Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/295
Alphabet Run: M to N | January 2024
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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 19.86% 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! |
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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 December 2023 letters are M and N, and can be applied to any first, middle or last name of a subject e.g. Ngaio Marsh, or individuals named like Malala Yousafzai or Florence Nightingale would both be appropriate.
- July 2023 - A & B
- August 2023 - C & D
- September 2023 - E & F
- October 2023 - G & H
- November 2023 - I & J
- December 2023 - K & L
- January 2024 - M & N
- February 2024 - O & P
- March 2024 - Q & R
- April 2024 - S & T
- May 2024 - U, V, W
- June 2024 - X, Y & Z
For the rerun, from now on 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, such as many named "Nikita" or "Noel". 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)
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
External links
Dictionaries with fewer than 20 women to go
Most frequently redlisted womenThe lists below cover the first names of women beginning with M or N:
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Participants
- SarahTHunter (talk) 09:53, 26 December 2023 (GMT)
- WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 16:36, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
- Penny Richards (talk) 16:49, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
- Victuallers (talk) 17:04, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
- Rosiestep (talk) 13:59, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
- — scribblingwoman 00:48, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
- PamD 10:02, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
- Chocmilk03 (talk) 22:26, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
- Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 05:56, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
- EEHalli (talk) 20:53, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
- Pangalau (talk) 00:59, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
Outcomes (articles)
Please add the biographical dictionary, if used:
New or upgraded articles
Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new
Pahoa Mahagafanau
Angelina Noble ADB
Mary Maher (journalist) - added image
Millie Mayfield
Monica Karina
Mary Nicolay ADB
Mary Matheson ADB (also competition at 294)
Margaret Costa (food writer) - Oxford National Dictionary of Biography entry
Uri Ruiz Bikandi (first name Maria! Also 291 and 294)
Henrietta G. Moore (also 294 & 296)
Alice Mendham Powell - PIN
Liz Herbert McAvoy (also 294)
Dorothy Manners - PIN
Princess Marie Gabrielle de Lobkowicz
Mary E. Elliot (also 296) - PIN
Martha B. O'Donnell (also 296) - PIN
Edith Constance Murray ADB (also competition at 294) - PIN
Anna McNulty
Phyllis Mary Nicol ADB (also competition at 294)
Mary Bynon Reese (also 296) - PIN
Martha Savory Yeardley added image
Nonhlanhla Mthandi
Patricia Mbazogho
Maria Giovanna Maglie (also 291), PIN
Marguerite Wells - PIN
Runa Narumi
Medora Gordon Byron added images
Mariam Solaimankhil
Early start
Nami Kurokawa (AFD rescue; also 290)
Khadija Mbowe (also 290)
Liz María Márquez (also 290)
Maud Lefort (also 290)
Marina Kapoor (also 290) - PIN
Liv Marit Weberg (also 290, 292)
Mabel Nicholas ADB also 294 and 252
Emily Maver
Ximena Mideros
Nicole Lauren Michael
Ellen M. Stone (also 294)
Martha Sarah Bidmead ADB also 292
Augusta Merrill Hunt (also 296)
Emily M. J. Cooley (also 296)
Maud Lefort (also 290)
Margaret Irene Anderson ADB
Michelle Meagher
Gladys Agness Newton ADB
Mary Lovett Cameron
Yuuka Morishima
Marion Isabelle Whitney
Vivienne Newson ADB
Mari Lloyd-Williams (also 290/292/294)
Rosa M. Towne
Martha Meredith Read
Edna Lillian Nelson ADB (also 290)
Mori Calliope (also 290)
Elena Marinucci
Marianne Strengell - expand and add image
Sarah A. McClees - PIN
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 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
- Renée (writer) (2023-12-14)
- Maria Martin (journalist) (2023-12-05)
- Gwen Knapp (2023-01-26)
Outcomes (media)
- Please add this category to the image if you're uploading it to Commons: Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2024
Add here – most recent at the top
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Margaret Irene Anderson et al
References
Event templates
- Invitation: January 2024
- Editathon banner for talk pages – Alphabet Run: M to N Template:WIR-295:
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