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Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/51

Celebrating Indigenous women

August: Indigenous women August: Women in peace August: Canadian women New in August: #1day1woman Global Initiative September: Hispanic and Latina Women September: Women in the Olympics September: Women from New Zealand See also: Future events

Hello and welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR) whose objective is to turn redlinks into blue ones. Our project's scope is women's biographies and women's works. Did you know that according to WHGI only 17.06% 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. Women in Red warmly welcomes you!
Members of the Native American Women Warriors, a Pueblo, Colorado-based association of active and retired American Indians in U.S. military service, at a Colorado Springs Native American Inter Tribal LCCN2015633462
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FacilitatorsRosiestep
Online event
1-31 August 2017Join the Women in Red online editathon from anywhere in the world.
Use social media to promote our work!
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Women in Red is hosting a virtual editathon from August 1 to 31, 2017 on Indigenous women, providing an opportunity for you to create or improve articles on women who are notable in various fields of endeavor. The virtual edit-a-thon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in the work.

  • 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)

Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)

  1. Crowd-sourced Indigenous women redlink list
  2. Yupik's redlink and expansion list of Indigenous women

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

  • A Gathering of Spirit: A Collection of Writing and Art by North American Indian Women was the first published collection of Indigenous women's writing in North America, as well as the first anthology edited by an aboriginal woman. The book was edited by Mohawk author and anthologist Beth Brant GOOD ARTICLE. Contributing authors included:

Participants

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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. (Note: If you tweet from the @wikiwomeninred account, it will be mirrored on the WiR Facebook page, so you don't need to add it there by hand.)
  • Add NAP if the articles "needs a photo".

New or upgraded articles

  • Add the titles of your new or upgraded articles here created in August – 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
  1. Edith Kawelohea McKinzie - DYK September 17

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