Alphabet run: G & H
    April 2025
    Recently completed: Alphabet run: E & F Artists+Activists Women of the Arab World
    New this month: Alphabet run: G & H Business
    Ongoing initiatives: Music #1day1woman
    Upcoming events: Ideas
    Welcome!

    From January to December 2025, Women in Red is embarking on our third collective "alphabet run", where editors work consecutively through the letters of the English alphabet. The March letters are G and H, and can be applied to any given name, middle name, or surname of a subject, e.g. Germaine Greer, or individuals named like Sally Haley or Alison Geissler would both be appropriate.

    • January 2025 – A & B
    • February 2025 – C & D
    • March 2025 – E & F
    • April 2025 – G & H
    • May 2025 – I & J
    • June 2025 – K & L
    • July 2025 – M & N
    • August 2025 – O & P
    • September 2025 – Q & R
    • October 2025 – S & T
    • November 2025 – U, V, W
    • December 2025 – X, Y & Z

    Again this year we have lists of the most frequently redlisted women. Based on database searches, these are listed under the first name in the article title. As the searches take account of women's given names, you will discover quite a number that are inappropriate, for example, Gabriele or Hope which are also used for men and geographical features. If you write a biography from these lists, please mention "most frequent" when you add it as a New or upgraded article.

    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 you 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, under our year-long initiative Music, other topics of the month or our comprehensive #1day1woman event.

    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

    What else?

    • Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you created this month and another section where you can add the images you have uploaded to Commons.
    • If you share any of the articles or images on social media, 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 G or H. 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)

    Dictionaries with fewer than 20 women to go

    • South Asian Novelists (WD) – 1
    • Who's Who among the Colored Baptists of the United States (CS) – 4
    • Dictionary of Ulster Biography (WD) – 4
    • Dictionary of Irish Biography (WD) – 2 (more not on wikidata!)
    • Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers (WD) – 9
    • Western Canadian women (CS) – 7
    • Dictionary of African Biography (WD) – 3
    • Onze Musici (WD) – 13
    • Biographical Dictionary of Spanish Socialism (WD) – 17
    • Latin America in the Communist International (WD) – 12
    • Dictionary of Welsh Biography (WD) – 21
    • American Women Historians (WD) – 7
    • Biographical Dictionary of Iowa (WD) – 8


    Most frequently redlisted women

    The lists below cover the first names of women beginning with G or H:


    Participants

    Outcomes (articles)

    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 Bsky after the article if you post it on Bluesky


    New or upgraded articles

    • Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new and biographical dictionary, if used:

    Outcomes (media)


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