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Recently completed:	Alphabet run: U, V, W Asian women
New this month:	Alphabet run: X, Y, Z Food and drink Women who died: 2025
Ongoing initiatives:	Music #1day1woman
Upcoming events:	Ideas

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.

Planning for 2026. Please add your name to volunteer to shepherd the monthly events and invite to completion.

• Jan:
• Feb: I'll take Feb! Lajmmoore (talk) 21:19, 13 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Mar: Volunteering for Women's History Month --Rosiestep (talk) 17:07, 30 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Apr:
• May:
• Jun: Volunteering for LGBTQ+ History Month! 😁 DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 23:45, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Jul:
• Aug:
• Sep:
• Oct: Volunteering for STEM Month TheResilientEngineer (talk) 14:54, 30 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Nov:
• Dec:

YEAR-LONG INITIATIVES
#1day1woman 2025 
** Event #326: #1day1woman #1day1woman Y
Music  - Year long initiative 
** Event #327:  Music Year long initiative Y

NEW - Alphabet run X, Y, Z -  355 
** Event #355: Alphabet run X, Y, Z Y

NEW - Food and drink - 356 
** Event #356: Food and drink Y

NEW -  Women who died: 2025  - 357 
** Event #357: Women who died: 2025 Y

ANNOUNCEMENTS (EVENTS FACILITATED BY OTHERS) 
* Global Translat-a-thon 2025 06 December 2025  Y

INVITATION: 
* Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/2025#December 2025  Y
** Logo: Y
** Tip of the Month - Lists of deaths by year is a good resource for the December / January meet-up Women who died: 2025 Y
** Metrics: updated  N

MASS MESSAGING:
* need volunteer: I'll do it. --Rosiestep (talk)

Ipigott, Rosiestep, Lajmmoore, CT55555, Victuallers, Cielquiparle, SusunW, Chocmilk03, Penny Richards, Silver seren, PamD, Curbon7, TheResilientEngineer, Grnrchst, TSventon, Oronsay, DaniloDaysOfOurLives, Alsoriano97 and all WIR helpers: I have created the to do list for December. We need the new meet-up pages fleshed out and other items proof-read or created. If everyone takes a task we can breeze through this. Ping here with your choice. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 02:16, 20 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• I'll do Women who died: 2025. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 17:22, 20 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  I'm drafting Alphabet run X-Z. Oronsay (talk) 05:22, 21 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• The Food and drink event still needs to be developed. I believe Rosiestep and Lajmmoore showed some interest in this. We already have a great icon.--Ipigott (talk) 09:48, 26 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Like you mentioned previously, Ipigott, I don't know how to create an event page with the new system so I won't be volunteering for that task. If no one is up to it, it's okay with me if we postpone it for another month, or pass on it altogether. --Rosiestep (talk) 15:23, 26 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• The page is created. It just needs introductory text and redlists. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 23:35, 26 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• I've added a welcome section and made a start on the redlists. Not sure whether these need to be expanded.--Ipigott (talk) 09:37, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ipigott, Rosiestep, Lajmmoore, CT55555, Victuallers, Cielquiparle, SusunW, Chocmilk03, Penny Richards, Silver seren, PamD, Curbon7, TheResilientEngineer, Grnrchst, TSventon, Oronsay, DaniloDaysOfOurLives, Alsoriano97 and all WIR helpers: Last chance to proof read. Looks good to go to me me Rosie. I commented out the "Progress" section of the invite for December. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 16:17, 28 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

MassMessage sent! --Rosiestep (talk) 22:18, 28 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:35, 29 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Annual Event

• Comment I think it would be important that, in light of this annual event, editors be reminded/informed to include new articles in Lists of deaths by year, which lists deceased notable personalities by month and day and to which I have been contributing for years. According to Wikipedia statistics, it is one of the most read entry on Wikipedia, and Deaths in 2024 had a total of almost 50 million visits. In this way, the new biographies of women who died in XXXX year would be more visible. Best regards. _-_Alsor (talk) 16:47, 12 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Seems like a fun idea to write about chefs, cookbook authors, baristas, farmers, recipes invented by women, founders/columnists/editors/publishers of magazines associated with F&B, plate and glassware designers, etc. --Rosiestep (talk) 17:13, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also nutritionists, dietitians, food scientists, vintners, hunger relief workers, eating disorder specialists ... Plenty of room to range on this one. Penny Richards (talk) 16:52, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds great! It could result in some very interesting and diverse biographies. _-_Alsor (talk) 19:55, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Food is a great idea! There's a really good Smithsonian list somewhere for black women and food, will try to remember to find it! Lajmmoore (talk) 10:29, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Redlists

• These are suitable:--Rosiestep (talk) 17:49, 30 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Food and drink
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Food and drink
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Farmers
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_occupation/Nutritionists
• United States Department of Agriculture

• Some subset of names in these redlists could be suitable.

