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Double the lede!
December 2021
December 2021
| Recently completed: | LGBTQ+ womenAlphabet run: K & L |
| New this month: | Alphabet run: M & NWomen in Red turns 10Geofocus: Ten for Kenya |
| Ongoing initiatives: | Music#1day1woman |
| Upcoming events: | Ideas |
Welcome!
This December Women in Red proposes an editathon we’re calling"Double the lede!" Now that more and more people are usingsmartphones andvirtual assistants that may only display the introductory summary (known as the "lede" or "lead") of our articles, it is important that that summary contains a good overview of the life, work or organization covered. As there are many articles with very short ledes (for example, a single sentence), this editathon seeks to expand the ledes in order to provide a fuller summary of the entry. You might even find some of the articles you have created yourself could do with a longer lede (we know we will!).
We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in improving biographies and other articles about notable women, including their writings or other works. This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts wherever they may be to participate in our initiative.
Instructions
- Identify an article with a very short lede (tips below)
- Read through the article and try to expand the lede by mentioning a bit more about the person covered, perhaps including some of their major achievements.
- If you want more background, you'll find some useful tips from theLead Improvement Team.
Main goals
- to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating or improving biographies of prominent women
- to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action on combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
- to promote the new/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 have worked on this 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 their images on social media, or successfully nominate for In The News, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.
Thank you!
Finding articles to improve
edit- By looking through the lists ofarticles created month by month, for example those fromNovember 2021 or any other month you would like to examine, you should find plenty of articles which start with ledes running to just one short sentence.
- Many more articles can be found inCategory:Women and its subcategories.
- Ipigott (talk)14:38, 16 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Rosiestep (talk)18:34, 16 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Oronsay (talk)20:34, 16 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Innisfree987 (talk)23:47, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- WomenArtistUpdates (talk)01:40, 21 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Penny Richards (talk)18:10, 21 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- EEHalli (talk)14:37, 24 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Riley1012 (talk)18:25, 28 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Victuallers (talk)11:27, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- KarenJoyce (talk)KarenJoyce (talk)22:07, 1 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Citrivescence (talk)00:03, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Darwin Naz (talk)23:34, 3 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- PamD14:26, 5 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Chocmilk03 (talk)22:58, 6 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Helloimahumanbeing (talk)16:58, 7 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Trillfendi (talk)19:51, 9 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- JAnnora2 (talk)01:32, 19 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Willthacheerleader18 (talk)04:21, 21 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Paradise Chronicle (talk)18:51, 28 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Cielquiparle (talk)14:49, 30 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Outcomes (articles)
editPromote our work
editKey:
- 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 ITN after the article if it was posted on the main page viaWP:In The News.
Upgraded articles
editMost recent on top. Also, please indicate amount of improvement (e.g., number of characters, words, or sentences added).
Rosa Vertner Jeffrey + 2 sentences- Marguerite Bonga Fahlström + 4 sentences + image + edits
Anna Laminit 66 → 116 word lede + copy edits- Anna Cora Mowatt + 4 sentences, PIN
- Catherine Murat + 2 sentences, PIN
Flavia Wasserfallen +important info to lead, current MP. + info to body, PIN
Gülser Yıldırım + 1 sentence to lead, +info to body
Mpho Tutu van Furth - PIN- Alisha Kramer, + 3 sentences
- Ines Eichmüller, + 3 sentences, PIN
Signe Veiteberg the article is only so long but the lead was considered too short; I added relevant information
Luísa Fialho +2 sentences, also did a bit of clean up in the main text of the article, PIN
Claire Mathon, was one sentence, now three
