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Thanks for alerting me but I am still having difficulty with the new automated environment. I realize it was intended to make things easier but yesterday I spent almost an hour looking into recent events but was unable to cope with simple issues like changing a title or adding a photo. For people of my age (in their eighties), after contributing for years and years in one environment, it is not easy to adapt to new procedures despite the step-by-step instructions. I am, of course, always happy to provide assistance once an event has been added and fully support the proposal to relieve WAU of this burdensome task. Thank you, Lajmmoore, for taking the initiative. I also wondered whether we could call upon the assistance of Megalibrarygirl and Espresso Addict, not only to work on the month-to-month setups but also to help with mass-messaging.--Ipigott (talk) 08:48, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I think I need to spend some more time learning. I can take the STEM month though as that's later in the year. I didn't see this before I started off the firming up list for jan below. Not sure I can get much further as the some templates need changing for 2025 and I haven't been able to work out how to do this. TheResilientEngineer (talk) 08:37, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I will have a go at setting up for Jan, as I did a month shortly after the templates were set up. I'll call on template maker MSGJ if it gets tricky.--Oronsay (talk) 18:31, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi there, MSGJ. It's good to hear you are ready to help. I was wondering if you could improve the interfaces so that we are not faced with time-consuming tasks such as changing the title of an event, adding a photo or editing some of the pre-determined additions to the RH margin. It would be great if we could have an editable draft of the entire event as we used to have in the past. If such improvements could be made, I would certainly be willing to participate far more actively.--Ipigott (talk) 18:07, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Mar: I volunteer to take March. (Note, my term on the WMF Board of Trustees ends next month (Dec 2024), so I can return to being more helpful around here, e.g., MassMessage on short notice, etc.) --Rosiestep (talk) 23:37, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
TIP OF THE MONTH:
* You can access the Wikipedia Library if you have made 500+ edits, and 6+ months editing, and 10+ edits in the last 30 days, and No active blocks Y
I have tried to create a meetup page for #332, but it needs help with "Lua" configuration, which is outside of my technical ability. --Rosiestep (talk) 21:12, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I like the painter, but could the easel be taller, please? I worry about her getting back ache, but if too tricky, don't worry about changing it. Tip comment: I think it's a good idea to remind folk about the Wikipedia Library.--Oronsay (talk) 04:37, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the feedback Oronsay. She won't get a back ache. I had our bun lady painting En plein air. She is gazing into the distant landscape while sketching. Photo of Aileen Rose Dent I will, however, play around with the image after dinner. :) --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 23:46, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
We ran a Women of the Arab World event in 2019 and I wondered whether it might be a nice gesture run something similar to support Wikimedians running Wiki Loves Ramadan? Ramadan starts is February, runs through March into late April, so a March focus might be nice. WLR is explicit about adding new biographies, so is a great fit for our project. Also some Muslim countries have very low proportions of biographies of women e.g. Qatar, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, so we might be able to shift the needle there too. All thoughts welcome Lajmmoore (talk) 17:21, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Could we instead add a link in the Announcements section? My thought is that if we run an event related to one religion, we should be consistent and do it for other religions, too... which could potentially fill up a year's calendar. --Rosiestep (talk) 21:09, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps it would be better to move our annual Religion away from December to a neutral month (if one exists) when no specific belief system would feel ignored? Oronsay (talk) 22:18, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Lajmmoore, do you want to draft a meetup page for "Women of the Arab World" or "MENA Women"? I'm sorry that I'm not capable of doing so with the new page creation technique, having jumbled the "Alphabet Run E & F" meetup page (thank you to Oronsay for the quick fixes). --Rosiestep (talk) 15:49, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe we should do this earlier and longer? Kenya is hosting Wikimania and it would be good to see some new articles and photos. Particularly keen on this as I try to write articles about African women and so many sources tell about her new dress, her new boy friend or latest hair-do.... and no one seems to be doing cc-by-sa images. I've joined Wikiproject Kenya ... very few members... we could make a splash? Victuallers (talk) 11:34, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Remember that its 100,000 articles on en:wiki, they may not be all WiR inspired articles but there are articles in our sister projects too. Achieving ten years is amazing, but achieving 20% is what should be carved on the milestone. Could we jointly celebrate 10 years, 400,000 biographies and 20% women .... (and note fr, de, Catalan, Utdu etc)? Victuallers (talk) 11:45, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hey all. For quite a while now I've been working on articles about revolutionary women (i.e. women who either participated in revolutions or were involved in revolutionary movements/organisations). Most of my submissions have been to other themed events, but I was thinking it might be fun to do a specific edit-a-thon focused on revolutionary women. I can try putting together a red list for it, perhaps we could do it some time next year? --Grnrchst (talk) 14:39, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hey @Grnrchst I think this should go on the agenda next year. April 2025 does not have a theme attributed. Perhaps we add it to the list? When we get round to March it would be great if you can help create the event page, would you be happy to do that? TheResilientEngineer (talk) 08:48, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I was just fiddling around with the number of links redlist, as I noticed it hadn't updated in over a year, and managed to get it back to working order. It got me thinking whether we should have an edit-a-thon focused specifically on creating articles with a high number of interwiki links; the redlist includes articles with 7 or more interwiki links. This could be a nice way to focus on the higher importance (for lack of a better term) articles that other language wikis have recognised as worthy of articles. --Grnrchst (talk) 09:46, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This section is purely administrative. It is not about the ongoing discussions of topics.
WiR generally has a variety of monthly, quarterly and annual events. WiR also sends out an “invitation” to its registered participants notifying them of those events. This is an effort to list tasks associated with the administrative tasks of updating and adding pages. We will be maintaining this list to assist with Quality Assurance. This is a working document and should be maintained to reflect current bast practices. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 16:52, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
As of March 2024 we are working with a new set of cascading templates. Because the template speak to each other the preview of the template might not be as expected. For example 302 might look like 304. Additionally some pages won't preview correctly unless the editor purges the page to update the cache.
The interrelated templates allow us to make changes and pages once, without updating new and past events throughout the WiR ecosystem. This will ultimately reduce mistakes, bad directs, and misinformation. The coders involved are watching these pages to ensure they work correctly. March 2024 is the first iteration. If direction are not clear it is the drafter's fault - not the coders, so please be gentle.
Each month there will be new events and ongoing events
YEAR-LONG INITIATIVES
#1day1woman 2024
** Event #293: #1day1woman #1day1woman
Education - Year long initiative
** Event #294: Education Year long initiative Education Year long initiative
NEW - Alphabet run Q & R
* Alphabet run Q & R
** Event #299: Alphabet run Q & R
NEW - Women's History Month | Art+Feminism - 260 as go by
* Art+Activism
** Event #300: Art+FeminismY
NEW - Find Her
* Find Her
** Event #301: Find HerY
Create the event page at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/n where n is the number of the new event. You can use the {{WIR meetup header}} template to help you. {{WIR meetup header}} will populate the event header and right side infoboxes. * Then copy and sections from previous month to add boilerplate language. For example, start at Participants copy through the bottom of the page (XYZ as an example). update month and event number in the pasted sections.
Then add the "body" of the page (welcome, redlists, purpose) using a similar editathon as a starting point.
Step 5 Invite and receive feedback from a sufficient number of WiR enthusiasts that the event page and invite are okay. Mark reviewed items with {{ok}}
