Francophone Women★ Writers Fortnight 2024
A campaign organised byLes sans pagEs in collaboration with theWikiWomen's User Group.
Bienvenue! Welcome!
Online event 16 March 2024 to 31 March 2024 | |
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Bonjour tout le monde! This March, WikiWomen's User Group would like to welcome English Wikipedia editors to support the work ofLes sans pagEs in celebrating women★Francophone writers from all over the world! The aim is to showcase the diversity of Francophone women★ writers.

See the Les sans pagEs Metawiki page for this event in English on Meta
Although this is a campaign about women and non-binary people, editors of all genders (and levels of experience!) are welcome.
If you are interested in participating, please list your name here by typing ~~~~:
If you'd like to record what you've worked on, please add article outcomes to the 'Results' section below.
You can also (if you wish) sign up atDashboard event page and/or add your created or improved articleson the Fountain tool here. These provide a more organised way of tracking contributions, but we appreciate they're a bit of extra admin!
P.S. Your article will also be relevant to this month'sArt+Feminism Women in Red edit-a-thon! You can add{{WIR|300}} to the talk page of your article to have it recognised as part of that edit-a-thon as well.
This section contains some ideas of articles to work on or create.This essay on creating women's biographies and the Women in RedTen Simple Rules might be helpful to newer editors.
Articles identified for improvement
editPlease add existing articles about Francophone women★ writers that need improvement to the below table. You can also add a comment if you're working on or have worked on the article.
Les sans pagEs working list
editLes sans pagEs has created a table for this event which shows articles about women★ writers produced for the event. You can view this table on the Metawiki page here:meta:Les sans pagEs/Quinzaine des autrices francophones/2024#General working list.
Consider translating some of the articles that appear on the French Wikipedia into English! You can find guidance about translation atHelp:Translation.
Women in Red redlists
editTheWomen in Red WikiProject maintains a very usefulredlist index. Each link on the redlists is a woman or non-binary person, or a work created by a woman or non-binary person, that may qualify for an article on the English Wikipedia.
One relevant redlist isFrench-speaking African authors.
Wikidata-generated lists related to women and non-binary people in countries where French is spoken as a primary or secondary language:
Other redlinks
editPlease feel free to add more redlinks below!
These French-speaking writers have held the New ZealandRandell Cottage Writers' Residency and have articles on French Wikipedia but not in English:
Results
editNew or improved articles
editMost recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new
- Jeanne-A Debats - PIN
- Martina Wachendorff
- Kathy Toma - PIN
- Colette Bonzo - PIN
- Odette Pauvert - PIN
- Hélène Elizaga
- Madeleine Fié-Fieux - PIN
- Monique Cossard - PIN
- Fatou Bolli (also 300)
- Fatou Fanny-Cissé (also WIR-294/300), PIN
- Touria Oulehri (upgraded from stub, also WIR294)
- Ounie Lecomte and for WIR293, PIN
- Éliana Marie Bezaza and for WIR293, PIN
- Virginia De Brincat and for WIR293, PIN
- Sirah Baldé (expanded, also WIR294)
- Nadine Ribault –TW (also WIR299)
- Vige Langevin
- Rose Celli (also WIR294)
- Claudie Marcel-Dubois
- Chantal Lemercier-Quelquejay
Early start (pre-16 March 2024)
edit- Hemley Boum (upgraded from stub)
- Jeanne-Louise Djanga
New media
editAdd here – most recent at the top
Questions? Comments?
editIf you have any questions, please feel free to discuss onthe talk page.