Women in Religion | December 2015
Women in Red
Did you know that 15.89% of the biographies on Wikipedia are about women? Not impressed? Women in Red (WiR) focuses on "content gender gap". If you'd like to help contribute articles on women and women's works, we warmly welcome you!
Women in Religion
World Virtual Edit-a-thonDates | Saturday-Tuesday, 5-15 December 2015 |
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Location | This is a virtual, global event... you can participate from anywhere in the world |
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Host | Women in Red |
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Twitter hashtag | #wikicontentgendergap |
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Facilitators | Rosiestep; add your name here; add your name here |
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Women in Red is running a ten-day virtual editathon from December 5 to 15. Anyone can take part whatever their previous experience. We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies of some of the many past and present notable women in religion who are still red-linked on the English Wikipedia. The virtual edit-a-thon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in the work. See the list of red-linked women in religion articles to be created for guidance.
The main goals of the edit-a-thon are:
- to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of some of the world's most prominent women
- to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action on a specific area
- to support Wikipedia in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
- There is a list of historic and/or prominent women in this evolving, crowd-sourced list of red-linked articles broken down by countries →here←.
- And there is an article with ordination background, names and red-links →here←.
- And a User's list of red-links →here←.
- Another list of red-links (based on number of articles in other language Wikipedias) →here←.
- Or create an article about one of the red-linked women whose photographs appears in this section (hint: each has an article on another language Wikipedia).
Add your name here ...
- Ipigott (talk) 22:34, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- SusunW (talk) 02:59, 1 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Rosiestep (talk) 04:27, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Megalibrarygirl (talk) 15:26, 18 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- 97198 (talk) 06:05, 19 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Penny Richards (talk) 14:36, 2 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- LovelyLillith (talk) 19:15, 2 December 2015 (UTC) Happy to help whenever I have free time![reply]
- Victuallers (talk) 09:37, 3 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- gobonobo + c 12:23, 3 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- JocelynTalk to me 12:26, 3 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Minor4th 19:30, 3 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Nvvchar. 05:41, 4 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Sure--but you're catching me during finals and a job search... Drmies (talk) 05:55, 4 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Things are busy for me right now, but I'll do whatever I can. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 17:52, 4 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- I'll have a go. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:08, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:02, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Gotta help out! 1bandsaw (talk) 21:12, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Afernand74 (talk) 14:21, 6 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 16:37, 6 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- BoBoMisiu (talk) 21:05, 7 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- MurielMary (talk) 11:13, 8 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Andrew D. (talk) 15:43, 9 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Fuzchia (talk) 23:43, 10 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Big_iron (talk) 15:50, 11 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- PamD 23:31, 13 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Alafarge (talk) 20:21, 14 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Thor Dockweiler (talk) 15 December 2015 PST, 07:23, 16 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 13:03, 23 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Add the titles of your new or upgraded articles here – most recent at the top
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- ... that Liza Levy, a board member and past president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, originally joined the group as a way to make friends and retain her Jewish identity? (2016-01-13)
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- ... that while Caroline Stephen's book was considered a "Quaker classic" even 100 years after publication, her brother had dismissed it as "another little work of hers"? (2016-01-07)
- ... that Marianne Katoppo, who wrote the book Compassionate and Free. An Asian Woman's Theology, found the term feminist theology "too loaded"? (2016-01-05)
- ... that Mãe Menininha do Gantois was instrumental in gaining legal recognition of Candomblé and its rituals? (2016-01-04)
- ... that Aviel Barclay, the first woman to be traditionally trained and certified as a Jewish scribe, completed her first Torah scroll in 2010? (2016-01-04)
- ... that a ban on women Shinto priests ended after World War II? (2016-01-03)
- ... that Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller, a senior faculty member at Neve Yerushalayim College for Women, has thousands of students around the globe? (2016-01-03)
- ... that after Rachel Henderlite's 1965 ordination as a minister, a retired pastor sent her a postcard every year quoting the biblical injunction, "Let the women keep silent in the churches"? (2016-01-03)
- ... that Maria Corsini, Italian writer and Roman Catholic lay person, was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 31 October 2001 along with her husband, Luigi Beltrame Quattrocchi? (2016-01-03)
- ... that the legend of Lopamudra in Mahabharata is said to be "the glorification of domestic life and family and demonstrates the incompleteness of a life based solely on asceticism"? (2016-01-02)
- ... that Elisabeth Abegg, a teacher who provided shelter to Jews during the Holocaust, also tutored Jewish children at her home? (2016-01-02)
- ... that Meherzia Labidi Maïza (pictured) was proud of including women's rights in the post-Arab Spring Tunisian constitution? (2016-01-01)
- ... that the abolitionist Eliza Ann Gardner made her living as a dressmaker? (2016-01-01)
- ... that at the pulpit of the synod of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands, Arenda Haasnoot said, "This is my calling. Here I am in my place"? (2016-01-01)
- ... that 138 years after establishment of the Anglican Diocese of Nassau, Angela Palacious became its first woman deacon in 1999? (2016-01-01)
- ... that Agnes Okoh, an illiterate Nigerian, founded Christ Holy Church International? (2015-12-31)
- ... that 13 years after Lydia Emelie Gruchy graduated her theological studies with honors, she was finally ordained in 1936 as the first female minister of the United Church of Canada? (2015-12-30)
- ... that Temerl Bergson, a wealthy businesswoman and patroness of Hasidic Jews in 19th-century Poland, "distributed money like ashes"? (2015-12-29)
- ... that Sarla Bedi established the Hindu reform movement Arya Samaj in Toronto, Canada, and promoted social causes? (2015-12-28)
- ... that the nun Jeanne des Anges was the main protagonist of the witch trials which led to the death by burning of a French priest? (2015-12-28)
- ... that Ann Allebach (pictured), the first woman ordained a Mennonite minister in North America, was ordained 62 years before the next woman? (2015-12-27)
- ... that Mary Frances Clarke helped move the religious order Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which she had founded, from Philadelphia to Dubuque, Iowa, with their piano? (2015-12-26)
- ... that in 1895 Sister Krucifiksa founded a school dedicated to the Sacred Heart, which accepted children regardless of their religious affiliation or ethnic background? (2015-12-26)
- ... that physiotherapist Avrilia Papayannis lived as a hermit in the Himalayas before becoming a Greek Orthodox nun later known as Mother Gavrielia? (2015-12-24)
- ... that Australian priest Elizabeth Alfred led Holy Communion on her 100th birthday? (2015-12-24)
- ... that Wu Chengzhen was the first woman to be ordained as a fangzhang in the 1,800-year history of the Tao faith? (2015-12-22)
- ... that Bambi delivered more than 35,000 babies? (2021-07-03)
... that Bambi delivered over 35,000 babies? (2015-12-20)
- ... that Sarah Kalley and her husband started the first Protestant church in Brazil? (2015-12-07)
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