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Hi editors, I wrote a draft for OnlyFans CEO Keily Blair that may be of interest to the folks here. I have a COI so I cannot create the article directly, but would love it if someone here could take a look and offer their feedback, even move it to being a full article if you think it merits that. I appreciate any insight you have. You can find the draft
here. Cheers
AG at OnlyFans (
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00:57, 18 June 2024 (UTC)reply
It looks pretty balanced to me, and I made a few edits. It might be good to get one more editor's opinion on moving it to mainspace.
Nick Number (
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22:22, 20 June 2024 (UTC)reply
@
Nick Number: Thanks for taking a look and making those changes. I'll let this sit here for a few more days. If no one else responds, mind if I ping you to see if there is anywhere else we might attract another reviewer?
AG at OnlyFans (
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18:13, 27 June 2024 (UTC)reply
@
AG at OnlyFans Ok. Also, if you want to upload a better photo than the one I found on Flickr, there are some guidelines
here. The Wikimedia Commons method is easiest if you have an image you can license appropriately.
Nick Number (
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18:32, 27 June 2024 (UTC)reply
I have just heard from Maximilianklein that he expects to be able to fix the problems with Humaniki around 7 August. It has not been updated since 24 June. In the meantime, the monthly stats on the
Metrics page should provide an indication of progress. (cc
Oronsay).--
Ipigott (
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09:51, 29 June 2024 (UTC)reply
TSventon: I am not sure what the current problem is but in the past there have been problems with server space and server accessibility. Fortunately
Max Klein who developed the feature (as well as earlier versions reflecting our statistics) has always been in a position to deal with problems within a reasonable time despite heavy commitments to other research projects. I believe updates are based on wikidumps which occur every two weeks. If you are not satisfied with this arrangement, it might be possible to provide a backup based on a statistical analysis of the number of women's biographies compared to the total number of biographies on the English Wikipedia but Humaniki is regularly used for many other language versions and also covers Commons and other wiki projects. It therefore seems to me preferable to stick with Humaniki unless more lengthy delays occur.--
Ipigott (
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13:15, 29 June 2024 (UTC)reply
I just wanted to understand what problems Women in Red has been having or is expecting to have with Humaniki, so I gather that there may be a six week gap until around 7 August. I agree that shouldn't be a major problem, particularly as we have been warned in advance.
TSventon (
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13:34, 29 June 2024 (UTC)reply
My apologies for this post which was based on an email from
Max Klein. It seems however to be a false alarm as I now see that Humaniki has been updating regularly (oce every two weeks) and that our main Women in Red page has been adjusted accordingly.--
Ipigott (
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@
Ipigott, Normally the update is available on every Friday morning (Sydney, AUS time). If not, I try to check back once or twice a day and change the figures on WIR's homepage when Humaniki has done its work. 400,000 will be another nice milestone on the way to 20% and beyond.
Oronsay (
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20:33, 29 June 2024 (UTC)reply
No talk page announcement yet for July?
I don't seem to have had the usual monthly announcement (but I've already got a woman sci-fi writer lined up to translate...).
PamD09:33, 30 June 2024 (UTC)reply
It seems to me that it may be because today's a Sunday. I have alerted Magalibrarygirl and Victuallers but there has been no response. Unfortunately, it's already 1 July in Australia. I believe
Rosiestep is unable to handle this kind of thing herself but perhaps she could encourage others...--
Ipigott (
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14:04, 30 June 2024 (UTC)reply
I see that the July announcement got sent. Yay! A friendly FYI for another time:
Gamaliel and
Ser Amantio di Nicolao are also WiR members and admins (have MassMessage rights) so maybe they'd have time and inclination to assist with this task. --
Rosiestep (
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16:02, 30 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Hello! It was me - I didn't see the ping that the invite was ready, so logged on yesterday to check. It would be great to have more people MM - I'm happy to do it, but as I say, all it takes is one missed notification and things get out of step!
