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Overlapping categories

I've been an editor here for awhile but I still don't fully understand how overlapping categories work. Let's say I make a page for an American woman who is a poet. Should I add it to both "American poets" and "American women poets"? Obviously, I want her to be found by people searching in either category. If someone comes along afterwards and removes the former category, is that kosher or discriminatory? (Apologies if this has been answered before; I spent quite awhile tunnelling through various help areas trying to find a clear answer.) Thanks.Alafarge (talk) 17:50, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

• I'm fairly new at editing on here, but I would say she belongs to both categories; however, on some of my page inputs, I have been advised "Toss parent categories where subcats are already included" is a Wiki guideline. SusunW (talk) 18:00, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

• Alafarge, re categories, American women poets is a sub category of American poets. If you click on the category of American women poets and scroll down to the bottom of the page, it shows the categories under which it is a sub. To have the main category is too general. For further information: Help:Wikipedia:Categorizing Articles — Maile (talk) 19:23, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. I recollect the controversy from 2013 over some editors purging women writers from the "American novelists" category and just wanted to make sure I understood what the current best practice is today.Alafarge (talk) 19:30, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

• Basically, the general rule is that you usually don't put an article into both a "parent" and a "child" category. However there are exceptions, and this is one of them -for women writers, I'd say you are right to put people in BOTH, as there was quite an uproar in the mainstream press over someone who was ghettoizing the women writers by moving them from the main "writers" category and putting them in just a "women writers" category, where there was no equivalent "men writers" one. Overcategorizing does no harm, and usually someone who knows the category scheme will clean up after you if you really overdo it. There are also diffusing and non-diffusing categories, and it's hard to know which is which. Essentially, it can't hurt to preview the categories when you can to figure out what the protocol is. In a fully diffused category, Foo writers, there should be ONLY subcategories, say Male Foo writers and Women Foo writers. (Example: Category:Horses. In a non-diffusing category, ALL the articles are listed AND they go into subcats as well (Example: Category:Horse breeds). The reality is that most categories are a total mishmash and seldom does anyone keep them organized! Montanabw^(talk) 23:10, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for this really helpful explanation. I hadn't been able to figure out how to know which cateories were, as you put, fully diffusing. I didn't realize there was pertinent information on the Category pages themselves.Alafarge (talk) 18:40, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

WP:Cat gender also explains things. Categories are a quagmire, probably because you can't watchlist what gets added or removed... sigh... Montanabw^(talk) 04:35, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

On Wikidata, thanks to the Wikidata game, almost everybody with an article on Wikipedia has been classified as male or female. On the German Wikipedia, they have categories, which admittedly are so large that you can't really do anything with them. On the Dutch Wikipedia they have banned gender from all occupations and don't use any gender categories at all. It makes it very difficult to get proper information about male vs. female whatever. Even though lots of women on the English Wikipedia have not (yet) been placed into diffusing categories, I like those categories because it's a good place to start searching for women (which in some professions is like the proverbial needle in the haystack). Jane (talk) 09:59, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Wow what a can of worms this all is. Almost sorry I asked (jk).Alafarge (talk) 02:01, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

LOL! Yes! My general rule: Do not remove women from a main category so long as there are also men in it, but it's ok to ALSO have a womens' category. If someone bitches about that, slap on a non-diffusing tag on the main one and tell the whiners to create a "males' category or STFU. Except say it far more diplomatically than I just did! LOL! Montanabw^(talk) 01:49, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Seems about right. You want people looking specifically for women writers to be able to find them, but you don't want people just looking for writers not to see any women as though they count less. Point of interest, Category:Operas is also non-diffusing for some reason. –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 03:58, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Yes! Actual logic!Alafarge (talk) 20:03, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

Interestingly in the case that caused all the ruckus, a "male" category was created, and the appropriate moves were made, IIRC, while the new complex "no-diffusing" rule was being crafted. Short term answer - don't worry about it. Long term answer, replace categories with something better. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 02:46, 6 February 2015 (UTC).

Noted, thanks.Alafarge (talk) 16:27, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Feminism in Mexico

Perusing the main page, I saw that Feminism in Mexico was listed in the category of "Pages needing attention" and thought, that perhaps, as I live here, I could add some information. "Pages needing attention" is an understatement. It has only 2 sentences in the entire article, which IMO speaks to "desperate need of attention."

I have been working for several days on creation of the page, but my strong suit is NOT theory. And I while I speak a tiny bit of Spanish, I am not fluent, by any measure. In addition, though I work in human rights with sexual minorities, and can do the section on "Gender Rebels," the section might benefit from someone who is part of that community and not cis. I am working on the history portion but would truly like to have collaborators for overall balance in the page. Anyone interested? It's very definitely a work in progress, no where near ready to "go live" ... but my working draft is here: User:SusunW/Sandbox 2 SusunW (talk) 18:17, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Wiki Ed "Editing Women's Studies" Brochure: Feedback requested

Hello all, Wiki Ed will be distributing a brochure to Women's Studies courses in the USA and Canada that edit Wikipedia as part of their classroom assignments. It will also be available on-wiki and as a pdf for anyone to read or use. I'm hoping to get some feedback on the brochure's contents -- if anyone has some time to review it, I've uploaded a Wiki draft here. We're looking to have it ready to print by March 3, so feedback would be most useful before then. Thanks everyone!

Eryk (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:18, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Yesterday when preparing an article on Marta Lamas, I noted that a school she founded in Mexico City is also working on a project. Would be lovely if Mexico, as part of North America, were included in your project. I get that there will be a language curve, but if we truly want to make Wikipedia an inclusive record of knowledge, we need expand our efforts to include other areas. Here's the brochure I found. Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir SusunW (talk) 19:12, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia Primary School invitation

Hi everybody. On behalf of the teams behind the Wikipedia Primary School research project, I would like to announce that the article Sexism (of interest to this wikiproject) was selected a while ago to be reviewed by an external expert. We'd now like to ask interested editors to join our efforts and improve the article before March 15, 2015 (any timezone) as they see fit; a revision will be then sent to the designated expert for review (please see the article's talk page for details). Any notes and remarks written by the external expert will be made available on the article's talk page under a CC-BY-SA license as soon as possible, so that you can read them, discuss them and then decide if and how to use them. Please sign up here to let us know you're collaborating. Thanks a lot for your support! Elitre (WPS) (talk) 17:22, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Presentation proposal for Wikimania 2015

Hello! Victuallers and I have developed a draft proposal for a talk to be presented at Wikimania 2015. It's titled, How to pick up more women -- as in more women editors and more women's biographies. A friendly FYI... I have mentioned this WikiProject in the proposal! The proposal review process has begun and there's no guarantee that this proposal will be accepted. That's where you come in. Please review our proposal and give us feedback. Ultimately, we hope you add your name to the signup at the bottom of the proposal which signifies you're interested in the talk (it does not signify you'll be attending the event). Thank you! --Rosiestep (talk) 21:31, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

@Rosiestep: Can't sign that form. The "new way to make editing easier" doesn't work. Won't let me put in tildes, won't let me put in my UserName. Won't let me do anything. Just says <no wiki>. Apparently, I am banned from answering, in the easy format. *sigh* Last thing I want is even MORE complicated programming nonsense. SusunW (talk) 23:12, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

@SusunW:, I have the same problem when clicking the "Edit" button, but I have no problems editing that page when I click the "Edit source" button. Hope this helps? --Rosiestep (talk) 23:15, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

@Rosiestep: Yay! That worked. Thank you :) P.S. Dear "Betatest Person in the Sky" please see this. Last thing we need is a simplification that is confusing and frustrating. SusunW (talk) 23:22, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi SusunW, Thanks for your note, and for your persistence. VisualEditor is not intended to be used for discussions (outside of Flow, which automatically signs posts), so it contains no signature tool. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 16:49, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

@Whatamidoing: LOL I am reminded of something Whoopi Goldberg said in Jumping Jack Flash ... "Mick, Mick! Speak Engish!" Goes directly to my point, that programmers speak the language of programming, not writing. What does "outside of Flow" mean? How can it NOT be used for discussions when it is what is driving the "Talk" or "Discussion" page, or in this case the "sign up"? SusunW (talk) 17:01, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

WP:Flow is a discussion system. In an ideal world, VisualEditor wouldn't have been turned on for that page. "Edit source" is always available, and needs to be used on discussion pages (unless you want to hand-type your signature, which I'm too lazy to do  ;-) WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:07, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

• And I add my voice to the ranks of those who loathe Visual editor and will note to the same "Betatast person in the sky: "YO! Guess what? SusunW is a new woman editor, you know, the ones you claim that VE was supposed to help? Guess what? It's not helping!" Montanabw^(talk) 05:00, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Women's History Month

