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NEW - Internet personalities – or would Internet influencers be better? - or maybe Internet celebrities & influencers?
** Event #329: Internet personalitiesN
ANNOUNCEMENTS (EVENTS FACILITATED BY OTHERS)
* Celebrate Wikipedia Day on Jan 15, 2025 Y
* Participate in #1Lib1Ref Jan 15 – Feb 5, 2025 Y
TIP OF THE MONTH:
* To celebrate the proportion of women's biographies reaching 20%, User:ForsythiaJo created an infobox. Feel free to add {{User:ForsythiaJo/20%Userbox}} to your user page. N
@WomenArtistUpdates: The original page nos for Music and #1day1woman have been reinstated, #326 and #327 respectively. I have created shell pages for #327 and #328. Would you mind checking my progress so far? I will then put the call out for help. Many thanks in anticipation. Oronsay (talk) 01:35, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oronsay Sorry to leave you hanging (time difference). Looks lovely. I tweaked the coding on the events page to show that #day is an "initiative" as is Music. You can see what I did by looking at the diff on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/events. Very minor. Another comment I have is that you might want to change the "background" of "Music" to ABCDEF as we have a tradition of making the year long events the same baby blue color year over year. That is only an atheistic comment. This is so great! --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 17:44, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
A word of caution: If we do add an event for Internet personalities, we will need to suggest where to find reliable sources for them. My searches for refs for the Australian names returned only social media sites. Oronsay (talk) 23:37, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Following the show of interest, I've created #329 Internet personalities ready for introductory words to be added. I'm wondering whether it would be preferable to be called Internet influencers? If so, please let me know and it's an easy change to make.__Oronsay (talk) 20:33, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
MSGJ I'm trying to catch up with the "new" system of creating event pages and their talkpage templates. The event page for #327, based on #293, is fine, but should there be a #327 talkpage template that looks like the one for #293? --Rosiestep (talk) 10:46, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
When I sort one of our geofocus redlists on the "number of links" column, a depressing number of the top ranking are usually porn stars. Do we want to focus our editors' minds on them? I'm showing my biases here, but I can't help but think there are more worthwhile contributions we could make to en.wiki. But as long as we remind our editors to skim through the highly-linked lists looking for someone who seems a real gap in en.wiki, it could be useful. PamD18:40, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@PamD: I understand the hesitation, it's something I find a bit jarring about some of the geofocused redlists as well. But there are redlists for different occupations, which by their nature would preclude these kinds of article. For example, the woman with the most interwiki links on the revolutionaries list has 8 interwiki links; there's also 10 interwiki links for the most inter-linked in economists, 6 for judges, etc. --Grnrchst (talk) 10:33, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps this could be named "Translate a popular woman"? Also, it would be good to have a redlist of women with bios on Simple English Wikipedia but not here. In both cases, the women will obviously still need to meet enwiki notability guidelines.
As per Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red#Women-related articles at AfC, suggesting that we begin a never-ending event (along the lines of #1day1woman) focused on women-related AfC articles. This will take some set-up work, but the idea is that methodical awareness of these articles and collaborative assistance with improving them will increase the possibility that the draft will make it to mainpage, and that the newbie editor will come to know they aren't alone. --Rosiestep (talk) 08:34, 3 October 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]
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]
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]
Maybe we should do this earlier and longer? Kenya is hosting Wikimania and it would be good to see some new articles and photos. Particularly keen on this as I try to write articles about African women and so many sources tell about her new dress, her new boy friend or latest hair-do.... and no one seems to be doing cc-by-sa images. I've joined Wikiproject Kenya ... very few members... we could make a splash? Victuallers (talk) 11:34, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Remember that its 100,000 articles on en:wiki, they may not be all WiR inspired articles but there are articles in our sister projects too. Achieving ten years is amazing, but achieving 20% is what should be carved on the milestone. Could we jointly celebrate 10 years, 400,000 biographies and 20% women .... (and note fr, de, Catalan, Utdu etc)? Victuallers (talk) 11:45, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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]
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]
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.
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+FeminismY
NEW - Find Her
* Find Her
** Event #301: Find HerY
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. {{WIR meetup header}} will populate the event header and right side infoboxes. * Then copy and sections from previous month to add boilerplate language. For example, start at Participants copy through the bottom of the page (XYZ as an example). update month and event number in the pasted sections.
Then add the "body" of the page (welcome, redlists, purpose) using a similar editathon as a starting point.
Step 5 Invite and receive feedback from a sufficient number of WiR enthusiasts that the event page and invite are okay. Mark reviewed items with {{ok}}
