![]() 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 19.91% 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! |
Women writers & their works editathon | |
---|---|
Online event September 2023 | |
![]() | |
Meetup | 282 |
Type | Edit-a-thon |
Series | Women writers & their works |
Articles | Meetup 282 articles (181) |
Use social media to promote our work! | |
Wiki Women in Red | |
@wikiwomeninred | |
@wikiwomeninred | |
September-2023-editathons | |
Hashtag | #wikiwomeninred |
Add to articles | |
Authority control | Authority control should be included at the foot of every biography: {{Authority control}} . It will remain hidden until relevant identifiers have been added to Wikidata. |
Categories | Choose applicable categories including relevant subcategories of Category:Women. |
Stub | If applicable, add stub template at the foot of an article: {{stub}} . |
Add to article talk pages | |
{{WikiProject Biography}} | |
{{WikiProject Women}} if born after 1950; or {{WikiProject Women's History}} if born before 1950. | |
Editathon banner: {{WIR|282}} |
September 2023
Recently completed: | |
New this month: | |
Ongoing initiatives: | |
Upcoming events: |
As in every September, in 2023 Women in Red is once again focusing on women writers and their works from around the world. This year, in addition to biographies, we would welcome more articles on books by women. We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies of some of the many notable women writers, past and present, who are still red-linked on the English Wikipedia. Other articles related to women and writing, such as the works they have created, their organizations and their awards, are also encouraged.
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 combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
- to promote the new/improved articles and images through social media
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 share any of the articles or images to social media, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.
Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)
We have a wide variety of red-link lists. Some of the most relevant to this priority are 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):
Crowd sourcedWikidata by countryAll writers: Poets: Wikidata by occupationWritten works |
- Note: for those listed in the Dictionary of Women Worldwide, some corresponding entries may be found at Encyclopedia.com or, for access to all, by signing up for the Wikipedia Library's free bundle and then using this search option.
Add other red links here, if possible with a source:
- Stacey Donovan - author of Dive, an LGBTQ young adult fiction novel, which was a Lambda Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature finalist in 1995; (submitted draft to AfC on 2023-09-19)[1] [2][3]
- Barbara Fischkin - journalist, 1987 Livingston Award for international reporting [4], author of Muddy Cup and other books, [5]; [6]; [7]; [8] (from Requested articles)
- Barbara Corcoran (writer) - (pen-names Gail Hamilton and Paige Dixon) [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16], (from Requested articles)
- Jan O'Connell, Australian writer and food historian. [17]; [18]; [19];[20]; [21]; 9781742235349
- Camilla Plum, cookbook writer, farmer etc
- Jonna Dwinger, food critic
- Helle Brønnum Carlsen, food critic and academic [22]
- Katie Chin, Chinese American cookbook writer, [23], [24][25]
- Tamar Adler[1], [2]
- Pam Anderson (cookbook author)[2]
- Marcelle Bienvenu
- Jeni Britton Bauer currently a redirect [2]
- Anne Byrne (author) author of The Cake Mix Doctor one of Southern Living’s100 Best Cookbooks of All Time[2]
- Sheri Castle winner of a Southern Book Prize[3]
- Cynthia Graubart[2]
- Paula Disbrowe
- Asha Gomez
- Martha Holmberg
- Cara Mangini[2]
- Kate McDermott Southern Living said of Art of the Pie: A Practical Guide to Homemade Crusts, Fillings, and Life There might not be a more useful and inspiring book on pie making. It’s new and already a classic.”[2]
- Nancie McDermott
- Erin Jeanne McDowell
- Marian Morash Author of The Victory Garden Cookbook Named one of Southern Living’s100 Best Cookbooks of All Time[4]
- Molly Stevens (cookbook author)
- Judy Walker (cookbook author)
- Susan Westmoreland[2]
- Joy Wilson
- “30 Nigerian Women Poets”
- “Notes toward the Bibliography of Nigerian Women's Poetry (1985-2006)” (available on JSTOR)
