![]() 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 19.91% 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! |
Alphabet run: C & D editathon | |
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Online event August 2023 | |
![]() Cathie Dunsford, New Zealand writer and editor | |
Meetup | 277 |
Type | Edit-a-thon |
Series | Alphabet run |
Articles | Meetup 277 articles (137) |
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Hashtag | #wikiwomeninred |
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Editathon banner: {{WIR|277}} |
August 2023
New edition including most frequently redlinked women
Recently completed: | |
New this month: | |
Ongoing initiatives: | |
Upcoming events: |
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 August 2023 letters are C and D, and can be applied to any first, middle or last name of a subject e.g. Dorothy Carroll, or individuals named like Gina Cole or Dinah Hawken would both be appropriate.
- July 2023 - A & B
- August 2023 - C & D
- September 2023 - E & F
- October 2023 - G & H
- November 2023 - I & J
- December 2023 - K & L
- January 2024 - M & N
- February 2024 - O & P
- March 2024 - Q & R
- April 2024 - S & T
- May 2024 - U, V, W
- June 2024 - X, Y & Z
For the rerun, from now on we will be providing 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 there are quite a number which are inappropriate, for example those like Chris or Drew which may also be used for men. 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.
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 C or D. 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]
Most frequently redlisted women[edit]The lists below cover the first names of women beginning with C or D: |
Participants
[edit]- UMStellify (talk) 00:00, 5 August 2023 (UTC)
- Chocmilk03 (talk) 23:26, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
- Penny Richards (talk) 16:43, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
- WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 23:00, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
- Victuallers (talk) 17:15, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
- Muspilli (talk) 12:18, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
- pburka (talk) 16:24, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
- EEHalli (talk) 20:33, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
- — scribblingwoman 21:32, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
- gobonobo + c 01:07, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
- Oronsay (talk) 05:54, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
- PamD 08:09, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
- User:History6042 (talk) 21:54, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
- Scanlan (talk) 17:36, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
- SarahTHunter (talk) 18:27, 4 August 2023 (BST)
- Lajmmoore (talk) 10:18, 5 August 2023 (UTC)
- NoonIcarus (talk) 13:57, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
- Rosiestep (talk) 23:19, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
- Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 00:21, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
- Trillfendi (talk) 20:26, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
- Curbon7 (talk) 03:43, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
- --Less Unless (talk) 10:02, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
- TJMSmith (talk) 17:40, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
- CT55555(talk) 16:57, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
- History6042 (talk) 19:11, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
Outcomes (articles)
[edit]Please add the biographical dictionary, if used:
New or upgraded articles
[edit]Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new and most frequent if applicable
Caroline Isaacson (also WIR-282)
Martha Jane Cunningham - PIN
Dorothy Elliott
Dora Sandoe Bachman - PIN
Florence Campbell (educator) - PIN
Dorothy M. Catts (also WIR-282)
Jenny Draper
Mary Alderson Chandler Atherton - PIN
Iryna Doroshenko
Barbara Hamilton, 14th Baroness Dudley - PIN
Mary Chawner Woody - PIN
Unui Doo
Julia Livingston Delafield (1837–1914) TW, PIN
Cornelia Grünes
Julia Livingston Delafield
Colonial Dames of America - added infobox
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America - added infobox
National Society Daughters of the American Colonists - added infobox
National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century TW
Sue Crockford - PIN
Sarah A. Colby - PIN
Christine Nielson Dreier - (also WIR-279), PIN
Elizabeth Gibson Cheyne - PIN
Miriam O'Leary Collins - (also WIR-279), PIN
Edith Barnard Delano
Augusta de Grasse Stevens
