Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/328

Alphabet run: A & B edit‑a‑thon
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Billie Burke, American stage and film actress (1884–1970)
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Alphabet run: A & B
January 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 January to December 2025, Women in Red is embarking on our third collective "alphabet run", where editors work consecutively through the letters of the English alphabet. The first two letters are A and B, and can be applied to any first, middle or last name of a subject e.g. Anni Albers, or individuals named like Ella Graham Agnew or Betty Parsons would both be appropriate.

• January 2025 – A & B
• February 2025 – C & D
• March 2025 – E & F
• April 2025 – G & H
• May 2025 – I & J
• June 2025 – K & L
• July 2025 – M & N
• August 2025 – O & P
• September 2025 – Q & R
• October 2025 – S & T
• November 2025 – U, V, W
• December 2025 – X, Y & Z

Again this year we have lists of the most frequently redlisted women. Based on database searches, these are listed under the first name in the article title. As the searches take account of women's given names, you will discover quite a number that are inappropriate, for example, Andrea or Auguste which are also used for men. If you write a biography from these lists, please mention "most frequent" when you add it as a New or upgraded article.

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 you 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, under our year-long initiative Music, other topics of the month or our comprehensive #1day1woman event.

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

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)

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 A or B. 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) Dictionary of Welsh Biography (WD) Dictionaries with fewer than 20 women to go South Asian Novelists (WD) - 1 Who's Who among the Colored Baptists of the United States (CS) - 4 Dictionary of Ulster Biography (WD) - 3 Dictionary of Irish Biography (WD)- 1 (more not on Wikidata!) Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers (WD) - 7 Western Canadian women (CS) - 7 Dictionary of African Biography (WD) - 2 Onze Musici (WD) - 11 Biographical Dictionary of Spanish Socialism (WD) - 17 Latin America in the Communist International (WD) - 11 American Women Historians (WD) - 6 Biographical Dictionary of Iowa (WD) - 8 Most frequently redlisted women The three lists below cover the first names of women beginning with A or B: A1: first names from Aa to Am A2: first names from An to Az B: first names beginning with B

Participants

• Gab Brasseur (talk) 06:31, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
• Rosiestep (talk) 17:37, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
• --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:46, 27 December 2024 (UTC)
• Spiderpig662 (talk) 17:58, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
• Victuallers (talk) 16:20, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
• Grnrchst (talk) 14:15, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
• PamD 00:20, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
• Gamaliel (talk) 15:42, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
• MumphingSquirrel (talk) 18:49, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
• PigeonChickenFish (talk) 05:03, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
• Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 03:42, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
• Ajeeshkumar4u (talk) 13:02, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
• SDBG1217 (talk) 21:25, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
• Semampunya (talk) 13:50, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
• SarahTHunter (talk) SarahTHunter (talk) 17:51, 15 January 2025 (UTC)
• RevelationDirect (talk) 05:54, 19 January 2025 (UTC)
• Nayyn (talk) 22:53, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
• Lajmmoore (talk) 18:10, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
• TulsaPoliticsFan (talk) 19:43, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
• Oronsay (talk) 00:32, 29 January 2025 (UTC)

Outcomes (articles)

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 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
• Add THR after the article if you post it on Threads

