Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/253

Alphabet Run: M to N | January 2023

January: Alphabet run M & N Geofocus East Asia Women who died in 2022

2023 global initiatives: #1day1woman2023 Peace and Diplomacy

See also: Future events

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 19.81% 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!

Welcome!

Online event 1–31 January 2023
Madame Monet and Her Son

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From July 2022 to June 2023, Women in Red is embarking on their first collective "alphabet run", where editors work consecutively through the letters of the English alphabet. The January 2023 letters are M and N, and can be applied to any first, middle or last name of a subject e.g. Maryam Mirzakhani, or individuals named like Marilyn Pappas or Louise Nevelson would both be appropriate.

• July 2022 - A & B
• August 2022 - C & D
• September 2022 - E & F
• October 2022 - G & H
• November 2022 - I & J
• December 2022 - K & L
• January 2023 - M & N
• February 2023 - O & P
• March 2023 - Q & R
• April 2023 - S & T
• May 2023 - U, V, W
• June 2023 - X, Y & Z

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)

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 M or N. 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 American National Biography (WD) Australian Dictionary of Biography (WD) Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women (WD) Dictionary of Canadian Biography (WD) Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon (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 Australian Women's Register (AWR) Austria, poets and writers Austrian Women's Lexicon: A-H Austrian Women's Lexicon: I-O Austrian Women's Lexicon: P-Z Women in the History of Academic Science in Bulgaria: Habilitated Women Members of the BAS Czech Biographical Dictionary Dutch Biography Portal Polish Biographical Dictionary Svenskt biografiskt lexikon Prominent personalities in the USSR Dictionaries with fewer than 20 women to go 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 (more not on wikidata!) Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers (WD) - 10 9 Western Canadian women (CS) - 11 Dictionary of African Biography (WD) - 10 9 8 7 Onze Musici (WD) - 8 13 Biographical Dictionary of Spanish Socialism (WD) - 14 15 16 Latin America in the Communist International (WD) - 17 14 13 Dictionary of Welsh Biography (WD) - 20 22 18 15

Participants

• Jessamyn (my talk page) 22:15, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
• WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 17:10, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
• SikiWtideI (Speak to the backwards police) 18:51, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
• Oronsay (talk) 18:57, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
• Penny Richards (talk) 20:58, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
• Victuallers (talk) 16:25, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
• 97198 (talk) 07:22, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
• CobaltSteel (talk) 15:40, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
• SarahTHunter (talk) 19:04, 31 December 2022 (GMT)
• Scanlan (talk) 02:08, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
• PamD 12:07, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
• gobonobo ^{+ c} 19:39, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
• — scribblingwoman 20:40, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
• Gricharduk (talk) 14:21, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
• Dnllnd (talk) 22:11, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
• Rosiestep (talk) 18:46, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
• Lyduska (talk) 05:00, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
• Lajmmoore (talk) 19:42, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
• --Less Unless (talk) 21:08, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
• Chocmilk03 (talk) 00:05, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
• Curbon7 (talk) 01:58, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
• Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 19:19, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
• Taung Tan (talk) 20:18, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

Outcomes (articles)

Please add the biographical dictionary, if used:

