The contest is now closed. Thank you to everybody who contributed and together produced a whopping 2890 articles, covering every country of the world. We far exceeded our original target of 2000 and broke records for output in a month. Feel proud! Congratulations! The prize winners have been announced below. If you enjoyed contributing to this you might consider joining in the continent/regional challenges long term in Template:The 100,000 Challenge, with the aim to bring about 100,000 world creations and improvements, articles done for this contest can be put up on those challenges as well. Great job everybody!
The Women in Red World Contest
a global article creation contest/editathon
for November 2017...
  Following 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. 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. It is all about diversity of content and widespread coverage and tackling systematic bias. Though we will accept articles on women's works and organizations, we want to see a very strong focus on biography creation. 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. 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. If the contest is a success and a model is produced to replicate it then I believe that we have the potential to surpass 20% women biographies on Wikipedia possibly within two years instead of at least five years. The potential of the contest in producing global and occupational diversity we believe outweighs any possible problems that the contest might cause. To embrace diversity, the prize money will be divided by continent and every country (roughly 200 countries to choose from) and 10 different fields of occupations. The largest prizes will go towards whoever contributes the most satisfactory (minimum 1 KB of readable prose and no unsourced claims or notability issues) new articles on the most countries worldwide but there will also be rewards for producing work of quality and helping run the contest. Whoever produces the most satisfactory new articles for the most countries will be crowned the contest winner and win the top prize of $400, potentially more if they win several of the continent stages or most countries covered or several of the occupational prizes. The prize claims page will be the place for claiming your prizes as the contest proceeds. Note that though this is a "contest", it is intended really as a huge global editathon with rewards for the hardest working editors. Editors who often contribute a lot of articles on women, please see it that way and participate. There will be the option to not "compete" in the main contest but just submit articles to a big list at the bottom of the page as the contest/editathon proceeds. Expanded articles will be acceptable on the main list but won't count towards the prizes of the contest itself for this contest. Unedited public domain text will not be eligible for the contest itself, and content submitted must be original prose, though if you're just adding articles to the main list and not formally "competing" you can create what you like.
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