Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/306

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 May 2024 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 Ursula K. Le Guin or Judith Wright would both be appropriate.


 * July 2023 - A & B
 * August 2023 - C & D
 * September 2023 - E & F
 * October 2023 - G & H
 * November 2023 - I & J
 * December 2023 - K & L
 * January 2024 - M & N
 * February 2024 - O & P
 * March 2024 - Q & R
 * April 2024 - S & T
 * May 2024 - U, V, W
 * June 2024 - X, Y & Z

For the rerun, we are providing lists of the most frequently redlisted women. Based on database searches, these are listed under the first name in the article title. While the searches take account of women's given names, you will discover there are quite a number that are inappropriate (e.g. names like Val which can be unisex). 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.

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.

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, 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)
 * 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 0 1 (more not on wikidata!)
 * Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers (WD) - 10 9  8 7
 * Western Canadian women (CS) - 11 9
 * Dictionary of African Biography (WD) - 10 9 2
 * Onze Musici (WD) - 8 13
 * Biographical Dictionary of Spanish Socialism (WD) - 14 15  17 16
 * Latin America in the Communist International (WD) - 17 14  13 12
 * Dictionary of Welsh Biography (WD) - 20 22  18  15  21 19

Most frequently redlinked women
The lists below cover the first names of women beginning with U, V or W:
 * U: first names beginning with U
 * V: first names beginning with V
 * W: first names beginning with W


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Participants

 * Rosiestep (talk) 23:17, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Victuallers (talk) 12:43, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
 * — scribbling  woman  20:02, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Pam D  15:13, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Penny Richards (talk) 01:28, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Gamaliel ( talk ) 18:12, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Afernand74 (talk) 15:07, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Curbon7 (talk) 21:45, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Oronsay (talk) 01:36, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 19:05, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
 * WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 00:31, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Chocmilk03 (talk) 04:14, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
 * NoonIcarus (talk) 12:48, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
 * DeemDeem52 (talk) 15:36, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

New or upgraded articles
Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new • # 🇳🇱🇮🇩 Wies van Groningen

• # 🇦🇺 Alice Ivy Wigmore

• # 🇦🇺 Amelia Lucy Wayn

• # 🇦🇺 Edith Alexandra White

• # 🇦🇺 Elinor Wray

• # 🇦🇺 Elsie Jane Whicker

• # 🇦🇺 Enid Phyllis Wilson

• # 🇦🇺 Florence Amy Willie

• # 🇦🇺 Gweneth Wisewould

• # 🇦🇺 Helen Withers

• # 🇦🇺 Isobel Wolmby

• # 🇦🇺 Jean Williamson

• # 🇦🇺 Joan Mary Woodhill

• # 🇦🇺 Julian Barbara Waugh

• # 🇦🇺 Linley Wilson

• # 🇦🇺 Margaret Woodhouse

• # 🇦🇺 New South Wales Bush Nursing Association

• # 🇦🇺 Winifred Savage

• # 🇦🇺 Phoebe Wesche

• # 🇦🇺 Pat Wardle

• # 🇦🇺 Dorothy Wilkinson

• # 🇦🇺 Dorothy Whitehead

• # 🇦🇺 May Isabella Weatherly

• # 🇦🇺 Ellinor Walker

• # 🇦🇺 Anna Fellowes Vroland

• # 🇺🇸 Victoria Vincent

• # 🇪🇸 Araceli Sánchez Urquijo - upgraded

• # 🇪🇸🇫🇷🇷🇴 Victòria Pujolar - PIN

• # 🇺🇸 Laura Winthrop Johnson

• # 🇫🇷 Marthe de Vogüé, marquise de Mac Mahon - PIN

• # 🇺🇸 Wendy Hunt

• # Electrical Association for Women - upgraded

• # 🇻🇪 Valentina Quintero (also 305)

• # 🇺🇸 Susan Linn De Witt

• # 🇺🇸 Sherley Anne Williams - add image, PIN

• # Ann Welch - upgraded, PIN

• # 🇺🇸🇨🇦 Vera Brown Holmes (also 294)

• # 🇺🇸 Freddye Harper Williams - upgrade, PIN

• # 🇨🇦 Gina Wilkinson - add image, PIN

• # 🇺🇸 Helen Wilkes - add image, PIN

• # 🇸🇪 Ing-Marie Wieselgren - add image, PIN

• # 🇺🇸 Claudette White - add image, PIN

• # 🇺🇸 Diane Weyermann - add image, PIN

• # 🇺🇸 Alice Crane Williams - PIN

• # 🇻🇪 Marcela Walerstein

• # 🇸🇪 Sara Wedlund - add image, PIN

• # 🇨🇦 Phyllis Webb - add image, PIN

• # 🇺🇸 Abbie E. Krebs-Wilkins - PIN

• # 🇺🇸 Flo Ware - add image, PIN

• # 🇦🇺 Wendy Jenkins (poet)

