Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/253

 Alphabet Run: M to N | January 2023 January:

2023 global initiatives:

See also:



 Welcome!

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 January 2023 letters are M and N, and can be applied to any first, middle or last name of a subject e.g. Maryam Mirzakhani, or individuals named like Marilyn Pappas or Louise Nevelson 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 M or N. Editors can click the column header to rearrange names into alphabetical order.

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Wikidata generated lists

 * American National Biography (WD)
 * Australian Dictionary of Biography (WD)
 * Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women (WD)
 * Dictionary of Canadian Biography (WD)
 * Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon (WD)
 * Glimpses into Pacific Lives: Some Outstanding Women (CS)
 * Native American Women (WD)
 * Notable American Women, 1607–1950 (WD)
 * Notable Women of Hawaii (WD)
 * Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (WD)

Dictionaries with fewer than 20 women to go

 * Who's Who among the Colored Baptists of the United States (CS) - 4
 * Dictionary of Ulster Biography (WD) - 3
 * Dictionary of Irish Biography (WD)- 5 (more not on wikidata!)
 * Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers (WD) - 10 9
 * Western Canadian women (CS) - 11
 * Dictionary of African Biography (WD) - 10 9  8 7
 * Onze Musici (WD) - 8 13
 * Biographical Dictionary of Spanish Socialism (WD) - 14 15 16
 * Latin America in the Communist International (WD) - 17 14 13
 * Dictionary of Welsh Biography (WD) - 20 22  18 15


 * }

Participants

 * Jessamyn (my talk page) 22:15, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
 * WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 17:10, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
 * SikiWtideI (Speak to the backwards police) 18:51, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Oronsay (talk) 18:57, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Penny Richards (talk) 20:58, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Victuallers (talk) 16:25, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
 * 97198 (talk) 07:22, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
 * CobaltSteel (talk) 15:40, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
 * SarahTHunter (talk) 19:04, 31 December 2022 (GMT)
 * Scanlan (talk) 02:08, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Pam D  12:07, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
 * gobonobo + c 19:39, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
 * — scribbling  woman  20:40, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Gricharduk (talk) 14:21, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Dnllnd (talk) 22:11, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Rosiestep (talk) 18:46, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Lyduska (talk) 05:00, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Lajmmoore (talk) 19:42, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
 * --Less Unless (talk) 21:08, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Chocmilk03 (talk) 00:05, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Curbon7 (talk) 01:58, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 19:19, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Taung Tan (talk) 20:18, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

Outcomes (articles)
Please add the biographical dictionary, if used:

New or upgraded articles
Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new


