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: A & B edit‑a‑thon
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Ann Beattie, American novelist and short story writer
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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 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.

For the rerun, from now on we will be providing 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 there are quite a number which are inappropriate, for example those like Andrea or Auguste which are also 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.

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 withA orB. Editors canclick the column header to rearrange names into alphabetical order.

Please add the biographical dictionary, if used:

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 viaWP:In The News.

• Bonnie Elliott - 20 August

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly byJL-Bot (talk ·contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it istagged orcategorized (e.g.Category:WikiProject Women in Red meetup 275 articles) correctly and wait for the next update. SeeWP:RECOG for configuration options.

• ... thatBonnie Elliott devised the concept for a campaign to promote female representation incinematography?(2023-08-20)
• ... that historianAnne Balay wrote two books on oral histories fromLGBT steelworkers and truck drivers?(2023-08-15)
• ... that before becoming the first woman president of theAmerican College of Sports Medicine,Barbara L. Drinkwater had an undefeated season as a women's college basketball coach?(2023-08-07)
• ... that footballerAlexandra Pinell scored theCosta Rica U20 team's only goal atthe FIFA tournament hosted by their country?(2023-07-31)
• ... that German cyclistAntonia Niedermaier won a stage on her firstUCI Women's World Tour event, then crashed out of the event the next day?(2023-07-29)
• ... that Indian women's hockey playerElvera Britto and her sisters would stitch their own team uniforms while playing in the 1960s?(2022-05-30)
• ... thatBarrie R. Cassileth helped create one of the first palliative cancer care programs in the United States?(2022-04-13)
• ... that economics professorCarolyn Shaw Bell established a model that sent a disproportionate number of students atWellesley College into careers in economics and business?(2017-01-31)

• 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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  Olivia Spencer Bower
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  Margaret Frankel, nee Anderson
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  Linda Birnbaum
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  Betty Villegas
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  Linda Birnbaum
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  Marianna Burgess
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  Beatrice MacCue
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  M. A. B. Evans
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  Carol Becker
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  Josephine Barnaby
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  Kate Adele Aplington
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  Pamela A. Smith
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  Pamela A. Smith
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  Pamela A. Smith
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  Shawnna Bolick
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  Alice Ehlers
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  Martha Bensley Bruère
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  Alyce Canfield
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  Maude Annesley
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  Florence Blenkiron andTheresa Wallach
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  Britainy Beshear
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  Nellie Greenwood Andrews
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  Louie Ball McLean
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  Betty Lermitte
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  Louie Ball McLean
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  Louie Ball McLean (center)
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  Angelina Maria Collins
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  Margaret Allan (racing driver)
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  Hetty Athon Morrison
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  Betty and Nancy Debenham
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  Betty Debenham
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  Phrenology of Woodrow Wilson byJessie Allen Fowler
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  Jessie Allen Fowler
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  Harriet Frances Bagot
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  Susan Beever
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  Jane Baldwin
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  Bessie Marchant
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  Anees Fatima
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  Basia Bartz
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  Árný MargrétTW
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  Árný Margrét
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  Rachel Quick Buttz
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  Alma K. Ledig
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  Matilda Greathouse Alexander
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  Flora Belle Jan
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  Gladys Byram Shepperd
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  Barbara Henry Farquhar
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  Jane Burdett and family
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  Katharine Baker
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  Beulah Blackmore
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  Annie Powe Hopper

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