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Gardeners
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Garden writers

• Missing redlists:

• If someone knows how to create a redlist, we could use one for "food scientist". There are >750 names here, though unclear how many of them meet EN-WP guidelines.
• No redlists yets for these, but there are 12 language versions of the Category:Food scientists and 33 language versions of the Category:People in agriculture, some of which may have women who would be eligible for an EN-WP article.

Copied over from main WiR talkpage as a reminder to include on our invite: Polyglots, this event will be happening Dec 6-20, Many Tongues, One Movement:Voices Across Languages. Mentioning it here so that we remember to include it in our Dec invite. --Rosiestep (talk) 17:42, 14 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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

@Grnrchst and Rosiestep:, We can easily push Developing countries to September. I have a different suggestion though. I'd like us to consider making the 2026 Alphabet Run next year be alphabetic by country of interest rather than name. We'd cover the world by the end 2026 without making distinctions about economics or "development". Am I missing the downside, or do you think this might be a good idea for 2026? --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 16:17, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@WomenArtistUpdates: I like the idea, but we'll need to figure out a good balance for it, as the proportion of countries starting with certain letters varies. Going by sovereign states, there are 11 A countries, 17 B countries, 17 C countries, 4 D countries, 8 E countries, 3 F countries, 11 G countries, 3 H countries, 9 I countries, 3 J countries, 5 K countries, 9 L countries, 18 M countries, 10 N countries, 1 O country, 10 P countries, 1 Q country, 3 R countries, 26 S countries, 11 T countries, 7 U countries, 4 V countries, 1 Y country and 2 Z countries.

We'd have to do something like:

• January: A countries (11)
• February: B countries (17)
• March: C countries (17)
• April: D, E and F countries (15)
• May: G and H countries (14)
• June: I, J, K and L countries (26)
• July: M countries (18)
• August: N and O countries (11)
• September: P, Q and R countries (14)
• October: S countries (26)
• November: T countries (11)
• December: U, V, Y and Z countries (14)

Even then there's quite a gap between the lowest number (11) and the highest (26). --Grnrchst (talk) 17:02, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I really like the idea of going country by country and I don't think the gap matters Lajmmoore (talk) 21:22, 13 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Agree with Lajmmoore. --Rosiestep (talk) 17:43, 14 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Grnrchst: I've tided up your list a bit. Where did you get your information about the developing countries, because I would like to add the names of the countries? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:18, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Martin MSGJ, "Developing country" is defined multiple ways by various NGOs. It is subjective and constantly changing, so keeping a current list is not practical. It is more of a concept (and a Western/pro Democratic one). --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 16:28, 28 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Month	Letters	Countries
January (11)	A	11
February (17)	B	17
March (17)	C	17
April (15)	D	4
	E	8
	F	3
May (23)	G	11
	H	3
	I	9
June (17)	J	3
	K	5
	L	9
July (18)	M	18
August (11)	N	10
	O	1
September (14)	P	10
	Q	1
	R	3
October (26)	S	26
November (11)	T	11
December (14)	U	7
	V	4
	Y	1
	Z	2
Total		194

Copied from main WIR talk page. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 23:12, 4 August 2025 (UTC) As suggested by 4meter4 on the WiR talk page (see here).[reply]

• Could invite other projects to collab: WikiProject Theatre, WikiProject Musicals, WikiProject Opera, WikiProject Books, WikiProject Novels, WikiProject Film, WikiProject Albums. GanzKnusper (talk) 13:32, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I know this project is very much focused on biographies, but what would you all think of having an edit-a-thon of creating articles on "works created by women"? We could invite WP:WikiProject Theatre, WP:WikiProject Musicals, WP:WikiProject Opera, Wikipedia:WikiProject Books, Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels, Wikipedia:WikiProject Film, etc. to join in on this collaborative content push. Thoughts?4meter4 (talk) 23:08, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I like it! --Rosiestep (talk) 23:43, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Me too! I have written a lot of Jacqueline Wilson books and I plan to write more so this would be perfect DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 00:24, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Let's go for it - I've been writing about Jilly Cooper's novels this year (which has taken over somewhat), but wasn't listing them as WIR Lajmmoore (talk) 10:25, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Works for me. "works" has always been in our remit, but it could do with being re-emphasised (we can include Jilly Cooper books! without wondering if she (and that Shakespeare bloke) are getting "too much" attention). 4meter4's list should affect (improve) dozens of articles about actors, directors, singers, composers, authors, printers, and cinematographers who happen to be women. Victuallers (talk) 12:19, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment. I'm glad the responses are positive. When would we like to have this edit-a-thon, and what would be the best process for getting it organized and created? Also, I think there are other WikiProjects besides the ones I listed that could be invited. There are many studio art related projects for example, but even general topic areas could be invited. Someone from say Wikipedia:WikiProject Biology could write an article on a biology book written by a woman for example. We wouldn't necessarily have to limit invitations to just the projects that focus on arts and literature. Works of non-fiction are legitimate content for this edit-a-thon as well.4meter4 (talk) 22:08, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Is this a possible candidate for our year long initiative for 2026? I realize it wouldn't add to our stats, but it is a fairly rich topic. Just putting it out there. The constraint I see is that there isn't a good source of redlinks (or is there?). Either way, the best way to get this going is to add the idea to our planning page at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Ideas. That is where the brainstorming of how happens. There you can see what is already on the calendar for upcoming months. We generally do not have more that three meet-ups in a given month. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 22:35, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's definitely worth considering. I was originally imagining a month long wikipedia wide push to try and get editors outside the project involved with some different barnstar prizes based on amount of participation. It's a good way to recruit new members here, and/or get people thinking about topics related to women that they might wish to work on within the content area they usually edit in. Think of it as WIR planting seeds within other projects to increase wikipedia's coverage of women. That's the advantage of a short term edit-a-thon; the impact it could have on editing habits outside WIR.4meter4 (talk) 23:08, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, 4meter4, for this constructive suggestion. I agree with you that inclusion in our monthly events would be a good way to start. As far statistics, I have found that writing about works created by women frequently leads to red-linked women who can then be covered in biographies. But it would also be useful if we could find a way of providing meaningful statistics on works created by women. We used to record them in our early monthly stats but for some reason we were urged to limit our listings to biographies (which are in any case covered by Humaniki). I'm not at all sure that was a sensible move. In any case, why don't we simply create an extra slot for "works created by women" in September? It could usefully be linked to our item on women writers but should of course be an independent event.--Ipigott (talk) 11:37, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh I never got that advice Ian I still add non biogs into the list. Maybe trial the proposal for one month for a potential year long effort. I think it would aid collaboration if we had a WIR tag that would take a choice of work i,e, theatre, film, books etc so that it would add two projects. Women in Red and Wikiproject Books. Maybe we could type "WIR|Books" or "WIR|Theatre" etc. I've no idea how to do this but maybe someone can consider this it looks do-able. Victuallers (talk) 12:05, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Roger. I'm happy to see you still add women's creations to the list but am afraid they will have been deleted. Some time back Tagishsimon strongly suggested that we should keep to biographies and the automatic listings have been created on that basis. As there has been so little in connection with works created by women (except for literature), I think it would be useful to devote a monthly evemt to any such words. If need be, we could later specialize on works in different sectors of interest.--Ipigott (talk) 15:03, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I understand that this should be the case for automatic counts. I was told as a manager that "you get what you count". If you count the number of people arriving on time... then more will arrive on time. You cannot confuse this by adding in the milk deliveries each morning. Counting biographies is a simple easy to do measure, but its only close to what we want. We do want to include womens' work, even if we cannot measure it so easily. A great painter is defined by their works not their life story per se. For instance, I have updated St Mary's Secondary School, Zomba and added it to #327. Its good work I reckon, the girls there can now find their school cross referenced into other articles... even if the biog count doesnt include it. HTH Victuallers (talk) 07:02, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

4meter4 - I have copied/ moved this conversation from the main WIR talk page. It seems like the way to go here is to do a month long event to start with. At this point, we need to know what you would need in order to obtain your desired meet-up. If you are still in the planning stages and think September is too soon, perhaps October, or a month in 2026. It looks like there is a fair amount in interest in leveraging this into a collaboration with other projects. I think you would be the person to facilitate that and also any redlists. Please respond with your thoughts. Thank you! --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 23:18, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@WomenArtistUpdates I've never led a meetup before, and there would be a learning curve for me. I am happy to take on some of the leadership, but I think it would be better if a seasoned meetup leader were to be involved whom I could collaborate with. Is there someone willing to take this on? I think October or November would be a better month to do this. Best.4meter4 (talk) 16:31, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi 4meter4, I would be happy to help you. I know how to create the page etc. What I don't know how to do is create/write some explanatory introductory text and gather ideas for redlinks or list of "works" to inspire participants and which groups you would like to collaborate with for this first run. The comments from other users range from focusing on one area like works of art or literature or science. You noted particular groups: WP:WikiProject Theatre, WP:WikiProject Musicals, WP:WikiProject Opera, Wikipedia:WikiProject Books, Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Film. How would we make those connections? If you could be the idea person, I can do other aspects. I will move it down to October. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 23:31, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Just to note that we are running Women writers & their works this month, which seems very closely related, so maybe we should leave a gap before the next similar event? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:18, 10 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. I can however add to the STEM event to include "their works"" if that's agreeable to everyone? @4meter4 @WomenArtistUpdates? TheResilientEngineer (talk) 15:06, 10 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"Works created by women" would substantially enhance the scope of Women in Red which has perhaps, for statistical reasons, been focused mainly on biographies. While any works by women could be added at any time throughout the year, I suggest we consider emphasizing works of different kinds every three or four months. These could include works of art and photography, inventions and discoveries, architecture and landscaping, music, and written works of various kinds. We could also develop and group lists of redlinks along these lines. And we should not forget that emphasis on works would certainly provide additional redlinks on women's names which would help to expand our biographical coverage.--Ipigott (talk) 10:43, 29 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm also in favor of this option! I think WP: Feminism could be another potential collaborator. Also just on a personal note, I'm working on an article on the women in print movement during the women's lib/second wave and there are a lot of important feminist periodicals that don't have pages. I was planning to create some of them (or at least redlink them from the WIP article) so I'd love if I could add them to some sort of centralized list for the annual event and/or count the pages I create towards the annual goal. Hawksquill (talk) 15:02, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Hi 4meter4, Ipigott, TheResilientEngineer, Victuallers, Lajmmoore, DaniloDaysOfOurLives, Rosiestep This idea that we were kicking around in the summer is coming' round as a suggested Year Long Project. I know how to make the page, but others need to think about texts, redlists, and other elements that would make this a successful selection for year long event. Please review the earlier dicussion and ping concrete ideas for elements below. Thanks. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 19:03, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  I'm not sure how we do the automated lists exactly for works (I'm only partially successful with these for biographies atm). However, when I was doing a few Arachnologists for Halloween/STEM month I found there is a link between women and the species named after them or that they themselves discovered (e.g. Frances Murphy and Portia orientalis or Asemonea murphyae). In the Science/Biology area I think this would be a strong contender that we might be able to automate by linking in with wikispecies and wikidata. Is this helpful WomenArtistUpdates?

  I may need some help/guidance but I'm happy to help set up redlists I've done a bunch for engineering splitting out disciplines etc. TheResilientEngineer (talk) 12:07, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  For WD lists for species we are going to need to make sure that the Taxon authors (P405) and the named after (P138)labels are correct TheResilientEngineer (talk) 12:18, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  I asked Microsoft Copilot to write me a SPARQL query for books written by women with an English label but without an existing sitelink to English Wikipedia, and this was the result — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:45, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Oooooooh thanks Martin! I will have a go to get better at this! Thank you very much for your help! TheResilientEngineer (talk) 13:49, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think compiling automated lists is going to be possible, although I could be wrong. We could always ask WikiProjets to help compile potential works in their area. ie (Wikipedia:WikiProject Literature, Wikipedia:WikiProject Books, Wikipedia:WikiProject Theatre, Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera, Wikipedia:WikiProject Jazz etc.) This is where inviting project and having them brainstorm ideas would be useful. Best.4meter4 (talk) 14:15, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Several that actually work (the species one seems to be confusing co-pilot) have started appearing as WD lists in the redlist area under works https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Redlist_index#Works

