Wikipedia:Meetup/Francophone Women Writers Fortnight 2024

Francophone Women★ Writers Fortnight 2024

A campaign organised by Les sans pagEs in collaboration with the WikiWomen's User Group.

Bienvenue! Welcome!

Online event 16 March 2024 to 31 March 2024
Event poster (in French)

Bonjour tout le monde! This March, WikiWomen's User Group would like to welcome English Wikipedia editors to support the work of Les sans pagEs in celebrating women★ Francophone writers from all over the world! The aim is to showcase the diversity of Francophone women★ writers.

See the Les sans pagEs Metawiki page for this event in English on Meta

How to participate

Although this is a campaign about women and non-binary people, editors of all genders (and levels of experience!) are welcome.

If you are interested in participating, please list your name here by typing ~~~~:

• Chocmilk03 (talk) 03:19, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
• Ipigott (talk) 15:56, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
• PamD 15:31, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
• Penny Richards (talk) 14:33, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
• Victuallers (talk) 08:28, 22 March 2024 (UTC) another Women in Red member...

If you'd like to record what you've worked on, please add article outcomes to the 'Results' section below.

You can also (if you wish) sign up at Dashboard event page and/or add your created or improved articles on the Fountain tool here. These provide a more organised way of tracking contributions, but we appreciate they're a bit of extra admin!

P.S. Your article will also be relevant to this month's Art+Feminism Women in Red edit-a-thon! You can add {{WIR|300}} to the talk page of your article to have it recognised as part of that edit-a-thon as well.

Resources

This section contains some ideas of articles to work on or create. This essay on creating women's biographies and the Women in Red Ten Simple Rules might be helpful to newer editors.

Articles identified for improvement

Please add existing articles about Francophone women★ writers that need improvement to the below table. You can also add a comment if you're working on or have worked on the article.

Les sans pagEs working list

Les sans pagEs has created a table for this event which shows articles about women★ writers produced for the event. You can view this table on the Metawiki page here: meta:Les sans pagEs/Quinzaine des autrices francophones/2024#General working list.

Consider translating some of the articles that appear on the French Wikipedia into English! You can find guidance about translation at Help:Translation.

Women in Red redlists

The Women in Red WikiProject maintains a very useful redlist index. Each link on the redlists is a woman or non-binary person, or a work created by a woman or non-binary person, that may qualify for an article on the English Wikipedia.

One relevant redlist is French-speaking African authors.

Wikidata-generated lists related to women and non-binary people in countries where French is spoken as a primary or secondary language:

• Algeria
• Armenia
• Belgium
• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cambodia
• Cameroon
• Canada (Quebec)
• Côte d'Ivoire
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Equatorial Guinea
• France
• Gabon
• Guinea
• Haiti
• Lebanon
• Luxembourg
• Madagascar
• Mali
• Mauritius
• Monaco
• Morocco
• Niger
• Republic of the Congo
• Romania
• Senegal
• Switzerland
• Tunisia
• Vietnam

Other redlinks

Please feel free to add more redlinks below!

These French-speaking writers have held the New Zealand Randell Cottage Writers' Residency and have articles on French Wikipedia but not in English:

• Florence Cadier
• Thanh-Van Tran-Nhut
• Amélie Lucas-Gary
• Caroline Laurent

Results

New or improved articles

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

1. Jeanne-A Debats - PIN
2. Martina Wachendorff
3. Kathy Toma - PIN
4. Colette Bonzo - PIN
5. Odette Pauvert - PIN
6. Hélène Elizaga
7. Madeleine Fié-Fieux - PIN
8. Monique Cossard - PIN
9. Fatou Bolli (also 300)
10. Fatou Fanny-Cissé (also WIR-294/300), PIN
11. Touria Oulehri (upgraded from stub, also WIR294)
12. Ounie Lecomte and for WIR293, PIN
13. Éliana Marie Bezaza and for WIR293, PIN
14. Virginia De Brincat and for WIR293, PIN
15. Sirah Baldé (expanded, also WIR294)
16. Nadine Ribault – TW (also WIR299)
17. Vige Langevin
18. Rose Celli (also WIR294)
19. Claudie Marcel-Dubois
20. Chantal Lemercier-Quelquejay

Early start (pre-16 March 2024)

1. Hemley Boum (upgraded from stub)
2. Jeanne-Louise Djanga

New media

Add here – most recent at the top

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  Monique Cossard

Questions? Comments?

If you have any questions, please feel free to discuss on the talk page.