Gender gap/International Women's Day
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Celebrate Women!
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Wikipedia hosts 1.7 million biographies. Not even 20% of those are about women. If Wikipedia wants to become the sum of human knowledge, this needs to change. With such a large gender gap, we are far from reaching the goal. International Women's Day is an important moment to remind ourselves of the gender gap for women and all underrepresented groups and to renew our efforts to close these gaps.
This page gathers several events that take place on or around International Women's Day (8 March) and Women's History Month in March 2021, and where the goal is to come closer to closing the gender gap. Do you want to take part? Think about what you want to do and what languages you want to write in. Take a look at the events that are planned below, and sign up!
Do you lack an event to take part in? Solve it the wiki way: organize it yourself! There are many resources you can use, and help to get. See more information below.
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Initiatives
There are several initiatives and campaigns with events on or around International Women's Day. You can find a thorough list.
| Initiative | Description | Events |
|---|---|---|
| WikiGap | Events globally focusing on closing the gender gap on Wikipedia, by writing new articles about prominent women. | List of events |
| Women in Red | A WikiProject whose objective is to turn "redlinks" into blue ones within the project scope. | Visible Wiki Women/Art+Activism/Women in Africa |
| Art+Feminism | An international community that strives to close the information gap about gender, feminism, and the arts on the internet. | List of events |
| WikiDonne | Cross wikiprojects to increase diversity in content and participation (women, minorities and non- or underrepresented groups) | |
| Wiki Loves Women | The annual contest Tell Us About Her – Women At Work to improve image descriptions. Add structured data to Wikimedia Commons thanks to a dedicated drive and the ISA Tool. Throughout March 2021. | Participate |
| Les sans pagEs | A French-speaking project focusing on reducing gender biases. In March, initiatives such as 150th Anniversary of the Paris Commune 1871 (with a list of women), TinnGO, Women and Science, Multimedia Library of Suresne Edit-a-thon, Unillustrated Women |
Events
Feel free to add your own events below, by clicking on this link. See Best practices in scheduling a meeting.
You can also see events on the Diff calendar [1] Some events are one day only, others are the start date for an initiative. Start times where applicable are in UTC, and (00:00) is used when there is not a particular start time.
Wikimedia movement gender gap events are added to this page around February and throughout April every year. Below is a table of events for this year, though we may have missed some! Please add your scheduled event to Celebrate Women in your community to this page, and feel free to do so in the language of the event.
You can learn about other events in the movement here.
Online
| Language(s) | When | Type of event | Event topic list | Notes | Contact / URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| en | 1-31 March 2025 | Participate at your convenience: | Women in Red (est. Wikimania 2015) is dedicated to increasing content about women* (biographies, works, issues). All are warmly welcome to help "move the needle" (currently, 20.03% biographies on EN-WP are about women) as we celebrate our 10 Year Anniversary! | Women in Red talkpage
Rosiestep rosiestep.wiki@gmail.com | |
| en | Monday, March 10, 2025, 4 pm CST | Women in Religion WikiProject - Online, regular monthly session | Women in Religion WikiProject is dedicated to increasing content about women in religion on Wikipedia. We meet monthly via Zoom. All are welcome! | Figureskatingfan | |
| en, fr | March 13th – March 31st | Celebrate Africa Women in Wikimedia! | Celebrating African Women in Wikimedia is a special meetup and edit-a-thon dedicated to highlighting the contributions of African women in the Wikimedia movement. As part of the International Women’s Day celebrations, Africa Wiki Women will share inspiring stories, exchange experiences, and collaborate on a weeklong effort to update citizenship data on women's biographies. This initiative aims to improve representation and ensure that women's contributions and identities are accurately documented on Wikimedia platforms. Join us as we celebrate, connect, and make an impact | Celebrating Africa Women in Wikimedia africawikiwomen@gmail.com | |
| en | March 19 at 16:30 UTC / 9:30 PT | Wikimedia Research Showcase focused on Gender Gap | In this presentation live streamed through Youtube, we will have 3 presentations highlighting recent research in the gender gap space. More information on the speakers and talks will be updated soon. For questions, contact kgordon(_AT_)wikimedia.org | Research Showcase MediaWiki Page | |
| en | February 28 at 12:00 UTC | Art+Feminism Virtual Editing Table (VET): How Images Can Change Wikipedia and the Internet | You can't build a feminist internet without images that reflect that vision. The illustrator and designer Bárbara Fonseca shares her experiences and motivations for organizing in partnership with our Leadership Advisor Flavia Doria the Ilustratona WELx, an open call organized by the lusophone user group Wiki Editoras Lx for artists to illustrate for the Wikipédia. They will facilitate a demonstration on how to upload images to WikiCommons and a creative activity to think about the invisibility of women, trans and non-binary people through the arts. | Art+Feminism 2025-2026 Programming
info@artandfeminism.org | |
| en, fr, es | March 8 at 16:00 UTC | Art+Feminism Virtual Editing Table (VET): Editing Wikiquote with Wiki Loves Women team | A truly feminist internet should ensure balanced gender representation within Wikiquote entries. Join Zita Ursula Zage, Florence Devouard and Afek Ben Chahed to explore collaborative initiatives like Wiki Loves Women’s 'She Said' Campaign which document quotes from Black women, non-binary, and LGBTQI+ individuals who have inspired many in the fight against patriarchy and the eradication of gender-based violence aligns perfectly with our theme. During this session, participants will learn how to edit Wikiquote, a free online compendium of sourced quotations from notable people and creative works in every language. | Art+Feminism 2025-2026 Programming