A user has added information about Women's History Month on the Help Desk, I've added it to Talk:Women's History Month. can someone please look at it?Naraht (talk) 02:25, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Quick note on a related point: There are a lot of edit-a-thons going on this weekend, because of women's history month. With any luck, we'll see lots of promising new editors. WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:09, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Donations

Hello all, there are two recent donations available through The Wikipedia Library that are relevant to this project: WP:Women Writers Online and WP:Project MUSE. Please sign up for the accounts if you think you can use them. Enjoy! Nikkimaria (talk) 04:15, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

I would love to have one, but the criteria says you must have been editing for over a year. Hopefully they will do this again. SusunW (talk) 04:16, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Adding women to Days of the Year

Hello, I'd like to invite comment/discussion on a project proposal to add more women to Wikipedia's Days of the Year.

The Idea Page is here

Thanks! Natalie Bueno Vasquez (talk) 19:10, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Feminism-focused Inspire Campaign proposal for distributed editing

Dear WikiProject Women's History: I wish to invite you to review an Inspire Campaign proposal and offer feedback if you wish:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Full_Circle_Gap_Protocol:_Addressing_the_%E2%80%98Unknown_Unknowns%E2%80%99

What's special about this proposal is it looks to (re)value sporadic editing and respectfully honor the expertise of subject matter experts, without asking them to be responsible for 'fixing' Wikipedia's problems. This is a novel approach that perhaps could gain traction with edit-a-thons and WikiProject initiatives because it comes from a feminist pedagogical perspective for analysis in order to generate re-usable lists to share/work on. The topic for the pilot is not yet set, though it will connect to gender studies and/or feminist theory, but however I wanted to ping the WikiProject Women's History as this proposal could be of interest more generally and I would look forward to your feedback.

Best

Monika Shameran81 (talk) 20:15, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

International Women of Courage Award: 10 articles to create

10 women have received the International Women of Courage Award 2015. None have an article yet, please help create them, thanks! Nicolas1981 (talk) 01:59, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

All done SusunW (talk) 19:14, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

@SusunW: Wow. Thanks for doing that. --Rosekelleher (talk) 17:04, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Marie Stopes

• Marie Stopes

The article has been expanded in recent years. There's plenty of good material there already, and there's plenty of high quality biographies and other sources out there that could be used to expand and improve the article. If someone is willing to put in the work, this article could easily reach Good Article or Featured Article status. Just a matter of someone putting in the work. --Harizotoh9 (talk) 04:54, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

Women in Jazz

Just letting you all know there's a page called Women in Jazz which needs some attention to it. I think it would be a fascinating article if someone could expand it. Turn➦ 04:21, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Hillary Rodham Clinton

Interested project members are welcome to join WikiProject Hillary Rodham Clinton, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia articles related to Hillary Rodham Clinton. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 18:11, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/African American women in computer science

African American women in computer science is at AfD; as is African American men in computer science.--Djembayz (talk) 04:13, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Video vixen listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Video vixen. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. 65.94.43.89 (talk) 09:30, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

broken links - Women's History articles by quality and importance

The links in the Women's History articles by quality and importance section are broken. Lugevas (talk) 18:05, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

looking for those interested in our project

greetings.

my name is lori brown (usa) and with justine clark (australia) and eleanor chapman (germany), we have applied for a grant to write more women architects and designers into wikipedia. we welcome comments and support for our project. in our own countries, hosted wiki writing parties on march 8, international women's day, as a way to begin these efforts. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/More_Female_Architects_on_Wikipedia we look forward to hearing from you.74.79.86.78 (talk) 02:09, 24 April 2015 (UTC)loriannbrown

I'm always in favor of more coverage of women architects and designers. Good project! Binksternet (talk) 04:30, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

Let's get Irena Sendler to Good Article!

Irena Sendler is one of Poland's most popular articles (listed as 79 in the current Wikipedia:WikiProject_Poland/Popular_pages), and based on that I wager she is one of the most famous encyclopedic women (as in, in the Top 1000 or so). She was only a start-class article; I've improved her and I think she is ready for a B-class reassessment. I'd appreciate proofreading and copyediting before a Good Article nomination. Can anyone help? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 07:38, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Talk:Hillary Rodham Clinton/April 2015 move request

Greetings! A proposal has been made at Talk:Hillary Rodham Clinton/April 2015 move request‎ to change the title of the article, Hillary Rodham Clinton to Hillary Clinton. This notification is provided because this article is listed as being of interest to this project. Cheers! bd2412 T 17:25, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

