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 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!

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.

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.

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.

Please add the biographical dictionary, if used:

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

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

• ... that Maria Leshern von Herzfeld helped to organise the prison escape of the Russian revolutionary Peter Kropotkin? (2024-02-26)
• ... that for at least 90 minutes, Mori Calliope livestreamed herself begging video game developer Atlus to allow her to stream their game Persona 3? (2024-02-25)
• ... that Marie Vuillemin was acquitted in the trial of the Bonnot Gang, as the prosecution defined her according to her gender rather than her role in the gang? (2024-02-25)
• ... that all three of María Esther Biscayart de Tello's children were forcibly disappeared during the Dirty War in Argentina? (2024-02-23)
• ... that Maruxa and Coralia Fandiño Ricart (statues pictured) became famous in Galicia because their bright, colourful outfits contrasted with the social repression of Francoist Spain? (2024-02-22)
• ... that Margareth Rago seeks to establish a methodology for what she calls "feminist science"? (2024-02-16)
• ... that Maria Olovennikova was the only woman present at the founding conference of Narodnaya Volya? (2024-02-14)
• ... that Ukrainians Nadia Smyrnytska, Maria Kalyuzhnaya and Maria Kovalevska joined other prisoners in committing suicide to protest against the abuse of imprisoned women in Kara katorga? (2024-02-11)
• ... that Mwaksy Mudenda presented her first Blue Peter episodes in her house? (2024-02-10)
• ... that after Nadezhda Bantle was exiled to the Russian North, she oversaw the development of the hospital in Nikolskoye to become the most advanced in its region? (2024-02-05)
• ... that Mariia Vetrova's self-immolation provoked student protests in Saint Petersburg, Moscow and Kyiv? (2024-02-05)
• ... that Martina Fernández plays football for Barcelona and studies part-time at a biomedical laboratory? (2024-02-04)
• ... that voice actress Mako Morino played volleyball for 14 years, but gave up the goal of playing professionally after being assigned to the non-serving libero position? (2024-02-01)
• ... that Rose Lee Maphis and her husband Joe Maphis, known as Mr. and Mrs. Country Music, helped develop the Bakersfield sound? (2021-11-18)
• ... that Mollie McGeown set up the first dialysis unit in Northern Ireland? (2017-12-27)

• Maria Martin (journalist) (2023-12-05)
• Gita Mehta (2023-09-19)
• Emily Meggett (2023-04-28)
• Mary Noel Menezes (2022-09-03)
• Nancy Milford (2022-04-04)
• Margaret M. McGowan (2022-04-03)
• Myrna Manzanares (2021-12-21)
• Mary Maher (journalist) (2021-12-07)
• Marilyn McLeod (2021-12-01)

• 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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  Portrait of Mary Duke Biddle
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  Marjorie Chávez on the right
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  Pakie Macdougall
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  Mariana Yumbay
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  Diana Salazar Méndez of Ecuador
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  Mariah Reddick and Carrie Winder Cowan
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  Nancy Reagan and Maria Pia Fanfani
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  Marcela Pérez de Cuéllar
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  Berenice Mallory
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  Aunt Cord Ritchie (Cordelia Everidge Ritchie), basketmaker
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  Edith E. Nicholls
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  Martha A. B. Conine
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  Megumi Yamaguchi Shinoda
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  Katiuska Miranda
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  Nela Martinez
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  Margaret Irene Anderson et al
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  by Rosa M. Towne

• Invitation: January 2024
• Editathon banner for talk pages – Alphabet Run: M to N Template:WIR-295: {{WIR-295}}