 * 1) Sarah Jim Mayo
 * 2) 🇺🇸 Linsey Marr (updated, added pic)
 * 3) Mary Porteous Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
 * 4)  Nina Gorst
 * 5) Montserrat Cervera Rodon (also WiR-251)
 * 6) 🇭🇺 Marika Bangó
 * 7) Maixux Rekalde (also WiR-251)
 * 8) 🇭🇺 Margit Bangó
 * 9) 🇺🇦 Victoria Malektorovych
 * 10) 🇨🇱 Nicolasa Quintremán (also WiR-251)
 * 11) Stella Muir - add img, infobox, PIN
 * 12) 🇺🇸🇨🇦 Léone Boudreau-Nelson
 * 13) 🇫🇷🇨🇦 Martine L. Jacquot
 * 14) 🇺🇸 Chandi Moore TW
 * 15) 🇺🇸 Bliss Milford - add img, PIN
 * 16) 🇦🇺 Marie Elizabeth Amy Castilla - PIN
 * 17) 🇧🇪 Melissa Depraetere - PIN
 * 18) 🇫🇷 Natalie Depraz
 * 19) Marjorie Steel Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
 * 20) 🇫🇷 Camille Froidevaux-Metterie - PIN
 * 21) Jennifer Marianne Hart
 * 22) Molly Brearley Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
 * 23) 🇫🇷 Marie de Hennezel - PIN
 * 24) 🇫🇷 Marie-Renée Ucciani - PIN
 * 25) 🇫🇷 Marie-Claude Beaud - PIN
 * 26) 🇺🇸 Margaret S. Rood - PIN
 * 27) Margaret Herschel - PIN
 * 28) 🇺🇸 Myra Sadker
 * 29) 🇯🇵 Misaki Yabumoto
 * 30) 🇺🇸 Dorothea Nelson - PIN
 * 31) 🇯🇵 Nobuko Takahashi (ambassador)
 * 32) Mabel Day Oxford Dictionary of National Biography TW
 * 33) 🇫🇷 Marcelle Tiard - PIN
 * 34) 🇨🇳 Ma Yutao - PIN
 * 35) 🇺🇸 Ella Morgan - PIN
 * 36) Susannah Montgomery - PIN
 * 37) Margaret Sandford Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
 * 38) 🇸🇰 Magda Košútová
 * 39) 🇺🇸 Brían Nguyen
 * 40) Danni McCormack
 * 41) 🇺🇦 Myroslava Shcherbatiuk - PIN
 * 42) 🇺🇸 Sheila Marbain - PIN
 * 43) 🇪🇸 Maite Aranburu
 * 44) 🇫🇷 Hélène Miard-Delacroix - PIN
 * 45) 🇺🇸 Natalie Mars - pIN
 * 46) Nellie Weeton Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
 * 47) Nellie Boswell Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
 * 48) Marcia Rice Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
 * 49) Mary Broad Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - PIN
 * 50) 🇵🇱 Dorota Malarczyk - PIN
 * 51) 🇨🇦 Madeleine Juneau - PIN
 * 52) 🇺🇸 Margaret Janeway - PIN
 * 53) 🇳🇿 Katerina Nēhua (upgraded from stub) - PIN
 * 54) 🇲🇦 Divina Frau-Meigs- PIN
 * 55) 🇺🇸 Marion C. Loizeaux - PIN
 * 56) 🇫🇷 Madeleine Rolland (also #251)- PIN
 * 57) 🇫🇷 Marie-Louise Bouglé (also #251)
 * 58) 🇫🇷 Michelle Zancarini-Fournel- PIN
 * 59) 🇺🇸 Emma Murdock Van Deventer- PIN
 * 60) 🇳🇿 Pania Newton (upgraded from stub) TW, nominated for DYK, PIN
 * 61) Kay McDougall Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - PIN
 * 62) 🇮🇹 Sarina Nathan Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - PINTW - OneforWikiDonne
 * 63) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Margaret Baxter upgrade Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
 * 64) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Hawise Mone Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
 * 65) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Martha Giffard Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - PIN
 * 66) 🇺🇸 Eula Davis McEwan - PIN
 * 67) 🇨🇭 Marguerite Narbel - PIN
 * 68) 🇺🇸 Marlana Thompson saved from draftify, PIN
 * 69) 🇧🇷 Valesca Machado
 * 70) 🇺🇸 Mildred Adams Fenton -destub, PIN
 * 71) Naira Melkumian
 * 72) 🇸🇪 Anna T. Nilsson - PIN TW
 * 73) 🇸🇪 Matilda Widegren - PIN TW
 * 74) 🇩🇰 Marie Jepsen - PIN
 * 75) 🇬🇭 Victoria Nyame TW
 * 76) 🇯🇵🇺🇸 Marii Hasegawa - add img, PIN
 * 77) 🇫🇮🇳🇿 Mikaela Nyman – TW
 * 78) 🇺🇸 Sarah Minnick
 * 79) 🇪🇺Bettina Muscheidt
 * 80) 🇺🇦 Nadiia Nikitenko - PIN
 * 81) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Margaret Hepburn Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
 * 82) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Margaret Blackwood (activist) upgrade, PIN TW
 * 83) 🇺🇸 Mary Page Bird
 * 84) 🇨🇲 Melissa Bime
 * 85)  Megan du Boisson
 * 86) 🇳🇴 Berit Moore
 * 87)  May Hely-Hutchinson
 * 88) 🇺🇸 Sister Mary Geraldine Tobia
 * 89) 🇺🇸 Martha Elizabeth Duncan Walker Cook
 * 90) 🇺🇸 Loren MacIver - add citations to collections etc., PIN
 * 91) Mary Greaves TW, PIN
 * 92) 🇺🇸 Katherine Milhous - added image, PIN
 * 93) 🇺🇸 Gail B. Nayowith
 * 94) 🇺🇸 Linda Mastandrea
 * 95) Margaret Agnes Paul
