Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/How to add names to Women in Red lists

How to add names to Women in Red lists

This page provides advice on how to add women's names to Women in Red lists WikiProject Women in Red (WiR) maintains several hundred redlists – lists of the names of women who do not have a Wikipedia biography, but may be notable enough to have one. The complete set of lists are set out on the Redlist index page. There are two types of lists: Crowd Sourced (denoted by (CS)) and Wikidata-based (denoted by (WD)). Sections below set out how to add to each sort of list. If you are completely unfamiliar with wikidata and do not want to learn how to add names to it, add the name to the final section of this page and a WiR member will transfer the name to Wikidata for you.

How to add to crowd sourced lists

Adding to Crowd Sourced lists is straightforward. These are ordinary Wikipedia pages. Click into the page, click on the Edit link at the top right of the page, add a new name following the pattern of the other names on the page, save, and you're done

How to add to wikidata-based lists

Adding to Wikidata-based lists is done by adding or editing records on Wikidata, a sister project to Wikipedia

Advice for those familiar with wikidata

WiR wikidata-based redlists are based on wikidata items that have:

• instance of (P31) = human (Q5)
• sex or gender (P21) = female (Q6581072)
• No sitelink to en.wikipedia

and then, depending on the sort of redlist:

• occupation (P106) = an occupation covered by the set of WiR redlists
• country of citizenship (P27) = an appropriate country value

Presuming a name is not found on a redlist (and there is no Wikipedia article for the person) then first do a search and check whether a item for that person already exists, and if so, check & add the necessary property statements as above. If there's no item for the person, add a new item and again ensure that the requisite properties are added.

Not all occupations have corresponding redlists, and it's beyond the scope of this page to list which of the thousands of occupations are covered by redlists. We hope most of the more common occupations are. If you have any doubts, drop a note on the WiR talk page.

Lists are maintained by Listeria, effectively a bot which updates the list on a daily basis; so a name added following the rules above will appear on the redlist within 24 hours. All wikidata-based redlist also have a link at the top right allowing you to refresh the list instantly – although you should note that it sometimes takes minutes, sometimes hours, before information entered or amended in Wikidata becomes available to the reporting service used by Listeria to generate pages.

Advice for those unfamiliar with wikidata

If you're unfamiliar with Wikidata ... where to start? It's far from the most intuitive place.

Wikidata is a sister project to Wikipedia. It's a database of structured data, which has millions of records (or items, as they tend to be called).

The record for a person, or a planet, or a book, or a concept, or pretty much anything that can be identified, is an item.

Item records have a number (e.g. Q42 for Douglas Adams). Each numbered item has a Label and generally a Description both in English (and will probably have Labels and Descriptions in many other languages). And Items have Statements – the structured data which makes Wikidata so useful. Statements are made up of a Property and a Value. By way of example, an Item for a human will typlically have:

• An "instance of" property with a value of "human"
• A "sex or gender" property with a value of "male" or "female" or some other gender designation
• Perhaps a "date of birth" property, with a value of the person's date of birth
• Perhaps a "country of citizenship" property, with a value of the person's country of citizenship
• Perhaps an "occupation " property, with a value of the person's occupation

In the terminology of Wikidata's database, statements are 'triples', so called because they take a subject-predicate-object form. If we look again at Douglas Adams, some triples that apply to him are:

• Q42 – label – Douglas Adams
• Q42 – description – Author & screenwriter
• Q42 – instance of (P31) – Human (Q5)
• Q42 – sex or gender (P21) – Male (Q6581097)
• Q42 – country of citizenship – UK (Q145)
• Q42 – occupation (P106) – author (Q482980)
• Q42 – occupation (P106) – screenwriter (Q28389)

Wikidata provides a user interface allowing the creation and editing of items, and the addition of statements to items. It does not work like Wikipedia, where you can edit a complete page. Rather, a wikidata item page provides a means of editing the item's Label, Description and Alias; and then means of adding or editing Statements, one at a time.

