wikiwomeninred

Our woman of the day is "Sue", It was once argued that Wiki articles about women needed to be created by women editors. We argued that Wikipedia has lots of articles about dinosaurs and only a few of our editors are dinosaurs.We welcome editors of any gender (or species)

Our holidays were complete when a package arrived from @w4safrica. #WomeninRed Tee shirts!
Never seen in Europe or America.

We're offering one AND a Women in Red Barnstar to the first 24 "Start" articles written for the 2024 Education editathon.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia…

Did You Know... that Edinburgh's "forgotten heroines", Eliza Wigham, Jane Smeal, Priscilla Bright McLaren, and Elizabeth Pease, were associated with the Edinburgh Ladies' Emancipation Society.
Appeared 9 years ago today on #Wikipedia
as Women in Red's first Did You Know.

Daddy had a #NobelPrize & mummy had 2. Irene Curie was their daughter and she was #BornOnThisDay . She and her husband received Nobel Prizes for artificial radioactivity. Like her mum; she is on the X-Ray martyr monument en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ir%C3%A8n…

#onourbanner today is Mary Cassat who was one of the few women impressionists and an American. Hero.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Cass…
She is one of the small minority of women on Wikipedia

.... we know! We're fixing it