Task Force

Does WikiProject Women's History currently have a task force? If so could you please post a link to it here? Thanks! Maranjosie (talk) 14:54, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Discussion notice

There is a discussion at meta, Grants:IdeaLab/Community discussion on harassment reporting, that may be of interest to members of the project. Lightbreather (talk) 14:19, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Antonia Minor listed at Requested moves

A requested move discussion has been initiated for Antonia Minor to be moved to Antonia the Younger. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 22:34, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

List of elected female political office-holders in the United Kingdom listed at Requested moves

A requested move discussion has been initiated for List of elected female political office-holders in the United Kingdom to be moved to Lists of female political office-holders in the United Kingdom. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 23:22, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

"WIGI: Wikipedia Gender Inequality Index" Survey invitation

Hello WikiProject Women's History participants,

I am a member of Wikipedia Gender Inequality Index (WIGI) project. WIGI is an Individual Engagement Grant that seeks to automate the production and graphing of statistical presentation of gender in articles by various categories such as date of birth, citizenship, occupation, etc. - in a publicly viewable website with open-data downloads.

We're running a brief survey to find out what kind of information users would like captured, ideally about the state of Wikipedia biographies. We will use it to inform what statistics our portal will show and provide a final report on the observed trends at the end of the year. Please help us out by completing this brief survey, which should take not more than 5 minutes to complete. Simply click on the link below, or cut and paste the bare URL into your browser to access the survey:

Survey link wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3OueVOHoRpezvZH

Thank you for your time and cooperation. Best Regards, —M@sssly^✉ 15:03, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

Updating Tipper Gore

Hi there. I recently posted some thoughts and proposed changes for the Tipper Gore article over on the article's Talk page. I'd like for other editors to review it since I'm working on behalf of The Glover Park Group, friends of Tipper Gore, and I do not want to make any direct edits to the article myself. I haven't had any replies on my message yet, and since the article falls under the scope of this WikiProject, I thought someone here might be interested in taking a look. There's more information in my Talk page note, but essentially, I'm hoping the article can be updated and expanded with more of Gore's more recent work (the article mostly focuses on the 80s). Thanks in advance, Heatherer (talk) 14:22, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

Help with updates to First Ladies: Influence & Image

Hello. I am posting here to ask for assistance with updates I'm suggesting for the entry about the C-SPAN series First Ladies: Influence & Image, which might interest WikiProject Women's History. Let me introduce myself: I'm Jeremy Art, Digital & Social Media Specialist at C-SPAN. I recently created an account to suggest occasional updates to C-SPAN-related articles. Due to my conflict of interest, I will not edit the article myself. Could someone take a look at a message I posted on the First Ladies Talk page about expanding the article? I'm offering a draft with additional information on the show's background, production and other media for editors to review and use to develop the article. I appreciate any help.

Thanks!

C-SPAN Jeremy (talk) 20:50, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Help with Emily C. Gorman?

Hi everybody, I'm a fledging editor trying to create articles for interesting women who deserve encyclopedic coverage. I recently created an article for Emily C. Gorman, who was listed under this project as needing to be created. Could someone take a look at what I did, and give me some feedback? I also think it could use a rating on the talk page. Thanks! EmilyvstheGorn (talk) 20:58, 25 June 2015 (UTC) @EmilyvstheGorn: message on your talk page SusunW (talk) 22:18, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

Copyright Violation Detection - EranBot Project

A new copy-paste detection bot is now in general use on English Wikipedia. Come check it out at the EranBot reporting page. This bot utilizes the Turnitin software (ithenticate), unlike User:CorenSearchBot that relies on a web search API from Yahoo. It checks individual edits rather than just new articles. Please take 15 seconds to visit the EranBot reporting page and check a few of the flagged concerns. Comments welcome regarding potential improvements. These likely copyright violations can be searched by WikiProject categories. Use "control-f" to jump to your area of interest (if such a copyvio is present). --Lucas559 (talk) 15:29, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

Wikithon on women and food at the British Library

People here might be interested that on Monday July 6th there's a wikithon on women and food organized by the Oxford Food Symposium and hosted at the British Library. Dsp13 (talk) 20:33, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

New Wikipedian in Residence Position at West Virginia University

West Virginia University Library just announced its new Wikipedian in Residence position for Gender Equity. The full time, one year position was funded as an Inspire Campaign Grant. Wikimedians with experience in GLAM-Wiki, the Education Program, working on the Gender Gap, and other related projects are invited to apply for this in-residence position. More information at Wikipedia:GLAM/WVU. I hope that you all share the opportunity with people you think would be interested, Sadads (talk) 21:46, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

Please join to discussion

I am proposing splitting in Talk:Brothel. Please join. NiceDay (talk) 08:20, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride

You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!

