May: Alphabet run U, V, W Disability Education CEE women

2023 global initiatives: #1day1woman2023 Peace and Diplomacy

See also: Future events

Welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR)! Our objective is to turn red links into blue 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 to Humaniki, only 19.79% of the English Wikipedia's biographies are about women? Not impressed? Content gender gap is a form of systemic 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!

Welcome!

Online event 1–31 May 2023
Vivian Vance, American actress and singer (1909–1979).

Use social media to promote our work!
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Add to article talk pages
.	((WikiProject Biography)) ((WikiProject Women)) if born after 1950; or ((WikiProject Women's History)) if born before 1950. Editathon banner: ((WIR-267))

From July 2022 to June 2023, Women in Red is embarking on their first collective "alphabet run", where editors work consecutively through the letters of the English alphabet. The May 2023 letters are U,V and W, and can be applied to any first, middle or last name of a subject e.g. Virginia Woolf, or individuals named like Ada Hill Walker or Ursula K. Le Guin would both be appropriate.

• July 2022 - A & B
• August 2022 - C & D
• September 2022 - E & F
• October 2022 - G & H
• November 2022 - I & J
• December 2022 - K & L
• January 2023 - M & N
• February 2023 - O & P
• March 2023 - Q & R
• April 2023 S & T
• May 2023 - U, V, W
• June 2023 - X, Y & Z

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.

The main 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 to Main 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 our Ten 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.

Thank you!

Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)

A wide variety of redlink lists can be found on our Redlist index. Any of these lists can be used to find subjects who may have a first, middle or last name, beginning with U or V or W. Editors can click the column header to rearrange names into alphabetical order.

Please add the biographical dictionary, if used:

New or upgraded articles

May

Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new

Early start

Promote our work

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 via WP:In The News

Did you know? articles

• ... that footballer Keira Walsh first captained England in 2018, when she was the youngest player in the squad? (2024-03-28)
• ... that an Armenian Apostolic Church lawsuit over the Zeytun Gospels led Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh to write a history of its separated canon tables? (2023-07-14)
• ... that Wanda Warska was nicknamed the "First Lady of Polish Jazz"? (2023-07-05)
• ... that Wanda Szuman, a pioneer of special education in Poland, was also active in underground education? (2023-05-12)

• 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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  Louise Wener
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  Mary Vining
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  Eleanor Woolley Fowler
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  Helen Worthing Webster
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  Anna and Virginie Loveling
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  Thelma Van Norte
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  Harold Russell and Thelma Van Norte
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  Sarah Wilson (football)
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  Viola Klaiss
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  Binying Wang
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  Vita Witek
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  Una Fleming
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  Valerija Raulinaitis

• Invitation: May 2023
• Editathon banner for talk pages – Alphabet run U, V, W Template:WIR-267: ((WIR-267))