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Recently completed:	Alphabet run: Countries starting with B Black women Works by Women: Opera, Theatre and Music
New this month:	Alphabet run: Countries starting with C Artists+Activists Works by Women: Artworks
Ongoing initiatives:	#1day1woman: 2026 Sports
Upcoming events:	Ideas

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Welcome! This is where Women in Red plans future events and discusses ideas for more general improvements. Everyone is welcome to make suggestions or work on tasks. What we decide to do is based on consensus. No one is in charge. You don't have to be a member to participate. Like elsewhere on Wikipedia: be polite, be bold. Join the discussion here or on our project talkpage.

Coordination

Rota (2026)

Planning for 2026. Please add your name to volunteer to shepherd the monthly events and invite to completion.

Jan:
Feb: I'll take Feb! Lajmmoore (talk) 21:19, 13 November 2025 (UTC) and/or Feminism and Folklore 2026 -- Warm Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 06:37, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Mar: Volunteering for Women's History Month --Rosiestep (talk) 17:07, 30 October 2025 (UTC) and/or Wiki Loves Ramadan 2026 -- Warm Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 06:37, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Apr: I can take April. Cheers, Chocmilk03 (talk) 21:14, 19 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
May:
Jun: Volunteering for LGBTQ+ History Month! 😁 DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 23:45, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Jul: First time! For Crime and Law. Alsor97 (talk) 18:43, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Aug:
Sep:
Oct: Volunteering for STEM Month TheResilientEngineer (talk) 14:54, 30 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nov: Wikipedia Asian Month 2026 -- Warm Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 06:37, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Dec:

2026

2026 Year-long initiative

Sports

On this. I still think we should give special emphasis to winter sports during the first quarter in connection with the Winter Olympics and the St. Louis figure skating championship.--Ipigott (talk) 13:42, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ipigott, the page is set up for you to add introductory text and any emphasis you prefer. Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/359 Thanks. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 17:33, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

1day1woman initiative 2026

Mar 2026

Firming up for Mar 2026

Ongoing	358	#1day1woman	Y
Ongoing	359	Sports initiative	Y
NEW	364	Countries starting with C	Y
	365	Artists+Activists	Y
	366	Works by Women: Artworks	Y
Announcements	m:Wiki Loves Ramadan 2026		Y
	m:Celebrate Women		Y
	Unreferenced articles backlog drive		Y
Invitation	Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/2026#March 2026		Y
Invitation	Logo		Y
Tip of the month:	Those experiencing difficulties with new articles can find guidance in our essays, perhaps starting with our Ten Simple Rules.		Y

Hello folks, Here's the structure for March 2026. Thanks in advance for working on this together. WomenArtistUpdates Ipigott, Rosiestep, CT55555, Victuallers, Cielquiparle, SusunW, Chocmilk03, Penny Richards, Silver seren, PamD, Curbon7, TheResilientEngineer, Grnrchst, TSventon, Oronsay, DaniloDaysOfOurLives, Alsoriano97 --Rosiestep (talk) 14:49, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I've started on the invite. --Rosiestep (talk) 14:56, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks @Rosiestep. Could we please advertise the WP:MAR26 Unreferenced article backlog drive? The sign up is here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles/Backlog drives/March 2026/Participants Always great to have participation from Women in Red members. Cielquiparle (talk) 14:56, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Cielquiparle, yes; added. --Rosiestep (talk) 14:59, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

TOTM suggestion #1: Instead of using weasel words like "some people believe…," you should cite sources to help readers know who believes what, and why. (this is a paraphrase of this.) --Rosiestep (talk) 15:10, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I have created pages for the three new events but text and redlists need to be added. I added Artemisia Gentileschi's self-portrait to #366, Artworks. Should we reuse last year's artist logo for ##365 and the invitation? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oronsay (talk • contribs) 08:25, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Oronsay for creating them! I support reusing it; it's lovely. --Rosiestep (talk) 20:18, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I will take Alphabet run: Countries starting with C. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 21:37, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I'll add the artist logo and work on Artists+Activists. Oronsay (talk) 00:24, 19 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