New or upgraded articles

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

1. Alison Burrows (also 327 and 346)
2. Zima Anderson (also 327)
3. Annelie Ahrenstrand
4. Mary Therese Austin
5. Marléen Bengtsson-Kovacs
6. "Bibbidiba" (also 326/329)
7. Amelie Beese upgraded
8. Anna Paaske (also 326)
9. Nancy Brown (also 326)
10. Agnieszka Bartczak
11. Beris Cox (also 327)
12. Putri Ayudya
13. Ada Elizabeth Corder (also 326)
14. Gabrielle Jeffery
15. Florence Barry (also 327)
16. Martina Apostolova
17. Alina Tomnikov
18. Alice Babidge (most linked)
19. Beth Martinez Humenik (improved)
20. Bhagwati Bhola Nauth (also 327)
21. Selma Alaoui
22. Alema Alema
23. Lily Banda update
24. Soheir Bakhoum
25. Batool Begam (Upgraded, also 326)
26. Kumbakonam K. Bhanumathi (also 326)
27. Margit Anna - upgraded
28. Anne-Eléonore de Béthune d'Orval
29. Audrey Peart Dickman
30. Marguerite-Antoinette Madame Saqui significant upgrade - Bsky,
31. Caridad Rives Arcayna (also 327)
32. Ada Santana Aguilera (also 327)
33. Nina Behrendt (also 327)
34. Asta Kamma August
35. Patricia Alessandrini (rescued; also 326)
36. Allison V. Harding
37. Anke Wirsing (also 327)
38. Asimenye Simwaka update
39. Gladys Athena Sperling
40. Barbara White (composer) (also 326)
41. Kathleen M. Butler - upgraded Bsky
42. Alethea Stiles
43. Anna Fuller
44. Jacqueline Blanc
45. Alice Rast
46. Ify Alyssa (also 326)
47. Mary Lathrop Benton
48. Nan Bagby Stephens
49. Nokukhanya Bhengu (also 327)
50. Katie Booth (scientist) (also 327)
51. Minerva Allen
52. Margaret Atack
53. Bessie Leach Priddy (also 327)
54. Mylapore Gowri Ammal
55. Louise Beach (also 326)
56. Anna Weesner (rescued; also 326)
57. Betty Manyolo - upgraded Bsky
58. Sabah al-Alwani
59. Annie Bartlett Shepard
60. Kristin Bervig Valentine
61. Anita Sharma (dancer)
62. Angie Reano Owen (also 327)
63. Nalani Buob
64. Peggy Batchelor (upg during AfD)
65. Charlotte Barker (upg during AfD)
66. Amunda Kolderup (also 326)
67. Agnes Hope Pillsbury
68. Pratibha Agrawal (also 326)
69. Saudade Braga (also 324, 327)
70. Taonere Banda add pics
71. Adeline Frances Fitz
72. Bunbury Women's Club
73. Anupama Hoskere (also 326)
74. Jane Ansah upgrade
75. Brianna Vidé
76. Alexandra Saint-Pierre
77. Anne-Sophie Centis
78. Ângela Viegas Santiago RoundtheWorld
79. Andreia Pinto Correia (also 326)
80. Benedicte Bemet (upg fr declined AfC)
81. Anne Sofie Madsen (upg during AfD)
82. Annette Persis Ward
83. Agatha Pricilla (also 326)
84. Anna Beecroft Briggs
85. Sivia Azizah (also 326)
86. Anna Laura Force
87. Susan Botti (rescued; also 326)
88. Rebecca Bradley (bandit)
89. Shakuntala Baliarsingh (also 327)
90. Kumudini Basu (also 327)
91. Annedore Leber
92. Bessie Bown Ricker
93. Annie Florence Brown
94. Amy Lynn Wlodarski (also 326)
95. Anne C. Shreffler (also 326)
96. Deborah Ferris Bringhurst
97. Radie Britain add img,
98. Anna Dondon
99. Barbe Le Clerch
100. Elsie West Baker
101. Nellie Burget Miller
102. Alekhya Punjala
103. Lillian Pringle Baldauf
104. Alice Kingsbury Cooley
105. Emmy Brady Rogers
106. Abigail McGrath
107. Alamelu Mani
108. Lola Amaria
109. Aline Jusria
110. Sophie Burdet
111. Muhsina al-Mahithawi
112. Asri Welas
113. Jessica Beshir
114. Jo Ann Walters
115. Lois Albright
116. Daisy Radcliffe Beresford
117. Srebra Apostolova
118. Sarvenaz Ahmadi
119. Blanche Slocum
120. Berta Persson - upgraded. Bsky
121. Ana Garbín
122. Edna Bruner Bulkley
123. Tomoko Aran (also 326)
124. Catherine Arnott
125. Mary Cummings Browne Hatch
126. Edna P. Bruner
127. Astrid Sommer - added image,
128. Edna Baxter Bruner
129. Agnes Lake
130. Dora Brilliant
131. Aethel Tollemache
132. Marie-Térèse Baird (upg fr declined AfC)
133. Ann Hand
134. Madalyn Akers Phillips
135. Beatrix Lucia Catherine Tollemache
136. Alice Henley
137. Jeanne Boyd
138. Anne Walters Robertson (also 326)
139. Ann McMillan (also 326)
140. Alice Maria Warren - has been flagged as not notable
141. Bridget Trench
142. Denise Louis-Bar
143. Adea Danielle
144. Anna Hamlin
145. Simona Brambilla - added image
146. Manjiri Asanare–Kelkar
147. Anna Nellens
148. Augusta Lenska
149. Sophie Areshian
150. Brooke Eby (also 329)
151. Ayla Holdom (also 327)
152. Anna Harris Stein
153. Ana María Ochoa (also 326)
154. Barbara Lull
155. Johanne Bruhn
156. Annie Livshis
157. Aleksandra Izmailovich
158. Carolyn Adams (dancer)
159. Alma Mehus
160. Antoinette Lubaki
161. Alicia Porro Freire
162. Anna Brueghel (also 327)
163. Mary Park Seavey Benton
164. Rae Bernstein
165. Veronica Adhiambo Oluoch
166. Maria Bellett Browne
167. Aygün Beyler (also 324, 326)
168. Alice Schofield upgrade
169. Ann English
170. Arlene Agus (also 324)
171. Stéphanie Bodet (also 329)
172. Bianka Blume (also 326)
173. Agnes Leist Beebe
174. Agnes Nkusa Nkhoma
175. Abigail Shariff
176. Aisha Adams
177. Amalie Andersen (actress)
178. Laurilla Aleroyla Smith
179. Mary B. Tucker
180. Michaela Bergman
181. Yaumil Agoes Achir
182. Lamtiur Andaliah Panggabean
183. Aunt Susan - Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
184. Shirley Osborn Bellmon - Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame
185. Amy Arnold Holloway
186. Grayce Breene Kerr
187. Janna Lou Little Boren
188. Molly Shi Boren - Oklahoma Hall of Fame

