August 2018

    Women writers

    Continuing: #1day1woman Global Initiative

    New! August:Monthly achievement initiative

    Beginning in August: Indigenous women Women of marginalized populations Women writers Geofocus: Bottom 10

    See also: Future events


    Online event
    1–31 August 2018
    María Esperanza Barrios, writer from Uruguay
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    In August 2018, Women in Red is focusing on women writers from around the world. Anyone can take part in this event. We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about women in all fields of interest in various countries, 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.

    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)

    What else?

    • Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you create 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 tweet about any of the articles, or upload any of the images to Pinterest, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.

    Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)

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    In addition, we have Wikidata red-link lists on women from all the countries mentioned which can be found in the Women in Red navbox. A selection of these is listed below.

    Wikidata (WD) red-link lists: women's biographies by country in other language versions of Wikipedia, as well as a few that are crowd-sourced (CS):

    For a general but incomplete world listing of red-linked writers, see Writers

    Add other red links here, if possible with a source:

    Participants

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    Outcomes (articles)

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    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

    New or upgraded articles

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

    1. Thelma Berlack Boozer
    2. Sarah Amelia Scull
    3. Marta Robles
    4. Adrienne Maree Brown
    5. Rose Schuster Taylor
    6. Ducks Away!
    7. Eva Kinney Griffith
    8. 5 little ducks
    9. Louise Bjørnsen
    10. Olga Viza
    11. Quaintance Eaton
    12. Katharine Lente Stevenson
    13. Elisa Beni
    14. Aurora Luque
    15. Mary Nash (historian) TW
    16. Isabel San Sebastián
    17. Margarita del Mazo
    18. Natsuki Koyata
    19. Mary G. Charlton Edholm - upg
    20. Agnes Weston - upg
    21. Sultana Wahnón
    22. Maite Ruiz de Austri
    23. Rose Hawthorne - upg, added img TW
    24. Yolanda García Serrano
    25. Sara Louisa Oberholtzer - upg, PIN
    26. Sarah Noble Ives - PIN
    27. Isabel Franc - PIN
    28. Güzide Sabri Aygün
    29. Eva McLaren - upg
    30. Helen Appleton Read - upg
    31. Esther Tuttle Pritchard - PIN
    32. Pilar Pedraza
    33. Alexandra Avierino
    34. Cándida Martínez López TW, PIN
    35. Eulàlia Lledó TW, PIN
    36. Pilar Bonet
    37. Lee Cohen Harby - PIN
    38. Ashley C. Ford
    39. Nativel Preciado
    40. Gonnie Siegel
    41. Begoña Aranguren
    42. Evelyn Johnson (poet)
    43. Margaret Bemister
    44. Francesca Anna Canfield
    45. Fanny Rubio
    46. Louisa Jane Hall - upg
    47. Maria James (poet) - upg
    48. Lavinia Stoddard
    49. María Ángeles Querol
    50. Laura M. Hawley Thurston
    51. Helen Louisa Bostwick Bird
    52. Dolors Bramon - PIN TW
    53. Jeannette Leonard Gilder - upgraded, PIN TW
    54. Pilar Molina Llorente
    55. Sueli Carneiro - PIN
    56. Elisa Pérez Vera
    57. Dora Knowlton Ranous - PIN
    58. Florence Hull Winterburn
    59. Enriqueta Antolín
    60. Josefina Gómez Mendoza
    61. Elena Santiago - PIN
    62. Jodi Magness - upg
    63. Suzanne Pepper
    64. Karin Ek
    65. Pilar Urbano - PIN
    66. Cristina Esteves
    67. Juby Bustamante
    68. Joopaka Subhadra, upgraded, PIN
    69. Makate Asai
    70. Concepció Ferrer
    71. Gangabai Yagnik
    72. Pati Chapoy
    73. Laura Daners
    74. Alice Bellvadore Sams Turner - PIN
    75. Jennie McCowen - PIN
    76. Elsa López - PIN
    77. Kristiina Ehin - PIN
    78. Ly Seppel - PIN
    79. Anne Hazen McFarland - PIN
    80. Gertrude Minnie Robins - PIN
    81. Amparo Cabanes Pecourt
    82. Şükûfe Nihal Başar, expanded
    83. Dolores Medio
    84. Marie-Claire Daveluy - PIN
    85. Sophie Margaretta Almon Hensley - PIN
    86. Dr. Mary Gage Day - PIN
    87. María Teresa de Vega
