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    Alphabet Run: U, V, & W | May 2023

    May: Alphabet run U, V, W Disability Education CEE women

    2023 global initiatives: #1day1woman2023 Peace and Diplomacy

    See also: Future events

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    1–31 May 2023
    Vivian Vance, American actress and singer (1909–1979).
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    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 May 2023 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 Ada Hill Walker or Ursula K. Le Guin 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 U or 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

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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!)
    • Great Women Mystery Writers (CS) - 6
    • 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) - 20
    • American Women Historians (CS) - 14

    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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    May

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

    1. United States Women's Center & Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh (one of the 1st 6 domestic violence response/prevention centers ever established in the U.S.) - improved from stub tagged as "not notable" to C-class
    2. United States Woman's Club of Warren - improved from stub to start-class
    3. United States Sally Wiggin - improved from stub to start-class
    4. United States Woman's Progress - reassessed from stub to start; improved to C-Class
    5. United States Emma Wolf
    6. United Kingdom Eglantine Wallace edited
    7. United States The Voices (novel)
    8. United States Mary Virginia Proctor
    9. Spain Mari Jose Urruzola (also WIR 269)
    10. United States Ginny Vida
    11. United Kingdom Victoria Alexandrina Katherine Bruce
    12. IndiaUnited Kingdom Winifred Mayo
    13. United States Christine Vladimiroff - improved from stub-class to start-class
    14. United States Sharon Vaughn (politician) - improved from stub-class to start-class
    15. Poland Wanda Warska (also WIR 270) TW DYK
    16. Spain Muriel Villanueva i Perarnau (also WIR 269)
    17. Wales Elizabeth May Watkin Jones TW
    18. South Africa Karlien de Villiers
    19. United States Vicki Meek wikified
    20. Spain Alicia Martín Villanueva
    21. SlovakiaHungary Pálné Veres (complete rewrite, also WIR 269 and 270)
    22. ArmeniaLebanonUnited States Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh (also WIR 270)
    23. Sweden Ulla Westermark
    24. New Zealand Felicity Wallace TW
    25. Botswana Nnaniki Wilhemina Tebogo Makwinja - PIN
    26. United Kingdom Frances Wilbraham
    27. Slovenia Valentina Kobe (also WIR 269 and 270) - PIN
    28. United Kingdom Emma Caroline Wood
    29. United Kingdom Greta Valentine
    30. Denmark Stina Wirsén add first ref, PIN
    31. United States Virginia Keane Bryce
    32. United States Virna Woods
    33. United States Tonjua Williams add refs to upgrade
    34. Japan Keiko Watanabe
    35. United States Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen
    36. Bulgaria Tota Venkova (also WIR 269 and 270) - PIN
    37. Czech Republic Pavlína Wolfová (also WIR 270) - PIN
    38. United Kingdom Louise Wener upgrade, PIN
    39. United Kingdom Edith Wardale
    40. France Chloé Wary - PIN
    41. United States April Vollmer
    42. United Kingdom Mary Vining - PIN
    43. United States Carmen J. Walters
    44. Republic of Ireland Helen Whelton
    45. Germany Vera Hatz - PIN
    46. United States Deborah Valenze TW
    47. United States Mary Jane Windle
    48. Spain Laura Pérez Vernetti - PIN
    49. United Kingdom Gladys Wright - PIN
    50. United States Eleanor Woolley Fowler - PIN
    51. Italy Valentina Romeo - PIN
    52. Estonia Helmi Üprus (also WiR 270)
    53. United Kingdom Elizabeth Wiseman
    54. United States Helen Worthing Webster
    55. United States Abigail Williams May (also WiR 269)
    56. United States Emily Wayland Dinwiddie
    57. Turkey Raziye Uluçam
    58. United Kingdom Winifred Mercier - PIN
    59. United Kingdom Mrs Woodman
    60. England Eve of Wilton
    61. England Matilda of Wareham redirect
    62. Lithuania Vida Marija Čigriejienė (also WiR 269 and 270) TW
    63. Benin Vicentia Boco - PIN
    64. Austrian Empire Helene von Vetsera (also WiR 270) - PIN
    65. Belgium Virginie Loveling upgrade, PIN
    66. United States Corinne Michelle West - add infobox and image, PIN
    67. United States Janet Wilson James (also WiR 269)
    68. United States Thelma Van Norte - PIN
    69. Germany Valeska Knoblauch
    70. England Margaret Willoughby TW
    71. Argentina Azucena Villaflor - upgraded, PIN
    72. United Kingdom Phoebe Wright
    73. United Kingdom Elsa Vaudrey - PIN
    74. Switzerland Bigna Francis-von Wyttenbach
    75. GermanyUnited States Helen Kreis Wallenda (also WiR 270)
    76. Poland Wanda Szuman (also WIR 268, 269, 270) - PIN
    77. Switzerland Brigit Wyss (also WIR-270)
    78. TurkeyAustralia Ayten Kuyululu Ürkmez - TW (also WIR-270)

    Early start

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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
    • 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? articles

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    Outcomes (media)

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