Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/267

Alphabet run: U–W edit‑a‑thon
Online event May 2023
Vivian Vance, American actress and singer (1909–1979).
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Alphabet run: U–W
May 2023

Recently completed:	Indigenous women Alphabet run: Countries starting with N and O Women born before 1900
New this month:	Women writers & their works Alphabet run: Countries starting with P, Q & R Labour activists
Ongoing initiatives:	#1day1woman: 2026 Sports
Upcoming events:	Women in STEM Alphabet run: Countries starting with S Award winners Ideas

Welcome!

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.

• July 2022 - A & B
• August 2022 - C & D
• September 2022 - E & F
• October 2022 - G & H
• November 2022 - I & J
• December 2022 - K & L
• January 2023 - M & N
• February 2023 - O & P
• March 2023 - Q & R
• April 2023 S & T
• May 2023 - U, V, W
• June 2023 - X, Y & Z

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)

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 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) External links 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 Czech Biographical Dictionary Dutch Biography Portal Polish Biographical Dictionary Svenskt biografiskt lexikon Prominent personalities in the USSR Dictionaries with fewer than 20 women to go 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

• Penny Richards (talk) 23:32, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
• Victuallers (talk) 15:48, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
• UMStellify (talk) 00:14, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
• Curbon7 (talk) 02:00, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
• Rosiestep (talk) 05:25, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
• Walrus World (talk) 08:15, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
• Chocmilk03 (talk) 07:20, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
• PamD 10:33, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
• Thebiguglyalien (talk) 01:14, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
• Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 02:08, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
• WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:04, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
• SarahTHunter (talk) 17:43, 4 May 2023 (BST)
• Lajmmoore (talk) 10:56, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
• Pakoire (talk) 02:22, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
• EEHalli (talk) 12:27, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
• — scribblingwoman 11:40, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

Outcomes (articles)

Please add the biographical dictionary, if used:

New or upgraded articles

May

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

1. 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. Woman's Club of Warren - improved from stub to start-class
3. Sally Wiggin - improved from stub to start-class
4. Woman's Progress - reassessed from stub to start; improved to C-Class
5. Emma Wolf
6. Eglantine Wallace edited
7. The Voices (novel)
8. Mary Virginia Proctor
9. Mari Jose Urruzola (also WIR 269)
10. Ginny Vida
11. Victoria Alexandrina Katherine Bruce
12. Winifred Mayo
13. Christine Vladimiroff - improved from stub-class to start-class
14. Sharon Vaughn (politician) - improved from stub-class to start-class
15. Wanda Warska (also WIR 270) TW DYK
16. Muriel Villanueva i Perarnau (also WIR 269)
17. Elizabeth May Watkin Jones TW
18. Karlien de Villiers
19. Vicki Meek wikified
20. Alicia Martín Villanueva
21. Pálné Veres (complete rewrite, also WIR 269 and 270)
22. Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh (also WIR 270)
23. Ulla Westermark
24. Felicity Wallace TW
25. Nnaniki Wilhemina Tebogo Makwinja - PIN
26. Frances Wilbraham
27. Valentina Kobe (also WIR 269 and 270) - PIN
28. Emma Caroline Wood
29. Greta Valentine
30. Stina Wirsén add first ref, PIN
31. Virginia Keane Bryce
32. Virna Woods
33. Tonjua Williams add refs to upgrade
34. Keiko Watanabe
35. Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen
36. Tota Venkova (also WIR 269 and 270) - PIN
37. Pavlína Wolfová (also WIR 270) - PIN
38. Louise Wener upgrade, PIN
39. Edith Wardale
40. Chloé Wary - PIN
41. April Vollmer
42. Mary Vining - PIN
43. Carmen J. Walters
44. Helen Whelton
45. Vera Hatz - PIN
46. Deborah Valenze TW
47. Mary Jane Windle
48. Laura Pérez Vernetti - PIN
49. Gladys Wright - PIN
50. Eleanor Woolley Fowler - PIN
51. Valentina Romeo - PIN
52. Helmi Üprus (also WiR 270)
53. Elizabeth Wiseman
54. Helen Worthing Webster
55. Abigail Williams May (also WiR 269)
56. Emily Wayland Dinwiddie
57. Raziye Uluçam
58. Winifred Mercier - PIN
59. Mrs Woodman
60. Eve of Wilton
61. Matilda of Wareham redirect
62. Vida Marija Čigriejienė (also WiR 269 and 270) TW
63. Vicentia Boco - PIN
64. Helene von Vetsera (also WiR 270) - PIN
65. Virginie Loveling upgrade, PIN
66. Corinne Michelle West - add infobox and image, PIN
67. Janet Wilson James (also WiR 269)
68. Thelma Van Norte - PIN
69. Valeska Knoblauch
70. Margaret Willoughby TW
71. Azucena Villaflor - upgraded, PIN
72. Phoebe Wright
73. Elsa Vaudrey - PIN
74. Bigna Francis-von Wyttenbach
75. Helen Kreis Wallenda (also WiR 270)
76. Wanda Szuman (also WIR 268, 269, 270) - PIN
77. Brigit Wyss (also WIR-270)
78. Ayten Kuyululu Ürkmez - TW (also WIR-270)

Early start

1. Lucille Wallenrod - improved, PIN
2. Valentine Schlegel TW, PIN
3. Dorothy Waugh TW
4. Connie Redbird Pinkerman-Uri
5. Viola Klaiss - PIN
6. Wang Binying - PIN
7. Vita Witek - PIN
8. Justine Wilkinson Washington - PIN
9. Una Fleming - PIN
10. Valerija Raulinaitis - PIN
11. Suzy Urbaniak (also WiR 269)

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? articles

• ... that footballer Keira Walsh first captained England in 2018, when she was the youngest player in the squad? (2024-03-28)
• ... that an Armenian Apostolic Church lawsuit over the Zeytun Gospels led Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh to write a history of its separated canon tables? (2023-07-14)
• ... that Wanda Warska was nicknamed the "First Lady of Polish Jazz"? (2023-07-05)
• ... that Wanda Szuman, a pioneer of special education in Poland, was also active in underground education? (2023-05-12)

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

• 
  Louise Wener
• 
  Mary Vining
• 
  Eleanor Woolley Fowler
• 
  Helen Worthing Webster
• 
  Anna and Virginie Loveling
• 
  Thelma Van Norte
• 
  Harold Russell and Thelma Van Norte
• 
  Sarah Wilson (football)
• 
  Viola Klaiss
• 
  Binying Wang
• 
  Vita Witek
• 
  Una Fleming
• 
  Valerija Raulinaitis

Event templates

• Invitation: May 2023
• Editathon banner for talk pages – Alphabet run U, V, W Template:WIR-267: {{WIR-267}}