New or upgraded articles

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

1. Sarah Jim Mayo
2. Linsey Marr (updated, added pic)
3. Mary Porteous Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
4. Nina Gorst
5. Montserrat Cervera Rodon (also WiR-251)
6. Marika Bangó
7. Maixux Rekalde (also WiR-251)
8. Margit Bangó
9. Victoria Malektorovych
10. Nicolasa Quintremán (also WiR-251)
11. Stella Muir - add img, infobox, PIN
12. Léone Boudreau-Nelson
13. Martine L. Jacquot
14. Chandi Moore TW
15. Bliss Milford - add img, PIN
16. Marie Elizabeth Amy Castilla - PIN
17. Melissa Depraetere - PIN
18. Natalie Depraz
19. Marjorie Steel Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
20. Camille Froidevaux-Metterie - PIN
21. Jennifer Marianne Hart
22. Molly Brearley Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
23. Marie de Hennezel - PIN
24. Marie-Renée Ucciani - PIN
25. Marie-Claude Beaud - PIN
26. Margaret S. Rood - PIN
27. Margaret Herschel - PIN
28. Myra Sadker
29. Misaki Yabumoto
30. Dorothea Nelson - PIN
31. Nobuko Takahashi (ambassador)
32. Mabel Day Oxford Dictionary of National Biography TW
33. Marcelle Tiard - PIN
34. Ma Yutao - PIN
35. Ella Morgan - PIN
36. Susannah Montgomery - PIN
37. Margaret Sandford Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
38. Magda Košútová
39. Brían Nguyen
40. Danni McCormack
41. Myroslava Shcherbatiuk - PIN
42. Sheila Marbain - PIN
43. Maite Aranburu
44. Hélène Miard-Delacroix - PIN
45. Natalie Mars - pIN
46. Nellie WeetonOxford Dictionary of National Biography
47. Nellie BoswellOxford Dictionary of National Biography
48. Marcia RiceOxford Dictionary of National Biography
49. Mary Broad Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - PIN
50. Dorota Malarczyk - PIN
51. Madeleine Juneau - PIN
52. Margaret Janeway - PIN
53. Katerina Nēhua (upgraded from stub) - PIN
54. Divina Frau-Meigs- PIN
55. Marion C. Loizeaux - PIN
56. Madeleine Rolland (also #251)- PIN
57. Marie-Louise Bouglé (also #251)
58. Michelle Zancarini-Fournel- PIN
59. Emma Murdock Van Deventer- PIN
60. Pania Newton (upgraded from stub) TW, nominated for DYK, PIN
61. Kay McDougall Oxford Dictionary of National Biography- PIN
62. Sarina Nathan Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - PINTW - OneforWikiDonne
63. Margaret Baxter upgrade Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
64. Hawise Mone Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
65. Martha Giffard Oxford Dictionary of National Biography- PIN
66. Eula Davis McEwan - PIN
67. Marguerite Narbel - PIN
68. Marlana Thompson saved from draftify, PIN
69. Valesca Machado
70. Mildred Adams Fenton -destub, PIN
71. Naira Melkumian
72. Anna T. Nilsson - PIN TW
73. Matilda Widegren - PIN TW
74. Marie Jepsen - PIN
75. Victoria Nyame TW
76. Marii Hasegawa - add img, PIN
77. Mikaela Nyman – TW
78. Sarah Minnick
79. Bettina Muscheidt
80. Nadiia Nikitenko - PIN
81. Margaret Hepburn Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
82. Margaret Blackwood (activist) upgrade, PIN TW
83. Mary Page Bird
84. Melissa Bime
85. Megan du Boisson
86. Berit Moore
87. May Hely-Hutchinson
88. Sister Mary Geraldine Tobia
89. Martha Elizabeth Duncan Walker Cook
90. Loren MacIver - add citations to collections etc., PIN
91. Mary Greaves TW, PIN
92. Katherine Milhous - added image, PIN
93. Gail B. Nayowith
94. Linda Mastandrea
95. Margaret Agnes Paul
96. Mária Patakyová - PIN
97. Mary Tooth Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
98. Mary Sackville Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - PIN
99. Mary Anne Holford
100. Edīte Medne
101. Mary Rollason Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
102. Mary Gadbury Oxford Dictionary of National Biography TW
103. Mayne Lindsay Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction
104. Marilù Capparelli
105. A. Evelyn Newman - PIN
106. Yolanda Murphy -destub, PIN
107. Emily Kelley Moran The Oxford dictionary of American art and artists
108. Nela Lopušanová
109. Agate Nesaule - PIN
110. Ellen Maria Carpenter Bénézit Dictionary of Artists
111. Nancy Worden - infobox, image, wikify
112. Maria Susanna Cooper additions/revisions
113. Kirsten Madison
114. Nina Herasymova-Persydska
115. Emily Marshall #11 TW Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
116. Julie Morrow Deforest Bénézit Dictionary of Artists
117. Kathleen Margaret Midwinter my #10 in 10 days Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
118. Nell Stevens
119. Eunice Makepeace Towle
120. Mary Anne Ewart Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
121. Nina Rignano. The article needs improvement. First ref has a large amount of info. - PIN
122. Kate Mackay ADB
123. Selma Mushkin
124. Noris Salazar Allen
125. Ellen Malos
126. Mary Crumpe
127. Mary Woolley Gibbings Cotton, Vicountess Combermere
128. MJ Tyson
129. Rose Montoya moved to draft (twice) 3rd party views on this invited.
130. Margaret Torrie Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - PIN
131. Marie Tůmová TW - PIN
132. Natalya Donchenko add pic and large upgrade, PIN
133. Mary Bell Smith - PIN
134. Eliza Bland Smith Erskine Norton
135. Marcelina Bautista - PIN
136. Maria Cust Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
137. Florence Melly Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
138. Annie E. Molloy - PIN
139. Marianna Bianchi
140. Margaret Allemang Mastodon
141. Karla Máchová
142. Sylvia McLaughlin -destub, PIN
143. Magda Šaturová
144. Maria Thynne Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
145. Lael Morgan
146. Mary Rundle upgraded
147. Monika Motyčáková
148. Magdalena Rosina Funck
149. Nicla Vassallo upgrade (1st ref)
150. Irma Nioradze upgrade (1st ref)
151. Danielle McKinney upgrade (1st ref)
152. Added fifty-five (55!) names to List of early-modern British women novelists, some starting with M or N
153. Teresa Manera
154. Havana Marking upgrade (1st ref)
155. Margaret Nimmo Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
156. Polly Morland
157. Maria Bertolini (also WIR-250)
158. Margaret Hewitt TW
159. Susan Grace Moore
160. Jennifer May Loten - PIN
161. Maude Ashurst Biggs Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
162. Merve Demır
163. Margaret Bramall Oxford Dictionary of National Biography TW, PIN
164. Nell Walker Warner -destub, PIN TW
165. Marion Janet Harron - destub, PIN
166. Honey Nway Oo - DYK
167. Ywet Nu Aung - DYK

