Module:Women in Red event/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Module:Women in Red event.
It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original module page.

This module is rated as beta. It is considered ready for widespread use, but as it is still relatively new, it should be applied with some caution to ensure results are as expected.

Usage

This module has various functons that use the list of WikiProject Women in Red events stored at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/events. These are used in

and elsewhere.

main function

{{#invoke:Women in Red event|main|event|field}}

Given an event number, reads one of the fields (event, year, month, type, image, series)

For example:

{{#invoke:Women in Red event|main|294|name}} gives "Education"
{{#invoke:Women in Red event|main|7|year}} gives "2016"
{{#invoke:Women in Red event|main|236|series}} gives "Alphabet run"

text function

Produces a piped link to the event page followed by the date, for use in the project banner. For example:

{{#invoke:Women in Red event|text|291}} gives "Women who died: 2023 edit-a-thon from December 2023 to January 2024"

date function

Produces a formatted date (including month and year) of the event. For example:

{{#invoke:Women in Red event|date|210}} gives "October–December 2021"

findLatest function

Shows the latest event number to be defined (currently 354), ignoring the quasi event numbers "2017" and "2018". For example

{{#invoke:Women in Red event|findLatest}} gives "354"

An optional parameter |add= can be used to add or subtract numbers to the latest. For example

{{#invoke:Women in Red event|findLatest|add=1}} gives "355"

list function

Produce a table of events, for various purposes. The following parameters are recognised.

first, last: specify the first and/or last event to show in the list. For example {{#invoke:Women in Red event|list|first=52|last=55}} produces

Meetup	Name	Date
52	Women in peace	Aug 2017
53	Canadian women	Aug 2017
54	Hispanic & Latina women	Sep 2017
55	Olympic women	Sep 2017

latest: to show a specified number of the latest events. In this case |first= and |last= will be ignored. For example, {{#invoke:Women in Red event|list|latest=3}} produces

Meetup	Name	Date
352	Halloween	Oct 2025
353	Alphabet run: U, V, W	Nov 2025
354	Asian women	Nov 2025

Columns

The columns of the table can be customised by setting various parameters to yes or no.

meetup: shows or hides a column with the meetup number. By default this column is shown. If a background colour is defined then it will be used in this cell.
logo: enables a column to show the logo associated with each event.
series: enables a column to show the series (if applicable) of each event.
name: enables a column to show the name of each event, and a link to the meetup page. This will be shown by default.
date: shows or hides a column which displays the date of each event. Shown by default.
template: column to show the syntax for the template using the shortcut {{WIR}}
wrapper (deprecated): column to show the wrapper template for each event. These are no longer in general use.
category: enables a column which links to the category for articles created by each event, along with the population of that category.

Examples

The table currently shown on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red/events is produced by the syntax {{#invoke:Women in Red event|list|logo=yes|series=yes|wrapper=yes|category=yes}}.

The table currently shown on Template:WikiProject Women in Red/doc is produced by the syntax {{#invoke:Women in Red event|list|latest=10|template=yes}} which produces the following:

Meetup	Name	Date	Template
345	Indigenous women	Aug 2025	`{{WIR\|345}}`
346	Film and stage	Aug 2025	`{{WIR\|346}}`
347	Alphabet run: Q & R	Sep 2025	`{{WIR\|347}}`
348	Women writers & their works	Sep 2025	`{{WIR\|348}}`
349	Geofocus: Microstates	Sep 2025	`{{WIR\|349}}`
350	Alphabet run: S & T	Oct 2025	`{{WIR\|350}}`
351	Women in STEM	Oct 2025	`{{WIR\|351}}`
352	Halloween	Oct 2025	`{{WIR\|352}}`
353	Alphabet run: U, V, W	Nov 2025	`{{WIR\|353}}`
354	Asian women	Nov 2025	`{{WIR\|354}}`

event_list_by_year function

Produces a list of all past events in a particular year, for use in Template:Women in Red navigation.

For example, {{#invoke:Women in Red event|event_list_by_year|2023}} produces:

count_banners function

Used by Template:WikiProject Women in Red to count the number of WIR banners on the page, and output a category if this number is more than 1, i.e. there are multiple banners on the same page. It looks for templates of the form {{WikiProject Women in Red...}}. The categories are shown in Category:Pages with multiple WikiProject Women in Red banners.

current_events function

Produces a list of current and upcoming events, for navigational purposes at the top of meetup pages.

For example:

{{#invoke:Women in Red event|current_events}} produces

Recently completed:	Alphabet run: S & T Women in STEM Halloween
November 2025:	Alphabet run: U, V, W Asian women
Ongoing initiatives:	Music #1day1woman
Upcoming events:	Ideas

events function

{{#invoke:Women in Red event|events}}

Produces a list of current, upcoming and recently completed events, for use on Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Events. It has a number of optional parameters:

monthly - include a section for edit-a-thons in the current month. This parameter defines the heading, e.g. |monthly=Happening now
ongoing - include a section for ongoing initiatives or contests. This parameter defines the heading, e.g. |ongoing=Ongoing initiatives
upcoming - include a section for upcoming events. This parameter defines the heading, e.g. |upcoming=Coming up
recent - include a section for recently completed events (i.e. events in the previous month). This parameter defines the heading, e.g. |recent=Recently completed
past - include a section for all past events (except recently completed). This parameter defines the heading, e.g. |past=Past events

category_header function

Used by Template:WIR category to produce a header for various categories. Please see that template's documentation.