Lajmmoore (
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17:18, 1 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Women in Red July 2024
Women in Red | July 2024, Volume 10, Issue 7, Numbers 293, 294, 311, 312, 313
I unfortunately,
Boud, do not have the time to work on articles for these due to my
prior commitment. But I do hope that these references prove helpful for you or anyone else that wants to take a stab at making some book articles.
SilverserenC23:13, 1 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Thanks for sharing this @
Inkian Jason - I'd like to see a bit more included about the Senate hearing
see & there's quite a few references coming up from google books
see - also, it would be great to see some criticism from a reputable source
Lajmmoore (
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17:16, 1 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Beryl update
Not exactly a woman, but all the reports here call her she. Rather than answering individual queries, I'm posting here and if y'all think it's inappropriate, feel free to remove it. Beryl arrived in Mexico as a Category 2 hurricane just north of Tulum, early this morning. Around 11, she will be just south of Valladoid. It's been difficult for them to project where she was headed. Originally maps showed south of Campeche, but she has steadily pushed northward and is now likely to pass around 8-10 km/5-6 miles north of Mérida. She is likely to be downgraded to a tropical storm by the time she hits here. To this point, we have experienced only minimal rains, but they are telling us to expect 5 to 10 inches of rain. I live in the city in a concrete house and we've had days to prepare. We are safe, but we may well lose electricity and internet service. (We prepared, have battery-operated fans, clocks, phone chargers at the ready.) Please keep all the villagers, who live in low areas surrounding Mérida in your thoughts today. I'll be on-line as I can be.
SusunW (
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15:25, 5 July 2024 (UTC)reply
asilvering, after weeks of preparations and stress, we were very lucky. Although it passed within 15 miles of us, we had just a light rain and we did not lose either power or internet until Sunday. Then there was no internet all day Sunday and Monday, but functions are normal today thankfully. My heart aches for those who were not so fortunate in the Caribbean and now in Texas.
SusunW (
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15:38, 9 July 2024 (UTC)reply
2024 Olympics
The
2024 Summer Olympics start soon, with the first competitions taking place on July 24 and the majority of qualifications having wrapped up. For anyone who's looking for sportswomen to turn blue, there are a lot of qualified athletes missing articles, including for nearly every sport and
country, a large number of which likely pass GNG (though should not be assumed without proof). Below I've listed the number of qualified women Olympians who are redlinks by sport, with links to the lists:
Thanks,
BeanieFan11! Sports is a little out of my usual topic areas, and the only one of these events that I have any particular interest in and knowledge of is sport climbing, but I've already added two (
Piper Kelly and
Jenya Kazbekova). There's more of a language barrier for some, and I think for
Beatrice Colli most of the in-depth sources are unfortunately in video rather than text, but I'll see what more I can do. —
David Eppstein (
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06:14, 11 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Looks like
Newspapers.com has been made completely unavailable now (with the button even being removed from The Wikipedia Library, replaced with "Temporarily unavailabe") and no explanation forthcoming thus far. A lot of threads on
Wikipedia talk:The Wikipedia Library and
Wikipedia talk:Newspapers.com, but no answers. I'm not even sure if there's a Phabricator ticket open on it (or would this be rolled into the several prior tickets covering the many issues we've been having with Newspapers.com access?)
It leaves me kind of at a loss on how to do proper research though. The vast majority of biographical subjects I have to write on require access to that one directory (and
Newspaper Archive is a very poor substitute). Not sure what to do at this point.
SilverserenC18:55, 7 July 2024 (UTC)reply
There is a Phabricator ticket T322916. Click on "Temporarily unavailable" for a link.
Ah, I didn't realize they had turned that into a link. I see I was right though on this being added on to the same issues we've been having for nearly two years now. And no response on the ticket for three days or even really the week prior to that. That's concerning.
SilverserenC19:31, 7 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Most of the articles that I start are biographies and this is so frustrating. I don't have the money to sign up for a membership either.
