Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/215

"Double the lede!"
December 2021

December: "Double the lede!" Women who died in 2021

Continuing: Oceania contest

2021 global initiatives: #1day1woman2021 Women's rights

See also: Future events

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Online event 1-31 December 2021

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This December Women in Red proposes an editathon we’re calling "Double the lede!" Now that more and more people are using smartphones and virtual assistants that may only display the introductory summary (known as the "lede" or "lead") of our articles, it is important that that summary contains a good overview of the life, work or organization covered. As there are many articles with very short ledes (for example, a single sentence), this editathon seeks to expand the ledes in order to provide a fuller summary of the entry. You might even find some of the articles you have created yourself could do with a longer lede (we know we will!).

We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in improving biographies and other articles about notable women, including their writings or other works. This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts wherever they may be to participate in our initiative.

Instructions

• Identify an article with a very short lede (tips below)
• Read through the article and try to expand the lede by mentioning a bit more about the person covered, perhaps including some of their major achievements.
• If you want more background, you'll find some useful tips from the Lead Improvement Team.

Main goals

• to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating or improving biographies of prominent women
• to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action on combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
• to promote the new/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 have worked on 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 their images on social media, or successfully nominate for In The News, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.

Thank you!

Finding articles to improve

• By looking through the lists of articles created month by month, for example those from November 2021 or any other month you would like to examine, you should find plenty of articles which start with ledes running to just one short sentence.
• Many more articles can be found in Category:Women and its subcategories.

Participants

• Ipigott (talk) 14:38, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
• Rosiestep (talk) 18:34, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
• Oronsay (talk) 20:34, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
• Innisfree987 (talk) 23:47, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
• WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:40, 21 November 2021 (UTC)
• Penny Richards (talk) 18:10, 21 November 2021 (UTC)
• EEHalli (talk) 14:37, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
• Riley1012 (talk) 18:25, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
• Victuallers (talk) 11:27, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
• KarenJoyce (talk) KarenJoyce (talk) 22:07, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
• Citrivescence (talk) 00:03, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
• Darwin Naz (talk) 23:34, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
• PamD 14:26, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
• Chocmilk03 (talk) 22:58, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
• Helloimahumanbeing (talk) 16:58, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
• Trillfendi (talk) 19:51, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
• JAnnora2 (talk) 01:32, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
• Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 04:21, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
• Paradise Chronicle (talk) 18:51, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
• Cielquiparle (talk) 14:49, 30 December 2021 (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 ITN after the article if it was posted on the main page via WP:In The News.

Upgraded articles

Most recent on top. Also, please indicate amount of improvement (e.g., number of characters, words, or sentences added).

