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< Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red
    Welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR)!
    Our objective is to turn red links into blue ones. Our project's scope is women's representation on all language Wikipedias (biographies, women's works, women's issues, broadly construed). Did you know that, according to Humaniki, only 19.84% of the English Wikipedia's biographies are about women? Not impressed? Content gender gap is a form of systemic bias, and this is what WiR addresses. We invite you to participate, whenever you like, in whatever way suits you and your schedule. Editors of all genders are equally and warmly welcome at Women in Red!
    Alphabet run: U–W editathon
    Online event
    May 2024
    Mary Theresa Vidal, Australia's first female novelist
    Meetup306
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    Welcome!

    From July 2023 to June 2024, Women in Red is embarking on their second collective "alphabet run", where editors work consecutively through the letters of the English alphabet. The May 2024 letters are U, V and W, and can be applied to any first, middle or last name of a subject e.g. Virginia Woolf, or individuals named like Ursula K. Le Guin or Judith Wright would both be appropriate.

    For the rerun, we are providing lists of the most frequently redlisted women. Based on database searches, these are listed under the first name in the article title. While the searches take account of women's given names, you will discover there are quite a number that are inappropriate (e.g. names like Val which can be unisex). If you decide to choose to write a biography for these lists, you might like to mention "most frequent" when you add it under New or upgraded articles.

    We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about notable women.

    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) edit

    A wide variety of redlink lists can be found on our Redlist index. Any of these lists can be used to find subjects who may have a first, middle or last name, beginning with U, V or W. Editors can click the column header to rearrange names into alphabetical order.

    There are a wide variety of dictionaries and other reference works available, some that editors might consider are:

    Wikidata generated lists edit

    • American National Biography (WD)
    • Australian Dictionary of Biography (WD)
    • Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women (WD)
    • Glimpses into Pacific Lives: Some Outstanding Women (CS)
    • Native American Women (WD)
    • Notable American Women, 1607–1950 (WD)
    • Notable Women of Hawaii (WD)
    • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (WD)

    External links edit


    Dictionaries with fewer than 20 women to go edit

    • Who's Who among the Colored Baptists of the United States (CS) - 4
    • Dictionary of Ulster Biography (WD) - 3
    • Dictionary of Irish Biography (WD)- 5 0 1 (more not on wikidata!)
    • Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers (WD) - 10 9 8 7
    • Western Canadian women (CS) - 11 9
    • Dictionary of African Biography (WD) - 10 9 2
    • Onze Musici (WD) - 8 13
    • Biographical Dictionary of Spanish Socialism (WD) - 14 15 17 16
    • Latin America in the Communist International (WD) - 17 14 13 12
    • Dictionary of Welsh Biography (WD) - 20 22 18 15 21 19


    Most frequently redlinked women edit

    The lists below cover the first names of women beginning with U, V or W:


