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| Black women edit‑a‑thon | |
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| Online event February 2025 | |
.jpg) Naimi Sweetie Hamza Aziz, representative of Tanzania to the IAEA, pictured in October 2024. | |
| Meetup | 331 |
| Type | Edit-a-thon |
| Series | Black women |
| Articles | Meetup 331 articles (188) |
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Black women
February 2025
February 2025
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Welcome!
In February 2025, Women in Red is once again focusing on Black women in conjunction with Black History Month. In this connection, we welcome the collaborative efforts of WikiProject Black Lives Matter.
We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about Black women, as well as their achievements, writings, organizations, and awards. This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in our initiative. You are of course also welcome to add articles on any other notable women who deserve to be covered, for example under our #1day1woman priority.
What else?
- Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you created this 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, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.
The main goals of the event are:
- to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of some of the world's most prominent women
- to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action on a specific area
- to support Wikipedia in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
- to promote the new/improved articles and images through social media (Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram)
Thank you!
Redlists
editThese are lists of redlinked articles to be created. A wide variety of redlink lists can be found on our Redlist index. Those relating to Black women are listed below:
Biographical dictionaries and encyclopediasedit
There are also individual lists which incorporate Black women from the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. These include:
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Participants
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- WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:22, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
- Penny Richards (talk) 17:29, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
- Yue🌙 08:56, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
- Victuallers (talk) 10:16, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
- Baqi:) (talk) 11:05, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
- 💽 🌙Eclipse 💽 🌹 ⚧ (she/they) talk/edits 12:13, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
- Bookworm-ce (talk) 15:25, 27 January 2025 (UTC)
- Rubystaramaryllis (talk) 01:17, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
- Medievalfran (talk) 16:17, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
- PamD 00:15, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
- Darwin Naz (talk) 01:53, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
- SDGB1217 (talk) 17:30, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
- Nayyn (talk) 14:10, 3 February 2025 (UTC)
- Hobbitina (talk) 18:16, 6 February 2025 (UTC)
- MumphingSquirrel (talk) 19:23, 7 February 2025 (UTC)
- Lajmmoore (talk) 21:13, 16 February 2025 (UTC)
- Citrivescence (talk) 03:05, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
- RevelationDirect (talk) 02:02, 27 February 2025 (UTC)
- Warmglow (talk) 13:09, 28 February 2025 (UTC)
- Spiderpig662 (talk) 15:33, 28 February 2025 (UTC)
- Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 21:48, 28 February 2025 (UTC)
Outcomes (articles)
editNew or upgraded articles
edit- Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new and biographical dictionary, if used:
Rasmata Sawadogo
Melissa Behinan
Camilla George- Martina Attille
Tia Ciata – upgraded
Dorothy Kamanga
Dafroza Gauthier
Élise Thérèse Gamassa
Blanche Burton-Lyles
Aminatou Gaoh
Célimène Gaudieux (also 326/330)- Bénédicte Boisseron
- Celeste Bedford Walker (also 330)
- Soyica Colbert (also 330)
- Ella Payne Moran
- Anita Bush Stock Company
- Chimwemwe Madise
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Daughters of Isis – upgraded (also 330) 
Georgiana Viou
Jacqueline Scott-Lemoine- Constance Ridley Heslip
- Adejoké Bakare fix issues, cleanup and update
- Wembley Point Woman
E.K.M. Dido
Disappearance of Myra Lewis- Jacqueline Van Landingham
Biyémi Brigitte Brym- Melba Roy Mouton – upgraded
Christine H. Sophie Kabuye
Emerine Kabanshi- Madeline Stratton Morris
- Thelma Thurston Gorham
Edna Young - Jasmine Taylor
- Joan Bynum
- Ivy Kamanga
- Gertrude Rivers Robinson
Williametta Saydee-Tarr- Ursula Jones Dickson
Emily Perez fix issues, upgrade add inline citations (start to now B class) - Rhoza A. Walker
- Mabel Dole Haden (also 330)
Verna Lee Hightower- Chisomo Ngulube
Rosemary Karuga – upgraded - Hilda Grayson Finney
Lorraine Maphala-Phiri- Caroline Gombakomba
- Tsitsi Tiripano
- Florence Beatty-Brown
Bisila Noha- Theresa Nyava
- Temwani Chilenga
- Ayanda Candice Sibanda
- Jacqueline Gowe
- Rachel Zulu Mazombwe
- Temwa Chawinga upgrade
- Helen Webb Harris upg, add infobox, cats, etc.
Ernestina Edem Appiah upgraded, add picture and cleaned up 
Mayeli Villalba- Women's History Museum of Zambia
Odessa M. Shannon- Annie Greene Nelson
- Lydie Pongault TikTok
Khadijetou Lekweiry- Rose Leary Love
- Ramona McCarthy Hawkins
- Danielle Carr Ramdath
Erecia Hepburn- Victoria Kingstone (politician) upgrade
- Gertrude Kazarwa (also 327)
Binta Jammeh-Sidibe (also 327)- Sardoine Mia TikTok
- Barbara Allimadi (also 327)
Sandra Kwikiriza (also 327) - Loveness Gondwe upgrade
- Jacquiline Chikuta
- Theresa Kachindamoto upgrade
Tonya Rush
Mary E. Jones Parrish - Josephine Silone Yates upgraded using Notable Black American Women
- Florida Ruffin Ridley upgraded using Notable Black American Women
- Alethia Tanner upgraded using Notable Black American Women
- Gabisile Nkosi
- Ellen Barnes McGinnis
- Margaree Seawright Crosby
- Kem Smith
- Rochelle Walton Gray
- Chanel Mosley (also 330)
Naimi Aziz - Elnora D. Daniel
- Nannie Mitchell using Notable Black American Women
- Josie English Wells upgraded using Notable Black American Women
- Gabisile Nkosi (also 327)
- Loretta Carter Hanes
- Georgina Falú
- Stephanie Boykin
- Donna Barnes
- Melissa Douglas
- Tiffany Price
- Marla Smith
Cécile Bozanga (also 330)- Nwamaka Okoye upgraded/reformatted, currently tagged as AfD trying to save
Antoinette Lubaki upgraded – Bsky- Paula Giddings upgraded using Notable Black American Women
- Beverly Johnson upgraded using Notable Black American Women
- Terry McMillan upgraded using Notable Black American Women
- Eliza Ann Gardner upgraded using Notable Black American Women
- Mercedes Ellington
- Sylvia E. Mathis
- Cassi Chandler
- Estelle Pinckney Clough
Julia Aker Duany- Willa Brown upgraded using Notable Black American Women
- Ersa Poston upgraded, dictionary Notable Black American Women
- Susan Elizabeth Frazier upgraded, dictionary Notable Black American Women
- Ramona Edelin upgraded, dictionary Notable Black American Women
- Colette Solomon (also 327, 330)
- Ruby Jean Johnson
- Gracie's Corner
Anyah- La Keisha Jackson
- Charlotte Moton Hubbard add img,
- Jennie B. Moton add img,
- Susan Dangarembga
- Princess Wee Wee (also 327)
- Teresa Adams (also 327)
- Vivian Ayers Allen (also 327)
- Sallie Wyatt Stewart new img,
- Irene Drusilla Namaganda
- Camille Cohen Jones also on WikiQuote
- Nancy Elizabeth Prophet add img,
- Jamie Jackson (Colorado politician)
- Agnes Yewande Savage add img,
- Ruth Janetta Temple add img,
- Sebetha Lee Jenkins using Notable Black American Women
María Remedios del Valle – upgraded, images added, Bsky - Sarah Willie Layton add img,
- Mary Virginia Cook Parrish add img,
- Florence Mudzingwa (also 327)
Francine Gálvez (also 327)
Pauline Maata Nkumu- Nina Mae McKinney add img,
- Victoria Spivey add img,
- Delia Silance
- Alice A. Casneau – upgraded
- Florestine Perrault Collins – upgraded
Mary Green (settler)- Helen K. Mason
Putuse Dwyili-Appolus
Vida Mungwira- blair doroshwalther (did a film on Black history; also 330)
Nejiba Hamrouni (also 327) - Carrie Barnes Ross
Kidist Hailu Degaffe (also 327, 330) - Alice Whitman (dancer)
- Anissa Jones (politician)
- Arlene Beckles
- Sylvia Wayfer Baker
- Mekyah McQueen
- Josephine Napwon Cosmas (also 330)
- Dianaruthe Wharton (also 326/330)
- Thelma Hill (dancer)
- Gladys Barker Grauer
- Mariam Diakité (expanded, also 327)
- Terry West (also 327)
- Deise Nunes (also 327, 330)
- Nina Tapula
- Chipo Matimba (also 327, 330)
- Shewalul Mengistu (also 327)
- Alem Tsahai Iyasu (also 327)
- Ebony Thompson
- Rusly Cachina Esapa
- Karla Smith
- Frances Berry Coston
- Sheila R. Tillerson Adams (also 327)
- Alice G. Pollard Clark (also 327, 330)
- Ursula Chikane (also 327, 330)
- Noeleen Maholwana-Sangqu (also 327)
Marta Cox (expanded, also 327) - Jean Coston Maloney
- Gwendolyn Calvert Baker
- Myra Colson Callis
- Elizabeth Komikie Gumede (also 327)
- Julia Jacobs
- Bertha Mackenzie Ndebele
- Regina Otu
- Lorenza Jordan Cole
- Carolyn Downs (activist) (also 330)
- Annie Sinanduku Mwange – translated
- Guerline Jozef
- Ethel Caution-Davis
- Lillie Maie Hubbard
- Clara Burrill Bruce
- Effie Lee Newsome – add infobox
- Joanna Kachilika upgrade
- Catherine Seals
- Hetty Burr
- Tusayiwe Mkhondya
- Grace Malera
- Widline Cadet
- Viola Burley Leak
- Paulette Childress
- Brenda Wilkinson
Clover Graham- Christina Leslie
Promote our work
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Outcomes (media)
edit- Please add this category to the image if you're uploading it to Commons: Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red – 2025
Dilum Dissanayake at WIPO
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Did You Know features
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- ... that Celeste Bedford Walker said that both her plays on the Houston riot of 1917 and Tulsa race massacre were "quintessential racial confrontation stories"? (2025-03-24)
- ... that Mabel Dole Haden gained her law degree at Howard University after not being able to afford to complete her bachelor's degree there? (2025-03-22)
- ... that Sardoine Mia (pictured) creates paintings whose surfaces look like concrete? (2025-03-18)
- ... that Lydie Pongault was appointed to the Congolese government to fill the roles of two other ministers? (2025-03-18)
- ... that Samba Yonga and Mulenga Kapwepwe founded the Women's History Museum of Zambia to counter a colonialist perspective on women's history? (2025-03-08)
- ... that it is said that Antoinette Lubaki, Congo's first named woman artist, painted her watercolours by candlelight at night, as no stories were allowed to be told during daylight? (2025-02-12)
- ... that Willa Brown's efforts to train African-American pilots in the United States led to the creation of the Tuskegee Airmen? (2020-04-28)
- ... that Florida Ruffin Ridley co-founded the Society for the Collection of Negro Folklore? (2016-02-19)
- ... that Josephine Silone Yates (pictured) was the first black woman to head a college science department in the United States? (2014-02-27)
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edit- Invitation: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Outreach/2025
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