There are two tutorials available on Wikidata to explain more about editing it; it's probably beyond the scope of this page to try to describe the wikidata user interface in great detail. Understanding how to edit wikidata can be hard, just because it is completely unfamiliar. But once appreciated, it's actually all quite simple (as well as being dangerously addictive). The tutorials allow you to experiment in a sandbox record where you can do no damage!

Presuming you've read this far and are interested in adding a name or several to wikidata, check out the 'Advice for those familiar with wikidata', above, which explains in more detail exactly what information must appear in the wikidata record before the name will appear on a WiR redlist.

If you have a basic understanding of the above, a tool that can help you quickly add new people to Wikidata is the New Q5 tool: https://new-q5.toolforge.org/. It automatically adds gender based on many common first names, but in some cases you will have to manually add gender yourself to the item created by the tool.

Please add the following names to Wikidata for me

Please list names you want adding to wikidata here. preferably including an external reference.

Such names will only be useful if you can indicate either a country of citizenship or an occupation of the listed person – without these, even if added to wikidata , the person will not appear on a wikidata redlist. Additional info, such as date of birth & date of death, is also handy. The suggested format is as below; names that have been added to wikidata will be removed from this list;.

To do

• Coco Kahn - British Guardian journalist, commissioning editor for Guardian B2B and a writer. She is co-host of the politics podcast, Pod Save the UK, and she is mentioned on this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pod_Save_the_UK
• Debbie Lawson, British artist

