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, only20.13% 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!

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From January to December 2025, Women in Red is embarking on our third collective "alphabet run", where editors work consecutively through the letters of the English alphabet. The first two letters areA andB, and can be applied to any first, middle or last name of a subject e.g.Anni Albers, or individuals named likeElla Graham Agnew orBetty Parsons would both be appropriate.

Again this year we have lists of themost 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 quite a number that are inappropriate, for example, Andrea or Auguste which are also used for men. If you write a biography from these lists, please mention "most frequent" when you add it as a New or upgraded article.

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 you 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, under our year-long initiativeMusic, other topics of the month or our comprehensive#1day1woman event.

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

What else?

• Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you created 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 images on social media, 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 withA orB. Editors canclick the column header to rearrange names into alphabetical order.

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 Bsky after the article if you post it on Bluesky
• Add THR after the article if you post it on Threads

• Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new and biographical dictionary, if used:

• Please add this category to the image if you're uploading it to Commons:Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2025

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  Nancy Brown
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  Nancy Brown
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  Ada Elizabeth Corder
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  Ada Elizabeth Corder
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  Alema Alema
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  Amyjo Doh
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  Anne-Eléonore-Marie de Béthune d'Orval
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  Mary Louise Ainsworth
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  Gladys Athena Sperling
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  Jennie Boynton
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  Reclining Shepherdess -Alethea Stiles
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  Nan Bagby Stephens
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  Amunda Kolderup
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  Agnes Hope Pillsbury
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  Jane Ansah is right
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  Beatice Saunders
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  Anna Laura Force
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  Marie Bashkirtseff
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  Emma Gillingham Bostwick
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  Deborah Ferris Bringhurst
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  Radie Britain
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  Elsie West Baker
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  Lillian Pringle Baldauf
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  Emmy Brady Rogers
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  Sarah Wales Jones Burton
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  Lois Albright
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  Anna Harris Stein
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  Blanche Slocum
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  Woman Sweeping byMary Cummings Browne Hatch
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  Edna P. Bruner
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  Astrid Sommer
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  Astrid Sommer
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  Edna Baxter Bruner
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  Madalyn Akers Phillips
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  Jeanne Boyd
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  Anna Hamlin
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  Simona Brambilla
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  Augusta Lenska
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  Augusta Lenska
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  Brooke Eby
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  Barbara Lull
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  Johanne Bruhn
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  Johanne Bruhn
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  Johanne Bruhn
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  Alma Mehus
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  A View of Yosemite Valley byMary Park Seavey Benton
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  Rae Bernstein
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  Maria Bellett Browne
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  Jane Eliza Sherwood Russell byMaria Bellett Browne
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  Veronica Adhiambo Oluoch
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  Bianka Blume
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  Bianka Blume
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  Agnes Leist Beebe

• ... that the ending of the music video forHoshimachi Suisei's "Bibbidiba" was called inspiring to struggling women?(2025-03-08)
• ... that 19th-century tightrope walkerMadame Saqui performed well into her seventies?(2025-03-02)
• ... that the musical career ofLouise Beach has ranged from nationally recognized compositions to a children's book about theviola?(2025-02-26)
• ... that opera singerSusan Botti performed an Olympic jingle forKodak to pay for graduate school?(2025-02-12)
• ... that it is said thatAntoinette Lubaki, Congo's first named woman artist, painted her watercolours by candlelight at night, as no stories were allowed to be told during daylight?(2025-02-12)
• ... thatAnn McMillan recalled "playing" a tape recorder forDéserts, a piece byEdgard Varèse?(2025-01-31)
• ... thatAna María Ochoa was born in Colombia, studied in British Columbia, and taught at Columbia?(2025-01-22)
• ... that in 1927Berta Persson became the first woman bus driver in Sweden and was nicknamed "Buss-Berta"?(2025-01-11)

• Invitation:Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Outreach/2025
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