Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/256

February: Alphabet run O & P Black women Justice Folklore

2023 global initiatives: #1day1woman2023 Peace and Diplomacy

See also: Future events

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 20.02% 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!

Online event 1–28 February 2023
Women in Red - Black History Month 2023 Use social media to promote our work! Facebook Wiki Women in Red Twitter @wikiwomeninred Instagram @wikiwomeninred Pinterest 2023 editathons Hashtag #wikiwomeninred 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-256}}

In February 2023, Women in Red is once again focusing on black women in conjunction with Black History Month. In this connection, we welcome the collaborative efforts of AfroCrowd and Wikipedia:WikiProject Black Lives Matter.

We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about Black women, as well as their achievements, writings, organizations, and awards. This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in our initiative. You are of course also welcome to add articles on any other notable women who deserve to be covered, for example under our #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 some of the world's most prominent women
• to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action on a specific area
• to support Wikipedia in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
• to promote the new/improved articles and images through social media (Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram)

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 tweet about any of the articles, or upload any of the images to Pinterest, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.

These are lists of redlinked articles to be created. A wide variety of redlink lists can be found on our Redlist index. Those relating to black women are listed below:

African-American women (created automatically from Wikidata) Black women in the visual arts (created automatically from Wikidata) Black history (crowd sourced list) Black women in the US (crowd sourced list) Indigenous women (crowd sourced list) Black women in Food History (Smithsonian list) Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers Notable Black American Women Dictionary of African Biography (only four three left to complete!) There are also individual lists which incorporate black women from the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. These include: Angola (WD) Bahamas (WD) Barbados (WD) Benin (WD) Botswana (WD) Burkina Faso (WD) Burundi (WD) Cameroon (WD) Central African Republic (WD) Chad (WD) Democratic Republic of the Congo (WD) Djibouti (WD) Dominica (WD) East Timor (WD) Equitorial Guinea (WD) Eritrea (WD) Eswatini (WD) Ethiopia (WD) Fiji (WD) Gabon (WD) Gambia (WD) Ghana (WD) Guinea (WD) Guinea-Bissau (WD) Haiti (WD) Ivory Coast (WD) Jamaica (WD) Kenya (WD) Lesotho (WD) Liberia (WD) Madagascar (WD) Malawi (WD) Mali (WD) Mozambique (WD) Namibia (WD) Niger (WD) Nigeria (CS) (WD) Republic of the Congo (WD) Rwanda (WD) Saint Kitts and Nevis (WD) Senegal (WD) South Africa (WD) Tanzania (WD) Uganda (WD) Zambia (WD) Zimbabwe (WD)

Add other red links here, if possible with a source:

• Gee Bernard (1934–2016), first Black councillor in Croydon and member of the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA).[1],[2], [3],[4]
• Brooke Cunningham Health Commissioner Minnesota Department of Health^[1]
• Dominique Leach^[2]
• Sharon Lewis, DHA, RN-BC, CPM^[3]
• Dannette Smith MSW, Chief Executive Officer, Nebraska Department of Health & Human Services^[4]
• Mary Anne Smith, (née Spencer, 1917-2001) 1st Black real estate agent in San Jose, California, worked to eliminate redlining[5],[6]

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

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

• ... that Gloria Cameron was the first native Jamaican in the UK to appear on the British television programme This Is Your Life? (2023-03-19)
• ... that African-American journalist Erna P. Harris (pictured) was called a "fearless critic" of the internment of Japanese Americans by the US government during World War II? (2023-02-18)

• Shirley Fulton (2023-02-15)

• 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

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  Ora Brown Stokes Perry
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  Ruth Tappe Scruggs
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  Ruth Clement Bond
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  Charlotte Andrews Stephens
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  Pearl Grigsby Richardson
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  Blanche Taylor Dickinson
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  Gonzell White
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  Blanche Armwood
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  Rebecca Stiles Taylor
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  Pauline Bray Fletcher
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  Aldena Windham Davis Smith
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  Othello Maria Harris-Jefferson
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  Ottie Beatrice Graham
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  Pearl Anna Neal (Zeta Phi Beta "Five Pearls")
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  Myrtle Tyler Faithful (Zeta Phi Beta "Five Pearls")
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  Fannie Pettie Watts (Zeta Phi Beta "Five Pearls")
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  Viola Tyler Goings (Zeta Phi Beta "Five Pearls")
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  Inabel Burns Lindsay
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  Mae Hatchette Seabrook
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  Ruth Winifred Howard
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  Louise Stokes Hunter
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  Arnetta McKamey Wallace
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  Gladys Tignor Peterson
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  Lillian Skinker Malone
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  Zephyr Moore Ramsey
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  Erna P. Harris
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  Monique Holsey-Hyman
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  Zerita Stepteau
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  Maryrose Reeves Allen
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  Anna Grey (footballer)
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  Rihanna
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  Aparajita Auddy
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  Mavis Staples
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  Lil' Kim
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  N. Louise Young
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  Marion Thompson Wright
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  Marian Palmer Capps

• Invitation: February 2023
• Editathon banner for talk pages: Template:WIR-256: {{WIR-256}}