Seasonal celebrations
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| 1–31 December 2017 | Join the Women in Red online editathon from anywhere in the world. |
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| December 2017 Editathons | |
| Hashtag | #1day1woman |
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Women in Red are hosting a virtual editathon from 1 to 31 December 2017 on Seasonal celebrations, providing an opportunity for you to create or improve articles on women involved one way or another in all the celebrations and festivities at this time of year. In addition to Christmas and the New Year, they include the Hindu Pancha Ganapati and Lohri, the Buddhist Bodhi Day, the Jewish Hanukkah, the Scottish Hogmanay, and the Orthodox Christmas, celebrated by many in January. In connection with all these and with the December solstice, women have contributed to literature, art, music and entertainment while inspiring or organizing religious and secular events. You can therefore draw from a wide range of women deserving biographies or may write articles about the works women have created.
The virtual edit-a-thon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in the work.
- The lists of redlinks below should provide inspiration.
- This essay on creating women's biographies might be helpful to newer editors.
- The main goals of the event 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
- to promote the new/improved articles and images through social media (Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter)