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Alphabet Run: M to N | January 2023
January:
Alphabet run M & N
Geofocus East Asia
Women who died in 2022
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
19.81 % 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!
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{{WikiProject Biography}}
{{WikiProject Women}}
if born after 1950; or {{WikiProject Women's History}}
if born before 1950.
Editathon banner: {{WIR-253}}
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.
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 M or N . Editors can click the column header to rearrange names into alphabetical order.
There are a wide
variety of dictionaries and other reference works available, some that editors might consider are:
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 )
External links
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
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Please add the biographical dictionary, if used:
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Sarah Jim Mayo
Linsey Marr (updated, added pic)
Mary Porteous Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Nina Gorst
Montserrat Cervera Rodon (also WiR-251)
Marika Bangó
Maixux Rekalde (also WiR-251)
Margit Bangó
Victoria Malektorovych
Nicolasa Quintremán (also WiR-251)
Stella Muir - add img, infobox, PIN
Léone Boudreau-Nelson
Martine L. Jacquot
Chandi Moore TW
Bliss Milford - add img, PIN
Marie Elizabeth Amy Castilla - PIN
Melissa Depraetere - PIN
Natalie Depraz
Marjorie Steel Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Camille Froidevaux-Metterie - PIN
Jennifer Marianne Hart
Molly Brearley Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Marie de Hennezel - PIN
Marie-Renée Ucciani - PIN
Marie-Claude Beaud - PIN
Margaret S. Rood - PIN
Margaret Herschel - PIN
Myra Sadker
Misaki Yabumoto
Dorothea Nelson - PIN
Nobuko Takahashi (ambassador)
Mabel Day Oxford Dictionary of National Biography TW
Marcelle Tiard - PIN
Ma Yutao - PIN
Ella Morgan - PIN
Susannah Montgomery - PIN
Margaret Sandford Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Magda Košútová
Brían Nguyen
Danni McCormack
Myroslava Shcherbatiuk - PIN
Sheila Marbain - PIN
Maite Aranburu
Hélène Miard-Delacroix - PIN
Natalie Mars - pIN
Nellie Weeton Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Nellie Boswell Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Marcia Rice Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Mary Broad Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - PIN
Dorota Malarczyk - PIN
Madeleine Juneau - PIN
Margaret Janeway - PIN
Katerina Nēhua (upgraded from stub) - PIN
Divina Frau-Meigs - PIN
Marion C. Loizeaux - PIN
Madeleine Rolland (also #251)- PIN
Marie-Louise Bouglé (also #251)
Michelle Zancarini-Fournel - PIN
Emma Murdock Van Deventer - PIN
Pania Newton (upgraded from stub)
TW ,
nominated for DYK , PIN
Kay McDougall Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - PIN
Sarina Nathan Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - PIN
TW - OneforWikiDonne
Margaret Baxter upgrade Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Hawise Mone Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Martha Giffard Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - PIN
Eula Davis McEwan - PIN
Marguerite Narbel - PIN
Marlana Thompson saved from draftify, PIN
Valesca Machado
Mildred Adams Fenton -destub, PIN
Naira Melkumian
Anna T. Nilsson - PIN
TW
Matilda Widegren - PIN
TW
Marie Jepsen - PIN
Victoria Nyame
TW
Marii Hasegawa - add img, PIN
Mikaela Nyman – TW
Sarah Minnick
Bettina Muscheidt
Nadiia Nikitenko - PIN
Margaret Hepburn Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Margaret Blackwood (activist) upgrade, PIN
TW
Mary Page Bird
Melissa Bime
Megan du Boisson
Berit Moore
May Hely-Hutchinson
Sister Mary Geraldine Tobia
Martha Elizabeth Duncan Walker Cook
Loren MacIver - add citations to collections etc., PIN
Mary Greaves
TW , PIN
Katherine Milhous - added image, PIN
Gail B. Nayowith
Linda Mastandrea
Margaret Agnes Paul
Mária Patakyová - PIN
Mary Tooth Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Mary Sackville Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - PIN
Mary Anne Holford
Edīte Medne
Mary Rollason Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Mary Gadbury Oxford Dictionary of National Biography TW
Mayne Lindsay Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction
Marilù Capparelli
A. Evelyn Newman - PIN
Yolanda Murphy -destub, PIN
Emily Kelley Moran The Oxford dictionary of American art and artists
Nela Lopušanová
Agate Nesaule - PIN
Ellen Maria Carpenter Bénézit Dictionary of Artists
Nancy Worden - infobox, image, wikify
Maria Susanna Cooper additions/revisions
Kirsten Madison
Nina Herasymova-Persydska
Emily Marshall #11 TW Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Julie Morrow Deforest Bénézit Dictionary of Artists
Kathleen Margaret Midwinter my #10 in 10 days Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Nell Stevens
Eunice Makepeace Towle
Mary Anne Ewart Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Nina Rignano . The article needs improvement. First ref has a large amount of info. - PIN
Kate Mackay ADB
Selma Mushkin
Noris Salazar Allen
Ellen Malos
Mary Crumpe
Mary Woolley Gibbings Cotton, Vicountess Combermere
MJ Tyson
Rose Montoya moved to draft (twice) 3rd party views on this invited.
Margaret Torrie Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - PIN
Marie Tůmová
TW - PIN
Natalya Donchenko add pic and large upgrade, PIN
Mary Bell Smith - PIN
Eliza Bland Smith Erskine Norton
Marcelina Bautista - PIN
Maria Cust Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Florence Melly Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Annie E. Molloy - PIN
Marianna Bianchi
Margaret Allemang Mastodon
Karla Máchová
Sylvia McLaughlin -destub, PIN
Magda Šaturová
Maria Thynne Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Lael Morgan
Mary Rundle upgraded
Monika Motyčáková
Magdalena Rosina Funck
Nicla Vassallo upgrade (1st ref)
Irma Nioradze upgrade (1st ref)
Danielle McKinney upgrade (1st ref)
Added fifty-five (55!) names to
List of early-modern British women novelists , some starting with M or N
Teresa Manera
Havana Marking upgrade (1st ref)
Margaret Nimmo Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Polly Morland
Maria Bertolini (also
WIR-250 )
Margaret Hewitt TW
Susan Grace Moore
Jennifer May Loten - PIN
Maude Ashurst Biggs Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Merve Demır
Margaret Bramall Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
TW , PIN
Nell Walker Warner -destub, PIN
TW
Marion Janet Harron - destub, PIN
Honey Nway Oo - DYK
Ywet Nu Aung - DYK
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Did you know? articles
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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)
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