First Ladies

Online event
1–31 December 2017	Join the Women in Red online editathon from anywhere in the world.

Women in Red are hosting a virtual editathonfrom 1 to 31 December 2017 onFirst ladies, providing an opportunity for you to create or improve articles on women who actually carry the title of First Lady or who are married to a national leader. The names of many of these are redirected to articles about their husbands but they may well deserve a biography in their own right.

The virtual edit-a-thon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in the work.

• The lists of redlinks below should provide inspiration.
• This essay on creating women's biographies might be helpful to newer editors.
• The main goals of the event are:

• to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of some of the world's most prominent women
• to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action on a specific area
• to support Wikipedia in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
• to promote the new/improved articles and images through social media (Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter)

Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)

Participants

1. Ipigott (talk)11:24, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
2. Rosiestep (talk)12:43, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
3. Megalibrarygirl (talk)16:44, 24 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
4. Penny Richards (talk)13:24, 25 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
5. T. Anthony (talk)13:58, 25 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
6. Rosiestep (talk)14:21, 25 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
7. Vami_IV✠08:02, 26 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
8. SusunW (talk)17:05, 26 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
9. Maile (talk)01:06, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
10. MrLinkinPark333 (talk)21:11, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
11. Luna935 (talk)22:23, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
12. Scanlan (talk)03:14, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
13. Camelia (talk)12:26, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
14. PamD13:09, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
15. Victuallers (talk)12:20, 8 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
16. 97198 (talk)11:45, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
17. Brookfre (talk)18:18, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Outcomes

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New or upgraded articles

1. Pat Straub
2. Dolores Atiyeh
3. Audrey McCall
4. First Ladies and Gentlemen of Trinidad and Tobago
5. Anne Ector Pleasant
6. Christine Branstad - PINTW
7. First Lady of Djibouti
8. First Lady of Senegal
9. Barbarita Nieves
10. Marieme Faye Sall - PIN
11. María de la Ossa de AmadorTW, PIN
12. Blanca Ibáñez
13. Spouses of the Mayors of Honolulu
14. Hosne Ara Rahman
15. First Lady of the Maldives
16. Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings upgrade, PIN TW
17. Mary Dillingham Frear
18. First Lady of Slovakia
19. Iris Campbell
20. Helen Strong Carter
21. Anne Asquith
22. Luise Erhard -PIN
23. Luise Renner
24. Margaret Shonekan
25. First Ladies of Hawaii
26. Anne Cornwallis TW, PIN
27. Cécile Carnot - upgTW, PIN
28. Lynne Waihee -TW, PIN
29. Lillian Gallup Haskell TW, PIN
30. María Izaguirre
31. Mary Catherine McIntire PachecoTW, PIN
32. Vicky Cayetano - PIN
33. Fati Lami Abubakar
34. Elena Gallegos Rosales
35. Jean Ariyoshi - PIN
36. Cidália Lopes Nobre Mouzinho Guterres
37. Gertrude Carter - PIN
38. Beatrice Burns
39. Maria Lúcia Ribeiro Alckmin
40. Eliza Reid
41. Spouses of the Governors of California (early, but created for this effort)
42. Auxillia Mnangagwa (a bit early)

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