Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/267

 Alphabet Run: U, V, & W | May 2023 May:

2023 global initiatives:

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 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 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.

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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

 * South Asian Novelists (WD) - 2
 * Who's Who among the Colored Baptists of the United States (CS) - 4
 * Dictionary of Ulster Biography (WD) - 4
 * Dictionary of Irish Biography (WD)- 3 (more not on wikidata!)
 * Great Women Mystery Writers (CS) - 6
 * Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers (WD) - 9
 * Western Canadian women (CS) - 7
 * Dictionary of African Biography (WD) - 3
 * Onze Musici (WD) - 13
 * Biographical Dictionary of Spanish Socialism (WD) - 16
 * Latin America in the Communist International (WD) - 13
 * Dictionary of Welsh Biography (WD) - 20
 * American Women Historians (CS) - 14


 * }

Participants

 * Penny Richards (talk) 23:32, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Victuallers (talk) 15:48, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
 * UMStellify (talk) 00:14, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Curbon7 (talk) 02:00, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Rosiestep (talk) 05:25, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Walrus World (talk) 08:15, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Chocmilk03 (talk) 07:20, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Pam D  10:33, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Thebiguglyalien ( talk ) 01:14, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 02:08, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
 * WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:04, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
 * SarahTHunter (talk) 17:43, 4 May 2023 (BST)
 * Lajmmoore (talk) 10:56, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Pakoire (talk) 02:22, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
 * EEHalli (talk) 12:27, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
 * — scribbling  woman  11:40, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

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

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


 * 1) 🇺🇸 Women's Center & Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh (one of the 1st 6 domestic violence response/prevention centers ever established in the U.S.) - improved from stub tagged as "not notable" to C-class
 * 2) 🇺🇸 Woman's Club of Warren - improved from stub to start-class
 * 3) 🇺🇸 Sally Wiggin - improved from stub to start-class
 * 4) 🇺🇸 Woman's Progress - reassessed from stub to start; improved to C-Class
 * 5) 🇺🇸 Emma Wolf
 * 6) Eglantine Wallace edited
 * 7) 🇺🇸 The Voices (novel)
 * 8) 🇺🇸 Mary Virginia Proctor
 * 9) Mari Jose Urruzola (also WIR 269)
 * 10) 🇺🇸 Ginny Vida
 * 11) Victoria Alexandrina Katherine Bruce
 * 12) 🇮🇳 Winifred Mayo
 * 13) 🇺🇸 Christine Vladimiroff - improved from stub-class to start-class
 * 14) 🇺🇸 Sharon Vaughn (politician) - improved from stub-class to start-class
 * 15) 🇵🇱 Wanda Warska (also WIR 270) TW DYK
 * 16) Muriel Villanueva i Perarnau (also WIR 269)
 * 17) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Elizabeth May Watkin Jones TW
 * 18) Karlien de Villiers
 * 19) 🇺🇸 Vicki Meek wikified
 * 20) 🇪🇸 Alicia Martín Villanueva
 * 21) 🇸🇰🇭🇺 Pálné Veres (complete rewrite, also WIR 269 and 270)
 * 22) 🇦🇲🇱🇧🇺🇸 Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh (also WIR 270)
 * 23) 🇸🇪 Ulla Westermark
 * 24) Felicity Wallace TW
 * 25) 🇧🇼 Nnaniki Wilhemina Tebogo Makwinja - PIN
 * 26) Frances Wilbraham
 * 27) 🇸🇮 Valentina Kobe (also WIR 269 and 270) - PIN
 * 28) Emma Caroline Wood
 * 29) Greta Valentine
 * 30) 🇩🇰 Stina Wirsén add first ref, PIN
 * 31) 🇺🇸 Virginia Keane Bryce
 * 32) 🇺🇸 Virna Woods
 * 33) 🇺🇸 Tonjua Williams add refs to upgrade
 * 34) 🇯🇵 Keiko Watanabe
 * 35) 🇺🇸 Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen
 * 36) 🇧🇬 Tota Venkova (also WIR 269 and 270) - PIN
 * 37) 🇨🇿 Pavlína Wolfová (also WIR 270) - PIN
 * 38) Louise Wener upgrade, PIN
 * 39) Edith Wardale
 * 40) 🇫🇷 Chloé Wary - PIN
 * 41) 🇺🇸 April Vollmer
 * 42) Mary Vining - PIN
 * 43) 🇺🇸 Carmen J. Walters
 * 44) 🇮🇪 Helen Whelton
 * 45) 🇩🇪 Vera Hatz - PIN
 * 46) 🇺🇸 Deborah Valenze TW
 * 47) 🇺🇸 Mary Jane Windle
 * 48) Laura Pérez Vernetti - PIN
 * 49) Gladys Wright - PIN
 * 50) 🇺🇸 Eleanor Woolley Fowler - PIN
 * 51) 🇮🇹 Valentina Romeo - PIN
 * 52) 🇪🇪 Helmi Üprus (also WiR 270)
 * 53) Elizabeth Wiseman
 * 54) 🇺🇸 Helen Worthing Webster
 * 55) 🇺🇸 Abigail Williams May (also WiR 269)
 * 56) 🇺🇸 Emily Wayland Dinwiddie
 * 57) 🇹🇷 Raziye Uluçam
 * 58) Winifred Mercier - PIN
 * 59) Mrs Woodman
 * 60) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Eve of Wilton
 * 61) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Matilda of Wareham redirect
 * 62) Vida Marija Čigriejienė (also WiR 269 and 270) TW
 * 63) 🇧🇯 Vicentia Boco - PIN
 * 64) Helene von Vetsera (also WiR 270) - PIN
 * 65) 🇧🇪 Virginie Loveling upgrade, PIN
 * 66) 🇺🇸 Corinne Michelle West - add infobox and image, PIN
 * 67) 🇺🇸 Janet Wilson James (also WiR 269)
 * 68) 🇺🇸 Thelma Van Norte - PIN
 * 69) 🇩🇪 Valeska Knoblauch
 * 70) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Margaret Willoughby TW
 * 71) 🇦🇷 Azucena Villaflor - upgraded, PIN
 * 72) Phoebe Wright
 * 73) Elsa Vaudrey - PIN
 * 74) Bigna Francis-von Wyttenbach
 * 75) 🇩🇪🇺🇸 Helen Kreis Wallenda (also WiR 270)
 * 76) 🇵🇱 Wanda Szuman (also WIR 268, 269, 270) - PIN
 * 77) 🇨🇭 Brigit Wyss (also WIR-270)
 * 78) 🇹🇷🇦🇺 Ayten Kuyululu Ürkmez - TW (also WIR-270)

Early start

 * 1) 🇺🇸 Lucille Wallenrod - improved, PIN
 * 2) Valentine Schlegel TW, PIN
 * 3) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Dorothy Waugh TW
 * 4) 🇺🇸 Connie Redbird Pinkerman-Uri
 * 5) 🇺🇸 Viola Klaiss - PIN
 * 6) 🇨🇳 Wang Binying - PIN
 * 7) 🇩🇰 Vita Witek - PIN
 * 8) 🇺🇸 Justine Wilkinson Washington - PIN
 * 9) 🇺🇸 Una Fleming - PIN
 * 10) 🇱🇹🇺🇸 Valerija Raulinaitis - PIN
 * 11) 🇦🇺 Suzy Urbaniak (also WiR 269)

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)

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: May 2023
 * Editathon banner for talk pages – Alphabet run U, V, W Template:WIR-267: