Welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR)!
Our objective is to turn red links into blue ones. Our project's scope is women's representation on all language Wikipedias (biographies, women's works, women's issues, broadly construed). Did you know that, according to Humaniki, only 20.03% of the English Wikipedia's biographies are about women? Not impressed? Content gender gap is a form of systemic bias, and this is what WiR addresses. We invite you to participate, whenever you like, in whatever way suits you and your schedule. Editors of all genders are equally and warmly welcome at Women in Red!

This November, to coincide with the Wikipedia Asian Month contest, Women in Red's geofocus is on Asian women, including diaspora.

We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about notable women from or associated with these countries, shown in the Redlists below.

This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts wherever they may be to participate in our initiative. Contributors are of course also welcome to add articles on any other women who deserve to be covered, for example under the topics of the month or our comprehensive #1day1woman priority.

The main goals of the event are:

• to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of prominent women
• to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
• to promote the new and improved articles and images through social media and via nominations to Main Page features "Did You Know?" and "In The News".

What else?

• Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you create month by month, and another section where you can add the images you have uploaded to Commons.
• This essay on creating women's biographies and our Ten Simple Rules might be helpful to newer editors.
• If you share any of the articles or images on social media, or successfully nominate for Main Page, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.

Red-link lists on women from a wide variety of fields can be accessed from the WiR Redlink index. Those which might be most useful for Asian women are listed below.

Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new

Key:

• Add FB after the article if you mention it on Facebook

• Add PIN after the article if you pin the image on Pinterest

• Add TW after the article if you tweet it on Twitter

• Add IG after the article if you post it on Instagram

• Add LI after the article if you post it on LinkedIn

• Add ITN after the article if it was posted on the main page via WP:In The News.

• ... that ballet dancer Nina Tikhonova taught dance for free to children who had been orphaned during World War II? (2024-12-27)
• ... that Ritsuko Taho once had her students at Harvard University slaughter a chicken and turn its bones into a sculpture? (2024-12-22)
• ... that Soviet academic Lily Golden researched "officially disapproved" genres of contemporary Black music? (2024-11-27)

• Please add this category to the image if you're uploading it to Commons:

Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2024

Add here – most recent at the top

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  Aiko Takashima
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  Naoe Fushimi
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  Nina Tikhonova
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  Nina Tikhonova
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  Halima Begum
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  Noa Cohen
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  Noa Cohen
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  Noa Cohen
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  Sumie Mishima
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  Kiyo Makino
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  Haru Onuki
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  Chieko Utsumi

• Invitation: November 2024

• Editathon banner for talk pages – Asian women {{WIR-321}}