Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/310

Alphabet run: X–Z editathon
Alphabet run: X–Z editathon
Online event; June 2024
	Z is for Zora Neale Hurston
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Alphabet run: X–Z
June 2024

Recently completed:	Women in STEM Geofocus: Islands I–P Women in archaeology
New this month:	Asian women Geofocus: Islands Q–Z Women in engineering
Ongoing initiatives:	#1day1woman Education
Upcoming events:	Ideas

Welcome!

From July 2023 to June 2024, Women in Red is embarking on their second collective "alphabet run", where editors work consecutively through the letters of the English alphabet. The June 2024 letters are X, Y and Z, and can be applied to any first, middle or last name of a subject e.g. Yoshiko Yamaguchi, or individuals named like Malala Yousafzai or Zora Neale Hurston would both be appropriate.

For the rerun, we are providing lists of the most frequently redlisted women. Based on database searches, these are listed under the first name in the article title. While the searches take account of women's given names, you will discover there are quite a number that are inappropriate (e.g. names like Yuri that can apply to any gender have been captured by the redlist). If you decide to choose to write a biography for these lists, you might like to mention "most frequent" when you add it under New or upgraded articles.

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 they 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, for example under the topics of the month or our comprehensive #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 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 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 create month by 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, or successfully nominate for Main Page, 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 X, Y or Z. 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)
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)

External links

Australian Women's Register (AWR)
Austria, poets and writers
Austrian Women's Lexicon: A-H
Austrian Women's Lexicon: I-O
Austrian Women's Lexicon: P-Z
Women in the History of Academic Science in Bulgaria: Habilitated Women Members of the BAS
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Czech Biographical Dictionary
Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon (WD)
Dutch Biography Portal
Polish Biographical Dictionary
Svenskt biografiskt lexikon
Prominent personalities in the USSR

Dictionaries with fewer than 20 women to go

Who's Who among the Colored Baptists of the United States (CS) - 4
Dictionary of Ulster Biography (WD) - 3
Dictionary of Irish Biography (WD)- 5 0 (more not on wikidata!)
Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers (WD) - 10 9 8 7
Western Canadian women (CS) - 11 9
Dictionary of African Biography (WD) - 10 9 2
Onze Musici (WD) - 8 13
Biographical Dictionary of Spanish Socialism (WD) - 14 15 17 16
Latin America in the Communist International (WD) - 17 14 13 12
Dictionary of Welsh Biography (WD) - 20 22 18 15 21

Most frequently redlinked women

The lists below cover the first names of women beginning with X, Y or Z:

XYZ: first names beginning with X, Y and Z

Participants

Outcomes (articles)

New or upgraded articles

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

Yasmin Jusu-Sheriff
Zenobia Frost
Wang Ziying
Yuuki Temma (also 308/309)
Akari Yura (also 308/309)
Zehira Houfani
Woman's Law Class of New York University (also 294)
Alphonsine Yangongo-Boganda (also 293)
Zsanett Adámi
Zileide Cassiano da Silva
Zoya Tajikova
Zora Jaurová
Yama (singer) (also 308/309)
Zsófia Arlóy
María Barrera Zapata
Yetta Dorothea Geffen
Xi Wang (also 294/309)
Evgeniia Zavadskaia
Toa Yukinari
Sigríður Zoëga
Xenia Dyakonova (also 294)
YokoBovich (also 307)
Julia Romera Yáñez
California Odha Zertuche Díaz - upgraded
Mochizuki Yuriko
Maria Zamboni added image (also 309)
Wong Sau Ying
Eva X Moberg
Zmaga Kumer (also 309)
Yvette Z'Graggen
Engracia Pastora Pérez Yépez
Ruth Zernova - add image
Zinaida Jurjewskaja (also 309)
Mary Young Sewell
Yvonne Claudie

Promote our work

Use the following symbols to note how you have promoted the article and the project's work:

Symbol	Meaning	Syntax
	Mentioned on Facebook	`{{WIRAP\|FB}}`
	Pinned the image on Pinterest	`{{WIRAP\|PIN}}`
	Tweeted on X	`{{WIRAP\|TW}}`
	Posted on Instagram	`{{WIRAP\|IG}}`
	Posted on LinkedIn	`{{WIRAP\|LI}}`
	Posted on the main page via In The News	`{{WIRAP\|ITN}}`

Did you know? articles

... that after Wong Sau Ying attempted to assassinate a British colonial official, the police and press began to associate the bob cut with anarchism? (2024-07-31)
... that operatic soprano Maria Zamboni was the first person to record the title role of Puccini's Manon Lescaut in its entirety? (2009-01-10)

Outcomes (media)

Please add this category to the image if you're uploading it to Commons: Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2024

Add here – most recent at the top

Mary Young Sewell

References

Event templates

Invitation: June 2024
Editathon banner for talk pages – Alphabet Run: X, Y, & Z {{WIR|310}}