It's been a while since I've worked on an event and I'm familiarising myself with the new process/structure. Is there any way we can edit the text in the event infobox for a specific event? I ask because some of it doesn't really make sense for Works by Women: Artworks (e.g. instructions to add the biography template to any articles created). That said, I don't think it's a big deal, if it's not really doable without huge hassle. Cheers, Chocmilk03 (talk) 23:38, 19 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

TOTM suggestion #2. Interested in improving (not creating) artist biographies? Look for them here: Category:Artist stubs. --Rosiestep (talk) 00:52, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Good to see you back, @Chocmilk03. I don't know if it's possible to remove Biography, but I was able to add WikiProject Women artists which is relevant to artworks, not just bios. Oronsay (talk) 03:39, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

There are a couple of Tip Of The Month suggestions in this section. Shall we go with one of them? More are welcome, too. --Rosiestep (talk) 10:36, 23 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

As a tip of the month for March (or possibly for later months) I suggest: Those experiencing difficulties with new articles can find guidance in our essays, perhaps starting with our Ten Simple Rules- I think this is important as recently we have had over a hundred WiR articles at AfD. Otherwise, Rosiestep, everything looks good to me.--Ipigott (talk) 14:29, 24 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Ipigott - Thanks for writing on my talkpage as I did not get this ping, and I don't know why. I think the tip you're suggesting makes sense. Let's go with it. --Rosiestep (talk) 09:09, 25 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks everyone for pulling together for our March events. Everything looks okay now per Ipigott's final review so I'll send out the invites. --Rosiestep (talk) 09:16, 25 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Artists+Activists

Annual Event

Alphabet run - Countries starting with C

Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
China
Colombia
Comoros
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Congo, Republic of the
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic

Works by Women series: Works of Painting and Sculpture

Redlists TBC

Seems like these redlists are already created and ready-to-use: Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Paintings and Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Sculptures. - Whisperjanes (talk) 17:14, 7 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I've asked in an off-wiki GLAM group for suggestions for lists that organisations might have made for previous projects/events Lajmmoore (talk) 09:34, 23 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Note for the March invite

Mention Wiki Loves Ramadan https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wiki_Loves_Ramadan_2026 Lajmmoore (talk) 20:49, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
March is also the month for Celebrate Women

Apr 2026

Alphabet run - Countries starting with D, E and F

Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Eswatini
Ethiopia
Fiji
Finland
France

Works by Women series: Written Works

Just flagging some relevant existing redlists:

Books (CS)
Novels (WD)
Plays (WD) (Works by Women: Opera, Theatre and Music also links a number of redlinked plays, that could be repurposed)
Poems (WD)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Women writers/Missing articles#Works is also a useful list.

Cheers, Chocmilk03 (talk) 21:29, 19 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Women's Circles and Networks

As per this discussion - though I wonder if later in the year might give more time to creating suggestions? (or women's works could move?) Lajmmoore (talk) 09:50, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

A potential start: Barbara Whitman Award Lajmmoore (talk) 09:51, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

More potentially useful lists I've been keeping handy, happy to share (no promises about notability, but each list has at least some blue-linked names):

California Library Hall of Fame
Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lectureships (occupational therapy award in US)
Adaptive Sports USA Hall of Fame
Olga Jonasson Distinguished Member Award, Association of Women Surgeons (US); also on that page is a list of the Amy Morris Homan Lectureships, for women in higher ed physical education (US).

-Penny Richards (talk) 20:03, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

It's also a good time to go back to our own past articles and see if any redlinks are still redlinks. I could probably make a list of those that would last me a year. Penny Richards (talk) 20:07, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

That would be super duper Penny Richards! --Rosiestep (talk) 20:53, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

A couple of places I'll be looking for redlinks, in addition to my own past articles:

@Pakoire created the Performing Arts Aotearoa project which has a number of connected redlinks.
The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards (New Zealand's main book awards) still has a number of women redlinked.

