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Welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR)! |
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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 20.03% 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! |
September 2023
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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 September 2023 letters are E and F, and can be applied to any first, middle or last name of a subject e.g. Elaine Forrestal, or individuals named like Eleanor Catton or Anna Funder 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 which are inappropriate, for example those like Evan or Finn. 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.
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 E or F. 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 E or F:
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Participants
- WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 19:32, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
- Penny Richards (talk) 19:55, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
- — scribblingwoman 15:09, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
- Victuallers (talk) 17:19, 25 August 2023 (UTC)
- Curbon7 (talk) 22:54, 25 August 2023 (UTC)
- Oronsay (talk) 04:23, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
- PamD 07:55, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
- Scanlan (talk) 08:59, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
- gobonobo + c 16:29, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
- Marluliaq (talk) 16:33, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
- TulsaPoliticsFan (talk) 17:28, 29 September 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
Flora Gasimova
Emma Alfreda White Coleman - Encyclopedia of Oklahoma
Elizabeth Fulton Hester (also WIR-284)
Eileen Edwards
Gladys Gordon Everett
Adelaide Easley - PIN
Evelyn Paget Evans
Florence McKeown (also 283) - PIN
Edith Weir Perry - PIN
Melicent Jane (Jean) Ellis
Farideh Hashemi - PIN
Bronwyn Elsmore (also 282) - PIN
Tracy Farr (also 282)
Else Hammerich - added image, PIN
Alice Gordon Elliott
Fiona Sussman (also 282)
Frances Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (born 1699)- added image, small edits
Fiona Janes from afc
Erna Herchenröder
Elimar Díaz
Florantonia Singer (also WIR 282)
Fátima Soares
Elsa Castillo
Esther Heins
Efterpi Charalambidis
FannyAnn Eddy - expanded article, PIN
Mary Ellen Callahan upgrade, photo, PIN
Marion (Bill) Edwards
Rose Edouin moved from hubby's to her own article, PIN
Elsie Smeaton Munro
Jane Elizabeth Moore (also 282)
Ruby Constance Ethel Blackall
Rhoda Felgate - PIN
Viola Essen
Julia Drake Fosdick Dean
Rukhl Fishman (also WIR-282)
Millicent Eastwood
Zoe Emma Bertles
Emily Caroline Barnett - PIN
Ellen Barron upgrade, PIN
Emily Bennett (feminist) - PIN
Fu Yuehua
Rose Ethel Bassin - PIN
Ellen Arnold now has pics, PIN
Elizabeth Mary Goodlet - PIN
Anne Elwood's Memoirs of the literary ladies of England from the commencement of the last century (Elwood's page existed; page for book is new) (also 282)
Frances Deborah Levvy
Eri Inagawa
Margery Fraser Robertson
Mary Martha Farrelly - PIN
Maria Fyfe - added image, PIN
Muriel Jean Eliot Chase - PIN
Ann Forbes-Sempill, 20th Lady Sempill (also WIR-283)
Eliza Roberts (poet) (also 282)
Frances Williams (convict) Dictionary of Welsh Biography
Eleanor MacKinnon - PIN
New York City Federation of Women's Clubs
Helen Wilson Fell - PIN
Anna Euretta Richardson - PIN
Maria Elizabeth Kirk
Charlotte Everett Hopkins - PIN
Florence Vandamm
Rose Fay Thomas - PIN
Caroline Elizabeth Newcomb restored from nameless deletion. (Suspect foul play}. - PIN
Ann Fawcett Story
Annie French - added image, PIN
Fiona Baan - PIN
Elizabeth Taylor (poet) Specimens of British Poetesses
Newark Female Charitable Society - expanded
Edith Harrhy - PIN
Edita Pfundtner
Feyrouz - added image, PIN
Joyce Fairbairn - added image, PIN
Bloeme Evers-Emden - added image, PIN
Pearlie Evans - added image, PIN
Elizabeth Trefusis Specimens of British Poetesses
Zilpha Carruthers Franklin - PIN
Poems by Eminent Ladies (also 282)
Specimens of British Poetesses (also 282)
List of early-modern British women poets (updates, with new redlinks) (also 282)
Francine Sandberg - most frequent
Elfriede Czurda
Marie-Denise Fabien Jean-Louis
Florieda Batson - add img, infobox, PIN
Rhoda Elizabeth Waterman White
Emma B. Freeman - PIN
Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney
Minnie Agnes Filson (also 282)
Faith Lanman Gorrell - PIN
Edna Noble White - PIN
Ella Lindow aka Gabrielle Wodnil
Florence Yagbao
Estelle Maskame (also 282, 283)
Eva Rohmann - most frequent, PIN
Louisa Henrietta de Rivarol (born Louisa Flint)
Lena Santos Ferguson TW, PIN
Freya Godfrey - PIN
Elizabeth Grant (diarist) add pic, PIN
Ena May Neill from redirect, PIN
Freda Ayisi - PIN TW
Coyne Fletcher - PIN
Elizabeth Eyre Pellet - added image - PIN
Hazel Erby - added image - PIN
Mary Ellen Epps - added image - PIN
Mary Ellen Graydon Sharpe
Elizabeth Gibson Cheyne - PIN
Irene Eisinger - added image - PIN
Edith Stedham
Audrey Eagle - added image - PIN
Eileen Huban - PIN
Elizabeth Purbeck and Jane Purbeck (also 282)
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 features
New/expanded articles featured in the Did you know... column of the Wikipedia Main page
- Add here – most recent at the top with date of publication
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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Anna Euretta Richardson, 1923
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The Automobile Trip
Press about the event
References
Event templates
- Invitation: September 2023
- Editathon banner for talk pages – Alphabet Run: E to F Template:WIR-281:
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