- "Longlist nominees for the 2021 National Book Awards for Young People's Literature
- Eighteenth Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology (UK)
- List of early-modern British women novelists
- List of early-modern British women poets
- List of Minerva Press authors
- Mothers of the Novel: 100 Good Women Writers Before Jane Austen
Participants
- WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 00:53, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
- Penny Richards (talk) 19:56, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
- Victuallers (talk) 17:35, 25 August 2023 (UTC)
- Curbon7 (talk) 22:55, 25 August 2023 (UTC)
- Darwin Naz (talk) 00:12, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
- Citrivescence (talk) 00:38, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
- Thilsebatti (talk) 02:32, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
- Oronsay (talk) 04:25, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
- Significa liberdade (talk) 18:51, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
- Chocmilk03 (talk) 01:20, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
- PamD 07:56, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
- Nick Number (talk) 20:46, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
- Rosiestep (talk) 05:16, 3 September 2023 (UTC)
- gobonobo + c 22:45, 3 September 2023 (UTC)
- Ipigott (talk) 06:01, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
- GiantBroccoli (talk) 10:48, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
- Less Unless (talk) 19:41, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
- Roundtheworld (talk) 11:29, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
- MarchOfTheGreyhounds 13:04, 8 September 2023
- TJMSmith (talk) 00:30, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
(UTC)
Outcomes (articles)
Please add the biographical dictionary, if used:
New or upgraded articles
Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new
Carol Hurd Green
Josephine Ward (ODNB)
Jess Scully
Josephine Patterson Albright
Jeanne Voltz
- Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo (needs plot)
Eva Christy (ODNB)
Muriel Wace -- upgrade (ODNB)
- The Thief Who Sang Storms by Sophie Anderson (author)
Martha Christensen (Danish writer)
- The Castle Of Tangled Magic by Sophie Anderson (author)
Soňa Čechová
- The Girl Who Speaks Bear by Sophie Anderson (author)
- The House With Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson (author)
Jane Nickerson
Ellen Sergeant Rude
Barbara Raskin
Florantonia Singer (also WIR 281)
Sharon Dennis Wyeth
Nicolasa Montt
Amelia Solar de Claro
Bronwyn Elsmore (also 281)
Margaret Goff Clark
Tracy Farr (also 281)
Antonia Gutiérrez
Joan Gilmore - PIN
Fiona Sussman (also 281)
Maria Frances Anderson - PIN
Emily Wilson (classicist) - upgrade, PIN
Woman in Sacred Song
Matilde Cherner - PIN
Jane Flory - PIN
Grizel Baillie, Lady Murray (also WIR-283 & 284) - PIN
Marion (Bill) Edwards
Snu Abecassis
Alba González
Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia
Chetna Maroo
Elsie Smeaton Munro
Anne Marie Løn
Jane Elizabeth Moore (also 281)
El ángel del hogar
María del Pilar Sinués de Marco
Enriqueta Lozano
Natalia Zabila - PIN
Catalina de Jesús Herrera - PIN
Gertrudis Anglesola - PIN
Helga Johansen - PIN
Joana Morais Varela - PIN
Potiki by Patricia Grace
Raquel Olea
Alicia Jurado - PIN
Rukhl Fishman (also WIR-281)
Etela Farkašová
Amy-Jane Beer
Muddy Cup
Hansigne Lorenzen - PIN
Mouna Hachim - PIN
Betty Jean Lifton - would benefit by review by an editor familiar with open adoption advocacy, PIN
Maria Ondina Braga - PIN
Georgia Lloyd
Rose Ethel Bassin - PIN
Jenny Terrill Ruprecht - PIN
Anne Elwood's Memoirs of the literary ladies of England from the commencement of the last century (Elwood's page existed; page for book is new) (also 281)
Eliza Roberts (poet) (also 281)
Poems by Eminent Ladies (also 281)
Specimens of British Poetesses (also 281)
List of early-modern British women poets (updates, with new redlinks) (also 281)
Elizabeth Purbeck and Jane Purbeck (also 281)
Inez Robb
Barbara Wace
Rebekah Carmichael, from Eighteenth Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology
Hawa Hassan
Molly Johnson (Swedish writer) - PIN
Sophie Anderson (author)
Edurne Portela Camino - PIN
- The Light in Everything by Katya Balen (needs plot)
Annelyse Gelman
Justina Williams
Patricia Rieff Anawalt - PIN
Otta Bednářová
Olive Pell
Ana Filomena Amaral
Eileen Kaufman - PIN
Corrie Chen
- A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
Valentina Yermolova
Iona Winter
Colleen Maria Lenihan
Talia Marshall
Hilda Siller - PIN
Anne Tolstoi Wallach
Elizabeth J. Smith
- Liars and Saints by Maile Meloy
Lange Lewis
- The Mammoth Cheese (novel) by Sheri Holman
Carmen G. de la Cueva - PIN
Maria Frisé - added image, PIN
Amy Louisa Rye
Dorothy Roe - PIN
Julie Sødring - PIN
Mary A. Cornelius - PIN
Amélia Janny - PIN
- Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book
Young Miko - PIN
- Old Filth by Jane Gardam (from a redirect)
Muriel Feelings - PIN
Isadore G. Jeffery - PIN
Amália Luazes _ PIN
- Savage Tongues by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi (needs plot)
- Call Me Zebra by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi (needs plot)
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
- The Guest List by Lucy Foley (created from redirect)
- The Relic (Anthony novel) by Evelyn Anthony
Bridie Lonie
- A Child's Book of True Crime by Chloe Hooper
Merry Riana
Aoko Matsuda
Alla Potapova - PIN
- No Bones by Anna Burns
- Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley
Jana Plauchová - PIN
Mrs. L. Dow Balliett - PIN
Chanig ar Gall (also WIR-283)
Elizabeth Taylor (poet) Specimens of British Poetesses
Harriet Frances Carpenter - PIN
Sonja Hauberg
- Pemmican Wars by Katherena Vermette
Elizabeth Trefusis Specimens of British Poetesses
- The Short History of a Prince by Jane Hamilton
- If I Told You Once by Judy Budnitz
Zilpha Carruthers Franklin - PIN
Elfriede Czurda
Niamh Greene (also WIR-283)
Nell Gifford
Ge Cuilin - PIN
Bodil Bech - PIN
Emma Bourne - PIN
- Rhoda Elizabeth Waterman White
Minnie Agnes Filson (also WIR-281)
- Visible Worlds
Mrs. Disney Leith - PIN
Gabrielle Wodnil
Svitlana Biedarieva - PIN
Gretelise Holm - PIN
Estelle Maskame (also WIR-281, WIR-283)
- Thanuppu by by Kamala Surayya
- Balyakala Smaranakal by Kamala Surayya
Caroline Isaacson (also WIR-277), PIN
- Book Lovers
- The Maid (novel) (upgraded)
Dorothy M. Catts (also WIR-277)
Misha (writer) (also WIR-278)
- Paola Santiago and the Forest of Nightmares by Mejia
- Paola Santiago and the River of Tears by Mejia
Janet McCallum (New Zealand writer)
- We Unleash the Merciless Storm by Mejia
- We Set the Dark on Fire by Mejia
- Miss Meteor by Mejia
- Lucha of the Night Forest by Mejia
Tehlor Kay Mejia (though Mejia is non-binary, so I have not tagged their articles as Women writers, etc.)
Daphne Alloway McVicker - PIN
Coyne Fletcher - PIN
Mary Beth Leatherdale
- The Mask (Stevens novel)
- The Catch (novel)
- The Doll (Stevens novel)
- The Innocent (Stevens novel)
- The Informationist
- Liars' Legacy
- Liars' Paradox
Taylor Stevens
- Overseas (novel)
- The Golden Hour (Beatriz Williams novel)
- The Beach at Summerly
- The Wicked City (novel series)
- Our Woman in Moscow
- Her Last Flight
- The Summer Wives
- A Hundred Summers
- Schuyler Sisters (novel series)
- The Forgotten Room (novel)
- The Glass Ocean (novel)
- All the Ways We Said Goodbye
Beatriz Williams
Mary Ellen Graydon Sharpe
Helen Prothero-Lewis - PIN
Promote our work
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
Did You Know features
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
Outcomes (media)
- Please add this category to the image if you're uploading it to Commons: Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2023
Add here – most recent at the top
-
Signature of Harriet Julia Campbell Jephson
-
Grizel Baillie (also WIR-283 & 284)
-
Grizel Baillie (also WIR-283 & 284)
-
Signature of Frances Hodgson Burnett
References
- ^ Wilcox, Kathleen (February 18, 2022). "Chef and Food Writer Tamar Adler's Recipe for Joy". Chronogram Magazine. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Castle, Sheri. "The 100 Best Cookbooks of All Time". Southern Living. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
- ^ Norris, Sherrie (September 23, 2021). "Boone Native Sheri Castle To Host New Televised Cooking Series on PBS Beginning Tonight at 7:30". High Country Press. Retrieved 10 September 2022.
- ^ Castle, Sheri. "The 100 Best Cookbooks of All Time". Southern Living. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
Event templates
- Invitation: September 2023
- Editathon banner for talk pages – Women writers & their works Template:WIR-282:
{{WIR-282}}