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Dates April 2016 Location This is a virtual, global event... you can participate from anywhere in the world Hosts Women in Red, Women writers Hashtag #wikiwomeninred Facilitators Rosiestep; add your name here; add your name here Celebrating Women Writers In April 2016, Women in Red is focusing on women writers. 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 women writers and journalists who are still red-linked on the English Wikipedia. Other articles regarding women and writing, 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. See the list of red links for guidance. 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

Supporting organizations and events: This month (April 2016) there is a prize on offer to the person who contributes the most articles on Welsh women writers in coordination with Wikipedia:WikiProject Wales/Awaken the Dragon. Whoever contributes the most new articles and expansions in the month will be awarded a book on 100 Great Welsh Women. A list of Welsh women can be obtained here. If interested sign up on the page and you may claim the prize at the end of month near the bottom of here. We also have the support of these in-person events in New York City. Please check out their progress and attend if you're in the area: Barnard Library's Writing + Feminism AfroCROWD and Women in Red @ Brooklyn Public Library

1. Provide citations for Women writers on Wikipedia with this tool: Citation Hunt

• Add to the foot of every biography: {{Authority control}}; it will remain hidden until relevant identifiers have been added to Wikidata.
• Add a writer stub template if appropriate to do so
• There is a list of applicable categories at Category:Women writers.
• The Category:Lists of women writers page presents a number of useful lists.

• {{WikiProject Biography}}
• {{WikiProject Women writers}}
• if applicable{{WikiProject Journalism}}, {{WikiProject Books}}, {{WikiProject Literature}}, {{WikiProject Novels}}
• Important: Please also include the Women writers editathon template for this event: {{WIR-W 2016}}

• Add the titles of your new or upgraded articles here – most recent at the top

• ... that Barbara Tsakirgis worked at archaeological excavation sites in Sicily for her doctoral thesis on the subject of Hellenistic houses at Morgantina? (2016-05-25)
• ... that, speaking at the 2014 Conference on the Culture of Peace, Vijaya Melnick said that violence against women "continues to be our greatest shame and tragedy"? (2016-05-12)
• ... that Wajida Tabassum's story Hand Me Downs, published in 1994, was made into a movie under the title Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love? (2016-05-08)
• ... that Ina Plug's research work on fossils from a site of an Early Iron Age settlement in the farm "Diamant" near Ellisr in South Africa was of domestic dogs dated to 570 AD? (2016-05-08)
• ... that before Hu Lanqi (pictured) became China's first female major general, she was a magazine cover girl, a prisoner of Nazi Germany, and was invited to Moscow by Maxim Gorky? (2016-05-07)
• ... that Canadian classical scholar Elizabeth Caskey supervised and summarised annual archaeological trench excavations in Greece? (2016-05-06)
• ... that Helen Matusevich Oujesky pursued environmental research on pollution of soil and water, particularly of toxic wastes? (2016-05-04)
• ... that American journalist Elizabeth Peer was Newsweek's first female foreign correspondent, foreign bureau chief, and war correspondent? (2016-05-04)
• ... that the poets Sajida and Zahida Zaidi, professors at the Aligarh Muslim University, were known as the "Zaidi Sisters" in the literary community? (2016-05-03)
• ... that Zahida Khatun Sherwani wrote poetry in Urdu under the pseudonyms "Zay Khay Sheen" and "Nuzhat", as the then-Muslim society did not permit women to write poetry or further women's causes? (2016-05-03)
• ... that Elisabeth von Heyking's debut novel sold out within three weeks of its release? (2016-05-02)
• ... that rabbi Carole B. Balin rediscovered the existence of 67 Jewish women writers from the late 19th- and early 20th-century Russian Empire? (2016-05-01)
• ... that the British poet Anne Penny was criticised for having poor grammar? (2016-04-25)
• ... that Humira Saqib started educating women of Afghanistan through her magazine Negah-e-Zan on their rights and to "tell women that we have great ideas, and the ability to make those ideas a reality"? (2016-04-23)
• ... that Swedish writer Eva Alexanderson translated works by Umberto Eco, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky? (2016-04-21)
• ... that Minna Salami, a woman journalist of Nigeria, is actively participating on African women's issues through her award-winning blog called MsAfropolitan? (2016-04-18)
• ... that Klara Johanson was the first person from her Swedish hometown to sit the upper secondary school final examinations? (2016-04-18)
• ... that Li Ye, a Taoist nun and courtesan renowned for her beauty and talent in poetry, was executed for treason? (2016-04-17)
• ... that Bertha Badt-Strauss was one of the first women in Prussia to receive a doctoral degree? (2016-04-16)
• ... that according to a former editor of The Observer, Nora Beloff "had one of the most distinguished careers any woman has had in British journalism"? (2016-04-15)
• ... that Rhian Edwards' debut book of poetry was named the Wales Book of the Year? (2016-04-14)
• ... that novelist Louie Myfanwy Thomas had to re-write one of her manuscripts after it was thrown into a fire? (2016-04-09)

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