Looks like there should be at least some areas where we will be able to have automated lists :) TheResilientEngineer (talk) 15:26, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In my work on pre-20th-century women writers, I come across works that they wrote and plenty of reviews about the work(s), but, often/sometimes, not enough biographical information to write the article about her. Ergo, I agree with Ipigott that a "pro" of choosing "Works" as our 2026 campaign is that we'll be adding redlinks to Wikipedia articles, which, in time, might turn blue. A "con" is that works don't don't improve our metrics. Simply putting this fact out there to assure we recognize it before we finalize a decision. --Rosiestep (talk) 15:53, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've been thinking a bit about the importance of statistics. I realize that if we choose a highly popular topic like education or music, the number of new articles can be significant. But our interest in diplomacy three years ago did not create so many but this did not appear to reduce the overall number of new women's biographies. I therefore think it is well worthwhile branching our on women's works which, as Victuallers rightly informs us, are the main reason so many women have achieved significance. I've just been looking through Classical music lists and see there are opportunities to cover some of the works by women composers. It may be worthwhile creating a separate list. Gerda Arendt may be able to establish priorities and help with developments.--Ipigott (talk) 20:35, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• This was mentioned as potential year-long topic, so let's consider it for this or any other month in 2025. --Rosiestep (talk) 20:57, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• It's also been suggested that this be an annual event each November. --Rosiestep (talk) 19:29, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Annual Event

• m:Wikipedia 25: See this announcement (27 Aug 2025) on Wikimedia-l. Maybe one of our events could be a contest, with barnstar prizes, for anyone who writes 25+ articles in January? Special distinction if the articles are women in 25 different countries, or 25 different occupations, or 25 different years of birth/death? --Rosiestep (talk) 15:28, 27 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Love this idea. I've just learnt how wide the variety of barnstars is so, the levels of contribution/variety of contribution will have to be considered carefully. Perhaps the redlink barnstar for 25 women, the goddess barnstar for 25 women from different occupations, the commons barnstar where they have 25 women and included images in all of them?

  Suggestions to get us started. TheResilientEngineer (talk) 15:01, 29 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• African women artists (CS)
• Black women (CS)
• Dictionary of African Biography (WD)
• Women in Sub-Saharan Africa (Dct)
• Biographical Dictionary of Réunion (WD)
• Black Women in America (Dct)
• Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers (WD)
• Notable Black American Women (Dct) (WD)
• Noted Negro Women (Dct)
• Who's Who among the Colored Baptists of the United States (Dct)

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	Disability History Month Religion Women who died in 202x

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]

• Perhaps we could bring back Geofocus:Microstates. If I'm not mistaken, the last time was in July 2019. Best regards. _-_Alsor (talk) 11:46, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  That is a good idea. Moondragon21 (talk) 18:45, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Just to let you know @Alsoriano97 and @Moondragon21 that this theme is up for September! Thank you for the suggestion! Lajmmoore (talk) 19:21, 31 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  @Lajmmoore thank you for informing me and thanks @Moondragon21 for supporting my suggestion. I am sure we will see very interesting and valuable contributions. I will contribute to that. _-_Alsor (talk) 19:27, 31 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Legislature of the Marshall Islands building recently burned down, destroying its library and archives. Perhaps we can do our part to help preserve and digitize the history of this nation. Curbon7 (talk) 06:13, 27 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I totally support this idea in principle, but I wonder what it would look like within a Women in Red context? Lajmmoore (talk) 19:24, 31 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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]

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]

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

Faced with the continuing problems with Humaniki (see WiR talk page), it seems to me it would be useful for this project to have an alternative approach to statistics on the proportion of biographies of women on the EN wiki. We should not be dependent on the availability of Humanity's principal creator, who is in any case usually busy with other assignments.--Ipigott (talk) 10:38, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Could be interesting to bring back Villains from meetup 76. Moondragon21 (talk) 20:11, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Common tasks for each event. This list is incomplete. Please add to it

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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 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]

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, which will populate the event header and right side infoboxes.
• Step 3 - add the "body" of the page (welcome, redlists, purpose) using a similar editathon as a starting point. You can copy sections from previous month to add boilerplate language. For example, start at Participants copy through the bottom of the page (example). (Remember to update month and event number in the pasted sections.)
• Step 4 - create a new category for meetup articles (e.g. at Category:WikiProject Women in Red meetup 357 articles). Add the template {{WIR category}} to the new category.
• Step 5 - 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 6 - 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 7 - send out MassMessage notification.