Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/5

Women in Religion
World Virtual Edit-a-thon
Dates	Saturday-Tuesday, 5-15 December 2015
Location	This is a virtual, global event... you can participate from anywhere in the world
Host	Women in Red
Twitter hashtag	#wikicontentgendergap
Facilitators	Rosiestep; add your name here; add your name here

Women in Religion | December 2015

Women in Red

Did you know that 15.89% of the biographies on Wikipedia are about women? Not impressed? Women in Red (WiR) focuses on "content gender gap". If you'd like to help contribute articles on women and women's works, we warmly welcome you!

Women in Red is running a ten-day virtual editathon from December 5 to 15. Anyone can take part 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 in religion who are still red-linked on the English Wikipedia. The virtual edit-a-thon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in the work. See the list of red-linked women in religion articles to be created for guidance.

The main goals of the edit-a-thon 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

Articles to be created

Maria Stella de Azevedo Santos [pt] Brazilian Iyalorixá

Mãe Carmem [pt] Brazilian Iyalorixá

There is a list of historic and/or prominent women in this evolving, crowd-sourced list of red-linked articles broken down by countries →here←.
And there is an article with ordination background, names and red-links →here←.
And a User's list of red-links →here←.
Another list of red-links (based on number of articles in other language Wikipedias) →here←.
Or create an article about one of the red-linked women whose photographs appears in this section (hint: each has an article on another language Wikipedia).

Participants

Add your name here ...

Ipigott (talk) 22:34, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
SusunW (talk) 02:59, 1 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Rosiestep (talk) 04:27, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Megalibrarygirl (talk) 15:26, 18 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
97198 (talk) 06:05, 19 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Penny Richards (talk) 14:36, 2 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
LovelyLillith (talk) 19:15, 2 December 2015 (UTC) Happy to help whenever I have free time![reply]
Victuallers (talk) 09:37, 3 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
gobonobo ⁺ ^c 12:23, 3 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Jocelyn^{Talk to me} 12:26, 3 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Minor4th 19:30, 3 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nvvchar. 05:41, 4 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Sure--but you're catching me during finals and a job search... Drmies (talk) 05:55, 4 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Things are busy for me right now, but I'll do whatever I can. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 17:52, 4 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I'll have a go. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:08, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:02, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Gotta help out! 1bandsaw (talk) 21:12, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Afernand74 (talk) 14:21, 6 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 16:37, 6 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
BoBoMisiu (talk) 21:05, 7 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
MurielMary (talk) 11:13, 8 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Andrew D. (talk) 15:43, 9 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Fuzchia (talk) 23:43, 10 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Big_iron (talk) 15:50, 11 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
PamD 23:31, 13 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Alafarge (talk) 20:21, 14 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thor Dockweiler (talk) 15 December 2015 PST, 07:23, 16 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 13:03, 23 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Prakash gupta (talk) 01:45, 08 November 2016 (IST)

During the editathon...

Add {{Authority control}} at the foot of every biography; it will remain hidden until relevant identifiers have been added to Wikidata.
Add to talk pages" {{WikiProject Biography}} and {{WikiProject Religion}}
Add to talk pages: {{WikiProject Women}} if born after 1950; or {{WikiProject Women's History}} if born before 1950.

Useful categories include: Category:Female religious leaders, Category:Female religious workers, Category:Female clergy, Category:Female Christian missionaries, Category:Ancient priestesses, Category:Buddhist nuns, Category:Christian nuns (and all the subcategories including Category:Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns by nationality), Category:Female saints.