SL93 (
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19:35, 7 July 2024 (UTC)reply
This is the same problem I was having, that I mentioned to you in that recent AfD. I wonder why you're still unaffected. I was able to read only two of your clippings, but not the others. --
asilvering (
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17:10, 8 July 2024 (UTC)reply
I'm not sure why they gave it this title, because from my reading it's more about how wikipedia privileges certain kinds of "facts" over others. Their main complaint is that topics related to aging on wikipedia are treated almost entirely biomedically, ignoring other kinds of academic work on the subject. They run into some trouble getting things through
WP:NCORP, which is really harsh for the kinds of topics they want to write on (academic institutes, etc - very difficult to get fully "independent" sourcing). They are frustrated by wikipedia's inconsistent standards (ie, that we don't let trash through AfC but that trash can persist eternally in mainspace if no one bothers to nominate it for deletion). That's a pretty legitimate concern imo, especially since there's no really honest statement like "we know wikipedia is full of crap that doesn't meet our guidelines, and we want to get rid of it but it's a gargantuan task" anywhere. Any newbie who brings it up just gets told "other stuff exists" and dismissed. --
asilvering (
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18:37, 9 July 2024 (UTC)reply
The second sentence makes no sense...
This page is titled "Women in Red." The second sentence says, "Welcome to Women in Red (WiR)! We are a group of volunteer (unpaid) editors of all genders..."
The name of this project references the topic it focuses on. The second sentence describes the people who work on the project.
pburka (
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16:01, 9 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Joey Wat
Hi all. I disclosed a COI on the Joey Wat page about a female CEO and requested
an expansion of the career section a few weeks ago. I'm trying to comply with WP:COI by not making any edits myself. I was hoping editors here could evaluate the proposed expansion and collaborate on other improvements.
Coreyhcooper (
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01:16, 10 July 2024 (UTC)reply
When you find the perfect source
Just wanted to express my absolute momentary joy. I've been working on
User:Silver seren/Lisa M. Corrigan for this week's biography article. And I haven't been finding too much. Some, sure, but ProQuest and Newspapers.com (as much as I can make that work, thanks for the help though,
Pburka!) haven't really been coming up with much, nor were the initial Google search results looking too helpful.
I was worried I was going to have to rely on book reviews to wring out what scant biographical info I can, which I've mostly done just last week with
Grace Lavery. But, lo, what did I find? On the 10th page of Google search results? Could it be?
The perfect source? Indeed, my prayers have been answered.
Hello everyone,
WikiProject Figure Skating has just started doing A-class assessments. Our first article submitted for review is
Yuna Kim, and we're in need of a third reviewer. Here's the link to the assessment:
Wikipedia:WikiProject Figure Skating/Assessment/Yuna Kim. While
figure skating isn't a completely women's sport, most of its athletes are female, and as you might expect, is a neglected topic, especially skaters' biographies. The assistance of any member of this project would be muchly appreciated. You don't have to necessarily be a figure skating expert (although that would help, of course), but you should at least be knowledgeable about editing and contributing to Wikipedia. Even those who only watch figure skating every four years during the Winter Olympics (a group I call "the uninitiated figure skating fan", haha) are welcome! Thanks to all and best.
Christine (Figureskatingfan) (
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16:43, 12 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Kato Mikeladze Award
Hello folks, looking for something else, I came across the
Kato Mikeladze Award which is given to a women's rights activist from Georgia each year since 2013. All the names (bar one) on the list are red. I've not had a chance to check whether sources are available for them all, but if anyone feels like a challenge the list is there (& on Wikidata), hopefully making them more visible!
Lajmmoore (
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20:55, 13 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Line go up (A WiR Statistical analysis)
Hi everyone. I caught a statistics bug today and wanted to look at our progress in increasing the number of women's biographies on English Wikipedia. I don't know if anyone's done something like this recently, but thought I'd have a look over. As it says on the project front page, this project was created almost a decade ago, when it was discovered that women's biographies numbered roughly 15.53% of biographies on the platform. As of 1 July 2024, we have gotten this up to 19.86% (accounting for 399,180 biographies), which is a 4.33% difference. We're currently keeping track of this number using Humaniki, but its data doesn't go back as far as 2015; it started collecting data in December 2020/January 2021, so this is the data I had to work with.