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• Franziska Meyer Price German director
• Andrea Bosse, German scriptwriter
• Cyn Zarco, Filipina poet, author, photographer American Book Awards commons:Category:Cyn_Zarco [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24]
• Julie MacIntosh, American award-winning former Financial Times Lex and M&A correspondent and author of bestselling book Dethroning the King: The Hostile Takeover of Anheuser-Busch, an American Icon.
• Sohee Park (psychologist), Gertrude Conaway (named chair) Vanderbilt Professor of Psychology at Vanderbilt University. Currently alive. Has done cutting-edge research on schizophrenia.
• Sweetie Ladd, or Ilete Kerr Ladd, known as Texas's Grandma Moses, bio info at this listing for book of her art Sweetie Ladd's Historic Fort Worth by Cissy Stewart Lale and this actual biography Ladd, Ileta Kerr (Sweetie) (1902–1991).
• Bonnie Timmons, award-winning illustrator who drew all the cartoons for the NBC TV show Caroline in the City IMDb
• Lucy Belgum, Transgender Canadian Director, Producer and Writer (born 1992) Imdb
• Diana C. Roman, American seismologist/volcanologist (born 1976). [25]
• Lara S. Wagner, American seismologist (born 1974). [26]
• Alice G. Jackson, early architect, Kansas City, MO. [27], [28]
• Sue Halpern, journalist and writer of 5 books and many The New Yorker features. Activist?, Rhodes Scholar, etc. Husband Bill McKibben.
• Margaret McMullan, 2011 National Winner in Indiana Authors Awards (bio available from that program)
• Barbara Shoup, 2012 Regional Winner in Indiana Authors Awards (bio available from that program)
• April Pulley Sayre, 2016 Genre Excellence Winner (children’s picture books) in Indiana Authors Awards (bio available from that program)
• Lori Rader-Day, 2017 Regional Winner in Indiana Authors Awards (bio available from that program)
• Carol Fenster, author about gluten-free cooking, 2021 inductee Colorado's Authors' Hall of Fame (see "Meet the 2021 Inductees"., redlink in Draft:List of writers' halls of fame)
• Charlotte Hinger, fiction and non-fiction writer, 2021 inductee Colorado's Authors' Hall of Fame (see "Meet the 2021 Inductees"., redlink in Draft:List of writers' halls of fame)
• Sue Lubeck (d. 2021), 2021 "Lifetime Achievement Award" winner Colorado's Authors' Hall of Fame. Not an author, but rather an independent businesswoman who created and nurtured the Bookies Bookstore (see "Meet the 2021 Inductees"., redlink in Draft:List of writers' halls of fame, and see Denver Post obit: Kieran Nicholson (August 12, 2021). "Sue Lubeck, longtime owner of The Bookies Bookstore, dies in Denver - Lubeck was a champion of children's books and readings".)
• Elizabeth Lee Vincent (1897-1974), early child psychologist also known as Leona E. Vincent (3 sources, two relating to Vincent-Hatchette Cabin): [29], [30], [31])
• Jennifer Example-Name, French architect (1876-1943)
• Nina Ryabova, Russian swimmer (born 1991 or 1992)
• Kimberly Dell, British tennis player (born in Eastbourne, UK)
• Janet McMorran, British tennis player (born in Bromyard, Hertfordshire)
• Ingrid Borre, Belgian table tennis player (born 1959 or 1960)
• Mevrouw Muller-Idzerda, Dutch Journalist, writer of the first book 100 Kamerplanten and a medewerker for an encyclopedia Weten en kunnen
• Katee Sheen, American choreographer, actor, and singer (born 19 July 1982)
• Margaret Tennyson, twentieth-century British writer, editor of The Guider magazine and a writer of books for children under the name "Carol Forrest"
• Joan York, twentieth-century British radio presenter, presented You and Yours
• Mary M. Yang, Ph.D. Princeton Geology, (Taiwan / American) former Kairos Scientific Inc. President, San Diego Museum of Natural History, San Diego Climate Change Group (born 1961)
• Rosie Jones, British model (born 1990)
• Helen Meechie CBE, British Army officer (1938-2000)
• Katherine Jackson French, American folk song collector/anthropologist (born 1875), referenced in Cecil Sharp#In America, biography (2020 book) by Elizabeth DiSavino https://www.kentuckypress.com/9780813178523/katherine-jackson-french/
• Elizabeth DiSavino, professor of music and author,