 * 96) 🇸🇰 Mária Patakyová - PIN
 * 97) Mary Tooth Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
 * 98) Mary Sackville Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - PIN
 * 99) Mary Anne Holford
 * 100) 🇱🇻 Edīte Medne
 * 101) Mary Rollason Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
 * 102) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Mary Gadbury Oxford Dictionary of National Biography TW
 * 103) Mayne Lindsay Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction
 * 104) 🇮🇹 Marilù Capparelli
 * 105) 🇺🇸 A. Evelyn Newman - PIN
 * 106) 🇵🇱🇺🇸 Yolanda Murphy -destub, PIN
 * 107) 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 Emily Kelley Moran The Oxford dictionary of American art and artists
 * 108) 🇸🇰 Nela Lopušanová
 * 109) 🇱🇻🇺🇸 Agate Nesaule - PIN
 * 110) 🇺🇸 Ellen Maria Carpenter Bénézit Dictionary of Artists
 * 111) 🇺🇸 Nancy Worden - infobox, image, wikify
 * 112) Maria Susanna Cooper additions/revisions
 * 113) Kirsten Madison
 * 114) 🇺🇦 Nina Herasymova-Persydska
 * 115) Emily Marshall #11 TW Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
 * 116) 🇺🇸 Julie Morrow Deforest Bénézit Dictionary of Artists
 * 117) Kathleen Margaret Midwinter my #10 in 10 days Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
 * 118) Nell Stevens
 * 119) 🇺🇸 Eunice Makepeace Towle
 * 120) Mary Anne Ewart Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
 * 121) 🇮🇹 Nina Rignano. The article needs improvement. First ref has a large amount of info. - PIN
 * 122) 🇦🇺 Kate Mackay ADB
 * 123) 🇺🇸 Selma Mushkin
 * 124) 🇵🇦 Noris Salazar Allen
 * 125) 🇦🇺 Ellen Malos
 * 126) 🇮🇪 Mary Crumpe
 * 127) 🇮🇪 Mary Woolley Gibbings Cotton, Vicountess Combermere
 * 128) 🇺🇸 MJ Tyson
 * 129) 🇺🇸 Rose Montoya moved to draft (twice) 3rd party views on this invited.
 * 130) Margaret Torrie Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - PIN
 * 131) Marie Tůmová TW - PIN
 * 132) 🇷🇺 Natalya Donchenko add pic and large upgrade, PIN
 * 133) 🇺🇸 Mary Bell Smith - PIN
 * 134) Eliza Bland Smith Erskine Norton
 * 135) 🇲🇽 Marcelina Bautista - PIN
 * 136) Maria Cust Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
 * 137) Florence Melly Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
 * 138) 🇺🇸 Annie E. Molloy - PIN
 * 139) 🇮🇹 Marianna Bianchi
 * 140) 🇨🇦 Margaret Allemang Mastodon
 * 141)  Karla Máchová
 * 142) 🇺🇸 Sylvia McLaughlin -destub, PIN
 * 143) 🇸🇰 Magda Šaturová
 * 144) Maria Thynne Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
 * 145) 🇺🇸 Lael Morgan
 * 146) Mary Rundle upgraded
 * 147) 🇸🇰 Monika Motyčáková
 * 148) 🇩🇪 Magdalena Rosina Funck
 * 149) 🇮🇹 Nicla Vassallo upgrade (1st ref)
 * 150) Irma Nioradze upgrade (1st ref)
 * 151) 🇺🇸 Danielle McKinney upgrade (1st ref)
 * 152) Added fifty-five (55!) names to List of early-modern British women novelists, some starting with M or N
 * 153) 🇦🇷 Teresa Manera
 * 154) Havana Marking upgrade (1st ref)
 * 155) Margaret Nimmo Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
 * 156) Polly Morland
 * 157) 🇮🇹 Maria Bertolini (also WIR-250)
 * 158) Margaret Hewitt TW
 * 159) Susan Grace Moore
 * 160) Jennifer May Loten - PIN
 * 161) Maude Ashurst Biggs Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
 * 162) 🇹🇷 Merve Demır
 * 163) Margaret Bramall Oxford Dictionary of National Biography TW, PIN
 * 164) 🇺🇸 Nell Walker Warner -destub, PIN TW
 * 165) 🇺🇸 Marion Janet Harron - destub, PIN
 * 166) 🇲🇲 Honey Nway Oo - DYK
 * 167) 🇲🇲 Ywet Nu Aung - DYK

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 New Zealand activist Pania Newton (depicted) gave up a legal career to become an activist and spokesperson for the preservation of her ancestral lands at Ihumātao? (2023-03-08)
 * ... that writer Eliza Bland Smith Erskine Norton married two different men who both lost an arm in battle? (2023-01-13)

Outcomes (media)
Add here – most recent at the top
 * Please add this category to the image if you're uploading it to Commons: Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2023

Event templates

 * Invitation: January 2023
 * Editathon banner for talk pages – Alphabet Run: M to N Template:WIR-253: