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Recently completed:	LGBTQ+ women Alphabet run: K & L
New this month:	Alphabet run: M & N Women in Red turns 10 Geofocus: Ten for Kenya
Ongoing initiatives:	Music #1day1woman
Upcoming events:	Alphabet run: O & P Indigenous women Film and stage 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

With WomensArtistsUpdates (deliberately not tagged) taking a (hugely deserved) break from lassooing us every month, I thought we should work out how we're going to proceed in 2025 - Oronsay, Ipigott, Rosiestep, Lajmmoore, CT55555, Victuallers, Cielquiparle, SusunW, Chocmilk03, Penny Richards, Silver seren, PamD, Curbon7, MSGJ, TheResilientEngineer, Grnrchst, TSventon. I can't do much more until the second half of the year, but I wondered how people might feel about volunteering to start things off in the middle of month, say taking a month each? Lajmmoore (talk) 22:20, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for alerting me but I am still having difficulty with the new automated environment. I realize it was intended to make things easier but yesterday I spent almost an hour looking into recent events but was unable to cope with simple issues like changing a title or adding a photo. For people of my age (in their eighties), after contributing for years and years in one environment, it is not easy to adapt to new procedures despite the step-by-step instructions. I am, of course, always happy to provide assistance once an event has been added and fully support the proposal to relieve WAU of this burdensome task. Thank you, Lajmmoore, for taking the initiative. I also wondered whether we could call upon the assistance of Megalibrarygirl and Espresso Addict, not only to work on the month-to-month setups but also to help with mass-messaging.--Ipigott (talk) 08:48, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think I need to spend some more time learning. I can take the STEM month though as that's later in the year. I didn't see this before I started off the firming up list for jan below. Not sure I can get much further as the some templates need changing for 2025 and I haven't been able to work out how to do this. TheResilientEngineer (talk) 08:37, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I will have a go at setting up for Jan, as I did a month shortly after the templates were set up. I'll call on template maker MSGJ if it gets tricky.--Oronsay (talk) 18:31, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, I'm here to help if needed — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:55, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, MSGJ. It's good to hear you are ready to help. I was wondering if you could improve the interfaces so that we are not faced with time-consuming tasks such as changing the title of an event, adding a photo or editing some of the pre-determined additions to the RH margin. It would be great if we could have an editable draft of the entire event as we used to have in the past. If such improvements could be made, I would certainly be willing to participate far more actively.--Ipigott (talk) 18:07, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Rota

Makes sense to split the load...

Jan: Boldly signing on. Oronsay (talk) 18:31, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Feb: I will get it started. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:19, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Mar: I volunteer to take March. (Note, my term on the WMF Board of Trustees ends next month (Dec 2024), so I can return to being more helpful around here, e.g., MassMessage on short notice, etc.) --Rosiestep (talk) 23:37, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Apr:
May:
Jun: I will get it started. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 22:58, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Jul: and me here Victuallers (talk) 10:39, 18 December 2024 (UTC) Victuallers, Is this on you to-do list?[reply]
Aug: I will get it started. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:10, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sep: I'll take this month Lajmmoore (talk) 09:29, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oct: Volunteering for STEM Month TheResilientEngineer (talk) 19:35, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nov:
Dec:

Aug 2025

Firming up for August 2025

ONGOING 
* Event #327: #1day1woman
* Event #326: Music year-long initiative

NEW - Alphabet run O & P- 297 as go by
* Event #344: Alphabet run O & P Y

NEW - Indigenous women - 314 as go by 
* Event #345: Indigenous women  Y

NEW - Film and stage - 315 as go by 
* Event #346: Film and stage  Y

INVITATION
* Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/2025#August 2025  Y
** LOGO  Y
** ANNOUNCEMENTS Wikipedia:Developing Countries WikiContest runs 1 July 2025 until 30 September 2025 Y
** TIP OF THE MONTH *  Read the essay Determining Native American and Indigenous Canadian identities to understand
 the criteria for status as Native American or Indigenous Canadian Y
** PROGRESS  Y (commented out for August)

COMING UP
* Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Events  Y

Ipigott, Rosiestep, Lajmmoore, CT55555, Victuallers, Cielquiparle, SusunW, Chocmilk03, Penny Richards, Silver seren, PamD, Curbon7, MSGJ, TheResilientEngineer, Grnrchst, TSventon, Oronsay and all WIR helpers: The to-do list for August is posted. Please claim a page! I will take the invitation.--WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:08, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'll draft the Alphabet Run O & P and update Progress if Humaniki is working again before we send out the invitation.--Oronsay (talk) 06:56, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Rosiestep, You have listed Developing countries as a suggestion for a meet-up. I can make a skeleton page if you are willing to own it, decide the time length, country lists etc. Ping here. Thanks --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:08, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WomenArtistUpdates, sorry, but I lack bandwidth to take it on. Okay with me to remove it from the line-up if no one else wants to move forward with it. --Rosiestep (talk) 05:04, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@WomenArtistUpdates and Rosiestep: Considering August is only a week away, I think it'd be a good idea to do this in September instead. I'd be happy to take on building the page if the event is set for September. --Grnrchst (talk) 10:10, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Grnrchst and Rosiestep:, We can easily push Developing countries to September. I have a different suggestion though. I'd like us to consider making the 2026 Alphabet Run next year be alphabetic by country of interest rather than name. We'd cover the world by the end 2026 without making distinctions about economics or "development". Am I missing the downside, or do you think this might be a good idea for 2026? --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 16:17, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@WomenArtistUpdates: I like the idea, but we'll need to figure out a good balance for it, as the proportion of countries starting with certain letters varies. Going by sovereign states, there are 11 A countries, 17 B countries, 17 C countries, 4 D countries, 8 E countries, 3 F countries, 11 G countries, 3 H countries, 9 I countries, 3 J countries, 5 K countries, 9 L countries, 18 M countries, 10 N countries, 1 O country, 10 P countries, 1 Q country, 3 R countries, 26 S countries, 11 T countries, 7 U countries, 4 V countries, 1 Y country and 2 Z countries.

We'd have to do something like:

January: A countries (11)
February: B countries (17)
March: C countries (17)
April: D, E and F countries (15)
May: G and H countries (14)
June: I, J, K and L countries (26)
July: M countries (18)
August: N and O countries (11)
September: P, Q and R countries (14)
October: S countries (26)
November: T countries (11)
December: U, V, Y and Z countries (14)

Even then there's quite a gap between the lowest number (11) and the highest (26). --Grnrchst (talk) 17:02, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Grnrchst! The letter/country division looks good to me. Zimbabwe and Yemen will get the attention they deserves Thank you for taking the time to create. I have copied this idea to 2026. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 00:54, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WomenArtistUpdates, I notice that Stage + Screen is also on the list of annual events for August. Should we add it for 2025?--Oronsay (talk) 08:11, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes please Oronsay. I think it just got overlooked. It is always a fun one. I make the skeleton later today. Or you should feel free to create it. Thanks.--WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 16:09, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like Lajmmoore will not be able to send out the invitation at the end of July. Do we have a volunteer?--WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:08, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WomenArtistUpdates, I'll handle MassMessage at the end of July. --Rosiestep (talk) 05:04, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Rosiestep! --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 16:11, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Just alerting @Rosiestep that the invitation is good to go. Oronsay (talk) 08:03, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the ping, Oronsay. [x] And sent! :) --Rosiestep (talk) 14:51, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I will do stage and screen. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 00:56, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I will do Indigenous women. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 22:34, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ipigott, Rosiestep, Lajmmoore, CT55555, Victuallers, Cielquiparle, SusunW, Chocmilk03, Penny Richards, Silver seren, PamD, Curbon7, MSGJ, TheResilientEngineer, Grnrchst, TSventon, Oronsay and all WIR helpers: We are ready for some proof reading/approving. Is the tip of the month OK? Any other announcements to be added? Invitation look OK? Oronsay is awaiting some stats to update "Progress". Indigenous women is a popular event. The page could use some TLC from someone familiar with the topic. Are there recent crowd-sourced redlists that could be added? Change the red x's to green check marks! --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 00:49, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Progress: Still no Humaniki update and not likely to happen before the invite goes out as the data is usually available early Friday (Sydney time). We could use the July total, now 1105 articles and update the count close to transmission, from our Metrics page. Not sure how the invitation should be reworded to reflect this. Oronsay (talk) 06:07, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oronsay, Lets just comment it out for the August invite. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 13:53, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On my list of things to do! I have a Women in Red related meeting tomorrow which is filling my headspace, but yes I'll have a look. Victuallers (talk) 10:45, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Indigenous women

