First Ladies

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Women in Red
Hello and welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR) whose objective is to turn redlinks into blue ones. Our project's scope is women's biographies and women's works. Did you know that according to WHGI only 17.34% of the English Wikipedia's biographies are about women? Not impressed? Content gender gap is a form of systemic bias, and this is what WiR addresses. We invite you to participate whenever you like in whatever way suits you and your schedule. Women in Red warmly welcomes you!

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Dolly Madison
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Women in Red are hosting a virtual editathon from 1 to 31 December 2017 on First ladies, providing an opportunity for you to create or improve articles on women who actually carry the title of First Lady or who are married to a national leader. The names of many of these are redirected to articles about their husbands but they may well deserve a biography in their own right.

The virtual edit-a-thon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in the work.

  • to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of some of the world's most 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 (Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter)

Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)

Participants[edit]

  1. Ipigott (talk) 11:24, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Rosiestep (talk) 12:43, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:44, 24 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Penny Richards (talk) 13:24, 25 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  5. T. Anthony (talk) 13:58, 25 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Rosiestep (talk) 14:21, 25 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Vami_IV✠ 08:02, 26 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  8. SusunW (talk) 17:05, 26 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Maile (talk) 01:06, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  10. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 21:11, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Luna935 (talk) 22:23, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Scanlan (talk) 03:14, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Camelia (talk) 12:26, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  14. PamD 13:09, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Victuallers (talk) 12:20, 8 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  16. 97198 (talk) 11:45, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  17. Brookfre (talk) 18:18, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Outcomes[edit]

Promote our work

Key:

New or upgraded articles

  1. Pat Straub
  2. Dolores Atiyeh
  3. Audrey McCall
  4. First Ladies and Gentlemen of Trinidad and Tobago
  5. Anne Ector Pleasant
  6. Christine Branstad - PIN TW
  7. First Lady of Djibouti
  8. First Lady of Senegal
  9. Barbarita Nieves
  10. Marieme Faye Sall - PIN
  11. María de la Ossa de Amador TW, PIN
  12. Blanca Ibáñez
  13. Spouses of the Mayors of Honolulu
  14. Hosne Ara Rahman
  15. First Lady of the Maldives
  16. Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings upgrade, PIN TW
  17. Mary Dillingham Frear
  18. First Lady of Slovakia
  19. Iris Campbell
  20. Helen Strong Carter
  21. Anne Asquith
  22. Luise Erhard -PIN
  23. Luise Renner
  24. Margaret Shonekan
  25. First Ladies of Hawaii
  26. Anne Cornwallis TW, PIN
  27. Cécile Carnot - upg TW, PIN
  28. Lynne Waihee - TW, PIN
  29. Lillian Gallup Haskell TW, PIN
  30. María Izaguirre
  31. Mary Catherine McIntire Pacheco TW, PIN
  32. Vicky Cayetano - PIN
  33. Fati Lami Abubakar
  34. Elena Gallegos Rosales
  35. Jean Ariyoshi - PIN
  36. Cidália Lopes Nobre Mouzinho Guterres
  37. Gertrude Carter - PIN
  38. Beatrice Burns
  39. Maria Lúcia Ribeiro Alckmin
  40. Eliza Reid
  41. Spouses of the Governors of California (early, but created for this effort)
  42. Auxillia Mnangagwa (a bit early)

Did You Know features

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

New or improved pictures and videos

Press about the event[edit]

Event templates[edit]

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