Welcome toWikiProject Women in Red (WiR)!
Our objective is to turnred links intoblue 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 toHumaniki, only20.23% of the English Wikipedia's biographies are about women? Not impressed?Content gender gap is a form ofsystemic 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: M & N edit‑a‑thon
Online event January 2024
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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 areM andN, and can be applied to any first, middle or last name of a subject e.g.Ngaio Marsh, or individuals named likeMalala Yousafzai orFlorence Nightingale would both be appropriate.

For the rerun, from now on we are providing lists of themost 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.

Themain 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 toMain 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 ourTen 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 ourRedlist index. Any of these lists can be used to find subjects who may have a first, middle or last name, beginning withM orN. Editors canclick 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 viaWP:In The News

• ... thatMaria Leshern von Herzfeld helped to organise the prison escape of the Russian revolutionaryPeter Kropotkin?(2024-02-26)
• ... that for at least 90 minutes,Mori Calliope livestreamed herself begging video game developerAtlus to allow her to stream their gamePersona 3?(2024-02-25)
• ... thatMarie Vuillemin was acquitted in the trial of theBonnot Gang, as the prosecution defined her according to her gender rather than her role in the gang?(2024-02-25)
• ... that all three ofMaría Esther Biscayart de Tello's children wereforcibly disappeared during theDirty War inArgentina?(2024-02-23)
• ... thatMaruxa and Coralia Fandiño Ricart(statues pictured) became famous inGalicia because their bright, colourful outfits contrasted with the social repression ofFrancoist Spain?(2024-02-22)
• ... thatMargareth Rago seeks to establish a methodology for what she calls "feminist science"?(2024-02-16)
• ... thatMaria Olovennikova was the only woman present at the founding conference ofNarodnaya Volya?(2024-02-14)
• ... that UkrainiansNadia Smyrnytska,Maria Kalyuzhnaya andMaria Kovalevska joined other prisoners in committing suicide to protest against the abuse of imprisoned women inKara katorga?(2024-02-11)
• ... thatMwaksy Mudenda presented her firstBlue Peter episodes in her house?(2024-02-10)
• ... that afterNadezhda Bantle was exiled to theRussian North, she oversaw the development of the hospital inNikolskoye to become the most advanced in its region?(2024-02-05)
• ... thatMariia Vetrova'sself-immolation provoked student protests in Saint Petersburg, Moscow and Kyiv?(2024-02-05)
• ... thatMartina Fernández plays football forBarcelona and studies part-time at a biomedical laboratory?(2024-02-04)
• ... that voice actressMako Morino played volleyball for 14 years, but gave up the goal of playing professionally after being assigned to the non-servinglibero position?(2024-02-01)
• ... thatRose Lee Maphis and her husbandJoe Maphis, known as Mr. and Mrs. Country Music, helped develop theBakersfield sound?(2021-11-18)
• ... thatMollie McGeown set up the firstdialysis 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 ofMary 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 andMaria 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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  byRosa M. Towne

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