Celebrating LGBTQ Women and Wiki Loves Pride: June 2017

July: Women in dance July: Women in music July: Indian women

June: Met's art by women June: WiR Loves Pride June: Pre-20th-century women

See also: Future events

Women in Red is hosting a virtual editathon from June 1 to 30, 2017, on LGBTQ women with Wiki Loves Pride.

The virtual edit-a-thon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in the work. The main goals of the event are:

  • to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of some of the world's most prominent women
  • to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action on a specific area
  • to support Wikipedia in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
  • to promote the new/improved articles and images through social media (Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter)

Women in Red is focusing on LGBTQ Women (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer women). Anyone can take part in this event, whatever their previous experience. We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies of some of the many past and present notable LGBTQ women who are still red-linked on the English Wikipedia. Other articles regarding LGBTQ women, such as the works they created, and so on, are also welcome. The virtual edit-a-thon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in the work.

Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)

Crowd-sourced list of red-linked LGBTQ women

Add other red links here, if possible with a source:

Participants

Outcomes

Promote our work

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

New or upgraded articles

  • Add the titles of your new or upgraded articles here created in June – most recent at the top, specifying upgraded if not new

Did You Know features

New/expanded articles featured in the Did you know... column of the Wikipedia Main page

  • Add here - most recent at the top with date of publication

New or improved pictures

Event templates

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