Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/306

    Alphabet run: U–W editathon
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    May 2024
    Mary Theresa Vidal, Australia's first female novelist
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    Welcome!

    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 May 2024 letters are U, V and W, and can be applied to any first, middle or last name of a subject e.g. Virginia Woolf, or individuals named like Ursula K. Le Guin or Judith Wright would both be appropriate.

    For the rerun, 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 (e.g. names like Val which can be unisex). 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)

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    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 U, V or W. 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

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    • American National Biography (WD)
    • Australian Dictionary of Biography (WD)
    • Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women (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)
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    Dictionaries with fewer than 20 women to go

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    • 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 0 1 (more not on wikidata!)
    • Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers (WD) - 10 9 8 7
    • Western Canadian women (CS) - 11 9
    • Dictionary of African Biography (WD) - 10 9 2
    • Onze Musici (WD) - 8 13
    • Biographical Dictionary of Spanish Socialism (WD) - 14 15 17 16
    • Latin America in the Communist International (WD) - 17 14 13 12
    • Dictionary of Welsh Biography (WD) - 20 22 18 15 21 19


    Most frequently redlinked women

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    The lists below cover the first names of women beginning with U, V or W:


    Participants

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    Outcomes (articles)

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    New or upgraded articles

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

    1.    Wies van Groningen
    2.   Alice Ivy Wigmore
    3.   Amelia Lucy Wayn
    4.   Edith Alexandra White
    5.   Elinor Wray
    6.   Elsie Jane Whicker
    7.   Enid Phyllis Wilson
    8.   Florence Amy Willie
    9.   Gweneth Wisewould
    10.   Helen Withers
    11.   Isobel Wolmby
    12.   Jean Williamson
    13.   Joan Mary Woodhill
    14.   Julian Barbara Waugh
    15.   Linley Wilson
    16.   Margaret Woodhouse
    17.   New South Wales Bush Nursing Association
    18.   Winifred Savage
    19.   Phoebe Wesche
    20.   Pat Wardle
    21.   Dorothy Wilkinson
    22.   Dorothy Whitehead
    23.   May Isabella Weatherly
    24.   Ellinor Walker
    25.   Anna Fellowes Vroland
    26.   Victoria Vincent
    27.   Araceli Sánchez Urquijo - upgraded
    28.      Victòria Pujolar - PIN
    29.   Laura Winthrop Johnson
    30.   Marthe de Vogüé, marquise de Mac Mahon - PIN
    31.   Wendy Hunt
    32.   Electrical Association for Women - upgraded
    33.   Valentina Quintero (also 305)
    34.   Susan Linn De Witt
    35.   Sherley Anne Williams - add image, PIN
    36.   Ann Welch - upgraded, PIN
    37.    Vera Brown Holmes (also 294)
    38.   Freddye Harper Williams - upgrade, PIN
    39.   Gina Wilkinson - add image, PIN
    40.   Helen Wilkes - add image, PIN
    41.   Ing-Marie Wieselgren - add image, PIN
    42.   Claudette White - add image, PIN
    43.   Diane Weyermann - add image, PIN
    44.   Alice Crane Williams - PIN
    45.   Marcela Walerstein
    46.   Sara Wedlund - add image, PIN
    47.   Phyllis Webb - add image, PIN
    48.   Abbie E. Krebs-Wilkins - PIN
    49.   Flo Ware - add image, PIN
    50.   Wendy Jenkins (poet)
    51.    Marguerite Volavy -added img, PIN
    52.   Sallie Walker Stockard - add image, PIN
    53.   Mária Wollemann (also 294/307)
    54.   Lyravine Votaw - PIN
    55.     Marie-José Villiers - upgraded, PIN
    56.   Mrs Victor Bruce - upgraded, PIN
    57.   Marie Laura Violet Gayler - upgraded
    58.   Pamela Waechter - add image, PIN
    59.     Jeanne Villepreux-Power - upgraded, PIN
    60.   Genoveva Virginia Cossoul
    61.   Anna von László
    62. Wanda - upgraded
    63.   Ida Veldhuyzen van Zanten - upgraded, PIN
    64. Victoria (name) - upgraded
    65. Velma (given name) - upgraded
    66. Vera (given name) - upgraded
    67.   Valide Tutayuq
    68. Valentine_(name) - upgraded
    69. Valerie_(given_name) - upgraded
    70. Virginia (given_name) - upgraded
    71. Ursula (name) - upgraded
    72.   Urvashi Bahuguna
    73.   Daisy Voisin - add image, PIN
    74.   Violeta Vidaurre - add image, PIN
    75.   Mary Adella Wolcott
    76.   Mary Catharine North Weston
    77.   Sally Victor - add image , PIN
    78.   Mary Wicks Bennett
    79.    Marie Vassilieff - add image and rewritten with citations, PIN
    80.   Maria Wilhelmine von Thun und Hohenstein - upgraded, PIN
    81.   National Mary Washington Memorial Association
    82.   Beryl Vertue - add image, PIN
    83.   Betty Lou Varnum - add image, PIN
    84.   Nina Vance - add image, PIN
    85.   Frances Ullmann DeArmand - PIN
    86.   Melānija Vanaga - add image, PIN
    87.   Zoe Dana Underhill
    88.   Hitomi Ueda
    89.     Lucy Winthrop
    90.    Gertrud L. Wyatt (also 294)
    91.   Margery Urquhart - add image, PIN
    92.   Olga Ulyanova - add image, PIN
    93.   Elizabeth Campbell Winter
    94.   Minnie A. Weeks Pittock
    95.   Anne Toppan Wilbur Wood
    96.   Vera Božičković-Popović
    97.   Ida Verona
    98.   Susie Williams (also 294)
    99.   Christine von Wattenwyl (also 307)
    100.   Mary Burfitt Williams
    101.   Jane Williams (silversmith) - improved
    102.   Anna-Maria van Reysschoot
    103.   Willa Holt Wakefield - PIN
    104.   Pauline von Koudelka-Schmerling
    105. Women photographers - upgraded
    106.   Eugenia Williamson Hume (also 294)- PIN
    107.   Vera Sogoyan
    108.   Theodora von Hermansthal
    109.   Madame Vaudé-Green
    110.   Erica Underwood
    111.   Valentine Friedli (also 307) - PIN
    112.   Alexandrine von Wistinghausen
    113.   Vera Gushee - PIN
    114.   Jennifer Uchendu BBC100 woman saved from draft
    115.   Ula Sharon - PIN
    116.   Eglantine Wallace (minor edits)
    117.   Jane Warton (writer) (minor edits)
    118.   Jane West (novelist) (edits; added image)
    119.   Jane Wiseman (minor edits; added image) - PIN
    120.   Leanne Cullen-Unsworth
    121.   Kate Walker Behan - PIN
    122.   Nora Vagi Brash CMG OBE
    123.   Henriëtte van den Brandeler - PIN
    124.   Breiana Whitehead

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