Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red/FAQ

What is WikiProject Women in Red (WiR)?

WikiProject Women in Red is a community-led project launched in 2015. We're interested in reducing the gender gap in content coverage across all languages, especially concerning women-related biographies, but also women-related topics (broadly construed), such as artwork, books, sports events, and scientific theories. This concerns both works/topics by and works/topics about women. Specifically, we collaborate on

• the creation of new articles
• the improvement of existing articles (featured articles, good articles, DYK articles, stubs...)
• events such as edithatons and hackatons
• developing gender-gap related metrics
• the identification of missing content Wikipedia ought to have
• scholarly publications

We're not, however, trying to solve editor gender gap, meaning that we think both men and women are equally able to create articles about notable women.

How is WikiProject Women in Red related to other WikiProjects?

WiR is intended to be a parent project and a resource hub for other projects (in all languages) whose scope covers women and their works, such as

• Women
• Jewish Women
• Women in Warfare and the military
• Women writers
• Women Artists
• Women in Technology
• Women scientists
• Women's Health
• Women's History Month
• Women's History
• Women's Sports

And related projects

• Feminism
• Wiki Loves Women (Africa)
• Women in Green (article improvement project)

What specific efforts is WikiProject Women in Red making to reduce/improve the content gender gap?

• We maintain lists of blogs, conferences, contests, discussions (Wikipedia; Wikimedia), editathons, Inspire grantees' projects, mailing-lists, meet-ups, newspaper articles, scholarly articles, social media campaigns, workshops, etc. We use Wikidata to manage several aspects of the project because of its size and scope.
• We hope to collaborate with international festival organizers (example: Litquake).
• In addition to needing editors to write the articles, several key volunteer positions have been identified: Data Coordinator; Promotions/Events Coordinator; Lead Coordinators for each language.
• We hope to establish a teaming arrangement with the Wiki Education Foundation as we believe university students are important to this endeavor. We would like to build on the education outreach efforts described by User:Kruusamägi (Wikimania submission: Possibilities for university cooperation: Estonian example) "Every academic year more than 500 articles on Estonian Wikipedia are created as part of local cooperation with universities."
• Work together with the Wikimedia Chapters
• Build on Wikimedia's "Address the gender gap/FAQ"

How can I help? Who can join?

Anyone can join! You do not need to have edited Wikipedia before, nor is the project restricted to women. Any help you can give, big or small, is greatly appreciated! To get started read our primer.