![]() ![]() Given that we presently only have 17% women biographies on Wikipedia we need to try to get this over 20% as soon as possible and support the Women in Red cause. Why do we need a contest to create new articles when so many existing articles need our attention then? While I hope we will run quality improvement contests targeting core articles and stubs in the future, this contest is being held to perfect a mechanism to speed up the creation process for women biographies on English Wikipedia and potentially for other wikipedias at a later date. Though we will accept articles on women's works and organizations, we want to see a very strong focus on biography creation. It is all about diversity of content and widespread coverage and tackling systematic bias. The contest will be scaled to a worldwide one, but with a focus on creating new biographies of women for every country on the planet and every field of occupation. ![]() And supported by WikiProject Wiki Loves Womenįollowing on from the success of The Africa Destubathon in autumn 2016 in which brought about over 2000 improvements for Africa, this contest will be held for one month in November 2017.
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