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Women in the Ancient World | May 2022

May: Translation contest Women in the Ancient World Geofocus: British overseas territories

2022 global initiatives: #1day1woman2022 Climate

See also: Future events

Welcome!

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.	Authority control should be included at the foot of every biography: `{{Authority control}}`. It will remain hidden until relevant identifiers have been added to Wikidata. Choose applicable Categories including relevant subcategories of Category:Women. If applicable, add a stub template at the foot of an article:`{{stub}}`.

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.	`{{WikiProject Biography\| }}` or `{{WikiProject Biography}}` `{{WikiProject Women}}` if born after 1950; or `{{WikiProject Women's History}}::` if born before 1950. Editathon banner: `{{WIR-229}}`

In May 2022 Wiki Women in Red is striving to increase coverage of women in the Ancient world. By Ancient world, we don't just mean Europe but the whole world, wherever notable women have been recorded. In addition, we are encouraging more biographies of notable women who are classicists, including archaeologists, epigraphers, historians, linguists, numismatists and philologists, as well as their organizations, awards and related initiatives.

This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in our initiative. You are of course also welcome to write articles on any other notable women who deserve to be covered and add them, for example under our #1day1woman priority.

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.

Thank you!

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 Ancient World are listed below. Please note: listing does not guarantee qualification for inclusion in the encyclopedia. Please read Primer for creating women's biographies.

Wikidata redlists:

Women alive pre 400 CE

Crowd-sourced:

There are some women in classical antiquity to be found in An Impressive List of Female Authors from Antiquity who might deserve attention:

Wikidata lists of women studying the ancient world:

Crowd-sourced lists that may also include the ancient world:

Add other red links here, if possible with a source:

Participants[edit]

Penny Richards (talk) 21:17, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Victuallers (talk) 08:49, 1 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
PamD 13:58, 1 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Fritzmann (message me) 01:02, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Srsval (talk) 10:09, 3 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Darwin Naz (talk) 22:52, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Lajmmoore (talk) 06:45, 8 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Eritha (talk) 14:55, 9 May 2022 (UTC) - I'm planning to tackle Cleopatra the Physician![reply]
User:Anna St.Onge (talk) 12:49, 27 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oronsay (talk) 21:09, 28 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Omotecho (talk) 11:00, 31 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Events[edit]

WCCWiki, the initiative that seeks to improve the representation of classicists (broadly conceived) who identify as women and non-binary on Wikipedia, is meeting on Monday 23rd May 1-3pm (GMT+1) online for our monthly editathon. You are very welcome to join us! Please email email womensclassicalcommittee@gmail.com for joining details. For more on WCCWiki, see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Women%27s_Classical_Committee