• What? Wiki Loves Pride, a campaign to document and photograph LGBT culture and history, including pride events
• When? June 2015
• How can you help?

  1.) Create or improve LGBT-related articles and showcase the results of your work here

  2.) Upload photographs or other media related to LGBT culture and history, including pride events, and add images to relevant Wikipedia articles; feel free to create a subpage with a gallery of your images (see examples from last year)

  3.) Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)

Or, view or update the current list of Tasks. This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. Visit the group's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome!

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the campaign's main talk page.

Thanks, and happy editing!

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You're invited! Women in Red World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Leadership

You are invited! → World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Leadership ← Come and join us remotely!

World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Leadership Dates: 7 to 20 September 2015 The Virtual Edit-a-thon, hosted by Women in Red, will allow all those keen to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Women in Leadership to participate. As it is a two-week event, inexperienced participants will be able to draw on the assistance of more experienced editors while creating, translating or improving articles on women who are (or have been) prominent in leadership. All levels of Wikipedia editing experience are welcome. RSVP and find more details →here← --Ipigott (talk) 09:44, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

You're invited! Smithsonian APA Center & Women in Red virtual edit-a-thon on APA women

Asian Pacific American Women World Virtual Edit-a-thon

Dates: Friday-Sunday, 4 to 6 September 2015 Location: Worldwide/virtual Sponsor: Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center "The Smithsonian APA Center invites you to attend the 2nd annual Wikipedia APA an editathon for cultural presence, which will be held during the month of September 2015. We are thrilled to invite you to Wikipedia APA, an editing event for improving and increasing the presence of cultural, historic, and artistic information on Wikipedia pertaining to Asian Pacific American ("APA") experiences. The second Wikipedia editathon dedicated to APA content, this project will occur as physical events during September 2015... as well as remotely, with participants taking part from all throughout the world." Facilitator: Women in Red (WiR) Did you Know that 15% of the biographies on Wikipedia are about women? Not impressed? WiR focuses on "content gender gap". If you'd like to help contribute articles on women and women's works, we warmly welcome you! WiR will be hosting one of this world virtual edit-a-thon. The 3-day event will focus on improving Wikipedia's coverage of Asian Pacific American women and their works (books, paintings, and so on). For more information and to RSVP: → click here← --Rosiestep (talk) 03:23, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject Women's History and Amelia Bence

Would anyone be interested in weighing in on a debate about the inclusion of an actress in the project? Please see discussion: User talk:Cambalachero#WikiProject Women's History and Amelia Bence Thank you! SusunW (talk) 18:53, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Sonia "Sunny" Jacobs

Sonia Jacobs redirects to Jesse Tafero. But the Jesse Tafero article has Sonia link (Sunny Jacobs, which redirects to The Exonerated). Wondering if there should be a Wikipedia article about Sonia. Other wrongfully convicted people such as David Milgaard have articles at Wikipedia. --EarthFurst (talk) 15:56, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

Researching Virginia Houston

I saw Virginia Houston on the Articles requested list, and began some preliminary research with the intention of putting together an article for her. I found some information on her in three books, including: Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance, Desire: Race and Sexuality in Cold War American Literature, and Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s. I've hit a wall, though, and can't find anything beyond those sources. Does anyone want to help me out on this? You can leave me a message on my talk page, or reply here if you're interested. Thanks! EmilyvstheGorn (talk) 21:02, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

@EmilyvstheGorn: There doesn't seem to be much biographical information about her, but she has an entry in Black Women of the Harlem Renaissance Era. gobonobo ^{+ c} 19:43, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

RfC: Jadwiga of Poland

All comments would be appreciated here. Thank you for your time. Borsoka (talk) 22:07, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

Re-organization of WikiProject Women

Main page: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women § Complete reorganization proposal

There currently is a discussion about the future organization of Wikipedia:WikiProject Women and several other women-related Wikiprojects and taskforces at the above link. Some aspects may be of interests to editors of this project and your participation in the discussion would be appreciated. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 12:10, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

History of women in Britain

History of women in Britain currently redirects to Feminism in the United Kingdom, and begins with the 19th century. Boudica died circa AD 60 or 61, so there is clearly a gap which needs to be filled either by going further back through history. Perhaps each of the articles named in the series Template:UKHBS, Template:History of Scotland, Template:History of Wales and Template:History of Ireland need a section on women writing for each article, and then an over-arching page: Women in the United Kingdom (which currently links to a category of that name), where each section is a summary of the different eras with a hat-note that says: See main.

Currently there are a number of articles:

• Women in England - a truly awful article,
• Women in Wales links to a category,
• Women in Scotland links to "Women in early modern Scotland" (early 16th century to the the mid 18th century),
• Women in Northern Ireland links to a truly awful page,
• There is no article for Women in Ireland.

--The Vintage Feminist (talk) 01:20, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

History of swimwear

I have started the article. Please, check and advice. Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 04:07, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Improving the Women's Engineering Society pages

Hi, I have been asked by the Women's Engineering Society to improve their pages in Wiki. I am an engineering historian specialising in the history of women's work in the engineering and construction trades and professions in the UK. i am not and never have been a university academic but have a number of published articles on these themes. I would welcome any help anyone felt they might like to offer. Lovelacepullinger (talk) 14:37, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

You're invited! Women in Red World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Architecture

You are invited! → World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Architecture sponsored by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum ← Come and join us remotely!

World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Architecture Dates: 15 to 25 October 2015 The Virtual Edit-a-thon, hosted by Women in Red in parallel with a series of "physical" Guggenheim edit-a-thons, will allow all those keen to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Women in Architecture to participate. As it stretches over a week and a half, inexperienced participants will be able to draw on the assistance of more experienced editors while creating, translating or improving articles on women who are (or have been) prominent in architecture. All levels of Wikipedia editing experience are welcome. RSVP and find more details →here←--Ipigott (talk) 10:26, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

Isabelle Eberhardt

Isabelle Eberhardt, assessed as mid importance for this project, is currently up for peer review. See here. All comments or help on the article in general are welcome. Thanks. Freikorp (talk) 13:45, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Pao v. Kleiner Perkins

I have added this Project's banner to Pao v. Kleiner Perkins. Not sure if it belongs? Ottawahitech (talk) 09:58, 16 October 2015 (UTC) please ping me

The Atlantic - How Wikipedia Is Hostile to Women

• Paling, Emma (October 21, 2015). "How Wikipedia Is Hostile to Women". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on October 21, 2015. Retrieved October 21, 2015.

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WikiProject members may be interested in above article, either as a potential good source for Quality improvement of related articles, or simply to read. — Cirt (talk) 18:33, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

RFC: 2015 Art+Feminism Grant

Art+Feminism has prepared a combined renewal of our IEG grant and PEG grant. If awarded, these grants will fund: childcare and refreshments for the 2016 international Art+Feminism Edit-a-thons; in-person training sessions for New York-city based volunteers and online training sessions national and international node organizers; the expansion of our outreach to post-secondary institutions and international Wikimedia chapters; building sustainable infrastructure for node organizers; and making our materials more intersectional. We seek community comment to help complete the grant process: here -- Theredproject (talk) 00:01, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

Category:Members of Masonic Lodges of Adoption

Category:Members of Masonic Lodges of Adoption, which is related to this WikiProject, has been nominated for deletion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. RevelationDirect (talk) 11:27, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

Centre for Equality and Inclusion - new article

I've created a new article on the organisation, Centre for Equality and Inclusion.

Centre for Equality and Inclusion is a non-governmental organisation based in India that works towards female empowerment and women's rights.

If you'd like to help with research or to improve the article's quality, source suggestions would be appreciated, at Talk:Centre for Equality and Inclusion.

Thank you,

— Cirt (talk) 14:50, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

You're invited! Women in Red World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Science

You are invited! Join us remotely! World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Science

Dates: 8 to 29 November 2015 Location: Worldwide/virtual/online event Host/Facilitator: Women in Red (WiR) in collaboration with Women scientists: Did you know that only 15% of the biographies on Wikipedia are about women? WiR focuses on "content gender gap". If you'd like to help contribute articles on women and women's works, we warmly welcome you! Sponsor: New York Academy of Sciences Event details: This is a virtual edit-a-thon hosted by WiR in parallel with a "phyisical" event during the afternoon of Sunday, November 22 in New York City. It will allow all those keen to improve Wikipedia's coverage of women in science to participate. As the virtual edit-a-thon stretches over three weeks, new participants will be able to draw on the assistance of more experienced editors while creating, translating or improving articles on women who are (or have been) prominent in the field. All levels of Wikipedia editing experience are welcome. RSVP and learn more: →here←--Ipigott (talk) 11:33, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

Nancy Cruickshank at AFD

Articles for deletion/Nancy Cruickshank — Maile (talk) 15:33, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Newbie contributor - women's history in New Zealand

Hi all, I've just started on wikipedia a few days ago; my area of interest is historical women and women's organisations in New Zealand. I've enlarged a few articles and also started some new pages, however I'm wondering if it would be helpful/logical to give them a category (if so, what?!) and/or tag them to this project (is that done, with a box on each article?) and/or consider making a page which is something like "List of notable NZ women" or "List of NZ women's firsts". What would assist people to access these articles most easily? Appreciate any advice! (For an example of an article I've worked on, see Caroline Freeman or Margaret Cruickshank). MurielMary (talk) 08:31, 26 October 2015 (UTC)MurielMary

• MurielMary Just now seeing this post, sorry for the delay in response. Totally your call if you want to make a list. Sometimes it is more helpful to have your subject area included in a larger list, say List of women writers, List of feminists, etc. and sometimes it can be more helpful for them to be country specific. As for categories, unless there are a significant number of people to be added, it will probably be removed. "University of New Zealand alumni" is clearly a utilized category, but a category of a small local school, probably not. For the most part, I try to tag with categories that will help people find my women without being too specific...Mexican women's rights activist, Argentinian women architect, American woman artist, etc. Those categories are usually extant. Project banners on the talk page are important {{WikiProject Women's History}} works for women born before 1950 and {{WikiProject Women}} for women born after 1950, {{WikiProject Feminism}} for those that fall into that scope, {{WikiProject Organizations}} + a woman related project for organizations. Of course, there are tons of WikiProjects, I use Social Work, Nursing, Education + Women a lot. Hope that helps ;) SusunW (talk) 16:50, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

• • Hi SusunW Thanks for that response, that's helpful! I'll go back and add banners to the articles I've created, and think some more on the category planning. Cheers! MurielMary (talk) 07:10, 31 October 2015 (UTC)MurielMary

Lebanon

Can someone clarify what the situation is regarding Women's suffrage in Lebanon? There is a discussion here: Talk:Women's_suffrage#Lebanon. 2A02:2F01:501F:FFFF:0:0:5679:C2F4 (talk) 19:54, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

GAR for Bra

Bra, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. sst✈^(discuss) 08:16, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

You're invited! Women in Red World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Religion

You are invited! Join us remotely! World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Religion

Dates: 5 to 15 December 2015 Location: Worldwide/virtual/online event Host: Women in Red (WiR): Did you know that only 15% of the biographies on Wikipedia are about women? WiR focuses on "content gender gap". If you'd like to help contribute articles on women and women's works, we warmly welcome you! Event details: This is a virtual edit-a-thon hosted by WiR. It will allow all those keen to improve Wikipedia's coverage of women in reigion to participate. All levels of Wikipedia editing experience are welcome. RSVP and learn more: →here←--Ipigott (talk) 11:03, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

Assessment of Women in Japan article

I noticed that this project considers the article Women in Japan to be a high priority. I've been working on a pretty massive overhaul of that article this month, and wondered if someone else might want to visit it and give me suggestions for further improvements, and/or reassess the article. Thanks! Owlsmcgee (talk) 21:29, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Soldiers

Do women of XX century notable (accordingly to reliable sources) as soldiers still need explicit mentioning as significant contributors to Women's history for inclusion of their biographies into the Project, given that women of combat professions are still relatively rare and there are a plenty of scholarly sources connecting participation of women (in general) in warfare and, especially, their direct engagement in combat with major cultural changes in the Women's history? Эйхер (talk) 12:36, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Given that some countries are only very recently allowing women into combat roles, I would say that you should bring them in. 1bandsaw (talk) 21:56, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

But there may be scores of them. Эйхер (talk) 14:41, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

I've seen various folks say that any woman born before 1950 should be auto-included in this project. I agree, I prefer the large tent approach. 1bandsaw (talk) 22:40, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to a virtual editathon on Women in Music

Women in Music
	10 to 31 January 2016 Please join us in the worldwide virtual edit-a-thon hosted by Women in Red.

--Ipigott (talk) 10:08, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

Proposed deletion

I don't know how to get this listed on the project page. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kim White (2nd nomination). Thanks. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:29, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

You'll have to tag the article with the WikiProject Women's history. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 21:29, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

AfD Felicity Tree

Hi! I'm working on saving Felicity Tree. She seems to have been a "Kardashian" of the day. I have found a lot of good sources in Newspaper Archive, but I'm hoping maybe any of the member of this project may have some access to records from the early 20th century about her. Thanks! Megalibrarygirl (talk) 21:30, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

Tagging talk pages

The Criteria for inclusion – Biographies includes all women born before 1900. Does this mean that the {{WikiProject Women's History}} tag should be added to the talk page of every biography of a woman born before 1900, irrespective of any other connection with women's history? Please clarify. Verbcatcher (talk) 04:05, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

The actual verbiage for the project says of biographies:

• "The biography of a woman born before 1900 is generally within the scope of this project.
• The biography of a woman born between 1900 and 1950 is within the scope of this project if reliable sources discuss her life or career in the context of women's history or as contributing to significant societal or cultural change."

If you have doubt, you can tag it with {{WikiProject Women}} which covers all people who identify as women and their creative works. But yes, all biographies should be tagged with one of the projects for women if they meet the criteria for tracking purposes. SusunW (talk) 04:14, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to an online editathon on Black Women's History

Invitation
	Black Women's History online edit-a-thon 1 to 15 February 2016 Hosted by Women in Red Sponsored by AfroCrowd Supporting Black WikiHistory Month

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Women's History Month worldwide online edit-a-thon

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	Women's History Month worldwide online edit-a-thon Host: Women in Red Sponsor: Art+Feminism 1 to 31 March 2016

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Hello! I would like to help improve the Ruth Bader Ginsburg article so that it qualifies as a Good Article. I have started a discussion on the Ruth Bader Ginsburg talk page and I would be happy to collaborate with anyone interested. Knope7 (talk) 01:53, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Access to library resources for experienced editors interested in this area

Hunter College is looking for a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar interested in women's education, historical women's colleges, or other topics at the intersection of history and gender studies. If you like to work on articles in these topic areas and would like remote access to a full suite of college library resources, including databases, journals, and ebooks, see the call for applications at the Visiting Scholars application page.

If the idea of access to university library resources is appealing to you but your interests lie elsewhere, the application page has information about other open possibilities as well. --Ryan (Wiki Ed) (talk) 00:04, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

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There are up to 30 one-year ASP accounts available to experienced Wikipedians through this partnership. To apply for free access, please go to WP:ASP. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 21:00, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to our April event

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	Women Writers worldwide online edit-a-thon Hosts: Women in Red, Women writers April 2016 #wikiwomeninred

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"Women are everywhere"

Hi, "Women are everywhere" is a project about the gender gap problem in Wikipedia, with a focus on Italian Wikipedia. You can find a draft for an Individual Engagement Grant at this link https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Women_are_everywhere. It would be great if I could have your help and your feedback on this project to improve it. Many thanks--Kenzia (talk) 07:58, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

2016 Just For The Record IEG & PEG Grants notification — intersectional & gender diversity on Wikipedia!

more gender diversity on Wikipedia!

Just For The Record has prepared a combined IEG grant and PEG grant application to work on the promotion of more gender diversity on Wikipedia with an intersectional perspective. These grant applications build upon the exciting results of our 2015-2016 Brussels-based series of events addressing the gender gap on Wikipedia. Just For The Record has created a network in which expertise on these questions is created and shared. With our new applications, we want to expand this knowledge and network beyond the context of the edit-a-thon!

If awarded, the PEG grant will fund: location and refreshments for the 2016-2017 Just For The Record edit-a-thons. If awarded, the IEG grant will fund: research and analysis into the representation of gender on Wikipedia, combined with the construction of a research/ambassador network, leading to an intersectional non-sexist guide on how knowledge and history can be written in a more diverse way. We seek community comment, discussions and endorsement signatures (section at the bottom of the pages) to help complete the grant process: here and here! Many thanks, Lfurter (talk) 09:36, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

Shhh! Invitation to Women in Espionage

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	Women in Espionage worldwide online edit-a-thon Host: Women in Red Supporting: University of Edinburgh - Women in Espionage and Spy Fiction 13-20 April 2016

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Women artists → Women in art

See talk:Women artists for the discussion requesting that the article be renamed -- 70.51.45.100 (talk) 07:27, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

Photography

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	Women in Photography worldwide online edit-a-thon Host: Women in Red May 2016 #wikiwomeninred

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Women artists of Middle East / North Africa... a WiR & Guggenheim collaboration

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	Women artists of Middle East / North Africa worldwide online edit-a-thon Hosts: Women in Red and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum May 2016 #wikiwomeninred #guggathon

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