• # 🇺🇸 Marguerite Volavy -added img, PIN

• # 🇺🇸 Sallie Walker Stockard - add image, PIN

• # 🇭🇺 Mária Wollemann (also 294/307)

• # 🇺🇸 Lyravine Votaw - PIN

• # 🇧🇪 Marie-José Villiers - upgraded, PIN

• # Mrs Victor Bruce - upgraded, PIN

• # Marie Laura Violet Gayler - upgraded

• # 🇺🇸 Pamela Waechter - add image, PIN

• # 🇫🇷 Jeanne Villepreux-Power - upgraded, PIN

• # 🇵🇹 Genoveva Virginia Cossoul

• # 🇭🇺 Anna von László

• # Wanda - upgraded

• # 🇳🇱 Ida Veldhuyzen van Zanten - upgraded, PIN

• # Victoria (name) - upgraded

• # Velma (given name) - upgraded

• # Vera (given name) - upgraded

• # 🇦🇿 Valide Tutayuq

• # Valentine_(name) - upgraded

• # Valerie_(given_name) - upgraded

• # Virginia (given_name) - upgraded

• # Ursula (name) - upgraded

• # 🇮🇳 Urvashi Bahuguna

• # 🇹🇹 Daisy Voisin - add image, PIN

• # 🇨🇱 Violeta Vidaurre - add image, PIN

• # 🇯🇲 Mary Adella Wolcott

• # 🇺🇸 Mary Catharine North Weston

• # 🇺🇸 Sally Victor - add image, PIN

• # 🇺🇸 Mary Wicks Bennett

• # 🇷🇺🇫🇷 Marie Vassilieff - add image and rewritten with citations, PIN

• # 🇦🇹 Maria Wilhelmine von Thun und Hohenstein - upgraded, PIN

• # 🇺🇸 National Mary Washington Memorial Association

• # Beryl Vertue - add image, PIN

• # 🇺🇸 Betty Lou Varnum - add image, PIN

• # 🇺🇸 Nina Vance - add image, PIN

• # 🇺🇸 Frances Ullmann DeArmand - PIN

• # 🇱🇻 Melānija Vanaga - add image, PIN

• # 🇺🇸 Zoe Dana Underhill

• # 🇯🇵 Hitomi Ueda

• # 🇺🇸   Lucy Winthrop

• # 🇺🇸🇦🇹 Gertrud L. Wyatt (also 294)

• # 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Margery Urquhart - add image, PIN

• # 🇷🇺 Olga Ulyanova - add image, PIN

• # 🇺🇸 Elizabeth Campbell Winter

• # 🇺🇸 Minnie A. Weeks Pittock

• # 🇺🇸 Anne Toppan Wilbur Wood

• # Vera Božičković-Popović

• # 🇲🇪 Ida Verona

• # 🇦🇺 Susie Williams (also 294)

• # Christine von Wattenwyl (also 307)

• # 🇦🇺 Mary Burfitt Williams

• # 🇮🇪 Jane Williams (silversmith) - improved

• # 🇧🇪 Anna-Maria van Reysschoot

• # 🇺🇸 Willa Holt Wakefield - PIN

• # 🇦🇹 Pauline von Koudelka-Schmerling

• # Women photographers - upgraded

• # 🇺🇸 Eugenia Williamson Hume (also 294)- PIN

• # 🇦🇲 Vera Sogoyan

• # 🇸🇮 Theodora von Hermansthal

• # 🇫🇷 Madame Vaudé-Green

• # 🇦🇺 Erica Underwood

• # 🇨🇭 Valentine Friedli (also 307) - PIN

• # 🇪🇪 Alexandrine von Wistinghausen

• # 🇺🇸 Vera Gushee - PIN

• # 🇳🇬 Jennifer Uchendu BBC100 woman saved from draft

• # 🇺🇸 Ula Sharon - PIN

• # Eglantine Wallace (minor edits)

• # Jane Warton (writer) (minor edits)

• # Jane West (novelist) (edits; added image)

• # Jane Wiseman (minor edits; added image) - PIN

• # Leanne Cullen-Unsworth

• # 🇺🇸 Kate Walker Behan - PIN

• # 🇵🇬 Nora Vagi Brash CMG OBE

• # 🇳🇱 Henriëtte van den Brandeler - PIN

• # 🇦🇺 Breiana Whitehead

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 it 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

In the News articles

 * Beryl Vertue (2022-02-14)
 * Phyllis Webb (2021-11-14)
 * Diane Weyermann (2021-10-17)

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 - 2024

Event templates

 * Invitation: May 2024
 * Editathon banner for talk pages – Alphabet Run: U, V & W