Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/352

Halloween edit‑a‑thon
Online event October 2025
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Halloween
October 2025

Recently completed:	Alphabet run: Q & R Women writers & their works Geofocus: Microstates
New this month:	Alphabet run: S & T Women in STEM Halloween
Ongoing initiatives:	Music #1day1woman
Upcoming events:	Ideas

Welcome!

From Frankenstein to the Salem witch trials, horror, fright, gothic, and otherwise scary themes—real and fictitious—are fodder for this month's Halloween event. Don't be spooked!

We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about spooky women from around the world, as well as their writings and other scary outputs. 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 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 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

What else?

• Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you created 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 share any of the articles or images on social media, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.

Thank you!

Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)

We have a wide variety of red-link lists. Some of the most relevant to this priority are listed below.

Wikidata (WD) and crowd-sourced (CS) red-link lists: Animal trainers (lion tamers!) (WD) Arachnologists (spiders!) (WD) Egyptologists (mummies!) (WD) Folklorists (WD) Herpetologists (Eye of Newt, Toe of Frog) (WD) Horror (CS) (WD) Librarians (haunted library!) (WD) Mycologists (Fungi) (WD) Neurologists (Brainsssss!) (WD) Organists (Phantom Of The Opera!) (WD) Ornithologists (The Raven!) (WD) Prisoners (inmates!) (WD) Saints (ghosts!) (WD) Spies (spooky!) (WD) Stunt performers (death defying daredevils!) (WD) Villains (CS) Witches (CS) (WD) Shirley Jackson Award (WD) for "literature of psychological suspense, horror and dark fantasy" Bram Stoker Award (WD) for horror - over 150 contemporary women writers without articles contributors to Weird Tales (WD)

Participants

• Penny Richards (talk)
• SDGB1217 (talk) 08:54, 16 September 2025 (UTC)
• _-_Alsor (talk) 21:21, 18 September 2025 (UTC)
• Coldcoldwind (talk) 03:27, 24 September 2025 (UTC)
• Snugglebuns (talk) 15:43, 26 September 2025 (UTC)
• Animaliak (talk) 09:51, 27 September 2025 (UTC)
• Spiderpig662 (talk) 20:28, 29 September 2025 (UTC)
• PamD 21:15, 29 September 2025 (UTC)
• Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 22:02, 29 September 2025 (UTC)
• ChairMex (talk) 02:02, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
• TheResilientEngineer (talk) 11:14, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
• Gamaliel (talk) 16:15, 3 October 2025 (UTC)
• voorts (talk/contributions) 19:38, 4 October 2025 (UTC)
• Moondragon21 (talk) 19:35, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

Outcomes (articles)

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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 IG after the article if you post it on Instagram

• Add LI after the article if you post it on LinkedIn

• Add Bsky after the article if you post it on Bluesky

New or upgraded articles

• Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new and biographical dictionary, if used:

1. Mary Tarver Carroll
2. Hester Gaskell Holland Gorst
3. Ruth Pelupessy (also 327)
4. Martha Allen Sherwood (also 327, 350, 351)
5. Naoual Oukkache (also 327, 351)
6. Caterina Freixa
7. Goodwife Knapp - (probably not a) witch!
8. Villains Are Destined to Die
9. Theodosia Garrison
10. Eli Colter
11. Minna Irving
12. Galina Klevezal - bones!
13. Courtney Alameda
14. Elsie Kupfer
15. Theda Kenyon
16. Christine Rollard (also 351)
17. Eva Coo (from Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Villains)
18. Josefa Tolrà
19. Barbara Belford
20. Stefania Budniak (also 350 and 327)
21. Berta Sofía Gerschman - spiders!
22. Carmen Porter
23. Frances Murphy (also 351)
24. Sança de Camins
25. Trang Thanh Tran (also 327, 348)
26. Angela Yuriko Smith (also 348 & 350)
27. Village Life in Ancient Egypt (also 348)
28. Andrea G. McDowell (also 348)
29. Caroline Burling Thompson
30. Alice Eis

Outcomes (media)

• Please add this category to the image if you're uploading it to Commons: Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2025

• 
  Mary Tarver Carroll
• 
  Minna Irving
• 
  Theda Kenyon
• 
  Caroline Burling Thompson

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Event resources

• Please add Category:Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2025 to any media you upload to Commons.
• Invitation: WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/2025
• Editathon banner for talk pages: Template:WikiProject Women in Red - {{WIR|352}}