• Zjkln, Dutch sculptor (alive)
• Miku Kobato - rhythm guitar and vocals for Japanese rock band Band-Maid, born in Kumamoto, Japan on October 21, 1991, formerly an employee of a Japanese maid café for 3 years, envisioned forming a band that juxtaposed the maid image with rock music, has a cat named Tora,
• Saiki Atsumi - lead vocals for Japanese rock band Band-Maid, born in Yamanashi, Japan on February 8, 1994, selected during auditions and first performed with the band at P Festival at Shibuya-AX on August 22, 2013, has a cat named Raku,
• Amy Johnson Frykholm, American author and editor at The Christian Century, known for book Rapture Culture.
• Kate Stafford - researcher who uses sound to study whales. See TED talk, New York Times article, For the Wild podcast, Science Friday, Whalefest in Sitka, magazine article, NPR story about whale songs, Visiting science in Sitka, TV story (KCAW), Seattle Times article, Eureka news alert--73.186.211.70 (talk) 13:33, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
• Dianne McKeever - American hedge fund founder, business woman advocating for more diverse corporate boards New York Times article how how she is shaking up corporate boards, Fortune magazine article, award from Stevens Institute of Technology, Marie Claire - female visionary, Crain's New York Business - 40 under 40 list, Seattle Times article --128.128.10.187 (talk) 13:43, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
• Jo Phoenix, Open University Criminology Professor, who has recently been in the news, along with Professor Rosa Freedman, after both were 'cancelled' by the University of Essex for alleged transphobic/TERF views, and both then received an apology from the University following a review. From what she said in a recent TV interview, it seems that as a criminologist she had wanted to talk about something like how to resolve problems allegedly arising from the presence of cis and trans women in women's prisons, and this allegedly led to her being cancelled (though I suspect the real reason may be that she and the trans community may well just be innocent collateral damage in some clever covert attempt by enemies of Israel to use allegations of transphobia to damage Rosa Freedman's criticism of the UN's record on anti-semitism). However I do not feel competent to judge whether she is sufficiently notable to deserve her own article.Tlhslobus (talk) 13:19, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
• Sylvie Behillil - France, scientist, Deputy Director of the National Reference Center (CNR) for Respiratory Viruses at the Pasteur Institute.
• Kirsten Thonicke - Germany, scientist (biogeochemist, climate modeling), Deputy Head of Research Department, Potsdam Institut fur Klimat. [32] In addition to her current supervisory work, Dr. Thonicke's modeling work about fire has become the foundation for the modeling of biomass fires in multiple climate models, especially those from European countries. [33] Currently alive. For writing about these biogeochemists, the number of times their papers are cited, shown in ResearchGate, is a coarse measure of the work's importance.
• Fang Li - China, scientist (biogeochemist, climate modeling). Professor Li built the fire simulation algorithm used in the Community Land Model, the land component of an American climate model used heavily by climate researchers worldwide. Currently alive. [34]
• Inez Fung - U.S., scientist (biogeochemist, climate modeling). Professor Fung, retired, taught at U.C. Berkeley. She was an early pioneer in developing photosynthesis and carbon allocation simulation equations for land process models. Land process models are major modules of full climate models. Land models forecast the effects plants and other land surface components have on other major modules including the oceans and atmosphere. Including photosynthesis in climate models is a crucial tool for understanding interactions between vegetation and the atmosphere at large spatial scales. An example application is studying how and why the Amazon rainforest matters to climate. [35]. Currently alive.
• Josh Breen Known For The Book The leprechaun

