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    Geofocus: Sub-Saharan Africa editathon
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    October 2023
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    ArticlesMeetup 286 articles (23)
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    Geofocus: Sub-Saharan Africa
    October 2023
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    Welcome!

    In October 2023, Women in Red's geofocus covers women from Sub-Saharan Africa.

    We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about notable women from or associated with these countries.

    This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts wherever they may be to participate in our initiative. Contributors are of course also welcome to add articles on any other women who deserve to be covered, for example under the topics of the month or our comprehensive #1day1woman priority.

    The main goals of the event are:

    • to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of prominent women
    • to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
    • to promote the new and improved articles and images through social media and via nominations to Main Page features "Did You Know?" and "In The News".

    What else?

    • Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you create month by month, and another section where you can add the images you have uploaded to Commons.
    • This essay on creating women's biographies and our Ten Simple Rules might be helpful to newer editors.
    • If you share any of the articles or images on social media, or successfully nominate for Main Page, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.
    Thank you!

    Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)

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    A wide variety of redlink lists can be found on our Redlist index. Those main Wikidata lists relating to women of Sub-Saharan Africa are listed below:

    Crowd-sourced (CS) and Wikidata (WD) red-link lists:

    Add other red links here, if possible with a source:

    Participants

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    Outcomes (articles)

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    Please add the biographical dictionary, if used:

    New or upgraded articles

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    Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new

    Promote our work

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    Key:

    • Add FB after the article if you mention it on Facebook
    • Add PIN after the article if you pin the image on Pinterest
    • Add TW after the article if you tweet it on Twitter
    • Add IG after the article if you post in on Instagram
    • Add LI after the article if you post it on LinkedIn
    • Add ITN after the article if it was posted on the main page via WP:In The News

    Did You Know features

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    New/expanded articles featured in the Did you know... column of the Wikipedia Main page

    • Add here – most recent at the top with date of publication

    Outcomes (media)

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    Add here – most recent at the top


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