Our woman of the day is "Sue", It was once argued that Wiki articles about women needed to be created by women editors. We argued that Wikipedia has lots of articles about dinosaurs and only a few of our editors are dinosaurs.We welcome editors of any gender (or species)

Our holidays were complete when a package arrived from @w4safrica. #WomeninRed Tee shirts! .Never seen in Europe or America. We're offering one AND a Women in Red Barnstar to the first 24 "Start" articles written for the 2024 Education editathon.

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Did You Know. that Edinburgh's "forgotten heroines", Eliza Wigham, Jane Smeal, Priscilla Bright McLaren, and Elizabeth Pease, were associated with the Edinburgh Ladies' Emancipation Society. Appeared 9 years ago today on #Wikipedia.as Women in Red's first Did You Know.

Daddy had a #NobelPrize & mummy had 2. Irene Curie was their daughter and she was #BornOnThisDay . She and her husband received Nobel Prizes for artificial radioactivity. Like her mum; she is on the X-Ray martyr monument

#onourbanner today is Mary Cassat who was one of the few women impressionists and an American. Hero. She is one of the small minority of women on Wikipedia. we know! We're fixing it.

RT @EstherZwarts: Check out these special editions. #HerStories to celebrating the #GirlChild, they covered it all in #Anankemag #WomenInTe….

. and in May. women on the press, CEE Women and those who begiv with U, V or W. More at.

So last month our lead editor @PennamitePLR curated these pics of women on #Pinterest - they all gained new/imp'd articles on #Wikipedia due to our project. You may not have time to add an article yourself but we thank those who watch and clap. Thank you.

#MayDayWishes.Today's #womanoftheday is Florence Bell. Who was the woman who was uncreditted for her involvement with the discovery of DNA's structure? #BornOnThisDay.One of the ~20% women on wiki. We're fixing it.

#BornOnThisDay and #onourbanner.Madame le Brun was a stunning French painter.Marie Daly was the first African American to gain a PhD at @Columbia.Want to know more ? read. Know more? edit.

She was #BornOnThisDay and she's one of the 19% women on Wikipedia. The first person from South America to receive the #NobelPrize for literature was Gabriela Mistral. We are adding more women like this to inspire the next generation to join the 19% .

RT @astro_meganne: 4️⃣ and to participate in efforts by many to raise the profile of #WomenInSTEM/#WomenInAviation 👩‍✈️👩‍🚀- I was inspired….

Exceptional work Kate, the Wikipedia article has been completely revised to reflect the better sources of her story. If you have more to share then brilliant. The talk page of the aricle is the best place to flag up additional info/sources . or just add it to the article.

RT @historical_kate: @ThirlwallAssoc @WikiWomenInRed No, there was no SOE link, a team of us worked exceptionally hard on this for weeks.….

Went to see @MarjoleinR last night and my mates were laughing off seats at @HeartofHawick. Marj told us after that she had no pic on #Wikipedia. She has now . here in Scots (there is one in English too).Create #visiblewomen using @creativecommons .

RT @KnitMeAThneed: I've not tweeted much about my work lately. Not enough time! Partly because I committed to writing 1 start-level (ie not….

Getting to the end of #WomensHistoryMonth and WIR are starting our 300th editathon. Let us share some pics of some of the women who joined the 19% women on #Wikipedia in March. Curated by @PennamitePLR and clapped by you. Do you create #visiblewomen?

Discovering . today's new entry is a woman of #Namibian descent. She has been working with one of the oldest cultures in the world. Discover @ShishaniV and her music. Now one of the 19.7% on wiki. her her music

103 years ago you could get into the Olympics if you were a painting or a sculpture . but not if you were a woman

RT @Wikimedia: Meet Jirina Kadnerova, an 80-year-old retiree who is a devoted contributor to @Wikipedia. Kadnerova has written around 100….

RT @chocmilk: My latest article for @WikiWomenInRed. Nadine Ribault was the first French recipient of the Randell Cottage residency, and di….