On 28 December 2020, there were 331,934 biographies about women, accounting for 18.689% of all biographies on English Wikipedia. This means that over the past three and a half years, we have created at least 67,246 new biographies, accounting for a 1.17% increase in the proportion of women's biographies. On average, this means we create roughly 19,645 new biographies each year, increasing the proportion of women's biographies by roughly 0.342% each year. (Judging by this, we can expect a 1% increase roughly every three years)
I was pleasantly surprised to find out that it is a rarity that the number of biographies or the total percentage decreases. The last week that these numbers decreased was two years ago, on 11 July 2022, when the total number of women's biographies dropped by 187 over the preceding week. In fact, in the past three and a half years, we have only seen five weeks where the percentage of women's biographies dropped (of which two weeks saw an increase in total women's biographies, but not enough to increase the percentage figure).
All this has led to a very steady increase in both the total number and proportional representation of women's biographies. If we keep on track with this, then according to my projections, we should hit 400,000 biographies by the end of the month and we might even hit the fabled 20% figure by the end of 2024! This will definitely be something to be celebrated and might justify a big edit-a-thon towards the end of the year in order to get us over the line. Projections of when we might get to 50% are quite a bit more distant; at current rates, we won't hit gender parity until the year 2111. What Wikipedia, the internet and the wider world will even look like by that point would be anyone's guess.
It also seems like some of our progress might be slowing. While we increased the percentage figure by 0.415% in 2021 (accounting for over 24,000 new biographies), the percentage increased by 0.329% in 2022 and 0.296% in 2023 (each accounting for slightly over 17,000 new biographies). We're still improving things, but this does indicate a need for further outreach and onboarding if we're to keep going in the longer term.
Thanks for this! One thing I'd say is that if only because of history, we are most unlikely ever to get to 50%, nor should this be an aim of the project (this used to be often seen as an aim, but I think most people have now realized this). That's unless some new predominately female type of person starts being regarded as notable in large numbers. I won't labour the point, but think about large all-notable jobs with easily-found statistical data, like politicians elected to national legislatures, top-level team sports and so on.
Johnbod (
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14:58, 16 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Adding my thanks! Also, for transparency, clarifying that, in 2015,
Roger and I never mentioned a particular numerical goal, rather, the goal was to "move the needle", e.g., improve on the abysmal 15.53% statistic. That said, I'm guessing that most of us will be ecstatic upon reaching that elusive 20%. --
Rosiestep (
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10:03, 17 July 2024 (UTC)reply
20% would be great (50% would require us to delete history). There is evidence that the new additions of biogs are much more equal but the figure is likely to settle at about 28%. The effect of additional biogs is ever decreasing - but still very important. "Moving the needle" was indeed the aim. (There were paper encyclopedias with the percentage of 3-7% women). Truly terrible - and it hurts to know that a future edition of "famous modern women of Afghanistan" is destined for an even lower target. On the other hand the figures are very skewed by an obsession with blokes who can kick a ball ... and it looks as if that is reducing. Seeing stadia filled with ppl watching women play football is marvellous. I think that if we work really hard then Rosie, and my, granddaughters (who recently met) might think that gender/racial/European bias was a "thing of history". Lets keep moving the needle. Roger aka
Victuallers (
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10:37, 17 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Helen Hunt Jackson
Helen Hunt Jackson was the author of Ramona and I worked on her biography in July 2017. Then I promptly forgot about her. Today, I got a pleasant surprise.
Adam Cuerden has restored her image. Thank you, Adam, for your gorgeous work. So grateful that you dedicate some of your time and skills to improving photos of notable women. --
Rosiestep (
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09:43, 17 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Need some support in Community Wishlist
I posted
a wish about a tool to reduce a gap at least a little bit more but
it seems it doesn't look at least somehow important. I wrote my request from my own perspective but know that this problem appears not only in Russian and in the description of this project it's said that there are people from different countries here; please, take a look, and if the problem of gender marking in job titles is valid for your language, let the Community Wishlist team know about it on the talk page. Thank you in advance.
Lvova Anastasiya (
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18:11, 17 July 2024 (UTC)reply