Annual event

Developing countries

Suggestion: The Wikipedia:Developing Countries WikiContest runs 1 July 2025 until 30 September 2025. Maybe we could also work on these countries in August and/or September? --Rosiestep (talk) 12:11, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This is a good idea! --Grnrchst (talk) 07:54, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Alphabet run O & P

Alphabet by month
Month	Letters
January	A & B
February	C & D
March	E & F
April	G & H
May	I & J
June	K & L
July	M & N
August	O & P
September	Q & R
October	S & T
November	U, V, W
December	X, Y & Z

Mass messaging

Just a note to say I won't be able to do the mass message at the end of July Lajmmoore (talk) 13:33, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sep 2025

Women writers & their works

Annual event

Alphabet run Q & R

Alphabet by month
Month	Letters
January	A & B
February	C & D
March	E & F
April	G & H
May	I & J
June	K & L
July	M & N
August	O & P
September	Q & R
October	S & T
November	U, V, W
December	X, Y & Z

Oct 2025

Women in STEM

Annual event

Alphabet run S & T

Alphabet by month
Month	Letters
January	A & B
February	C & D
March	E & F
April	G & H
May	I & J
June	K & L
July	M & N
August	O & P
September	Q & R
October	S & T
November	U, V, W
December	X, Y & Z

Nov 2025

Asian women

Annual event

Transgender women

Suggesting in correlation with Transgender Day of Remembrance (November 20).. could also be good for May 2026 during Transgender History Week. -- Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 18:40, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think this is a topic that is lacking redlists and sourcing. I would not be comfortable dead-naming people. It would create far more upset than support IMO. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 21:41, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with WAU and, in any case, we offer LGBTQ+ women and Wiki Loves Pride every year in June, which surely covers this group. Oronsay (talk) 03:42, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Politicians

This was mentioned as potential year-long topic, so let's consider it for this or any other month in 2025. --Rosiestep (talk) 20:57, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It's also been suggested that this be an annual event each November. --Rosiestep (talk) 19:29, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Alphabet run U, V, W

Alphabet by month
Month	Letters
January	A & B
February	C & D
March	E & F
April	G & H
May	I & J
June	K & L
July	M & N
August	O & P
September	Q & R
October	S & T
November	U, V, W
December	X, Y & Z

Dec 2025

Women who died in 2025

Annual Event

Food & beverage?

Seems like a fun idea to write about chefs, cookbook authors, baristas, farmers, recipes invented by women, founders/columnists/editors/publishers of magazines associated with F&B, plate and glassware designers, etc. --Rosiestep (talk) 17:13, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also nutritionists, dietitians, food scientists, vintners, hunger relief workers, eating disorder specialists ... Plenty of room to range on this one. Penny Richards (talk) 16:52, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Alphabet run X, Y & Z

Alphabet by month
Month	Letters
January	A & B
February	C & D
March	E & F
April	G & H
May	I & J
June	K & L
July	M & N
August	O & P
September	Q & R
October	S & T
November	U, V, W
December	X, Y & Z

2026

2026 alphabet run

@Grnrchst and Rosiestep:, We can easily push Developing countries to September. I have a different suggestion though. I'd like us to consider making the 2026 Alphabet Run next year be alphabetic by country of interest rather than name. We'd cover the world by the end 2026 without making distinctions about economics or "development". Am I missing the downside, or do you think this might be a good idea for 2026? --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 16:17, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@WomenArtistUpdates: I like the idea, but we'll need to figure out a good balance for it, as the proportion of countries starting with certain letters varies. Going by sovereign states, there are 11 A countries, 17 B countries, 17 C countries, 4 D countries, 8 E countries, 3 F countries, 11 G countries, 3 H countries, 9 I countries, 3 J countries, 5 K countries, 9 L countries, 18 M countries, 10 N countries, 1 O country, 10 P countries, 1 Q country, 3 R countries, 26 S countries, 11 T countries, 7 U countries, 4 V countries, 1 Y country and 2 Z countries.

We'd have to do something like:

January: A countries (11)
February: B countries (17)
March: C countries (17)
April: D, E and F countries (15)
May: G and H countries (14)
June: I, J, K and L countries (26)
July: M countries (18)
August: N and O countries (11)
September: P, Q and R countries (14)
October: S countries (26)
November: T countries (11)
December: U, V, Y and Z countries (14)

Even then there's quite a gap between the lowest number (11) and the highest (26). --Grnrchst (talk) 17:02, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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	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

Non-geofocus ideas

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]

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 346 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.