Online event 16 March 2024 to 31 March 2024
Event poster (in French)

Bonjour tout le monde! This March, WikiWomen's User Group would like to welcome English Wikipedia editors to support the work of Les sans pagEs in celebrating women★ Francophone writers from all over the world! The aim is to showcase the diversity of Francophone women★ writers.

See the Les sans pagEs Metawiki page for this event in English on Meta

Although this is a campaign about women and non-binary people, editors of all genders (and levels of experience!) are welcome.

If you are interested in participating, please list your name here by typing ~~~~:

If you'd like to record what you've worked on, please add article outcomes to the 'Results' section below.

You can also (if you wish) sign up at Dashboard event page and/or add your created or improved articles on the Fountain tool here. These provide a more organised way of tracking contributions, but we appreciate they're a bit of extra admin!

P.S. Your article will also be relevant to this month's Art+Feminism Women in Red edit-a-thon! You can add {{WIR|300}} to the talk page of your article to have it recognised as part of that edit-a-thon as well.

This section contains some ideas of articles to work on or create. This essay on creating women's biographies and the Women in Red Ten Simple Rules might be helpful to newer editors.

Articles identified for improvement

Please add existing articles about Francophone women★ writers that need improvement to the below table. You can also add a comment if you're working on or have worked on the article.

Articles for improvement

Name	About	Region	What needs work	Find sources	Comments
Mimoza Ahmeti	Poet	Albania	BLP lacking citations	Find biographical sources:  Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL
Berthe Bénichou-Aboulker	Poet and playwright	Algeria	Stub	Find biographical sources:  Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL
Corinne Chevallier	Historian and novelist	Algeria	Stub; lacking citations	Find biographical sources:  Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL
Samira Negrouche	Writer and poet	Algeria	Tagged for notability	Find biographical sources:  Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL
Bernadette Sanou Dao	Poet, short-story writer and children's writer, and politician	Burkina Faso	Stub	Find biographical sources:  Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL
Philomène Bassek	Novelist	Cameroon	Stub	Find biographical sources:  Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL
Hemley Boum	Writer	Cameroon	Stub; BLP lacking citations	Find biographical sources:  Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL	Upgraded from stub and citations added, Chocmilk03 ( talk) 02:28, 14 March 2024 (UTC) reply
Gabrielle Tremblay	Actress and writer	Canada	Stub;	Find biographical sources:  Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL
Georgette Florence Koyt-Deballé	Poet and educator	Central African Republic	Stub	Find biographical sources:  Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL	Also relevant to WIR 294
Coralie Frei	Novelist and poet	Comoros	Stub	Find biographical sources:  Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL
Faïza Soulé Youssouf	Journalist and novelist	Comoros	Stub	Find biographical sources:  Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL
Adèle Caby-Livannah	BLP lacking citations	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Stub	Find biographical sources:  Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL
Claude Cahun	Surrealist photographer, sculptor, and writer	France	Lacking citations	Find biographical sources:  Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL
Edna Merey-Apinda	Writer	Gabon	Stub	Find biographical sources:  Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL
Sirah Baldé	Novelist and teacher	Guinea	Stub	Find biographical sources:  Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL	Also relevant to WIR 294. Expanded with what detail I can find, though still a stub. Chocmilk03 ( talk) 03:06, 22 March 2024 (UTC) reply
Lilas Desquiron	Writer and ethnologist	Haiti	Stub; BLP lacking citations	Find biographical sources:  Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL
Josette Abondio	Teacher, writer and playwright	Ivory Coast	Stub; missing citations	Find biographical sources:  Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL	Also relevant to WIR 294
Adjoua Flore Kouamé	Novelist	Ivory Coast	Stub	Find biographical sources:  Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL
Michèle Rakotoson	Writer, journalist and filmmaker	Madagascar	Stub	Find biographical sources:  Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL
Aïda Mady Diallo	Novelist and director	Mali	Stub	Find biographical sources:  Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL
Aïchetou Mint Ahmedou	Poet, essayist, short story writer and novelist	Mauritania	Stub	Find biographical sources:  Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL
Davina Itoo	Novelist and short story writer	Mauritius	Stub	Find biographical sources:  Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL
Magda Mamet	Poet	Mauritius	Tagged as possible to expand based on the FR Wiki article	Find biographical sources:  Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL
Latifa Baka	Novelist and short story writer	Morocco	Stub	Find biographical sources:  Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL
Touria Oulehri	Writer and educator	Morocco	Stub; BLP lacking citations	Find biographical sources:  Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL	Also relevant to WIR 294. Upgraded from stub and citations added, Chocmilk03 ( talk) 06:31, 23 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Les sans pagEs working list

Les sans pagEs has created a table for this event which shows articles about women★ writers produced for the event. You can view this table on the Metawiki page here: meta:Les sans pagEs/Quinzaine des autrices francophones/2024#General working list.

Consider translating some of the articles that appear on the French Wikipedia into English! You can find guidance about translation at Help:Translation.

Women in Red redlists

The Women in Red WikiProject maintains a very useful redlist index. Each link on the redlists is a woman or non-binary person, or a work created by a woman or non-binary person, that may qualify for an article on the English Wikipedia.

One relevant redlist is French-speaking African authors.

Wikidata-generated lists related to women and non-binary people in countries where French is spoken as a primary or secondary language:

Other redlinks

Please feel free to add more redlinks below!

These French-speaking writers have held the New Zealand Randell Cottage Writers' Residency and have articles on French Wikipedia but not in English:

• Florence Cadier [ fr
• Thanh-Van Tran-Nhut [ fr
• Amélie Lucas-Gary [ fr
• Caroline Laurent [ fr

New or improved articles

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

1. Jeanne-A Debats - PIN
2. Martina Wachendorff
3. Kathy Toma - PIN
4. Colette Bonzo - PIN
5. Odette Pauvert - PIN
6. Hélène Elizaga
7. Madeleine Fié-Fieux - PIN
8. Monique Cossard - PIN
9. Fatou Bolli (also 300)
10. Fatou Fanny-Cissé (also WIR-294/300), PIN
11. Touria Oulehri (upgraded from stub, also WIR294)
12. Ounie Lecomte and for WIR293, PIN
13. Éliana Marie Bezaza and for WIR293, PIN
14. Virginia De Brincat and for WIR293, PIN
15. Sirah Baldé (expanded, also WIR294)
16. Nadine Ribault – TW (also WIR299)
17. Vige Langevin
18. Rose Celli (also WIR294)
19. Claudie Marcel-Dubois
20. Chantal Lemercier-Quelquejay

Early start (pre-16 March 2024)

1. Hemley Boum (upgraded from stub)
2. Jeanne-Louise Djanga

New media

Add here – most recent at the top

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  Monique Cossard

If you have any questions, please feel free to discuss on the talk page.