Promote our work

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? articles

• ... that New Zealand activist Pania Newton (depicted) gave up a legal career to become an activist and spokesperson for the preservation of her ancestral lands at Ihumātao? (2023-03-08)
• ... that writer Eliza Bland Smith Erskine Norton married two different men who both lost an arm in battle? (2023-01-13)

Outcomes (media)

• Please add this category to the image if you're uploading it to Commons: Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2023

Add here – most recent at the top

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  Stella Muir
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  Bliss Milford
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  Margaret S. Rood
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  Dorothea Nelson
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  Honey Nway Oo
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  Ella Morgan
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  Katerina Nēhua
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  Emma Murdock Van Deventer
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  Victoria and Albert Museum's Margaret Longhurst
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  Maria Gastineau island of Seil
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  Mary Tooth
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  Dr Heather Melville OBE CCMI
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  new version Megan Rapinoe
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  Magdalena Robles of Ecuador
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  Nicola Sturgeon and Mikaela Kumlin Granit Swedish ambassador
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  Martha Giffard backseat diplomat
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  Mary Pingo - we know very little abt this
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  Margaret Court new version
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  A. Evelyn Newman
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  Emily Kelley Moran
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  Maria Susanna Cooper
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  Maria Susanna Cooper
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  Maria Gastineau Penrhyn Castle
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  Rose Montoya
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  Julie Morrow Deforest
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  Hannah Metcalf
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  Billy Nomates one of >150 loaded #EdittingforEffie
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  Lisa Milliken one of >150 loaded #EdittingforEffie
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  Anna Meredith one of >150 loaded #EdittingforEffie
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  Girzeh by Mary Anne Ewart
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  Margaret Nimmo
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  Marie Tůmová
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  Liza Minelli new WOTD
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  Claire-Marie Boggiano #GM4Women2028
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  Mary Woolley Gibbings Cotton, Vicountess Combermere
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  Annie E. Molloy

Event templates

• Invitation: January 2023
• Editathon banner for talk pages – Alphabet Run: M to N Template:WIR-253: {{WIR-253}}