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Welcome to WikiProject Women Do News (WDN)! We raise the visibility of women, women-identified and non-binary journalists by increasing the quantity and enhancing the quality of their Wikipedia biographies. We do this in several ways:
Check out the articles we've created or improved. We also maintain a nominations list for women journalists without biography articles, or whose existing biography needs improvement.
Women Do News monthly flash edits are a great place to start volunteering for this organization. WDN meets monthly on Zoom to work on articles, update each other on how our Wiki writing has been going, and generally check-in. Flash edits are a very low-key place to connect with other Wiki volunteers and troubleshoot the writing and editing process. Feel free to bring a beverage or a snack and come hang out.
Women journalists are underrepresented on Wikipedia. Since Wikipedia is one of the most-read websites in the world, increasing the visibility of women journalists here can contribute to improving safety, credibility, recognition and income for women journalists worldwide. That’s where we come in as volunteers, educators and organizers.
Just a few of the women journalists who now have Wikipedia biographies: Lori Matsukawa, who covered high-profile trials for 50 years; Betsy Wade, the first woman news copy editor at The New York Times, as well as the first woman to be chief editor on the foreign desk; Pulitzer Prize-winner Lisa Song; Emmy and Murrow Award winner Tonya Mosley; Emily Ramshaw, founder and CEO of The 19th; and Avis Red Bear, founder of the Teton Times. Unlike male journalists with similar credentials, these and dozens of other accomplished women journalists did not have Wikipedia articles when our project began!
Editors of any gender are welcome in Women Do News. While to date we have been contributing solely to English Wikipedia, we would love to build the capacity for writing, editing and improving articles in other languages.
The Women Do News project grew from a 2019 cohort of journalists participating in Take The Lead, a leadership training program co-founded by Gloria Feldt. It has since evolved to partner with other allies at universities, journalism groups and in the Wikimedia movement to identify women journalists for biographies, train editors and add articles to Wikipedia.
Mission-aligned projects like Women in Red (WIR) and many fellow Wikipedians have supported our work since its beginning.
Women Do News is fiscally sponsored by the Bay City News Foundation. We have received funding, grants or donations from NewsMatch, the Wikimedia Foundation, and individual donors, and through a knowledge partnership with McKinsey Global Publishing.
Take the Lead supported our first edit-a-thon, held in NYC in November 2019.
We comprise a volunteer board, a project manager, WDN event attendees, and other volunteer writers and editors.
Not every member of this project has a Wikipedia account, but those who do can add their usernames below. Don't forget to signup for our newsletter!
Main page: WomenDoNews.org/Events
You can use {{ Women Do News WN}} to encourage users who have edited about women in journalism to join the WikiProject.