Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/295

Alphabet run: M & N editathon
Alphabet run: M & N editathon
Online event; January 2024
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Alphabet run: M & N
January 2024

Recently completed:	Alphabet run: Q & R Art+Feminism Find Her
April 2024:	Alphabet run: S & T Gender studies Health
Ongoing initiatives:	#1day1woman Education
Upcoming events:	Press women Alphabet run: U, V & W Geofocus: Central and Eastern Europe Ideas

Welcome!

From July 2023 to June 2024, Women in Red is embarking on their second collective "alphabet run", where editors work consecutively through the letters of the English alphabet. The December 2023 letters are M and N, and can be applied to any first, middle or last name of a subject e.g. Ngaio Marsh, or individuals named like Malala Yousafzai or Florence Nightingale would both be appropriate.

July 2023 - A & B
August 2023 - C & D
September 2023 - E & F
October 2023 - G & H
November 2023 - I & J
December 2023 - K & L
January 2024 - M & N
February 2024 - O & P
March 2024 - Q & R
April 2024 - S & T
May 2024 - U, V, W
June 2024 - X, Y & Z

For the rerun, from now on we are providing lists of the most frequently redlisted women. Based on database searches, these are listed under the first name in the article title. While the searches take account of women's given names, you will discover there are quite a number that are inappropriate, such as many named "Nikita" or "Noel". If you decide to choose to write a biography for these lists, you might like to mention "most frequent" when you add it under New or upgraded articles.

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.

Thank you!

Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)[edit]

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 M or N. 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[edit]

American National Biography (WD)
Australian Dictionary of Biography (WD)
Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women (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)

External links[edit]

Australian Women's Register (AWR)
Austria, poets and writers
Austrian Women's Lexicon: A-H
Austrian Women's Lexicon: I-O
Austrian Women's Lexicon: P-Z
Women in the History of Academic Science in Bulgaria: Habilitated Women Members of the BAS
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Czech Biographical Dictionary
Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon (WD)
Dutch Biography Portal
Polish Biographical Dictionary
Svenskt biografiskt lexikon
Prominent personalities in the USSR

Dictionaries with fewer than 20 women to go[edit]

Who's Who among the Colored Baptists of the United States (CS) - 4
Dictionary of Ulster Biography (WD) - 3
Dictionary of Irish Biography (WD)- 5 0 (more not on wikidata!)
Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers (WD) - 10 9 8
Western Canadian women (CS) - 11 9
Dictionary of African Biography (WD) - 10 9 2
Onze Musici (WD) - 8 13
Biographical Dictionary of Spanish Socialism (WD) - 14 15 17 16
Latin America in the Communist International (WD) - 17 14 13 12
Dictionary of Welsh Biography (WD) - 20 22 18 15 21

Most frequently redlisted women[edit]

The lists below cover the first names of women beginning with M or N:

Participants[edit]

SarahTHunter (talk) 09:53, 26 December 2023 (GMT)
WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 16:36, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Penny Richards (talk) 16:49, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Victuallers (talk) 17:04, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Rosiestep (talk) 13:59, 30 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
— scribbling woman 00:48, 1 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
PamD 10:02, 1 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Chocmilk03 (talk) 22:26, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 05:56, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
EEHalli (talk) 20:53, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Pangalau (talk) 00:59, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sbbarker19 (talk) 15:13, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
DrThneed (talk) 23:43, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
SusunW (talk) 22:37, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
NoonIcarus (talk) 14:15, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Bogger (talk) 00:34, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Zoolver (talk) 10:12, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Egeymi (talk) 17:53, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Geschichte (talk) 09:50, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oronsay (talk) 01:14, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Outcomes (articles)[edit]

Please add the biographical dictionary, if used:

New or upgraded articles[edit]

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

Mazuin Hamzah, draft approved in February
Mary Garnet Barboza
Margaret Keenan Harrais (also 294; late entry here & 296)
Marta Sordi
Julia Lore McGrew
Joan Morrison
Svetlana Myartseva (&294)
Nafir Morales
Milagro Valero
Mary Morales
María Verónica Rengifo
María Teresa Pérez
Helen Monkivitch
Fatuma Ndangiza
Anna Mahé (also 294)
Ruth Lor Malloy - expanded
Dorothy Seymour Mills - added image
Nancy Milford - added image
Stacey Milbern - added image
Julia Marvin
María Dolores Miró
Nora Eide Lie
Noriko Matsumoto (disambiguation)
Noriko Matsumoto (actress)
Noriko Matsumoto (most frequent)
Mary Noel Menezes - added image
Emily Meggett - added image
Gita Mehta - added image
Mariella Mehr - added image
Lucia Mee - added image
Maria Rosaria Manieri
Margaret MacPherson (pharmacist) ADB
Julia McMordie - added image
Dora Maclean ADB TW
Maria Leshern von Herzfeld
Diana Salazar Méndez upgrade (read every 6 minutes)
Mariah Reddick
Eleanor McMain - added image
Marilyn McLeod - added image
Mary Walker Phillips - added image
Mei Okada
Maria Kalyuzhnaya
Maria Hyde Hibbard (also 294 and 296)
Nadia Smyrnytska
Esther Lord McNeill (also 296)
Isa Maud Ilsen - PIN
Elizabeth, Viscountess Mordaunt - PIN
Pakie Macdougall ADB - PIN TW
Marie Ferré- PIN
Maki Hanatani
Jill McIvor - added image- PIN
Martha Mbhele
Amelia Morrison Macdonald ADB- PIN
Agnes Nærland Viljugrein
Margaret M. McGowan - added image- PIN
Noriko Shibasaki
Maria Pia Fanfani
Muireann O'Connell
Sibella Macarthur-Onslow ADB- PIN
Mollie McGeown - added image- PIN
Mary Frances McDonald - added image- PIN
Eugenia St. John Mann (also 296)- PIN
M. Evelyn Killen (also 296)- PIN
Maria Olovennikova- PIN
Jennie Murray Kemp (also 296)- PIN
Salynn McCollum - added image- PIN
Molly Gregory- PIN
Joséphine Nyssens Keelhoff (also 296)- PIN
Mariola Sirakova- PIN
Monika S. Schmid (also 294)- PIN
Mary Crovatt Hambidge - rewrote with NPV, added image- PIN
Helen Campbell Norman - PIN
Marcela Pérez de Cuéllar- PIN
Berenice Mallory - PIN
Margareth Rago (also 294)
Mira Jeanne Maack
Nahia Zudaire Borrezo
Lucy Calista Morgan
May Montoya Jones - PIN
Lorna McDonald - added image, PIN
Mary Bolton (addiction counsellor) DIB
Nellie Bushell DIB
Mallory Wanecque
Sallye Mathis - added image, PIN
Gina Mastrogiacomo - added image, PIN
Nora Tynan O'Mahony DIB
Mwaksy Mudenda
Maria Eugénia Neto
Nina Hyde
Mia Wagner - PIN
Edith E. Nicholls - PIN
Margaret Auld ODNB add pic, PIN
May Marsden ADB (and 294)
Marie Vuillemin - PIN
Martha Seavey Hoyt - PIN
Margery Land May
Zoi Mantoudi
Nele Moos
Christina Montgomery ADB (and 294), PIN
Nadezhda Bantle - PIN
Maria Martin (journalist) - added image, PIN
Martha A. B. Conine - added image, PIN
Carmel Carrington Marr - added image, PIN
Mariia Vetrova - PIN
Merlyn Severn ODNB
Dionisia Mijoba
Ruth Neto
María Esther Biscayart de Tello
Harriet Morgan Tyng - PIN
Constance Mackness ADB (and 294) TW, PIN
Nina Tamaki
Maruxa and Coralia Fandiño Ricart - PIN
Hilde Maroff - added image, PIN
Ann Marks - added image, PIN
Carla Marangoni - added image, PIN
Rose Lee Maphis - added image, PIN
Martina Fernández (footballer)
Noma Shepherd (also WIR-291) - PIN
Megumi Yamaguchi Shinoda -added img, infobox, PIN
Mizuki Yuina
Sara Susan Nolan ADB (and 296) - PIN
Bibiana Montoya (293 & 295) TW - PIN
Yuki Nagano
Katrina G. McFarland - PIN
Simone Marshall (also 294 & 295)
Nives Botica Redmayne (also 294 & 295)
Nitha Palakshappa (also 294 & 295)
Joanna Merwood-Salisbury (also 294 & 295)
Myrtle Merritt French - PIN
Myrna Manzanares - added image, PIN
Mikaela Almeida
Pahoa Mahagafanau
Angelina Noble ADB, PIN
Mary Maher (journalist) - added image, PIN
Millie Mayfield
Monica Karina
Mary Nicolay ADB, PIN
Mary Matheson ADB (also competition at 294)
Margaret Costa (food writer) - Oxford National Dictionary of Biography entry
Uri Ruiz Bikandi (first name Maria! Also 291 and 294), PIN
Henrietta G. Moore (also 294 & 296) - PIN
Alice Mendham Powell - PIN
Liz Herbert McAvoy (also 294)
Dorothy Manners - PIN
Princess Marie Gabrielle de Lobkowicz
Mary E. Elliot (also 296) - PIN
Martha B. O'Donnell (also 296) - PIN
Edith Constance Murray ADB (also competition at 294) - PIN
Anna McNulty
Phyllis Mary Nicol ADB (also competition at 294)
Mary Bynon Reese (also 296) - PIN
Martha Savory Yeardley added image
Nonhlanhla Mthandi
Patricia Mbazogho
Maria Giovanna Maglie (also 291), PIN
Marguerite Wells - PIN
Runa Narumi
Medora Gordon Byron added images
Mariam Solaimankhil
Princess Melikoff

Early start[edit]

Nami Kurokawa (AFD rescue; also 290)
Khadija Mbowe (also 290)
Liz María Márquez (also 290)
Maud Lefort (also 290)
Marina Kapoor (also 290) - PIN
Liv Marit Weberg (also 290, 292)
Mabel Nicholas ADB also 294 and 252
Emily Maver
Ximena Mideros
Nicole Lauren Michael
Ellen M. Stone (also 294)
Martha Sarah Bidmead ADB also 292
Augusta Merrill Hunt (also 296)
Emily M. J. Cooley (also 296)
Maud Lefort (also 290)
Margaret Irene Anderson ADB
Michelle Meagher
Gladys Agness Newton ADB
Mary Lovett Cameron
Yuuka Morishima
Marion Isabelle Whitney
Vivienne Newson ADB
Mari Lloyd-Williams (also 290/292/294)
Rosa M. Towne
Martha Meredith Read
Edna Lillian Nelson ADB (also 290)
Mori Calliope (also 290)
Elena Marinucci
Marianne Strengell - expand and add image
Sarah A. McClees - PIN

Promote our work[edit]

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 it 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[edit]

... that Maria Leshern von Herzfeld helped to organise the prison escape of the Russian revolutionary Peter Kropotkin? (2024-02-26)
... that for at least 90 minutes, Mori Calliope livestreamed herself begging video game developer Atlus to allow her to stream their game Persona 3? (2024-02-25)
... that Marie Vuillemin was acquitted in the trial of the Bonnot Gang, as the prosecution defined her according to her gender rather than her role in the gang? (2024-02-25)
... that all three of María Esther Biscayart de Tello's children were forcibly disappeared during the Dirty War in Argentina? (2024-02-23)
... that Maruxa and Coralia Fandiño Ricart (statues pictured) became famous in Galicia because their bright, colourful outfits contrasted with the social repression of Francoist Spain? (2024-02-22)
... that Margareth Rago seeks to establish a methodology for what she calls "feminist science"? (2024-02-16)
... that Maria Olovennikova was the only woman present at the founding conference of Narodnaya Volya? (2024-02-14)
... that Ukrainians Nadia Smyrnytska, Maria Kalyuzhnaya and Maria Kovalevska joined other prisoners in committing suicide to protest against the abuse of imprisoned women in Kara katorga? (2024-02-11)
... that Mwaksy Mudenda presented her first Blue Peter episodes in her house? (2024-02-10)
... that after Nadezhda Bantle was exiled to the Russian North, she oversaw the development of the hospital in Nikolskoye to become the most advanced in its region? (2024-02-05)
... that Mariia Vetrova's self-immolation provoked student protests in Saint Petersburg, Moscow and Kyiv? (2024-02-05)
... that Martina Fernández plays football for Barcelona and studies part-time at a biomedical laboratory? (2024-02-04)
... that voice actress Mako Morino played volleyball for 14 years, but gave up the goal of playing professionally after being assigned to the non-serving libero position? (2024-02-01)
... that Rose Lee Maphis and her husband Joe Maphis, known as Mr. and Mrs. Country Music, helped develop the Bakersfield sound? (2021-11-18)
... that Mollie McGeown set up the first dialysis unit in Northern Ireland? (2017-12-27)