Wikipedia:WikiProject Women
Welcome to WikiProject Women! We're a group of editors who aim to improve Wikipedia's coverage of women 's topics. WikiProject Women brings Wikipedia users of all genders, sexual orientations, geographic locations, and personal backgrounds together to discuss and collaborate on coverage of women's content across Wikipedia. Know that we warmly welcome you to participate in the project's scope, whether or not you are a project member.
This project addresses the under-representation of content on Wikipedia about women (both real and fictional) and covering women's perspectives. According to Humaniki only 19.80% of English Wikipedia biographies are about women as of 8 April 2024. WikiProject Women also addresses women's works, such as the paintings they created, books they wrote, scientific discoveries they made or the organizations they created. Think of this as an umbrella group which unites more specific women's projects, one which attempts to look broadly at coverage of women on Wikipedia as part of the bigger picture and how we can improve it. Readers and editors may not know that there's a project for women artists, scientists or writers, but if they reach this page, they can fork away to more specific areas if they wish. First and foremost, this project is about "content", including creating new articles and adding or improving content in existing articles! Our Gender bias in Wikipedia for more details), we have a department, Women in Red , that works on missing articles about notable women.
We track lots of areas connected with Women+Wikipedia. Some of these include new articles, articles posted in the Did you know? section of Wikipedia's main page, events, meetups, edit-a-thons, scholarly articles, and newspaper articles. |
Writing For those who like to write, you can create, expand or improve articles. For general guidelines for writing biographies, there are several resources, such as the Manual of style for biographies, writing about women (a helpful essay), the biographies of living persons policy, and the notability guideline for biographies .
Creating articles that will survive an should usually be sourced .
Another task for editors who want to reduce gender bias on Wikipedia is to review articles about women to look for biased writing, such as text that defines women primarily in terms of their relationship to other people. An article about a woman scientist should begin more like this:
Instead of:
The essay "Writing About Women" covers these matters in more detail. Non-writing tasks There are a lot of non-writing tasks which need attention too, such as tagging the talk pages of relevant articles with project banners associated with sister and daughter projects, assessing article quality on talk pages, improving biography categorization at adding images essay ); and wiki-linking terms and names within the article. (If you link men in a woman's article, it is good practice to go to the men's articles and ensure that the woman is linked in those articles as well.)
A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects. Questions? |
Selected Articles -
Oprah Gail Winfrey (/ˈoʊprə/; born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954), also known mononymously as Oprah, is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and media proprietor. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which ran in national syndication for 25 years, from 1986 to 2011. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media", she was the richest African-American of the 20th century and was once the world's only black billionaire. By 2007, she was often ranked as the most influential woman in the world. (Full article...)
WikiProject Women has a loose affiliation with many other WikiProjects, Task Forces, and a User Group; check out our Affiliates navigation box for a list of them. WikiProject Women has several departments, including article creation, article improvement, DYK? articles, and events. They are described in more detail on this page and if you follow their links.
- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Women/Featured Articles for a complete list of articles on women which have reached Featured Article status.
Good articles
- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Women/Good Articlesfor a list of over 1000 articles on women which have reached Good Article status.
List
- See Category:List-Class WikiProject Women articles for a List of Women articles.
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Joan of Arc a heroine of France.
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Virgin Mary.
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Ariana Grande - American singer, songwriter, and actress.
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Mamokgethi Phakeng is a South African professor of mathematics education.
- K. K. Shailaja is an Indian politician and former Minister of Health and Social Welfare of the State of
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Open Era.
- A village girl, Palangan,
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Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, European Union.
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Annie Kenney (left) and Christabel Pankhurst.WSPU leaders
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Missionaries of Charity, Calcutta.
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Her Majesty theQueen Elizabeth IIof United Kingdom.
GA focus of the month
- January 2019: Women in Music. See Category:Lists of women in music for pertinent lists.
- List candidates of interest here
- Mami Kawada - recently promoted to GA
Did You Know?
New article creation
Current article statistics
WikiProject Women pages by quality | |||||||
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Quality | |||||||
Total | |||||||
FA | 127 | ||||||
FL | 122 | ||||||
FM | 63 | ||||||
A | 1 | ||||||
GA | 1,088 | ||||||
B | 3,308 | ||||||
C | 14,599 | ||||||
Start | 41,765 | ||||||
Stub | 36,751 | ||||||
List | 1,054 | ||||||
Category | 12,003 | ||||||
Disambig | 110 | ||||||
File | 178 | ||||||
Portal | 1 | ||||||
Project | 100 | ||||||
Redirect | 1,555 | ||||||
Template | 179 | ||||||
NA | 2 | ||||||
Assessed | 113,006 | ||||||
Unassessed | 9 | ||||||
Total | 113,015 | ||||||
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 499,837 | Ω = 5.12 |
Articles where content about women has been deleted
- In Conducting, a section about the role of women conductors was deleted.
References
See also
- Gender bias on Wikipedia
- Essay on biases in Wikipedia
- Essay on writing about women
- WikiProject Women in Red
External links
This is a WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians. New participants are welcome; please feel free to participate!
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