Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/306

Alphabet run: U–W edit‑a‑thon
Online event May 2024
Mary Theresa Vidal, Australia's first female novelist
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Alphabet run: U–W
May 2024

Recently completed:	Alphabet run: Countries starting with G and H Works by women: Scientific works Religion and Spirituality
New this month:	LGBTQ+ women Alphabet run: Countries starting with I–L Orphaned women
Ongoing initiatives:	#1day1woman: 2026 Sports
Upcoming events:	Crime and law Alphabet run: Countries starting with M Ideas

Welcome!

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.

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, V or W. 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) 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 Australian Women's Register (AWR) Austria, poets and writers Austrian Women's Lexicon: A-H Austrian Women's Lexicon: I-O Austrian Women's Lexicon: P-Z Women in the History of Academic Science in Bulgaria: Habilitated Women Members of the BAS Dictionary of Canadian Biography Czech Biographical Dictionary Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon (WD) Dutch Biography Portal Polish Biographical Dictionary Svenskt biografiskt lexikon Prominent personalities in the USSR 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

Participants

• Rosiestep (talk) 23:17, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
• Victuallers (talk) 12:43, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
• — scribblingwoman 20:02, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
• PamD 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)

Outcomes (articles)

New or upgraded articles

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

1. Wies van Groningen
2. Alice Ivy Wigmore
3. Amelia Lucy Wayn
4. Edith Alexandra White
5. Elinor Wray
6. Elsie Jane Whicker
7. Enid Phyllis Wilson
8. Florence Amy Willie
9. Gweneth Wisewould
10. Helen Withers
11. Isobel Wolmby
12. Jean Williamson
13. Joan Mary Woodhill
14. Julian Barbara Waugh
15. Linley Wilson
16. Margaret Woodhouse
17. New South Wales Bush Nursing Association
18. Winifred Savage
19. Phoebe Wesche
20. Pat Wardle
21. Dorothy Wilkinson
22. Dorothy Whitehead
23. May Isabella Weatherly
24. Ellinor Walker
25. Anna Fellowes Vroland
26. Victoria Vincent
27. Araceli Sánchez Urquijo - upgraded
28. Victòria Pujolar - PIN
29. Laura Winthrop Johnson
30. Marthe de Vogüé, marquise de Mac Mahon - PIN
31. Wendy Hunt
32. Electrical Association for Women - upgraded
33. Valentina Quintero (also 305)
34. Susan Linn De Witt
35. Sherley Anne Williams - add image, PIN
36. Ann Welch - upgraded, PIN
37. Vera Brown Holmes (also 294)
38. Freddye Harper Williams - upgrade, PIN
39. Gina Wilkinson - add image, PIN
40. Helen Wilkes - add image, PIN
41. Ing-Marie Wieselgren - add image, PIN
42. Claudette White - add image, PIN
43. Diane Weyermann - add image, PIN
44. Alice Crane Williams - PIN
45. Marcela Walerstein
46. Sara Wedlund - add image, PIN
47. Phyllis Webb - add image, PIN
48. Abbie E. Krebs-Wilkins - PIN
49. Flo Ware - add image, PIN
50. Wendy Jenkins (poet)
51. Marguerite Volavy -added img, PIN
52. Sallie Walker Stockard - add image, PIN
53. Mária Wollemann (also 294/307)
54. Lyravine Votaw - PIN
55. Marie-José Villiers - upgraded, PIN
56. Mrs Victor Bruce - upgraded, PIN
57. Marie Laura Violet Gayler - upgraded
58. Pamela Waechter - add image, PIN
59. Jeanne Villepreux-Power - upgraded, PIN
60. Genoveva Virginia Cossoul
61. Anna von László
62. Wanda - upgraded
63. Ida Veldhuyzen van Zanten - upgraded, PIN
64. Victoria (name) - upgraded
65. Velma (given name) - upgraded
66. Vera (given name) - upgraded
67. Valide Tutayuq
68. Valentine_(name) - upgraded
69. Valerie_(given_name) - upgraded
70. Virginia (given_name) - upgraded
71. Ursula (name) - upgraded
72. Urvashi Bahuguna
73. Daisy Voisin - add image, PIN
74. Violeta Vidaurre - add image, PIN
75. Mary Adella Wolcott
76. Mary Catharine North Weston
77. Sally Victor - add image , PIN
78. Mary Wicks Bennett
79. Marie Vassilieff - add image and rewritten with citations, PIN
80. Maria Wilhelmine von Thun und Hohenstein - upgraded, PIN
81. National Mary Washington Memorial Association
82. Beryl Vertue - add image, PIN
83. Betty Lou Varnum - add image, PIN
84. Nina Vance - add image, PIN
85. Frances Ullmann DeArmand - PIN
86. Melānija Vanaga - add image, PIN
87. Zoe Dana Underhill
88. Hitomi Ueda
89. Lucy Winthrop
90. Gertrud L. Wyatt (also 294)
91. Margery Urquhart - add image, PIN
92. Olga Ulyanova - add image, PIN
93. Elizabeth Campbell Winter
94. Minnie A. Weeks Pittock
95. Anne Toppan Wilbur Wood
96. Vera Božičković-Popović
97. Ida Verona
98. Susie Williams (also 294)
99. Christine von Wattenwyl (also 307)
100. Mary Burfitt Williams
101. Jane Williams (silversmith) - improved
102. Anna-Maria van Reysschoot
103. Willa Holt Wakefield - PIN
104. Pauline von Koudelka-Schmerling
105. Women photographers - upgraded
106. Eugenia Williamson Hume (also 294)- PIN
107. Vera Sogoyan
108. Theodora von Hermansthal
109. Madame Vaudé-Green
110. Erica Underwood
111. Valentine Friedli (also 307) - PIN
112. Alexandrine von Wistinghausen
113. Vera Gushee - PIN
114. Jennifer Uchendu BBC100 woman saved from draft
115. Ula Sharon - PIN
116. Eglantine Wallace (minor edits)
117. Jane Warton (writer) (minor edits)
118. Jane West (novelist) (edits; added image)
119. Jane Wiseman (minor edits; added image) - PIN
120. Leanne Cullen-Unsworth
121. Kate Walker Behan - PIN
122. Nora Vagi Brash CMG OBE
123. Henriëtte van den Brandeler - PIN
124. Breiana Whitehead

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• 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)

• Please add this category to the image if you're uploading it to Commons: Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2024

Add here – most recent at the top

• 
  Alice Crane Williams
• 
  Marguerite Volavy
• 
  Lyravine Votaw
• 
  Genoveva Virginia Cossoul
• 
  Willa Holt Wakefield
• 
  Pauline von Koudelka-Schmerling
• 
  Jane West (novelist)
• 
  Jane Wiseman

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• Invitation: May 2024
• Editathon banner for talk pages – Alphabet Run: U, V & W {{WIR|306}}