Visible Women on Wikipedia

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Visible Women on Wikipedia

Each year, Whose Knowlege? hosts the #VisibleWikiWomen project to increase the number of photographs of women, especially notable women and women from marginalized groups, on Wikimedia projects. It also includes photographs of women's artwork and other creations. The campaign brings together Wikimedia organizations (chapters and user groups) with feminist organizations, cultural institutions, community organizers and individuals from around the world to make women visible on Wikipedia and on the wider internet.

The third annual campaign started on March 8 and continues until May 8, 2020. These are some of the images from that campaign. To see more images from the project, visit the Media related to VisibleWikiWomen 2020 at Wikimedia Commons.

Señoritaleona who is the organizer of the #VisibleWikiWomen 2020 coordinator says:

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We want to make sure all women are visible on Wikipedia and all Wikimedia projects, especially black, brown, indigenous, LGBTQIA and Global South women who are disproportionately affected by invisibility in our projects and across the web. That’s why, as part of this campaign, we make a targeted effort to increase the number of images that celebrate and affirm women from these marginalized groups.

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Penny Richards, who works with photos for the Women in Red project, says:

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The women depicted in the images included in #VisibleWikiWomen are (or were) working, celebrating, aging human beings, with faces that might remind the viewer of a neighbor or a friend. Seeing these notable women reminds us that, in real life, achievement isn't always dressed up, nipped in, and perfectly-coiffed. It means that notable women laugh, scowl, squint, and rage. Our lives are saturated with images of women that are manipulated, airbrushed, and uncannily symmetrical; in compliant poses with perfect skin and eager smiles. I want to see real faces and shapes on Wikipedia. I want kids to see the whole amazing range of what interesting women look like.

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Suggested articles for editing:

African-American women in computer science (needs expansion)
Convict women in Australia (has issues and needs expansion)
Gender pay gap in India (may include original research, needs verification)
History of women in engineering (needs expansion)
List of female librarians (very incomplete)
List of women aviators (very incomplete)
Women in Africa (could be expanded, has several redlinks)
Women in Oceania (could be expanded, has several redlinks)
Women's suffrage in Mexico (needs expansion)

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White men need not be pictured

I continue to object to Women in Red's WP:RIGHTGREATWRONGS mentality. While addressing our systemic bias is fine, I find these efforts at social justice ultimately discriminatory. Chris Troutman (talk) 18:14, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

So ignore the systemic bias? To address the bias you have to directly discriminate against it.--3family6 (Talk to me | See what I have done) 23:17, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That's also a very poor interpretation about "WP:RIGHTGREATWRONGS", which is about activist addition of unverifiable information. Women in Red is nothing of the sort.--3family6 (Talk to me | See what I have done) 23:18, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

How would you suggest addressing systemic bias without being discriminatory? Kaldari (talk) 17:14, 9 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think encouraging all people, including people of color and those from the Global South, needs to be discriminatory. Continued editor recruiting may or may not address our systemic bias; the fault lies in our sources, not ourselves. Chris Troutman (talk) 17:22, 9 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Marginal eyes

Can't help wondering when more than half the people on this planet will stop being "invisibilized", "marginalized" in some way or 'nother? P.I. Ellsworth ed. ^put'r there 18:51, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Global South includes Mexico" Please do not call me poor -Gouleg (Talk • Contribs) 15:08, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Call me anything... except please do not call me late for supper. P.I. Ellsworth ed. ^put'r there 15:32, 31 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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