Outcomes

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

Mary Jane Wilson (a redlink in Edith Arendrup)
Edith Arendrup - also on redlist for Art+Feminism editathon in March
Hana Wirth-Nesher
Mary Magdalena Lewis Tate
Margaret Fletcher
Itala Mela
Margaret Towner
Christina Carpenter - died in cell with no door@DYK
Inés Talamantez
Lucy Whitehead McGill Waterbury Peabody
Karuna Dharma
Lena Doolin Mason
Sancha Garcia
Théodelinde Bourcin-Dubouché
Diana Nkesiga
Aviel Barclay
Rachel Henderlite
Christine Froude
Mary Evans Thorne expanded
Davina Delor
Louise Feltin
Julia Tarrant Barron
Margaret Brackenbury Crook
Phebe Ann Coffin Hanaford (expanded)
Ellen Battelle Dietrick
Lori G. Beaman
Marianne Katoppo
Urgyen Tsomo
Nicolette Bruining
Marie Alvequin
Theodora Fracasso
Tziporah Heller
Catherine of Palma
Adela of Pfalzel (split from Adela and Irmina)
Eugênia Anna Santos
Hermine Speier
Barbara von Absberg
Anne Luther Bagby
María Dolores Rodríguez Sopeña
Maria Antonia Paris
Maria Agnès Ribera Garau
Maria Raffaella Cimatti
Antoinette Fage
Nina Bassat
Dominique Marchal
Sigolena of Albi
Karen Kime (created)
B. V. Subbamma
Émilie d'Oultremont
Sara Japhet, expanded
Mary Allies Catholic saint biographer
Aurélie Crépeau
Rachel Chalkowski
Amanda Cajander (expanded - anyone who can read Finnish, feel free to help on this one!)
Women's Mosque of America
Elise Averdieck
Mary Greene (nun)
Ona Galdikaitė
Brigitte Boehme
Tadea de San Joaquín
Judy Mbugua
Marie-Louise Valade
Caroline Emelia Stephen called "Silly Milly" by famous biographer brother
Maria Corsini
Eliza Ann Gardner
Marietta Walker
"Believing Women" in Islam
Elizabeth Alfred (created)
Jane Cave
Lynda Patterson (expansion)
Teresa McDonell
Lydia Emelie Gruchy
Angela Murdaugh
Sarah E. Gorham
Elena Aiello
Sarah Crosby
Victoria Matthews (expansion)
Women in Shinto
Tuulikki Koivunen Bylund
Eliza Wohlers (created)
Lopamudra expansion
Elisabeth Abegg
Che Zahara binte Noor Mohamed
Maria Izabela Wiłucka-Kowalska
Gerontissa Gavrielia
Meherzia Labidi Maïza "Most powerful woman..."
Christ Holy Church International church created by a woman
Agnes Okoh
Amalie Sieveking
Angela Palacious
Hilda Phoebe Hudson religious link added
Hester Rogers
Saint Susanna forked
Antonina De Angelis (expanded)
Marie Morin
Ghosha (expanded)
Bärbel Wartenberg-Potter
Anne Bourdon
Ann Allebach
Marie Arnaq Meade
Hidayet Şefkatli Tuksal
Anna Maria Antigó
Geneviève Boucher
Elisabeth Dons Christensen
Ida of Lorraine
Jeanne des Anges
Wu Chengzhen
Arenda Haasnoot
Yvonne Beauvais
Sarla Bedi
Mary Matz
Gerberga II, Abbess of Gandersheim
Tillie Paul
Maria Lorenzo Longo
Marie-Anne-Marcelle Mallet
Marie-Josephte Fitzbach
Margaret Brackenbury Crook
Mãe Menininha do Gantois
Temerl Bergson
Marija Krucifiksa Kozulić
Pravrajika Shraddhaprana expanded
Pravrajika Bhaktiprana expanded
Umama bint Hamza
Lillian Dickson
Marie-Elmina Anger
Mãe Cleusa Millet
Mary Frances Clarke expanded
Anne Zernike
Maria Laurentia Longo new - name taken from useful list
Capuchin Poor Clares expanded
Sarah Poulton Kalley

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Editing Wikipedia resources

Beginners' Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
Five Pillars of Wikipedia (philosophical guidelines and best practices for Wikipedia editing)
Tutorial
How to Edit a Page
Wiki Markup Quick Reference (PDF version of printed handout)
Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger (applicable to any biography)
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Manual of Style
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Tools and templates for the newer editor

Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia – a Wikipedia markup cheatsheet
Infobox template – person
Biographies of living persons
Religion stub templates
Writing an article
About the Sandbox
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At the bottom of all articles, please add {{authority control}} so that the appropriate tie ins with Wikidata can occur.

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