1. Rosa Vertner Jeffrey + 2 sentences
2. Marguerite Bonga Fahlström + 4 sentences + image + edits
3. Anna Laminit 66 → 116 word lede + copy edits
4. Anna Cora Mowatt + 4 sentences, PIN
5. Catherine Murat + 2 sentences, PIN
6. Flavia Wasserfallen +important info to lead, current MP. + info to body, PIN
7. Gülser Yıldırım + 1 sentence to lead, +info to body
8. Mpho Tutu van Furth - PIN
9. Alisha Kramer, + 3 sentences
10. Ines Eichmüller, + 3 sentences, PIN
11. Signe Veiteberg the article is only so long but the lead was considered too short; I added relevant information
12. Luísa Fialho +2 sentences, also did a bit of clean up in the main text of the article, PIN
13. Claire Mathon, was one sentence, now three
14. Fabiola Letelier (d. Nov 2021), actually reduced lede to remove "sister of" but added 1678 chars, PIN
15. Sylvia Weinstock (d. Nov 2021), 1 sentence to 3, +1803 chars total
16. Joanne Shenandoah (d. Nov 2021) revised lede to make more relevant to subject, +703 chars total
17. Darlene Hard (d. Dec 2021) +9 words lede, +1271 chars total, PIN
18. Lina Wertmüller (d. Dec 2021) just a few words to lede from WaPo obit but they are good words, PIN
19. Aldona Grigaliūnienė had no refs either
20. Chi Coltrane had no refs either, PIN
21. Patricia Brocker had no refs either
22. Lina Braknytė had no refs either
23. Tererai Trent (+1 sentence, expanding a preexisting sentence)
24. All-Woman Supreme Court (+1 sentence, as well as expanding a preexisting sentence)
25. Candace Jackson-Akiwumi (+1 sentence)
26. Itoko Koyama (+1 sentence)
27. Linda Albertini (+84 words), PIN
28. Kahe Te Rau-o-te-rangi (+3 sentences)
29. Kate Andersen (+1 sentence), PIN
30. Frances Caverhill (+3 sentences)
31. Eleanor Catton (+5 sentences), PIN
32. Judith Lonie (+3 sentences)
33. Jean Lonie (+1 sentence)
34. Monique Deland (+1 sentence), PIN
35. Momtaza Mehri (+1 sentence)
36. Mira J. Spektor (+1 sentence)
37. Linda Lê (+1 sentence) - PIN
38. Annette Leo (+1 sentence)
39. Dina Rubina (+1 sentence) - PIN
40. Galina Shergova (+1 sentence) - PIN
41. Regīna Ezera (+1 sentence)
42. Debora Vaarandi (+2 sentences)
43. Anna Haava (+2 sentences) - PIN
44. Zulfiya (poet) (+2 sentences) - PIN
45. Veronika Tushnova (+1 sentence)
46. Margaret Wettlin (+1 sentence)
47. Mirdza Ķempe (+1 sentence)
48. Vonla McBride (1 sentence to 2) - PIN
49. Jane Robinson (historian) (19 to 63 words)
50. Ravinder Randhawa (1 sentence to 2)
51. Henrietta Stanley, Baroness Stanley of Alderley (1 sentence to 3) - PIN
52. Elizaveta I. Gnevusheva (+59 characters), PIN
53. Regina Dubovitskaya (+137 characters), PIN
54. Isabella Bashmakova (+177 characters), PIN
55. Nina Gagen-Torn (+163 characters), PIN
56. Lidiya Ginzburg (+53 characters), PIN
57. Alexandra Brushtein (+186 characters), PIN
58. Vera Panova (+1 sentence), PIN
59. Natalya Sats (+174 characters), PIN
60. Lidiya Seifullina (+1 sentence)
61. Maria Shkapskaya (+1 sentence), PIN
62. Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya (+1 sentence), PIN
63. Helene Meyers (was 57 words(readable prose), now 204 words)
64. Cristiana Chamorro Barrios (was 2 sentences, now 4), PIN
65. Marguerite Gosse (+1 sentence)
66. Eliza Cook (physician) (+1 sentence), PIN
67. Susan Morgan (+1 sentence)
68. Nancy Segal (+2 sentences)
69. Mary Stuart James MacMurphy (+2 sentences), PIN
70. Caroline Marshall Woodward (+1 sentence), PIN
71. Mary Ross Banks (+1 sentence), PIN
72. Harriet Newell Ralston (+1 sentence), PIN
73. Maukhida Abdulkabirova (159 characters), PIN
74. Timpoko Helène Kienon-Kabore (two extra sentences)
75. Sarah Mohanna Al Abdali (extra sentence), PIN
76. Rachel Tanner (+232 characters)
77. Therasia of Nola (+252 characters)
78. Zodwa Nyoni (+181 characters)
79. Ja'Tovia Gary (was 1 sentence, now 3)
80. Jakucho Setouchi (d. 2021) (14 words added to lede, 1144 bytes overall)
81. Erica Armstrong Dunbar (was 2 sentences, now 4) - PIN
82. Carrie Meek (d. 2021) (was 3 sentences, now 4 with more wikilinks and importance as African American congresswoman) - PIN

Early start in November

1. Julia Bacha explains what type of films she makes - PIN
2. Almudena Grandes (was 1 sentence, now 4)
3. Alma Guillermoprieto (was 2 sentences, now 5)
4. May Isabel Fisk (was 1 sentence, now 3)
5. Mathilde Laurent (was 2 sentences, now 4)
6. Aracelis Girmay (was 1 sentence, now 3) - PIN
7. Mary Nash (author) (was 1 sentence, now 2)
8. Nanina Alba (was 1 sentence, now 2)
9. Violeta Granera (was 1 sentence, now 4) - PIN
10. Juan Du (was 2 sentences, now 4)
11. Suyén Barahona (was 2 sentences, now 4) - PIN
12. Narciso Rodriguez for Her (was 2 sentences, now 4)
13. Flora D. Crittenden (was 2 sentences, now 5)
14. Judith Weisenfeld (was 2 sentences, now 4)
15. Nicole A. Taylor (was 1 sentence, now 4)
16. Surpassing Certainty (was 1 sentence, now 3) - PIN
17. Beneath the Lion's Gaze (was 1 sentence, now 3)
18. Playing in the Dark (was 1 sentence, now 2)
19. Jessica B. Harris (was 1 sentence, now 3) - pIN
20. Jenna Wortham (was 2 sentences, now 4) - PIN
21. Ruth Crosby Noble (was 1 sentence, now 3)
22. Najmieh Batmanglij (was 2 sentences, now 4) - PIN
23. Harriet Bates (was 1 sentence; now 2) - PIN
24. Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye (was 1 sentence; now 3) - PIN
25. Sarah Fuller Flower Adams (was 1 sentence; now 2) - PIN
26. Matilda Maranda Crawford (was 1 sentence; now 2) - PIN
27. Mary Mathews Adams (was 1 sentence; now 3) - PIN
28. Ann, Lady Fanshawe (was 1 sentence; now 2) - PIN

Main Page features

New/expanded articles featured in the Did you know... column of the Wikipedia Main page

• Add here – most recent at the top with date of publication

New/expanded articles featured in the In the news... column of the Wikipedia Main page

• Add here – most recent at the top with date of publication
• Almudena Grandes - November 28

Event templates

• Invitation: DECEMBER 2021
• Editathon banner for talk pages: Template:WIR-215: {{WIR-215}}