Outcomes (media)

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

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  Nancy Brown
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  Nancy Brown
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  Ada Elizabeth Corder
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  Ada Elizabeth Corder
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  Alema Alema
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  Amyjo Doh
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  Anne-Eléonore-Marie de Béthune d'Orval
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  Mary Louise Ainsworth
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  Gladys Athena Sperling
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  Jennie Boynton
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  Reclining Shepherdess - Alethea Stiles
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  Nan Bagby Stephens
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  Amunda Kolderup
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  Agnes Hope Pillsbury
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  Jane Ansah is right
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  Beatice Saunders
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  Anna Laura Force
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  Marie Bashkirtseff
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  Emma Gillingham Bostwick
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  Deborah Ferris Bringhurst
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  Radie Britain
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  Elsie West Baker
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  Lillian Pringle Baldauf
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  Emmy Brady Rogers
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  Sarah Wales Jones Burton
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  Lois Albright
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  Anna Harris Stein
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  Blanche Slocum
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  Woman Sweeping by Mary Cummings Browne Hatch
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  Edna P. Bruner
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  Astrid Sommer
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  Astrid Sommer
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  Edna Baxter Bruner
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  Madalyn Akers Phillips
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  Jeanne Boyd
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  Anna Hamlin
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  Simona Brambilla
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  Augusta Lenska
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  Augusta Lenska
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  Brooke Eby
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  Barbara Lull
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  Johanne Bruhn
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  Johanne Bruhn
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  Johanne Bruhn
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  Alma Mehus
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  A View of Yosemite Valley by Mary Park Seavey Benton
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  Rae Bernstein
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  Maria Bellett Browne
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  Jane Eliza Sherwood Russell by Maria Bellett Browne
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  Veronica Adhiambo Oluoch
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  Bianka Blume
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  Bianka Blume
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  Agnes Leist Beebe

Did You Know features

• ... that the ending of the music video for Hoshimachi Suisei's "Bibbidiba" was called inspiring to struggling women? (2025-03-08)
• ... that 19th-century tightrope walker Madame Saqui performed well into her seventies? (2025-03-02)
• ... that the musical career of Louise Beach has ranged from nationally recognized compositions to a children's book about the viola? (2025-02-26)
• ... that opera singer Susan Botti performed an Olympic jingle for Kodak to pay for graduate school? (2025-02-12)
• ... that it is said that Antoinette Lubaki, Congo's first named woman artist, painted her watercolours by candlelight at night, as no stories were allowed to be told during daylight? (2025-02-12)
• ... that singer Tomoko Aran became a city-pop icon decades after her initial music career? (2025-02-02)
• ... that Ann McMillan recalled "playing" a tape recorder for Déserts, a piece by Edgard Varèse? (2025-01-31)
• ... that Ana María Ochoa was born in Colombia, studied in British Columbia, and taught at Columbia? (2025-01-22)
• ... that in 1927 Berta Persson became the first woman bus driver in Sweden and was nicknamed "Buss-Berta"? (2025-01-11)

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