As a side note, looking back at previous articles has made me realise that I have a bit of a habit of not redlinking women who don't have Wikipedia pages (I guess because the red feels slightly untidy?). Going to have to start rectifying this! Chocmilk03 (talk) 21:16, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I had the same aesthetic problem for a long time. But then I saw an interview with an editor (don't remember who, sorry!) who said that they really didn't feel like an article was complete without at least one redlink. That redlinks are Wikipedia's way to invite further improvements. So now I try to make that happen more often. Penny Richards (talk) 02:56, 5 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

And an additional side-note, @Lajmmoore and @Penny Richards, I wonder if the proposed title might make people think it's about formal women's networks like Zonta, art collectives etc? I wondered about something like "Cascade Challenge" or "Cascading Women" instead, or "Connected Women"? Chocmilk03 (talk) 21:22, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe--but the goal (as with all our editathons) is just to get good articles written, not to enforce any specific interpretation of the theme. If someone feels moved to write about notable women who knew each other through clubwork or sports, or reviewed each other's art exhibits, or were in the same cast on Broadway, I'd say cool, all that works too. Penny Richards (talk) 02:56, 5 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Being bold and shifting from March to April as March is full. --Rosiestep (talk) 14:43, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Penny Richards: Thoroughly in agreement; my suggestion was just around the title of the edit-a-thon, to ensure that people don't think the theme is more limited than is intended. Cheers, Chocmilk03 (talk) 21:30, 19 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I do agree that "Women's Circles and Networks" to me reads more as for writing about organizations, social groups, etc. I also prefer either the "Cascading" wording to make the snowball idea a little clearer, or "Connected women" (which may be the more open-ended wording we'd want, since it could still fit in with teams or groups). - Whisperjanes (talk) 02:30, 26 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned women

What do you think about clearing up the backlog of Category:Orphaned articles? PetScan (here's query) shows there is currently 6501 articles about women what no other article links to. Ross's gull (talk) 13:24, 6 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Ross's gull: I like this idea. We've run Find Her in the past, which could serve as a sort of template - but maybe with more of a focus on de-orphaning articles. Chocmilk03 (talk) 21:33, 19 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

May 2026

(NEW) Religion

I thought we could consider reviving the 2024 initiative on religion and celebrate it in May, which marks the first anniversary of Leo XIV's papacy, when Jews celebrate Shavuot, Buddhists celebrate Vesak, and Muslims celebrate the beginning of the month of Dhul-Hijjah. What do you think? Thanks and best regards. _-_Alsor (talk) 22:18, 7 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I'm supportive of this. Suggest we align it to match up with the scope of WikiProject Women in Religion: scholars, activists and practitioners in the world's religious, spiritual and wisdom traditions. Pinging: @Dzingle1, RosPost, and Figureskatingfan: --Rosiestep (talk) 16:17, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

That's great, thanks @Rosiestep! _-_Alsor (talk) 17:00, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Rosiestep, the Women in Religion WikiProject would be happy to help! It may even coincide with the publication of our newest volume of biographies, which is about women of non-traditional faith traditions. I'm sure that @Dzingle1 can tell us more about the exact publication date. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 04:56, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Volume 4 will hopefully be on its way to publication by May. The working title is _{Women Challenging Dominant Religious Practices and Expectations through Women-centered Traditions and Spiritualities. Let me know if you need more information.} Dzingle1 (talk) 22:21, 19 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Alphabet run - Countries starting with G and H

Gabon
Gambia, The
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hungary

Works by Women: Scientific Works

June 2026

LGBTQ+ women | Wiki Loves Pride

Annual event

Alphabet run - Countries starting with I, J, K and L

Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Ivory Coast
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg

July 2026

Crime and Law

Villains

Could be interesting to bring back Villains from meetup 76. Moondragon21 (talk) 20:11, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

agreed Victuallers (talk) 23:42, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(NEW) Judiciary