    Participants edit

    Outcomes (articles) edit

    New or upgraded articles edit

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

    1.   Victoria Vincent
    2.   Araceli Sánchez Urquijo - upgraded
    3.      Victòria Pujolar - PIN
    4.   Laura Winthrop Johnson
    5.   Marthe de Vogüé, marquise de Mac Mahon - PIN
    6.   Wendy Hunt
    7.   Electrical Association for Women - upgraded
    8.   Valentina Quintero (also 305)
    9.   Susan Linn De Witt
    10.   Sherley Anne Williams - add image, PIN
    11.   Ann Welch - upgraded, PIN
    12.    Vera Brown Holmes (also 294)
    13.   Freddye Harper Williams - upgrade, PIN
    14.   Gina Wilkinson - add image, PIN
    15.   Helen Wilkes - add image, PIN
    16.   Ing-Marie Wieselgren - add image, PIN
    17.   Claudette White - add image, PIN
    18.   Diane Weyermann - add image, PIN
    19.   Alice Crane Williams - PIN
    20.   Marcela Walerstein
    21.   Sara Wedlund - add image, PIN
    22.   Phyllis Webb - add image, PIN
    23.   Abbie E. Krebs-Wilkins - PIN
    24.   Flo Ware - add image, PIN
    25.   Wendy Jenkins (poet)
    26.    Marguerite Volavy -added img, PIN
    27.   Sallie Walker Stockard - add image, PIN
    28.   Mária Wollemann (also 294/307)
    29.   Lyravine Votaw - PIN
    30.     Marie-José Villiers - upgraded, PIN
    31.   Mrs Victor Bruce - upgraded, PIN
    32.   Marie Laura Violet Gayler - upgraded
    33.   Pamela Waechter - add image, PIN
    34.     Jeanne Villepreux-Power - upgraded, PIN
    35.   Genoveva Virginia Cossoul
    36.   Anna von László
    37. Wanda - upgraded
    38.   Ida Veldhuyzen van Zanten - upgraded, PIN
    39. Victoria (name) - upgraded
    40. Velma (given name) - upgraded
    41. Vera (given name) - upgraded
    42.   Valide Tutayuq
    43. Valentine_(name) - upgraded
    44. Valerie_(given_name) - upgraded
    45. Virginia (given_name) - upgraded
    46. Ursula (name) - upgraded
    47.   Urvashi Bahuguna
    48.   Daisy Voisin - add image, PIN
    49.   Violeta Vidaurre - add image, PIN
    50.   Mary Adella Wolcott
    51.   Mary Catharine North Weston
    52.   Sally Victor - add image , PIN
    53.   Mary Wicks Bennett
    54.    Marie Vassilieff - add image and rewritten with citations, PIN
    55.   Maria Wilhelmine von Thun und Hohenstein - upgraded, PIN
    56.   National Mary Washington Memorial Association
    57.   Beryl Vertue - add image, PIN
    58.   Betty Lou Varnum - add image, PIN
    59.   Nina Vance - add image, PIN
    60.   Frances Ullmann DeArmand - PIN
    61.   Melānija Vanaga - add image, PIN
    62.   Zoe Dana Underhill
    63.   Hitomi Ueda
    64.     Lucy Winthrop
    65.    Gertrud L. Wyatt (also 294)
    66.   Margery Urquhart - add image, PIN
    67.   Olga Ulyanova - add image, PIN
    68.   Elizabeth Campbell Winter
    69.   Minnie A. Weeks Pittock
    70.   Anne Toppan Wilbur Wood
    71.   Vera Božičković-Popović
    72.   Ida Verona
    73.   Susie Williams (also 294)
    74.   Christine von Wattenwyl (also 307)
    75.   Mary Burfitt Williams
    76.   Jane Williams (silversmith) - improved
    77.   Anna-Maria van Reysschoot
    78.   Willa Holt Wakefield - PIN
    79.   Pauline von Koudelka-Schmerling
    80. Women photographers - upgraded
    81.   Eugenia Williamson Hume (also 294)- PIN
    82.   Vera Sogoyan
    83.   Theodora von Hermansthal
    84.   Madame Vaudé-Green
    85.   Erica Underwood
    86.   Valentine Friedli (also 307) - PIN
    87.   Alexandrine von Wistinghausen
    88.   Vera Gushee - PIN
    89.   Jennifer Uchendu BBC100 woman saved from draft
    90.   Ula Sharon - PIN
    91.   Eglantine Wallace (minor edits)
    92.   Jane Warton (writer) (minor edits)
    93.   Jane West (novelist) (edits; added image)
    94.   Jane Wiseman (minor edits; added image) - PIN
    95.   Leanne Cullen-Unsworth
    96.   Kate Walker Behan - PIN
    97.   Nora Vagi Brash CMG OBE
    98.   Henriëtte van den Brandeler - PIN
    99.   Breiana Whitehead

    Promote our work edit

    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 it 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


    In the News articles edit

    Outcomes (media) edit

    Add here – most recent at the top


    References edit

    Event templates edit

    • Invitation: May 2024
    • Editathon banner for talk pages – Alphabet Run: U, V & W {{WIR|306}}
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