• Wikidata's 13th Birthday Celebration on Saturday, November 1 at the Capitol Hill Branch Library. Please sign up here!
• This is a notification, not an endorsement: Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, will speak about his book The Seven Rules of Trust: A Blueprint for Building Things That Last on Thursday, 10/30. Details are here at Town Hall Seattle's website.
• We will have meetups on these Tuesdays at Little Oddfellows in the back of Elliott Bay Book Company on Capitol Hill: October 28, November 18, and December 16.
• We will celebrate Wikipedia Day, marking the 25th anniversary of Wikipedia's debut, on Saturday, January 17. Details TBA.

Recognized as the most active topic-based WikiProject by human changes.

Online events:

• New: Alphabet run: U, V, W | Asian women
• Continuing, year-long initiatives: #1day1woman | Music

Announcements:

• Women in Red's Asian women event is part of the global Wikipedia Asian Month 2025 campaign.
  You are welcome to add your contributions to both event pages.

Tip of the Month:

• Verifiability is increasingly important as AI evolves. You should ensure that every statement made
  is adequately sourced. There should be no less than three independent reliable sources for each
  biography, including at least one source for each paragraph.

Progress ("moving the needle"):

• Statistics available via various tools: previously, Humaniki tool; currently, QLever. Thank you if
  you contributed one or more of the 20,473 articles created in the past year.

• 21 Oct 2024, 19.963% of biographies on EN-WP were about women (2,030,245 biographies; 405,305 women)
• 28 Oct 2025: 20.23% of biographies on EN-WP were about women (2,094,677 biographies; 423,778 women)

Other ways to participate:

• Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications.
• Join the conversations on our talkpage.
• Help wanted! Want to apply your skills or learn new ones? Help us plan monthly events, design event logos,
  come up with a tip-of-the-month, and/or provide any general ideas on developing the project.
• Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest

Recognized as the most active topic-based WikiProject by human changes.

Online events:

• New: Alphabet run X, Y, Z | Food and drink | Women who died in 2025
• Continuing, year-long initiatives: #1day1woman | Music

Announcements:

• Global Translat-a-thon 2025 06 December 2025

Tip of the Month:

• Lists of deaths by year is a good resource for the December / January meet-up Women who died in 2025

Other ways to participate:

• Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications.
• Join the conversations on our talkpage.
• Help wanted! Want to apply your skills or learn new ones? Help us plan monthly events, design event logos,
  come up with a tip-of-the-month, and/or provide any general ideas on developing the project.
• Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest

Online events:

• New: Sports (year-long initiative) | Alphabet run - countries starting with A
• Continuing: #1day1woman ( year-long initiative) | Women who died in 2025

Announcements from other communities

• Wikipedia turns 25! Celebrate Wikipedia Day on Jan 15, 2026.

Tip of the month:

• Consider becoming a new page reviewer to help reduce the huge backlog of women's biographies.

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• Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project.
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Wikipedia Day celebrates the anniversary of the founding of Wikipedia. This year we will observe Wikipedia Day with an edit-a-thon to improve the Seattle and other articles important to WikiProject Seattle, such as Architecture of Seattle, Education in Seattle, History of Seattle, Seattle metropolitan area, and Transportation in Seattle.

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