Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/271

    Alphabet Run: X, Y, & Z | June 2023

    June: Alphabet run X, Y & Z LGBTQ+ women Women in Music

    2023 global initiatives: #1day1woman2023 Peace and Diplomacy

    See also: Future events

    Online event
    1–30 June 2023
    Youn Yuh-jung, Korean actress
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    • {{WikiProject Women}} if born after 1950; or {{WikiProject Women's History}} if born before 1950.
    • Editathon banner: {{WIR-271}}

    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 June 2023 letters are X,Y and Z, and can be applied to any first, middle or last name of a subject e.g. Yasmina Zaytoun, or individuals named like Yoko Ono or Katka Zupančič 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)

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    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 X or Y or Z. 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

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    • 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)


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    Dictionaries with fewer than 20 women to go

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    • South Asian Novelists (WD) - 2
    • Who's Who among the Colored Baptists of the United States (CS) - 4
    • Dictionary of Ulster Biography (WD) - 4
    • Dictionary of Irish Biography (WD)- 3 (more not on wikidata!)
    • Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers (WD) - 9
    • Western Canadian women (CS) - 7
    • Dictionary of African Biography (WD) - 3
    • Onze Musici (WD) - 13
    • Biographical Dictionary of Spanish Socialism (WD) - 16
    • Latin America in the Communist International (WD) - 13
    • Dictionary of Welsh Biography (WD) - 21
    • American Women Historians (WD) - 8
    • Biographical Dictionary of Iowa (WD) - 4

    Participants

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    Outcomes (articles)

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    Please add the biographical dictionary, if used:

    New or upgraded articles

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    June

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    Early start

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    1. United KingdomIndiaPakistan Marianne Young
    2. United States Jill Zink Tarbel - PIN
    3. United States Mary E. Young American Women Historians - PIN

    Promote our work

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    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 in 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

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    Outcomes (media)

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    References

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