Alphabet Run: X, Y, & Z | June 2023
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Online event 1–30 June 2023 | |
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Youn Yuh-jung, Korean actress |
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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 June 2023 letters are X,Y and Z, and can be applied to any first, middle or last name of a subject e.g. Yasmina Zaytoun, or individuals named like Yoko Ono or Katka Zupančič would both be appropriate.
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)
[edit]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 X or Y or Z. 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[edit]
External links[edit]
Dictionaries with fewer than 20 women to go[edit]
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Participants
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- Penny Richards (talk) 23:15, 23 May 2023 (UTC)
- Victuallers (talk) 09:51, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
- SusunW (talk) 14:27, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
- WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 23:03, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
- History6042 (talk) 01:27, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
- Thebiguglyalien (talk) 03:07, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
- PamD 07:44, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
- Curbon7 (talk) 05:38, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
- EEHalli (talk) 16:30, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
- NoonIcarus (talk) 17:50, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
- — scribblingwoman 11:44, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
- Rosiestep (talk) 19:17, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
- gobonobo + c 22:21, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
- Cl3phact0 (talk) 16:46, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
Outcomes (articles)
[edit]Please add the biographical dictionary, if used:
New or upgraded articles
[edit]June
[edit]Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new
Ikko Yokoyama
Najla El Zein
Giorgia Zanellato
Yazmin Jauregui
Zélia Gattai image added, PIN
Zoila S. Mendoza (also 273)
Zehra Fyzee - updated
Pilar Zabala Aguirre - PIN
Virginia Zachert - PIN
Zemi Yenus
Adeline Zachert - PIN
Esperanza Zambrano - PIN
Rosamond Young Chapin - PIN
Shyama Zutshi - add img, PIN
Yael Bitrán (also 273) - PIN
Victoria Zárate Zurita - PIN
Yuka Nukui
Teresita Zazá (also 273) - PIN TW
Faith B. Yisrael - PIN TW
Xiuhtlaltzin
Nannie Zenobia Carver Huddle
Ángela Zago
Xuan Juliana Wang
Mary Zelia Pease Philippides - PIN
Barbara Yelin - PIN
Zhang Ruoming - PIN
Zuo Ju
Angela Zigahl
Yūko Tsuno
Yvette Lapointe - PIN
Laura Zuccheri TW, PIN
Maxine Yaple Sweezy A Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists- PIN
Martha Savory Yeardley
Kathleen Yerger Johnstone - PIN TW
Zöhrä Aqçurina - PIN TW
Yamina Karitanyi
Zonia Palán Tamayo
Olga María Aguja Zúñiga
Liuba Zaldívar
Ximena Chong
Yela Loffredo - PIN
Carmen Zuleta
Fabiola Zavarce (also WIR 251)
Eleanor Zaimis pic and polish, PIN
Yukiko Takayama
Zenobia Żaczek (also WIR 272) - PIN
Giulia Francesca Zuffi (also 273)
Early start
[edit]Marianne Young
Jill Zink Tarbel - PIN
Mary E. Young American Women Historians - PIN
Promote our work
[edit]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
In the News articles
[edit]- Yukiko Takayama (2023-06-08)
Outcomes (media)
[edit]- Please add this category to the image if you're uploading it to Commons: Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2023 (3,753 on 28 May)
Add here – most recent at the top
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Zélia Gattai and 2 July
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Yukiko Matsukura musician
References
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Event templates
[edit]- Invitation: June 2023
- Editathon banner for talk pages – Alphabet run X, Y, Z Template:WIR-271:
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