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103 years ago you could get into the Olympics if you were a painting or a sculpture .... but not if you were a woman

Discovering .... today's new entry is a woman of #Namibian descent. She has been working with one of the oldest cultures in the world. Discover Shishani and her music. Now one of the 19.7% on wiki her en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shishani_… her music youtube.com/watch?v=MOUQGe…

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…

I've not tweeted much about my work lately. Not enough time! Partly because I committed to writing 1 start-level (ie not stub) #Wikipedia article about a woman every day this year. I got a bit behind attending Wikicon last week, but I just hit my 250th woman's bio ever! So...

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.

Exceptional work Kate, the Wikipedia article has been completely revised to reflect the better sources of her story. If you have more to share then brilliant. The talk page of the aricle is the best place to flag up additional info/sources ... or just add it to the article

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_…

She was #BornOnThisDay and she's one of the 19% women on Wikipedia. The first person from South America to receive the #NobelPrize for literature was Gabriela Mistral. We are adding more women like this to inspire the next generation to join the 19% en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriela_……

#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

#MayDayWishes Today's #womanoftheday is Florence Bell. Who was the woman who was uncreditted for her involvement with the discovery of DNA's structure? #BornOnThisDay en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_… One of the ~20% women on wiki. We're fixing it.

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…

... and in May.... women on the press, CEE Women and those who begiv with U, V or W. More at womeninred.org

#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

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…

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.