Lately, I have been creating biographies of female judges, and I think it would be interesting to dedicate a monthly initiative to female judges, lawyers, and prosecutors. Although women are very well represented in this sector, and in some countries they are almost in the majority, this is not usually reflected in the high courts, which are very male-dominated spaces. As a result, the few women who are there, especially from non-Anglo-Saxon countries, do not have biographies. To propose a date, 17 July is World Justice Day, which commemorates the date on which the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court was adopted. I would be delighted if it were done earlier. The last time an initiative on justice took place was in February 2023. Thanks and best regards. _-_Alsor (talk) 23:31, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

July is currently unscheduled subject wise. I think this is a great topic! Would you be willing/able to lead the month of July?

Potentially we could roll this in with the idea of Villains listed above and do "Crime and Punishment"? TheResilientEngineer (talk) 12:23, 7 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@TheResilientEngineer Your proposal is fantastic! Perhaps the title could be "Crime and Law", so that we also cover constitutional justice, but I like it either way. It would be the first time I've led a month, and I'm committed to doing it, but I'd appreciate your help on how to go about it. Thank you! _-_Alsor (talk) 14:34, 7 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @TheResilientEngineer hope everything is fine. I have created this subpage on my user account where I have been compiling a list of female judges and magistrates, both practising and retired, which I believe can be used for the initiative to make it a little easier to find subjects for whom to create articles. I will continue to expand it. _-_Alsor (talk) 22:25, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Alphabet run - Countries starting with M

Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Micronesia, Federated States of
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar

Aug 2026

Indigenous women

Annual event

Alphabet run - Countries starting with N and O

Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
North Korea
North Macedonia
Norway
Oman

Sept 2026

Women writers & their works

Annual event

Alphabet run - Countries starting with P, Q and R

Pakistan
Palau
Palestine
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
Russia
Rwanda

Oct 2026

Women in STEM

Annual event

Alphabet run - Countries starting with S

Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
São Tomé and Príncipe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
South Korea
South Sudan
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria

Nov 2026

Politicians

Asian women

Annual event

Alphabet run - Countries starting with T

Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu

Dec 2026

Women who died in 2026

Annual Event

Alphabet run - Countries starting with U, V, Y and Z

Uganda
Ukraine
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vatican City
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe

Tip of the Month

Table of annual events/collaborations

Common tasks for each event.; This list is incomplete. Please add to it
.	identify sponsors and/or WikiProject hosts; create list of potential participants, including active editors from the area(s) to be covered; create editathon banner; create/find editathon icon; develop the WiR redlist, find related redlink lists; create meetup page, completing sections on; "Add these to articles" (stub templates, applicable categories, useful lists); "Add these to article talkpages" (WikiProject banners, editathon banner for the event); create the invite; distribute the invite; develop social media campaign (FB, Twitter); We haven't been doing this but it would be great if we had a social media volunteer; add Authority Control if missing to all the articles created during the event; double-check each article for categories; double-check each article for talkpage banners; create the thank you and/or barnstar; develop a list of contributors (overlaps to some degree with registered participants); distribute the thank you and/or barnstar after the event to the contributors; create Wikidata entry if none exists;

Month	Annual event considerations
January	Public Domain (Public Domain Day, 1 Jan) Women who died in 202x Education (International Day of Education, 24 January[1])
February	Black History Month (with AfroCrowd) (see also WP:BLM) Justice
March	Artists+Activists (with Art+Feminism) Folklore #VisibleWikiWomen (photos/Wikimedia Commons; with Whose Knowledge?)
April	Gender studies Health (World Health Day, 7 Apr) Earth Day (22 Apr) Dance (International Dance Day, 29 Apr)
May	CEE women (with CEE User Group)
June	Pride (with LGBT+ User Group) Music (World Music Day is 21 Jun)
July	Sports
August	Indigenous women (International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, 9 Aug) (see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red/Archive 117#Please_vet_Native_claims) Stage+Screen m:Interwiki Women Collaboration
September	Writers (with WP:WPWW est. 30 Aug 2014)
October	STEM (Ada Lovelace Day, 2nd Tue of Oct) Women in Green Good Article Editathon
November	Politics Wiki Asia Month
December	Disability History Month Religion Women who died in 202x

