Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/267

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From July 2022 to June 2023, Women in Red is embarking on their first collective "alphabet run", where editors work consecutively through the letters of the English alphabet. The May 2023 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 Ada Hill Walker or Ursula K. Le Guin would both be appropriate.

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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 U or V or W. Editors can click the column header to rearrange names into alphabetical order.

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There are a wide variety of dictionaries and other reference works available, some that editors might consider are:

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==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) - 2
  • Who's Who among the Colored Baptists of the United States (CS) - 4
  • Dictionary of Ulster Biography (WD) - 4
  • Dictionary of Irish Biography (WD)- 3 (more not on wikidata!)
  • Great Women Mystery Writers (CS) - 6
  • 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) - 16
  • Latin America in the Communist International (WD) - 13
  • Dictionary of Welsh Biography (WD) - 20
  • American Women Historians (CS) - 14

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Participants

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Outcomes (articles)

Please add the biographical dictionary, if used:

=New or upgraded articles=

== May ==

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

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  1. {{flagicon|USA}} Women's Center & Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh (one of the 1st 6 domestic violence response/prevention centers ever established in the U.S.) - improved from stub tagged as "not notable" to C-class
  2. {{flagicon|USA}} Woman's Club of Warren - improved from stub to start-class
  3. {{flagicon|USA}} Sally Wiggin - improved from stub to start-class
  4. {{flagicon|USA}} Woman's Progress - reassessed from stub to start; improved to C-Class
  5. {{flagicon|USA}} Emma Wolf
  6. {{flagicon|UK}} Eglantine Wallace edited
  7. {{flagicon|USA}} The Voices (novel)
  8. {{flagicon|USA}} Mary Virginia Proctor
  9. {{flagicon|SPA}} Mari Jose Urruzola (also WIR 269)
  10. {{flagicon|USA}} Ginny Vida
  11. {{flagicon|UK}} Victoria Alexandrina Katherine Bruce
  12. {{flagicon|India}}{{flagicon|UK}} Winifred Mayo
  13. {{flagicon|USA}} Christine Vladimiroff - improved from stub-class to start-class
  14. {{flagicon|USA}} Sharon Vaughn (politician) - improved from stub-class to start-class
  15. {{flagicon|POL}} Wanda Warska (also WIR 270) [https://twitter.com/WikiWomenInRed/status/1664349312866828290 TW] DYK
  16. {{flagicon|SPA}} Muriel Villanueva i Perarnau (also WIR 269)
  17. {{flagicon|Wales}} Elizabeth May Watkin Jones [https://twitter.com/WikiWomenInRed/status/1662823871550988292 TW]
  18. {{flagicon|SA}} Karlien de Villiers
  19. {{flagicon|USA}} Vicki Meek wikified
  20. {{flagicon|Spain}} Alicia Martín Villanueva
  21. {{flagicon|Slovakia}}{{flagicon|HUN}} Pálné Veres (complete rewrite, also WIR 269 and 270)
  22. {{flagicon|ARM}}{{flagicon|LBN}}{{flagicon|USA}} Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh (also WIR 270)
  23. {{flagicon|Sweden}} Ulla Westermark
  24. {{flagicon|NZ}} Felicity Wallace TW
  25. {{flagicon|Botswana}} Nnaniki Wilhemina Tebogo Makwinja - PIN
  26. {{flagicon|UK}} Frances Wilbraham
  27. {{flagicon|Slovenia}} Valentina Kobe (also WIR 269 and 270) - PIN
  28. {{flagicon|UK}} Emma Caroline Wood
  29. {{flagicon|UK}} Greta Valentine
  30. {{flagicon|Denmark}} Stina Wirsén add first ref, PIN
  31. {{flagicon|USA}} Virginia Keane Bryce
  32. {{flagicon|USA}} Virna Woods
  33. {{flagicon|USA}} Tonjua Williams add refs to upgrade
  34. {{flagicon|JPN}} Keiko Watanabe
  35. {{flagicon|USA}} Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen
  36. {{flagicon|Bulgaria}} Tota Venkova (also WIR 269 and 270) - PIN
  37. {{flagicon|CZE}} Pavlína Wolfová (also WIR 270) - PIN
  38. {{flagicon|UK}} Louise Wener upgrade, PIN
  39. {{flagicon|UK}} Edith Wardale
  40. {{flagicon|FRA}} Chloé Wary - PIN
  41. {{flagicon|USA}} April Vollmer
  42. {{flagicon|UK}} Mary Vining - PIN
  43. {{flagicon|USA}} Carmen J. Walters
  44. {{flagicon|Ireland}} Helen Whelton
  45. {{flagicon|Germany}} Vera Hatz - PIN
  46. {{flagicon|USA}} Deborah Valenze [https://twitter.com/WikiWomenInRed/status/1656589995644272641 TW]
  47. {{flagicon|USA}} Mary Jane Windle
  48. {{flagicon|SPA}} Laura Pérez Vernetti - PIN
  49. {{flagicon|UK}} Gladys Wright - PIN
  50. {{flagicon|USA}} Eleanor Woolley Fowler - PIN
  51. {{flagicon|ITA}} Valentina Romeo - PIN
  52. {{flagicon|Estonia}} Helmi Üprus (also WiR 270)
  53. {{flagicon|UK}} Elizabeth Wiseman
  54. {{flagicon|USA}} Helen Worthing Webster
  55. {{flagicon|USA}} Abigail Williams May (also WiR 269)
  56. {{flagicon|USA}} Emily Wayland Dinwiddie
  57. {{flagicon|Turkey}} Raziye Uluçam
  58. {{flagicon|UK}} Winifred Mercier - PIN
  59. {{flagicon|UK}} Mrs Woodman
  60. {{flagicon|England}} Eve of Wilton
  61. {{flagicon|England}} Matilda of Wareham redirect
  62. {{flagicon|LIT}} Vida Marija Čigriejienė (also WiR 269 and 270) [https://twitter.com/WikiWomenInRed/status/1655565411918700547 TW]
  63. {{flagicon|Benin}} Vicentia Boco - PIN
  64. {{flagicon|Austrian Empire}} Helene von Vetsera (also WiR 270) - PIN
  65. {{flagicon|Belgium}} Virginie Loveling upgrade, PIN
  66. {{flagicon|USA}} Corinne Michelle West - add infobox and image, PIN
  67. {{flagicon|USA}} Janet Wilson James (also WiR 269)
  68. {{flagicon|USA}} Thelma Van Norte - PIN
  69. {{flagicon|Germany}} Valeska Knoblauch
  70. {{flagicon|England}} Margaret Willoughby [https://twitter.com/WikiWomenInRed/status/1654404445575184386 TW]
  71. {{flagicon|Argentina}} Azucena Villaflor - upgraded, PIN
  72. {{flagicon|UK}} Phoebe Wright
  73. {{flagicon|UK}} Elsa Vaudrey - PIN
  74. {{flagicon|SUI}} Bigna Francis-von Wyttenbach
  75. {{flagicon|Germany}}{{flagicon|USA}} Helen Kreis Wallenda (also WiR 270)
  76. {{flagicon|Poland}} Wanda Szuman (also WIR 268, 269, 270) - PIN
  77. {{flagicon|Switzerland}} Brigit Wyss (also WIR-270)
  78. {{flagicon|Turkey}}{{flagicon|Australia}} Ayten Kuyululu Ürkmez - TW (also WIR-270)

