Geofocus: British Overseas territories| May 2022
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This May, Wiki Women in Red has a geofocus on women from inhabited British Overseas Territories. These include: in the Americas Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Montserrat and Turks and Caicos Islands; in Oceania, Pitcairn Islands; in Europe, Gibraltar, in the South Atlantic, Falkland Islands and Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha.
We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in improving biographies and other articles about notable women, including their writings or other works. This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts wherever they may be to participate in our initiative.
Main goals
- to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating or improving biographies of prominent women
- to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action on combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
- to promote the new/improved articles and images through social media and via nominations to Main Page features Did You Know…? and In The News.
What else?
- Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you have worked on this month, and another section where you can add the images you have uploaded to Commons.
- This essay on creating women's biographies and our Ten Simple Rules might be helpful to newer editors.
- If you share any of the articles or their images on social media, or successfully nominate for In The News, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.
Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)
[edit]Red-link lists of women from a wide variety of fields can be accessed from the WiR Redlink index. Those which might be most useful for women in the British overseas territories are listed below. Please note: listing does not guarantee qualification for inclusion in the encyclopedia. Please read Primer for creating women's biographies
Wikidata red-link lists: women's biographies by country in other language versions of Wikipedia, as well as a few that are crowd-sourced: Crowd sourced[edit]
Wide-ranging wikidata redlists[edit]More focussed wikidata redlists[edit] |
Add other red links here, if possible with a source:
- Polynesian women founders of Pitcairn Island: Mauatua, Teio, Teraura, Tevarua, Toofati, Vahineatua, Teehuteatuaonoa
- Minister of Health and Social Affairs (Bermuda) – Gloria McPhee – 1968[1]
- Attorney General (BVI) – Paula F. Beaubrun – 1971[2] - DRAFT here
- Joanna Cox, first women Harbour Master in Falklands[3]
- Christine Scipio - Councillor, St Helena 1
- Yvette Victoria Angela Swan - Bermudian politician (wikidata)
- Rebecca Edwards (doctor) - Falklands Chief Medical Officer 1
- Sukey Cameron - Falkland Islands' UK Representative 1
- Dawn Smith [4]
- Charliena White - Speaker, Montserrat General Assembly 1
From Howard Fergus' Gallery Montserrat: Some Prominent People in Our History [1]
Participants
[edit]- Lajmmoore (talk) 17:16, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
- Penny Richards (talk) 21:23, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
- Scanlan (talk) 01:23, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
- PamD 09:03, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
- Victuallers (talk) 09:49, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
- Sammielh (talk) 13:07, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
- Joofjoof (talk) 11:05, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
- MRN2electricboogaloo (talk) 00:43, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
Outcomes (articles)
[edit]Promote our work
[edit]Key:
- Add FB after the article if you mention it on Facebook
- Add PIN after the article if you pin the image on Pinterest
- Add TW after the article if you tweet it on Twitter
- Add IG after the article if you post it on Instagram
- Add LI after the article if you post it on LinkedIn
- Add ITN after the article if it was posted on the main page via WP:In The News.
New or upgraded articles
[edit]Most recent on top. Also, please indicate amount of improvement (e.g., number of characters, words, or sentences added).
Kaiane Aldorino expanding section on mayorship from 2 to 8 sentences
Annie Greenaway
Yvette Swan
Reshma Sharma
Olive Hilda Miller
Margaret Dyer-Howe - PIN, TW
Christine Scipio-O'Dean
Sarah Tucker - PIN, TW
Maekiaphan Phillips
Ruth Blackman
Paula F. Beaubrun
Shereen Flax-Charles
Joanna Cox
Audrey Albert
Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers TW upgrade, PIN
Alvera Maduro-Caines
Delores Christopher
Margaret Ramsay-Hale
Amanda Milling update re BVI story, PIN
Margaret Leshikar-Denton
Main Page features
[edit]New/expanded articles featured in the Did you know... column of the Wikipedia Main page
- Add here – most recent at the top with date of publication
- Margaret Ramsay-Hale - 29 May
New/expanded articles featured in the In the news... column of the Wikipedia Main page
- Add here – most recent at the top with date of publication
Outcomes (media)
[edit]- Please add this category to the image if you're uploading it to Commons: Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2022
Add here – most recent at the top
Press about the event
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[edit]- Invitation: May 2022
- Editathon banner for talk pages: Template:WIR-230:
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- ^ "Bermuda Ministers".
- ^ "British Virgin Islands Ministers".
- ^ "Historic new appointments for maritime women in the Falkland Islands". www.nautilusint.org. Retrieved 2022-04-27.
- ^ "Dawn Smith Takes Over As Attorney General". Virgin Islands Platinum News. 2 October 2020. Retrieved 3 October 2020.