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19.83% of #Wikipedia's biographies are about women. Turning redlinks blue.❤➡💙
- 8.5 yrs fixing the gender gap on Wikipedia. It was 15%! #WeCanEdit
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Take a bow Louise Otto-Peters, BOTD 1819: German suffragist, women's rights movement activist who wrote novels, poetry, essays, and libretti. Best known as founder of the General German Women's Association, 1865 womenwriters #WomenInJournalism Women's History Network wikiwomeninred National Women's History Museum
4️⃣ and to participate in efforts by many to raise the profile of #WomenInSTEM/#WomenInAviation 👩✈️👩🚀- I was inspired to write the latest biography on Wikipedia: about RAeS president Kerissa Khan – the youngest, and only the second woman, to hold the role! 🇹🇹 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerissa_K…
Marie Laeng-Stucki 1905–74 1 of most powerful female Swiss entrepreneurs. W' husband founded Lenco vinyl turntables. 1300 staff: pension scheme, sports, library, cashless salary payments, flex work hours, all b4 Swiss women got vote in 1971 wikiwomeninred en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Lae…
Getting to the end of #WomensHistoryMonth and WIR are starting our 300th editathon. Let us share some pics of some of the women who joined the 19% women on #Wikipedia in March. Curated by Penny Richards and clapped by you. pinterest.co.uk/wikiwomeninred… Do you create #visiblewomen?
Went to see Marjolein Robertson last night and my mates were laughing off seats at Heart of Hawick. Marj told us after that she had no pic on #Wikipedia. She has now .... here in Scots (there is one in English too) sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjolein… Create #visiblewomen using Creative Commons ...
Claire Thirlwall wikiwomeninred No, there was no SOE link, a team of us worked exceptionally hard on this for weeks. The Guardian obituary is the best source for this but I am happy to share the work we produced too. There is nothing in the national archives.
Clotilde Catalán de Ocón y Gayolá (1863–1946) 1st Spanish woman to actively practice #entomology, noted for study of #lepidoptera in Sierra de Albarracín. #Author of several #poems under pseudonym La Hija del Cabriel. New #Wikipedia page wikiwomeninred en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clotilde_…
#BornOnThisDay and #onourbanner Madame le Brun was a stunning French painter en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lis… Marie Daly was the first African American to gain a PhD at Columbia University en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_May… Want to know more ? read. Know more? edit
So last month our lead editor Penny Richards curated these pics of women on #Pinterest - they all gained new/imp'd articles on #Wikipedia due to our project. You may not have time to add an article yourself but we thank those who watch and clap. Thank you pinterest.com/wikiwomeninred…