The Women in Religion WikiProject is an initiative to create, update, and improve Wikimedia content pertaining to the lives of cisgender and transgender women who are notable as scholars, activists and practitioners in the world's religious, spiritual and wisdom traditions. As of January 2024, our project has created or improved more than 300 Wikipedia articles and biographies.
All are invited to contribute and join in our activities; there are many ways to help and no specialized knowledge of content or editing is required. Trainings and edit-a-thons are held regularly for new editors interested in learning to edit Wikipedia or Wikidata. This Meetup page will be used to post details about ongoing activities and events.
The Women in Religion WikiProject organizing committee meets monthly. If you would like to participate in these meetings contact Dzingle1 or click the link below.
See this video, a panel presentation our members gave at the Online June Sessions of the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion in 2024, for more information about our project and our most recent projects.
Here's our project banner. Please place it on the talk page of any new article or bio you create.
This article is within the scope of the Women in Religion WikiProject, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of women in religion. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.Women in ReligionWikipedia:WikiProject Women in ReligionTemplate:WikiProject Women in ReligionWomen in Religion
We are happy to announce the release of the "Call for Submissions" for Volume Four of the Women in Religion biographies series published with the Parliament of the World's Religions. The working title for this volume is Women Challenging Dominant Religious Practices and Expectations through Women-centered Traditions and Spiritualities. If interested, see here or contact Colleen Hartung (User:Dzingle1). The submission deadline has been extended to October 31, 2024. We are looking forward to another successful publication that will allow us to continue our work of raising up the visibility of so many noteworthy women who remain undercovered on Wikipedia.
In addition to writing, creating, and improving biographies about Women in Religion on Wikipedia, one of the goals of WikiProject Women in Religion is to increase content about them in the general scholarship. Our strategy is to provide secondary sources for Wikipedia editors and contributors to use to increase the content about women in religion on Wikipedia. To that end, we have participated in the publication of, as of three volumes of monographs, two published by ATLA Open Press and the the third by the Parliament of the World's Religions.
Work on the fourth volume is now underway. The deadline for proposing a chapter has been extended to October 31, 2024. If you would like to participate in this endeavor, please visit Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Religion/Women in Religion series for more information and for lists of the women featured in prior volumes in this series.
This WikiProject was launched as "1000 Women in Religion" at the 2018 Parliament of the World's Religions in Toronto, Canada, with the support of the Women's Task Force at the 2018 Parliament and the Women's Caucus of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature. Its focus was to add one thousand women's biographies to Wikipedia to address the gender gap. Since its founding, the WikiProject has continually expanded, with affiliated Wikimedians working on regional projects in Australia, India, and Kenya. In addition to adding and improving content in Wikipedia, project members have contributed to Wikidata, WikiCommons, and WikiQuote. In 2022, the project's name was changed to Women in Religion to reflect this broader range of activity.
In June 2024, seven members of our project presented at the virtual conference of the American Academy of Religion. See here for the presentation at Commons and here at YouTube.
Join us for an hour of editing, the 2nd Monday of each month, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. CST! Bring your own project to work on, or any questions you have about editing. All levels are welcome.
For Zoom meeting details and more information, contact Dzingle1 or RosPost.
Wikipedia editors in the San Diego Area who want to join, we can use you, please contact Rosalind - rhinton1@tulane.edu or --RosPost17:11, 11 September 2024 (UTC);[reply]
Western Region Conference - March 15, 2025 - In-Person Editathon - University of Las Vegas
Time : 9:00 - 11:00 a.m. PST
Location: Campus of UNLV - Student Union Room 205 (Near Lot D Parking, Closest Road: Maryland Pkwy.)
Sign up for a Wikipedia account and join us in this work. See this page for information on how to create an account. You can also add our userbox template {{User WikiProject Women in religion}} to your user page, which will produce:
... that Saint Amalberga of Temse (pictured) is the patron saint of upper-limb injuries, because of the legend that Charlemagne broke her arm while trying to force her to marry him? Nominated by Christine. 3 January 2025
... that the Buddhist-studies scholar Paula Arai suffered racial and sexual discrimination while researching Sōtō Zen laywomen and nuns? Nominated by Christine. 15 March 2024
... that Mary Burt Messer was researching and writing about the sociology of divorce as early as 1924? 20 September 2023 Nominated by Jaireeodell
... that Landrada of Austrasia "was regarded, even as a child, as a model of Christian perfection"? 20 June 2023
... that Edith of Wilton was criticized for not working after her death? Nominated by Christine. 1 April 2023
... that the Vatican selected Mary Milligan in 1987 to be one of only three U.S. experts to assist the International Synod of Bishops on the Laity in Rome? Nominated by User:Engmaj. 3 December 2022
... that Kristallnacht prompted Elisabeth Schmitz (pictured) to leave her teaching job, unwilling to work for "a government that permitted the synagogues to be set afire"? 29 December 2021
... that Australian religious sister Bridget Partridge fled her convent in 1920 dressed only in her nightgown, precipitating a national sectarian scandal? 25 October 2021
... that Elizabeth Laurie Rees was the only woman to lead devotions at the 1928 World Baptist Congress in Toronto? 22 October 2021
... that Phyllis Le Cappelaine Burke helped found the Sydney chapter of the St. Joan Social and Political Alliance, which advocated for equal rights for women? August 22, 2021
... that two hagiographic documents about St. Hunegund of France publicized Hunegund's miracles to create a sense of identity in Homblières and to raise money for the monastery? June 27, 2021
... that Jo Inkpin was Australia's first openly transgender Anglican priest? June 26, 2021
... that the miracles that established Saint Glodesind's claim to sainthood did not begin until 25 years or more after her death, and many of them occurred over 200 years later? April 18, 2021
... that Rosemary Crumlin, author of a 60-year history of the Blake Prize for religious art, first attended a Blake exhibition when she was a young novice with the Australian Sisters of Mercy? April 7 2021
... that after Saint Eustadiola, a 7th century abbess in Bourges, France, prayed with her nuns for rain during a drought, they got drenched before they were able to return to the convent? 26 January 2021
... that according to a chaplain at Nonnberg Abbey, an abbot was immediately struck blind after stealing one of Saint Erentrude's relics 300 years after her death? 18 January 2021
Image use policy – rights, licenses, is it okay to use the image
Picture Tutorial – technical details of getting image uploaded and displaying in a way that looks good
Free image resources – where to find free images for use in Wikipedia (in addition to holdings of the library that you could photograph and upload to Wikimedia Commons)