Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/36

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Dates	1 February to 28 February 2017
Location	This is a virtual, online event; you can participate from anywhere in the world.
Supporting	Black History Month
Invite others!	Invitations

	Women in Red
	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, broadly construed. Did you know that according to WHGI only 16.83% 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!

February: Black Women February: Anthropologists March: Art+Feminism March: The Women You have Never Met March: Role Models See also: Future events

Welcome to Women in Red's

Black Women multi-language online editathon

February 2017

Add to articles
At the foot of every biography	`{{Authority control}}`; it will remain hidden until relevant identifiers have been added to Wikidata.
Useful categories	Category:African women (and subcategories) Category:African-American women Category:Black feminism Category:Black Canadian women Category:Black English women Category:Lists of black people presents a number of useful lists but none (yet) specifically on women
Stub templates	Stub types Add a stub template if appropriate to do so.

Add to article talk pages
Talk page WikiProject banners	WikiProject Biography: `{{WikiProject Biography\|class=\|living=\|listas=}}` WikiProject Women: Born before 1950: `{{WikiProject Women's History}}` Born after 1950: `{{WikiProject Women}}` WikiProject African diaspora: Born inside continental Africa: `{{WikiProject Africa}}` Born outside continental Africa: `{{WikiProject African diaspora}}`
Talkpage event banner	Important: Please also include the Black Women editathon banner for this event: `{{WIR-BW 2017}}` Template:WIR-BW 2017

In connection with Black History Month, in February 2017 Women in Red is focusing on Black Women. Anyone can take part in this event. We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles regarding black women both past and present, as well as their works, writings, organizations, and awards. The virtual edit-a-thon allows newcomers and established enthusiasts from around the globe to participate. See the list of red-linked Black women's history 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

We'll be working on articles from these lists[edit]

Crowd-sourced list: Black women's history
Dictionary: Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia
Dictionary: Afro-American encyclopaedia
Dictionary: Women of Distinction
Dictionary: Who's Who among the Colored Baptists
Redlinked books by black women

The Mothers (currently a redirect to author's page, Brit Bennett--long list of sources on Bennett entry's talk page)
Homegoing (2016 novel) by Yaa Gyasi -- reviews in New Yorker, NYT, NPR, Guardian
~~Life on Mars (poetry collection) by Tracy K. Smith -- Pulitzer Prize winner~~ Done
Longing to Tell by Tricia Rose -- New York Times review, Publishers Weekly, Signs Done
Silver Sparrow (novel) by Tayari Jones -- NPR review, WaPo review, NYT

Also see our Navbox at the bottom of this page; contains Wikidata lists of redlinks by nationality which includes the countries of Africa, South America and the Caribbean which may also be useful