Potential/Suggestions

Starting over as of Dec 2023 see Potential/Suggestions Archive. Bring back any ideas for reconsideration. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:46, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Geofocus ideas

Microstates

Perhaps we could bring back Geofocus:Microstates. If I'm not mistaken, the last time was in July 2019. Best regards. _-_Alsor (talk) 11:46, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
That is a good idea. Moondragon21 (talk) 18:45, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Just to let you know @Alsoriano97 and @Moondragon21 that this theme is up for September! Thank you for the suggestion! Lajmmoore (talk) 19:21, 31 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Lajmmoore thank you for informing me and thanks @Moondragon21 for supporting my suggestion. I am sure we will see very interesting and valuable contributions. I will contribute to that. _-_Alsor (talk) 19:27, 31 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Marshall Islands

The Legislature of the Marshall Islands building recently burned down, destroying its library and archives. Perhaps we can do our part to help preserve and digitize the history of this nation. Curbon7 (talk) 06:13, 27 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I totally support this idea in principle, but I wonder what it would look like within a Women in Red context? Lajmmoore (talk) 19:24, 31 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Non-geofocus ideas

Works by Women

Just moving the link for this idea across, in nutshell there was a proposal for quarterly focuses, but I think that got lost. We could still do a n month for each. I suggested (but also forgot I suggested) these categories: Quarter 1 = Visual arts (painting, sculpture, textiles, architecture, prints, ceramics, fashion, design, New media art, video games) Quarter 2 = Performance (music, dance, drama, opera, film, television) Quarter 3 = Textual Works (fiction, non-fiction, scholarly works, poetry) Quarter 4 = Scientific Works (inventions, equations, naming species, etc. - might need some help with some lists?)

On relfection, and looking at the structure that was already put in above, it would be something like:

February - Music, theatre, opera, etc.
March - Works by Women series: Works of Painting and Sculpture
April - Works by Women series: Written Works
May - Scientiftic works

If editors like it, maybe it could be quarterly in 2027 Lajmmoore (talk) 20:10, 24 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Revolutionary women

Hey all. For quite a while now I've been working on articles about revolutionary women (i.e. women who either participated in revolutions or were involved in revolutionary movements/organisations). Most of my submissions have been to other themed events, but I was thinking it might be fun to do a specific edit-a-thon focused on revolutionary women. I can try putting together a red list for it, perhaps we could do it some time next year? --Grnrchst (talk) 14:39, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey @Grnrchst I think this should go on the agenda next year. April 2025 does not have a theme attributed. Perhaps we add it to the list? When we get round to March it would be great if you can help create the event page, would you be happy to do that? TheResilientEngineer (talk) 08:48, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Interwiki edit-a-thon

I was just fiddling around with the number of links redlist, as I noticed it hadn't updated in over a year, and managed to get it back to working order. It got me thinking whether we should have an edit-a-thon focused specifically on creating articles with a high number of interwiki links; the redlist includes articles with 7 or more interwiki links. This could be a nice way to focus on the higher importance (for lack of a better term) articles that other language wikis have recognised as worthy of articles. --Grnrchst (talk) 09:46, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support! as I think it's an interesting perspective. --Rosiestep (talk) 19:10, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nobility

Following publication of ODNB's August update and WiR talk page discussion.--Ipigott (talk) 09:20, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Alternative to Humaniki

Faced with the continuing problems with Humaniki (see WiR talk page), it seems to me it would be useful for this project to have an alternative approach to statistics on the proportion of biographies of women on the EN wiki. We should not be dependent on the availability of Humanity's principal creator, who is in any case usually busy with other assignments.--Ipigott (talk) 10:38, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Award winners

