Women in Red

Women in Red is a WikiProject intended to address the current gender bias in Wikipedia content.

[1] Research at these events often discovered notable women in STEM who did not have Wikipedia pages, therefore a red link could be created for that person.

Her specialty is adding a new Wikipedia article about a female scientist each time somebody harasses her about her volunteer editing efforts.

[2] At Wikimania 2016, in Esino Lario, Italy, Jimmy Wales, who co-founded Wikipedia in 2001, named Stephenson-Goodknight and Temple-Wood the Wikipedians of the Year, for the prior 12 months, for their effort to fill the gender information gap.

[3] The all-day in-person edit-a-thons are focused events conducted to train new contributors so that the Wikipedia gender gap can become narrower and include more content on notable women.

Stephenson-Goodknight and Bamkin (appearing via Skype) announcing the formation of Women in Red during Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City
Women in Red presentation by Roger Bamkin, Wikimania 2017