Diane, Duchess of Württemberg - image added, PIN
Josephine Davison - rescued (also WIR-279)
Alice Barbee Castleman - PIN
Cécile Dolmetsch
Agnes Cowper
Emma Camp Mead - PIN
Christina Rosendahl – most frequent (also WIR-279)
Helen Wendler Deane - PIN
Stories of the Road Allowance People (book by Maria Campbell)
Comfort Selemani
Dorothy Sample - PIN
Caroline Herford pic and tidy, PIN
Caroline Hopwood
Zinaida Dekhtyaryova
María del Carmen Reina Jiménez - PIN
Shankari Chandran
Diana Ingro – most frequent (also WIR-279), PIN
Ella Phillips Crandall - PIN
Emily Clapham - PIN
Madeleine Dassault
Cecilia del Nacimiento - PIN
Cristina Coto – most frequent, PIN
Jean Outland Chrysler - PIN
Carolyn Wheat
Cecily Sidgwick
Izabella Cywińska, also WIR-279
Dulcina Mason Jordan
Diana Fisher - added image - PIN
Flora Crater - added image - PIN
Catrin ferch Gruffudd ap Hywel Dictionary of Welsh Biography
Clémence Aïssa Baré
Mary Louise Cook - PIN
Ida Cook - added image, PIN
Kate DuBose
Mary Dawson Elwell - PIN
Edith Clasper - PIN
Danielle Ponder - PIN
Kylan Darnell TW
Olha Datsenko
Clare Spurgin
Adiescar Chase
Evelyn Cavanaugh - PIN
Heidemarie Cammerlander - PIN
Dora Duby - PIN
Sarah Judith de Castro Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History
Chiyo Ousaki
Lois Crisler
Pumza Dyantyi - added image, PIN
Dignora Hernández
Desiree Barboza
Florence Dixon - PIN
Coromoto Godoy
Millie Chissick - PIN Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History
Eleanor Cunningham Bannister
Brigette Dacko
María Fernanda Ceriani - PIN
Ada Dow Currier - PIN
Bibi Chemnitz
Beatriz Doumerc - PIN
Ewa Ciepielewska - PIN
Dorothea Gregory - PIN
Pip Devonshire (also WIR 278)
Roser Capdevila - PIN
Cindy Judd Hill
Carmen Cajero - from most frequent list
Daniela Tarazona - PIN
Alicia Dussán de Reichel - added image, PIN
Henrietta Stanley Dull - added image, PIN
Sindiswa Dlamini
Elizabeth Dayton A Woman of the Century
Isabel de Ceballos-Escalera - PIN
Dorothy Bradshaigh
Elizabeth Cumings Pierce A Woman of the Century
Cecilia Inés Cacabelos
Carmen Sivoli
Alexandra Cornilescu
Carla Angola
Anne B. Poyntz - updated and added image of Je ne sçai quoi
Julie-Anne Dineen - added image, PIN
Inge Deutschkron - added image, PIN
Dafne Quintero
Elizabeth Willis DeHuff - added image, PIN
Dasha Medovaya - PIN
Angela Colmenero
Agnes Egan Cobb - PIN
Maria Craig
Leontina de Cabral Hogan - PIN
Dina Di
Delima Silalahi (also WIR 278)
Dakh Daughters TW update
Christina Wayne (also WIR-279)
DeMane Davis (also WIR-279)
Louisa Dundas At the Circulating Library
Eliza M. Chandler White
Damita Jo DeBlanc - added image, PIN
Doris Leader Charge
Chieko Misaki – from most frequent list
Davina Porter – from most frequent list
Betty Davis - added image, PIN
Yasmin David - added image, PIN
Amelia Clotilda Jennings - added image, PIN
Dorothy Inglis - added image, PIN
Harriet Downing At the Circulating Library
Bones of Belonging (book by Annahid Dashtgard)
Breaking the Ocean (book by Annahid Dashtgard)
Charlotte Selina Bompas - added image, PIN
Connie Bush (also WIR-278)
Stella Cornelius (also WIR 251)
Anita Darian - added image, PIN
Gladys Dickason
Charlotte Curtis - added image, PIN
Renate Druks (also WIR-279), PIN
Emma Choi
Cecilia Tilley At the Circulating Library
Catherine Lintot
Robyn Cooper has a ref
Dilys Glynne Jones
Margaret Duchill upgrade to start
Mary Dunnell
Faustine Dennis - PIN
Marion G. Crandell - PIN
Claire Moyse-Faurie - PIN
Jane Durham - PIN
Mary Campbell of Mamore
Lorinda Cherry - added image, PIN
Clara W. Mingins - PIN
Fanniebelle Curtis - 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.
Did You Know features
[edit]- ... that film director Christina Rosendahl started her career with a documentary about her sister Pernille's music career? (2023-10-01)
- ... that actress Diana Ingro (pictured) was known as the "Argentine Katharine Hepburn" due to her blonde hair? (2023-09-13)
- ... that Catalina Estrada (pictured) and two of her thirteen siblings played as forwards on the same men's football team? (2023-08-01)
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
Add here – most recent at the top
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Tracie D. Hall IFLA
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Neus Castellano IFLA Public Library of the Year Award 2023
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Cécile Dolmetsch and her son
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Judy Chicago in the 1978 RIT yearbook page 72 (cropped and refined)
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Portrait photograph of Phyllis Duganne
References
[edit]Event templates
[edit]- Invitation: August 2023
- Editathon banner for talk pages – Alphabet Run: C to D Template:WIR-277:
{{WIR-277}}