Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/61

 Seasonal celebrations



 Welcome!

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)

Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)
Add other red links here, if possible with a source:

Participants

 * 1) Ipigott (talk) 11:02, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
 * 2) Rosiestep (talk) 12:43, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
 * 3) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:43, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
 * 4) Penny Richards (talk) 13:23, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
 * 5) T. Anthony (talk) 13:59, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
 * 6) Victuallers (talk) 11:50, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
 * 7) Pam  D  11:59, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

Promote our work
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

New or upgraded articles

 * Add the titles of your new or upgraded articles here created in December – most recent at the top, specifying upgraded if not new


 * 1) Alice Jenkins TW
 * 2) Christmas Tapestry
 * 3) Cécile Carnot - upg, PIN
 * 4) Seven Spools of Thread
 * 5) AnnaSofia Mååg
 * 6) Grandmother Winter
 * 7) Latke, the Lucky Dog
 * 8) Eliza Starbuck Barney TW
 * 9) Galya Morrell
 * 10) Luise Greger

Did You Know features
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



Event templates

 * Invitation: December 2017
 * Editathon banner for talk pages: Template:WIR-61: