Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Ideas

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)
• 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)
• Apr: I can take April. Cheers, Chocmilk03 (talk) 21:14, 19 February 2026 (UTC)
• May:
• Jun: Volunteering for LGBTQ+ History Month! 😁 DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 23:45, 19 November 2025 (UTC)
• Jul: First time! For Crime and Law. Alsor97 (talk) 18:43, 11 January 2026 (UTC) With help from TheResilientEngineer
• Aug:
• Sep:
• Oct: Volunteering for STEM Month TheResilientEngineer (talk) 14:54, 30 October 2025 (UTC)
• Nov: Wikipedia Asian Month 2026 -- Warm Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 06:37, 14 December 2025 (UTC)
• Dec:

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)

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)

• 1day1woman initiative 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)

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)

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

@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)

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)

Sounds great....do we have any volunteers to lead? TheResilientEngineer (talk) 12:27, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Pinging: @Dzingle1, RosPost, and Figureskatingfan:. Happy news! We're moving forward with the Religion and Spirituality event during the month of May. Would appreciate your assistance with redlists, promotion, how to find references, and/or anything else you think would be useful, e.g., if you have an on-wiki instruction page on how to write Wikipedia biographies related to this subset of women. Thanks. --Rosiestep (talk) 14:38, 3 April 2026 (UTC)

@Rosiestep and all, we're working on this. Being new to this, I have some questions, though. Should we create a separate page connected to our WikiProject page with everything you've requested above, or would we be able to add our events and projects to the already-existing page here at WIR? Also, will this event last throughout the month of May, starting on the 1st? Thanks and best, Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 17:50, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

Figureskatingfan, yes, all of May. If you provide here a link to your redlist(s) and any subpages with essays (eg, tips/tricks) that you find helpful, we can get them linked in Women in Red subpages. Also any URLs to sources, if you have some special ones, eg, Colleen’s book publications. Thanks! Sorry for brevity; writing on phone. —Rosiestep (talk) 21:57, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

@Rosiestep, understood and thank you. We're on it! Busy too, so also brief. ;) Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 22:16, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

Hi everyone, see below for the above-requested info for this meetup.

• Women in Religion project page
• Zoom meetings: Monthly editathon - Monday, May 11 9:00 pm UTC (4:000 pm CST); monthly planning session - Thursday, May 28 9:00 pm (4:00 pm CST). Contact User:Dzingle1 or User:Figureskatingfan for the zoom link or see our project page.
• Women in Religion book series: See Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Religion/Women in Religion series. We are currently at the end stage of the publication of Volume 4 in this series, and submissions are being accepted for Volume 5. The working title for Volume 4 is Women Challenging Dominant Religious Practices and Expectations through Women-centered Traditions and Spiritualities, and will probably be published in early summer 2026. See the subpage for a redlist of the biographies featured in Volumes 1-3 that do not currently have a Wikipedia article.
• Worklists and editing tasks
• Workbench

• Our sister projects: WikiProject Australian Women in Religion; Wikipedia:WikiProject Kenyan Circle of Concerned African Women|WikiProject Kenyan Circle of Concerned African Women
• Mentorship program: Wikipedia:WikiProject Kenyan Circle of Concerned African Women/Mentorship program
• Editing tips (includes Wiki Education resources)
• Guides for newcomers

Hope this is enough. If not, let me know. Also let me know how I can assist moving forward. Thanks for such a great honor! Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 18:20, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

Hi Christine, Are you happy with the Religion event page as it is? If you want to add in some more of this info (I think I captured the basics) please feel free. Thanks! TheResilientEngineer (talk) 08:21, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

Alphabet run - Countries starting with G and H

Works by Women: Scientific Works

LGBTQ+ women | Wiki Loves Pride

Annual event

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

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)

@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)

Apologies, couldn't fit Orphaned Women easily into April as we already have 3 events; suggest moving to June, where it looks like there is space for it. Chocmilk03 (talk) 21:27, 24 March 2026 (UTC)

Crime and Law

Alphabet run - Countries starting with M

Indigenous women

Annual event

Alphabet run - Countries starting with N and O

Women writers & their works

Annual event

Alphabet run - Countries starting with P, Q and R

Women in STEM

Annual event

Alphabet run - Countries starting with S

Politicians

Asian women

Annual event

Alphabet run - Countries starting with T

Women who died in 2026

Annual Event

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

Geofocus ideas

Non-geofocus ideas

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)

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)

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 372 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.