Fabiola Letelier (d. Nov 2021), actually reduced lede to remove "sister of" but added 1678 chars, PIN- Sylvia Weinstock (d. Nov 2021), 1 sentence to 3, +1803 chars total
- Joanne Shenandoah (d. Nov 2021) revised lede to make more relevant to subject, +703 chars total
- Darlene Hard (d. Dec 2021) +9 words lede, +1271 chars total, PIN
Lina Wertmüller (d. Dec 2021) just a few words to lede from WaPo obit but they are good words, PIN
Aldona Grigaliūnienė had no refs either- Chi Coltrane had no refs either, PIN
- Patricia Brocker had no refs either
- Lina Braknytė had no refs either
Tererai Trent (+1 sentence, expanding a preexisting sentence)-
All-Woman Supreme Court (+1 sentence, as well as expanding a preexisting sentence) - Candace Jackson-Akiwumi (+1 sentence)
Itoko Koyama (+1 sentence)- Linda Albertini (+84 words), PIN
Kahe Te Rau-o-te-rangi (+3 sentences)- Kate Andersen (+1 sentence), PIN
- Frances Caverhill (+3 sentences)
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Eleanor Catton (+5 sentences), PIN -
Judith Lonie (+3 sentences) - Jean Lonie (+1 sentence)
Monique Deland (+1 sentence), PIN
Momtaza Mehri (+1 sentence)- Mira J. Spektor (+1 sentence)
Linda Lê (+1 sentence) - PIN- Annette Leo (+1 sentence)
Dina Rubina (+1 sentence) - PIN-
Galina Shergova (+1 sentence) - PIN 
Regīna Ezera (+1 sentence)
Debora Vaarandi (+2 sentences)- Anna Haava (+2 sentences) - PIN
- Zulfiya (poet) (+2 sentences) - PIN
Veronika Tushnova (+1 sentence)- Margaret Wettlin (+1 sentence)
- Mirdza Ķempe (+1 sentence)
- Vonla McBride (1 sentence to 2) - PIN
- Jane Robinson (historian) (19 to 63 words)
- Ravinder Randhawa (1 sentence to 2)
- Henrietta Stanley, Baroness Stanley of Alderley (1 sentence to 3) - PIN
- Elizaveta I. Gnevusheva (+59 characters), PIN
- Regina Dubovitskaya (+137 characters), PIN
- Isabella Bashmakova (+177 characters), PIN
- Nina Gagen-Torn (+163 characters), PIN
- Lidiya Ginzburg (+53 characters), PIN
- Alexandra Brushtein (+186 characters), PIN
- Vera Panova (+1 sentence), PIN
- Natalya Sats (+174 characters), PIN
- Lidiya Seifullina (+1 sentence)
- Maria Shkapskaya (+1 sentence), PIN
- Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya (+1 sentence), PIN
- Helene Meyers (was 57 words(readable prose), now 204 words)
Cristiana Chamorro Barrios (was 2 sentences, now 4), PIN- Marguerite Gosse (+1 sentence)
- Eliza Cook (physician) (+1 sentence), PIN
- Susan Morgan (+1 sentence)
- Nancy Segal (+2 sentences)
- Mary Stuart James MacMurphy (+2 sentences), PIN
- Caroline Marshall Woodward (+1 sentence), PIN
- Mary Ross Banks (+1 sentence), PIN
- Harriet Newell Ralston (+1 sentence), PIN
Maukhida Abdulkabirova (159 characters), PIN
Timpoko Helène Kienon-Kabore (two extra sentences)
Sarah Mohanna Al Abdali (extra sentence), PIN- Rachel Tanner (+232 characters)
Therasia of Nola (+252 characters)- Zodwa Nyoni (+181 characters)
- Ja'Tovia Gary (was 1 sentence, now 3)
- Jakucho Setouchi (d. 2021) (14 words added to lede, 1144 bytes overall)
- Erica Armstrong Dunbar (was 2 sentences, now 4) - PIN
- Carrie Meek (d. 2021) (was 3 sentences, now 4 with more wikilinks and importance as African American congresswoman) - PIN
Early start in November
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Julia Bacha explains what type of films she makes - PIN- Almudena Grandes (was 1 sentence, now 4)
Alma Guillermoprieto (was 2 sentences, now 5)- May Isabel Fisk (was 1 sentence, now 3)
- Mathilde Laurent (was 2 sentences, now 4)
- Aracelis Girmay (was 1 sentence, now 3) - PIN
- Mary Nash (author) (was 1 sentence, now 2)
- Nanina Alba (was 1 sentence, now 2)
- Violeta Granera (was 1 sentence, now 4) - PIN
Juan Du (was 2 sentences, now 4)- Suyén Barahona (was 2 sentences, now 4) - PIN
- Narciso Rodriguez for Her (was 2 sentences, now 4)
- Flora D. Crittenden (was 2 sentences, now 5)
- Judith Weisenfeld (was 2 sentences, now 4)
- Nicole A. Taylor (was 1 sentence, now 4)
- Surpassing Certainty (was 1 sentence, now 3) - PIN
Beneath the Lion's Gaze (was 1 sentence, now 3)- Playing in the Dark (was 1 sentence, now 2)
- Jessica B. Harris (was 1 sentence, now 3) - pIN
- Jenna Wortham (was 2 sentences, now 4) - PIN
- Ruth Crosby Noble (was 1 sentence, now 3)
Najmieh Batmanglij (was 2 sentences, now 4) - PIN- Harriet Bates (was 1 sentence; now 2) - PIN
- Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye (was 1 sentence; now 3) - PIN
- Sarah Fuller Flower Adams (was 1 sentence; now 2) - PIN
- Matilda Maranda Crawford (was 1 sentence; now 2) - PIN
Mary Mathews Adams (was 1 sentence; now 3) - PIN- Ann, Lady Fanshawe (was 1 sentence; now 2) - PIN
Main Page features
editNew/expanded articles featured in theDid you know... column of the WikipediaMain page
- Add here – most recent at the top with date of publication
New/expanded articles featured in theIn the news... column of the WikipediaMain page
- Add here – most recent at the top with date of publication
- Almudena Grandes - November 28
Press about the event
editEvent templates
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