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==Early start ==

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  1. {{flagicon|USA}} Lucille Wallenrod - improved, PIN
  2. {{flagicon|Catalonia}} Valentine Schlegel [https://twitter.com/WikiWomenInRed/status/1652361021170827265 TW], PIN
  3. {{flagicon|England}} Dorothy Waugh TW
  4. {{flagicon|USA}} Connie Redbird Pinkerman-Uri
  5. {{flagicon|USA}} Viola Klaiss - PIN
  6. {{flagicon|China}} Wang Binying - PIN
  7. {{flagicon|Denmark}} Vita Witek - PIN
  8. {{flagicon|USA}} Justine Wilkinson Washington - PIN
  9. {{flagicon|USA}} Una Fleming - PIN
  10. {{flagicon|Lithuania}}{{flagicon|USA}} Valerija Raulinaitis - PIN
  11. {{flagicon|Australia}} Suzy Urbaniak (also WiR 269)

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=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

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Outcomes (media)

  • Please add this category to the image if you're uploading it to Commons: [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_supported_by_WikiProject_Women_in_Red_-_2023 Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2023]

Add here – most recent at the top

TGE 2023 Day 2 - Sleeper (52894228435).jpg|Louise Wener

Mrs. Vining (née Johannet), as Koran in Vision of the Sun, ca.1820.jpg|Mary Vining

EleanorWoolleyFowler1927.png|Eleanor Woolley Fowler

Helen Worthing Webster 1874.png|Helen Worthing Webster

May17 Woman of the Day.png|Anna and Virginie Loveling

ThelmaAugostat1927.png|Thelma Van Norte

HaroldRussellThelmaVanNorte1966.png|Harold Russell and Thelma Van Norte

Sarah Wilson Durham 2023 (sq cropped).jpg|Sarah Wilson (football)

ViolaKlaiss1927.png|Viola Klaiss

Binying Wang (sq cropped).jpg|Binying Wang

VitaWitek1915.png|Vita Witek

UnaFleming1919.png|Una Fleming

ValerijaRaulinaitis1970.png|Valerija Raulinaitis

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