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Women in Red

Women in Red is a monthly series of Wikipedia editing events (called editathons), which aim to write more articles about women on Wikipedia. Only 19.7% of the articles on Wikipedia are about women, an increase of nearly 5% in the last seven years, with the Women in Red workshops doing their part to aid this.

Attendees gathered at Women in Red editing event for Ada Lovelace Day 2023.

Women in Red attendees on Ada Lovelace Day 2023.

The workshops aim to write as many articles about prominent women as possible, turning the red-linked articles (indicating a missing article on Wikipedia) into blue links with full, informative articles telling the women’s stories.

Women in Red trains many students and staff to do this, and almost 300 new articles have been written during the workshops in 2023, and nearly 3000 articles edited and improved. Approximately 130 students and 50 staff members have been trained to edit Wikipedia so far in the 60+ editathons which have taken place in 2023.

Read more about Women in Red.

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