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• Flick Rea - UK local government politician. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113495921
• Zhiting Tian, Asian American scientist and mechanical engineer (born 17 Feb 1984. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q90225648
• Cinzi Lavin, Irish-American musical playwright. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111109591
• Bonnie Spring, American clinical health psychologist and researcher. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47144669
• Rosalie Maggio, Award-winning American author and feminist writer. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110574111
• Ananda Lima, Brazilian-American poet, photographer, writer and translator, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110417645
• Elizabeth Waterman, American photographer (born 1 March 1985) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106665838
• Larisa Volik, Russian Paralympic athlete, (born 27 August 1982) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105095444
• Chiara Giorio, Researcher, (born 5 July 1984), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47113827
• Birsen Ekim Özen, Turkish children's book author, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98918784
• Laila Alawa, Danish-Syrian-American Muslim immigrant & entrepreneur (born August 17, 1991] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44870885
• Michelle White, American Economist https://econweb.ucsd.edu/~miwhite/ https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98663592
• Susan Parrish Wharton, American philanthropist (1852-1928) – https://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/1061 – https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98379962
• Ayaallah Tewfick, Egyptian Paralympic swimmer (born 31 May 2000 in Cairo) – https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98276920
• Alexandra Stamatopoulou, Greek Paralympic swimmer (born 7 September 1986) – https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98276912
• Susan Harris Rimmer, Australian human rights lawyer (born 1972 in Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia) – https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98273294
• Meena Arora Nayak, Indian author and scholar of Hindu mythology (born 3 June, 1961) – https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98273267
• Damini Mahajan, WeMakeScholars (1991-Present) – https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96147009
• Suzanne Topalian, "Cancer combatant" on Nature's 10 in 2014. – https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q89453908
• Pamela McGonigle, American Paralympic athlete – https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96146983
• Marie Claire Ross, Canadian Paralympic swimmer, (place of birth: London, Ontario). – https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96146977
• Ardin Tucker, Canadian pole vaulter. – https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96146935
• Jennifer Boykin President, Newport News Shipbuilding and executive vice president of Huntington Ingalls Industries in Newport News, Virginia. – https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q97011212
• Tammy Cunnington, Canadian Paralympic swimmer (born 1975) – Q97014191
• Dana Mathewson, American wheelchair tennis player (born 1990) – Q67171837 and on Dutch Wikipedia Dana Mathewson
• Samantha Bosco, American Paralympic cyclist (born 18/2/1987) – Q97014339
• Deirdre Shanahan, Irish poet and novelist- Q103436681
• Suzanne Scanlon, contemporary American writer; most recent novel, "Her 37th Year, An Index" https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105094821
• Kathryn Trueblood, contemporary American writer (born 1960); most recent novel, "Take Daily As Needed;" recipient of the Red Hen Press Award & Goldenberg Prize in Fiction. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105094888
• Kelly Rimmer, New York Times bestselling novelist (born 1980, place of birth Sydney Australia)
• Julie Rickelman, American Reproductive Rights Lawyer, Notable for Three Supreme Court cases on abortion right : Dobbs v Jackson (2022), June Medical Services v Russo (2020), and team member Ferguson v City of Charleston (2001). See profile here.
• Jennifer Down, Australian author (born 1990) - Q113159926
• Radwa El Aswad, Egyptian author (born 1974) - Q107112914
• Luciana Gatti, climate scientist focused on productivity of Amazon rainforest vegetation. Professor Gatti's persistence in obtaining funding and supervising a field campaign has resulted in an increasingly long record of regularly repeated aircraft measurements of net carbon uptake or emissions in the air above half a dozen places in the Amazon. The other field-based measurements related to plant productivity in the Amazon are scarce and very hard to obtain, and Prof Gatti's data is highly valuable for benchmarks inferences from satellite data that can provide higher spatial and temporal resolution.
• Anne Rysdale (1920 – 2017), Arizona architect recognized at preservetucson.org
• Margaret Fulton Spencer (1883 – 1966), Arizona architect recognized at preservetucson.org. There is a bio article about her but one is needed about her major work: Rancho de Las Lomas / Las Lomas Ranch, an endangered place [36] which was up for sale in 2014 ([37] and [38]). Her works are architecturally related to Mary Colter's at the Grand Canyon (which were documented eloquently by National Park Service writer Laura Soulliere Harrison).
• Phillis Naidoo (1928–2013), South African anti-apartheid activist and writer. [39][40][41][42] - Q118945591
• Dorothy Zihlangu (1920–1991), South African anti-apartheid activist and gender activist, [43][44]. Most information about her is in books - Q118945702
• Jeanette Schoon (1949–1984), South African anti-apartheid activist killed by a letter bomb. Vice-president of the National Union of South African Students and employee of the South African Institute of Race Relations, sister of Neville Curtis and wife of Louis Marius Schoon. Currently she is covered in a subsection of the article about her killer, Craig Williamson. [45][46][47] - Q118945798
• Florence Moposho (1921–1985), South African anti-apartheid activist and gender activist. Organiser of the 1957 Alexandra bus boycott, long-time leader of the African National Congress Women's Section [48][49][50] - Q118945856
• Amina Pahad (1918–1973), South African anti-apartheid activist. Member of the South African Indian Congress. Mother of Essop Pahad and Aziz Pahad. [51][52] - Q118945891
• Frances Minerva is an Italian philosophy academic and co-founder with Peter Singer and of the Journal of controversial ideas. Her research is in cryonics and abortion ethics. https://www.francescaminerva.com/

https://intellectinterviews.com/2021/10/francesca-minerva-journal-of-controversial-ideas/ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Francesca-Minerva She was threatened for her views and may have lost work https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducation/2019/08/23/what-ive-learnt-about-controversy/ "For instance, an anonymous blog post I found online told the story of junior female scholar who was not hired because of a controversial publication tackling abortion. As reported in the blog post, someone in the job committee raised the issue of academic freedom, and the answer was: ‘let her practice her academic freedom somewhere else.’ I suspect they were talking about me.? " Wakelamp d[@-@]b (talk) 18:35, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

• Elizabeth Harriot Barons O'Connor (1749-1801), first female lecturer in the United States and female educator, https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/elizabeth-harriot-barons-oconnor-1749-1811/