Thanks in advance. Knope7 (talk) 04:51, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
- Checkingfax: You are not doing anything wrong. What you've added seems fine. For the person's name to show up on the WiR Wikidata list, there must be at least one article in another language, the idea being that the information in the articles in other languages can help with the English version.--Ipigott (talk) 15:02, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
- @Ipigott:, I hope you can help me with a related issue. I was playing around with Wikidata for my own edification. I created a Wikidata item for Dorothy McAuliffe (Q45120525). She is does not have a Misplaced Pages article and is on this List of current U.S. First Souses. For some reason, she is not showing up on this list: Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/First Ladies. Any idea what I am doing wrong? Thanks in advance. Knope7 (talk) 04:51, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
Missing Paediatricians
Articles are needing for the folllowing:
- Anne Greenough: "Professor Anne Greenough". The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. 2 March 2017. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
- Sheila Shribman: "Dr Sheila Shribman". The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. 2 March 2017. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
Both are James Spence Medal winners, and eminently notable. I don't have time to do them at the moment, as there is another 10 or so, on the list for articles. I was wondering if anybody can step up to the plate. Thanks. scope_creep (talk) 19:17, 17 December 2017 (UTC)
- Since one of the contests next month is on Great Britain/Ireland, I'll look into these two women. Thanks for the suggestion!. --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 23:49, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
Signpost article on the World Contest
The latest edition of Signpost contains an interesting article on the World Contest.--Ipigott (talk) 08:07, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
AfD Julie Rice
The article on Julie Rice was created at the recent Women's Economic empowerment edit-a-thon in Washington DC. It's since been nominated for deletion here. She founded one of the largest woman-owned fitness companies in the world. If you have time, please take a look. Thanks. --Rosiestep (talk) 22:17, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
- Rosiestep: I had intended going back to this after reviewing the articles created at the Swedish Embassy editathon but then completely forgot. But now it seems to be a firm keep anyway. I am working on a number of other articles from their list of red links. Most of them are on Swedish business women active in the United States, but of course they'll all be BLPs!--Ipigott (talk) 12:09, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
Meetups subcategory?
Would Category:WikiProject Women in Red meetups be a helpful subcategory for Category:WikiProject Women in Red? I'm happy to move some pages, if so. ---Another Believer (Talk) 05:16, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
- Ditto Category:WikiProject Women in Red metrics? ---Another Believer (Talk) 19:09, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
New Year's resolution: Write more articles for Women in Red!
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Indiscriminate tag spree of notable women scientists
Bueller 007 has been indiscriminately tagging large numbers of Canadian women academics with notability tags. Bueller's talk contributions and edit summaries demonstrate no understanding of our academic notability criteria and Bueller has been insistant on restoring notability tags even when challenged. Many of the articles are on scientists who clearly pass WP:PROF#C1 due to their highly cited works; Bueller refuses to recognize that criterion without some other indication of notability within the article. On the other hand, some of the tagged articles may be genuinely of dubious notability; the indiscriminate nature of the tagging spree makes it hard to tell. See Toniann Pitassi, Elizabeth Stern, Deborah Martin-Downs, Doris Löve, Suzanne Lacasse, Kathy Martin (scientist), Raye Kass, Sara Harris, Sylvia Edlund, Doris Daou, Yolande Dalpé, Rita Winkler, Alexandra Morton, Mary MacArthur, Martine Dorais, Leonie Sandercock, Patricia O'Brien (academic), Fiona Moore, Onowa McIvor, Erin Manning (theorist), Christina Kramer, Bertha Harmer, Ann Dooley, Anna-Louise Crago, Suzannah Clark, Joyce Boye, Stephanie Ben-Ishai, Peggy J. Kleinplatz, Lisa Travis, Thecla Schiphorst, Marie-Lucie Tarpent (AfD), Hanna Tervanotko, and Barbara Taylor for some articles with those tags still present, or Special:Contributions/Bueller 007 for more. Additional eyes would be welcome as one-on-one reversion is going nowhere. —David Eppstein (talk) 19:50, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
- Is there is a case for a topic ban? Xxanthippe (talk) 21:46, 27 December 2017 (UTC).
- Take it to WP:ANI. The Drover's Wife (talk) 21:58, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
- I will leave that to others as I am reluctant to visit that forum for fear of biting and boomeranging. Xxanthippe (talk) 01:30, 28 December 2017 (UTC).
- Take it to WP:ANI. The Drover's Wife (talk) 21:58, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
In the pink
I went through all the articles listed above and made some updates to help. But it's difficult to do much with so many. One useful way of prioritising work on such long lists of women is to use Anomie's link classifier. This changes the colour of a wikilink to indicate its status. So, for example, a redirect is shown in green while a disambiguation page is shown in yellow. What's especially useful is that a page tagged for deletion is shown in shocking pink. So, to me, one of the articles stands out as needing immediate attention: Marie-Lucie Tarpent. Andrew D. (talk) 11:52, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
Erica Garner
Any chance someone could throw something together on civil rights activist Erica Garner? She has 102,000 Google News hits and no article. It's something that plenty of people are likely to be looking for considering the huge media coverage of her heart attack this week.. The Drover's Wife (talk) 10:56, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
- To get something done, then it's good to make a start, even if it's incomplete — see the Zeigarnik effect. So, in that spirit, I have created a brief stub. Andrew D. (talk) 12:10, 29 December 2017 (UTC)