I'm not seeing this in the past events (or maybe I didn't search correctly). In my own primary area of editing interest, the James Beard Awards are on the order of importance of the Oscars. Anyone who has won a James Beard Award is quite likely notable, but there are probably hundreds of not-even-redlinked women at James Beard Foundation Award: 1990s, 2010s, 2020s. For someone like Toni Tipton-Martin, the works she won the awards for were themselves notable, but they weren't even redlinked anywhere either. I'm wondering if there are other similarly major awards in other fields that are themselves a good pointer toward likely notability of the person and/or her works. Valereee (talk) 11:50, 25 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Ideas page administration

Checklist for updates of virtual meetups

This section is purely administrative. It is not about the ongoing discussions of topics.

WiR generally has a variety of monthly, quarterly and annual events. WiR also sends out an “invitation” to its registered participants notifying them of those events. This is an effort to list tasks associated with the administrative tasks of updating and adding pages. We will be maintaining this list to assist with Quality Assurance. This is a working document and should be maintained to reflect current bast practices. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 16:52, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

As of March 2024 we are working with a new set of cascading templates. Because the template speak to each other the preview of the template might not be as expected. For example 302 might look like 304. Additionally some pages won't preview correctly unless the editor purges the page to update the cache.

The interrelated templates allow us to make changes and pages once, without updating new and past events throughout the WiR ecosystem. This will ultimately reduce mistakes, bad directs, and misinformation. The coders involved are watching these pages to ensure they work correctly. March 2024 is the first iteration. If direction are not clear it is the drafter's fault - not the coders, so please be gentle.

This is a working document and should be maintained to reflect current bast practices. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 21:43, 6 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Basic overview of tasks using March 2024 as a guide

Each month there will be new events and ongoing events

YEAR-LONG INITIATIVES
#1day1woman 2024 
** Event #293: #1day1woman #1day1woman 
Education  - Year long initiative 
** Event #294:  Education Year long initiative Education Year long initiative

NEW - Alphabet run Q & R 
* Alphabet run Q & R
** Event #299: Alphabet run Q & R

NEW -  Women's History Month | Art+Feminism  - 260 as go by
* Art+Activism
** Event #300: Art+Feminism Y

NEW -   Find Her  
*  Find Her  
** Event #301: Find Her Y

ANNOUNCEMENTS (EVENTS FACILITATED BY OTHERS) 
* All content gender gap events, in every language Wikipedia, in March 2024
* Francophone Women★ Writers Fortnight 2024
* Feminism and Folklore 2024

INVITATION: 
* Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/2024#March 2024 Y
** logo 

COMING UP:
* Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Events 
TIP OF THE MONTH:
* When creating a new article be sure to check various spellings, including birth name, married names and pseudonyms, to be sure an article doesn't already exist. Y

Step 1 - add details of the event to Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/events (see instructions at Template:WikiProject Women in Red/doc#Technical info). This will automatically update the various lists of events, and also allows editors to tag the article talk pages with {{WikiProject Women in Red}} or its shortcut {{WIR}}.
Step 2 - create the event page at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/n where n is the number of the new event. You can use the {{WIR meetup}} header template to help you, which will populate the event header and right side infoboxes.
Step 3 - add the "body" of the page (welcome, redlists, purpose) using a similar editathon as a starting point. You can copy sections from previous month to add boilerplate language. For example, start at Participants copy through the bottom of the page (example). (Remember to update month and event number in the pasted sections.)
Step 4 - create a new category for meetup articles (e.g. at Category:WikiProject Women in Red meetup 366 articles). Add the template {{WIR category}} to the new category.
Step 5 - create the invite (e.g. Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/2024#March 2024) using the previous month's invite as a go-by.
Step 6 - invite and receive feedback from a sufficient number of WiR enthusiasts that the event page and invite are okay. Mark reviewed items with {{ok}}
Step 7 - send out MassMessage notification.