    88. Dr. Eliza Maria Mosher - upgraded to B, PIN
    89. Consuelo Berges
    90. Mary Canfield Ballard - PIN
    91. Ella Loraine Dorsey - PIN
    92. Frances Wilson Huard - PIN
    93. Jana Witthedová
    94. Dr. Seraph Frissell - PIN
    95. Ella Giles Ruddy
    96. Margarita de Mayo Izarra
    97. Athalia Schwartz
    98. María Cambrils
    99. Regina de Lamo
    100. Ribka Sibhatu
    101. Margaret Manton Merrill
    102. Annie Ali Khan
    103. Blanca de los Ríos
    104. Kate Sanborn - upgraded from start to C, PIN
    105. Lisa Bernstein - upg added bibliography
    106. Emily Buss - upg added bibliography
    107. Quinn Norton - upg revised for BLP problems, PIN
    108. The Internet of Garbage
    109. Sofía Casanova - PIN
    110. Linda Holmes
    111. Adeline Leitzbach - upg added img, PIN
    112. Fanny Huntington Runnells Poole - PIN
    113. Rachel Crothers -upg, added 2nd img, PIN
    114. Anna Farquhar Bergengren - PIN
    115. Melinda Crane - PIN
    116. Angela Nogarola
    117. Francesca Forrellad
    118. Lluïsa Forrellad
    119. Margaret Wynne Lawless - PIN
    120. Fatina al-Na'ib
    121. Anya Krugovoy Silver (upg)
    122. Fanny Garrido - PIN
    123. Isabel Prieto de Landázuri - PIN
    124. Ihsan Kamal
    125. Anita Miller
    126. Ayesha Durrani
    127. Susy Shock - PIN
    128. Inés Joyes y Blake
    129. Anjali Khandwala
    130. Catherine Chisholm Cushing - PIN
    131. Lola Arias
    132. Leila Guerriero - PIN
    133. Bell Elliott Palmer - PIN
    134. Nur Salman
    135. Gabriela Cerruti - PIN TW
    136. Nancy H. Kleinbaum
    137. María Esperanza Barrios - PIN TW
    138. Mónica Cabrera
    139. Nobori Kiuchi
    140. Asma Tubi
    141. Laura Yasán
    142. Jean Potts
    143. Susana Rotker
    144. Clara Obligado
    145. Cristina Mucci - PIN
    146. Susana Viau
    147. Barbara Blackman TW
    148. Aimée Daniell Beringer - PIN
    149. Mariela Idivuoma
    150. María Seoane - PIN
    151. Sonia Berjman
    152. Lalo Barrubia
    153. Mercedes Rein
    154. Ana Baron
    155. Elizabeth Bogart
    156. Paulina Vinderman
    157. Héloïse Durant Rose - PIN
    158. Mary Jane McCaffree TW
    159. Maria Rita Kehl - PIN
    160. Ethel Watts Mumford -upg, added img, PIN
    161. Blair Niles -upg, added img, PIN
    162. Silvina Reinaudi
    163. Laura Jean Libbey -upg, added img, PIN
    164. Layla `Ussayran
    165. Paula Wajsman
    166. Juana Bignozzi
    167. Katka Zupančič
    168. Ivonne Bordelois
    169. Kiru Taye
    170. Hebe Uhart - PIN
    171. Tolulope Popoola
    172. Ainehi Edoro
    173. Lili Massaferro
    174. Su'ad Zuhayr
    175. Kaoruko Himeno
    176. Matilde Sánchez
    177. Laurie Ann Thompson
    178. Constance Piers - PIN
    179. Viviana Gorbato
    180. Riku Onda
    181. Mary Lowe Dickinson - PIN
    182. Frances Harmer - PIN
    183. Shino Sakuragi
    184. Natsuko Imamura
    185. Tamaki Daido
    186. María Sáez de Vernet - PIN
    187. Daisy May Queen
    188. Laura Jacinta Rittenhouse - PIN
    189. Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
    190. Carolina Bello - PIN
    191. Mary Wells Ashworth
    192. Nieves Herrero - PIN
    193. Cora Rónai - PIN
    194. İsmet Kür
    195. Ruth E. Hodge, archivist and author, PIN

    Early start, in July

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    1. Marian Osborne
    2. Alice May Douglas
    3. Madge Macbeth
    4. Frances Elizabeth Murray
    5. Bessie Alexander Ficklen
    6. Lou Singletary Bedford
    7. Susan Marr Spalding
    8. Harriet Mabel Spalding
    9. Eudora Stone Bumstead
    10. Frances Elizabeth Barrow
    11. Harriet McEwen Kimball

    Remember you can also list your new biographies on the August Monthly achievement initiative

    Did You Know features

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    New/expanded articles featured in the Did you know... column of the Wikipedia Main page

    • Add here – most recent at the top with date of publication
    1. Adrienne Maree Brown - 30 September
    2. Athalia Schwartz - 6 September
    3. Katka Zupančič - 5 September
    4. İsmet Kür - 23 August

    Outcomes (pictures and videos)

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    Press about the event

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    Event templates

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