info@artandfeminism.org | |
| en, es, pt | April 25 at 6:30 UTC | Art+Feminism Virtual Editing Table (VET): Transnational Data Activism and Feminist Movements in Latin America | Dr. Alessandra Jungs de Almeida's research sits at the intersection of gender and technology. Her work examines how transnational feminist activists opposing feminicide and advocating for reproductive justice use, refuse, demand, and produce data to advance their political goals. This talk, facilitated by Art+Feminism’s Leadership Adviser Michaela Blanc, introduces the concept of "transnational data activism" as a political tactic, highlighting emerging forms of feminist resistance and activist strategies across Latin America. | Art+Feminism 2025-2026 Programming
info@artandfeminism.org | |
| en, fr | March 1st at 6ː00 pm UTC | Online launch of the Wiki OTO campaign | WikiData GenderGap
African Women |
The Wiki Oto Campaign will officially launch on March 1, 2025 at 6ː00 pm UTC. This exciting new initiative, hosted by the Focus Group members, will introduce a fresh theme every two months, inviting participants to contribute items related to each topic on Wikidata. On the launch day, a special presentation will be held, providing an overview of the Wiki Oto campaign and detailed information about the upcoming themes, objectives, and how to get involved. Don't miss this opportunity to learn, contribute, and be part of this vibrant new campaign! | Event page
afek@wikiinafrica.org |
| fi | 3 – 9 March | Weekly edit competition | Women, gender minorities and equality is the theme of the weekly editing competition in the Finnish Wikipedia during week 10 of 2025. | Event page | |
| nb, nn, se, smn | 1–31 March | Monthly edit competition | Women in Red is the theme for the monthly contest for March in the Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Northern Sámi and Inari Sámi Wikipedias. | Contest page |
Africa
| Country | Language(s) | City | Location | When | Event topic list | Type of event | Notes | Contact / URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All African countries | En, Fr | Online | Online | 01/03/2025 - 30/04/2024 | Campaign Launch | The Wiki Oto is a new campaign started by members of the Wiki Loves Women Focus Group in 2025. It is consists of adding items related to African women on WikiData. The first edition will be from March, 1st to April, 30th.
There will be an online event to launch and present the campaign on the 1st March at 4ː00 pm UTC. |
Wiki OTO | |
Asia
| Country | Language(s) | City | Location | When | Event topic list | Type of event | Notes | Contact / URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| India | Assamese | Tezpur | Tezpur University | 08/03/2025 | (will be updated) | Residential Wikisource Workshop | A Residential Wikisouce Workshop is organized as a celebration of International Women's Day by User:JyotiPN (Assamese Wikimedia Community) in collaboration with CIS-A2K and Assamese Department of Tezpur University | User:JyotiPN |
Europe
| Country | Language(s) | City | Location | When | Event topic list | Type of event | Notes | Contact / URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | nl, en | Den Haag/The Hague | National Archive | 8 March | Wikipedia workshop + Commons & data workshop | InternationaleVrouwendag2025 | ||
| Spain | es, ca | Barcelona | Diferent places | 29 March | Launch tn¡he Women's health project which will continue with Wikimarathons and meetings until October." | Under construction | ||
| Romania and Republic of Moldova | ro | Romania and Republic of Moldova. One special event will be held in Bucharest on the 1st of March (edit-a-thon). | 21 February – 15 March | national annual campaign (3rd year) | On the occasion of the first days of spring, when we traditionally celebrate women, we invite you to a competition for editing articles about female personalities from Romania and the Republic of Moldova, to write new Wikipedia articles or improve existing articles about women. | ro:Wikipedia:Wikimărțișor/2025 | ||
| Norway | nb, nn | Oslo | Deichman Bjørvika | 1 March, 14:00–16:00 | Meetup and editathon | Meetup and mini-editathon with Women in Red as a topic, for both experienced and novice Wikipedians. | wikimedia.no | |
| Norway | nb, nn | Oslo | Sentralen | 8 March, 12:00–15:00 | Editathon | Editathon and outreach event with Women in Red as a topic. | wikimedia.no |
Latin America (追記) (追記ここまで)
Add your event in Latin America
| Country | Language(s) | City | Location | When | Event topic list | Type of event | Notes | Contact / URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Middle East (追記) (追記ここまで)
Add your event in the Middle East
| Country | Language(s) | City | Location | When | Event topic list | Type of event | Notes | Contact / URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
North America (追記) (追記ここまで)
Add your event in North America
| Country | Language(s) | City | Location | When | Event topic list | Type of event | Notes | Contact / URL |
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Oceania
| Country | Language(s) | City | Location | When | Event topic list | Type of event | Notes | Contact / URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | en | Sydney | Artbank | Friday 7 March 2025 | Wikipedia edit-a-thon | To increase the visibility of women artists in the Artbank collection in partnership with Wikimedia Australia | Wikipedia Meet up page | |
| Australia | en | Melbourne | Richmond Library | Saturday 8 March 2025 | Wikipedia edit-a-thon | Art+Feminism theme in partnership with Wikimedia Australia | Eventbrite | |
| Australia | en | Canberra | National Gallery of Australia | Saturday 15 March 2025 | Wikipedia edit-a-thon | Know My Name, NGA initiative celebrating the work of women artists in partnership with Wikimedia Australia | NGA event page |