Welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR)! Our objective is to turn red links into blue ones. Our project's scope is women's representation on all language Wikipedias (biographies, women's works, women's issues, broadly construed). Did you know that, according to Humaniki, only 19.85% 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. Editors of all genders are equally and warmly welcome at Women in Red!

Alphabet run: K & L editathon
Online event December 2023
K is for Käthe Kollwitz
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Type	Edit-a-thon
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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 December 2023 letters are K and L, and can be applied to any first, middle or last name of a subject e.g. Lily Kronberger, or individuals named like Cyndi Lauper or Karimeh Abbud would both be appropriate.

For the rerun, from now on 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 which are inappropriate, such as many named "Jack". 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.

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 K or L. Editors can click the column header to rearrange names into alphabetical order.

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New or upgraded articles

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

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 in on Instagram
• Add LI after the article if you post it on LinkedIn
• Add ITN after the article if it was posted on the main page via WP:In The News

Did you know? articles

• ... that after fleeing the Spanish Civil War to Venezuela, Spanish anarchist Concha Liaño became a supporter of Hugo Chávez? (2024-01-29)
• ... that the murder of Luisa Lallana sparked a general strike in Rosario, Argentina? (2024-01-16)
• ... that Louise Julien may have been an inspiration for the character of Cosette in Les Misérables? (2024-01-12)
• ... that Berta Berkovich, who was skilled in sewing, managed to survive Auschwitz in a fashion salon established by the wife of the concentration camp commandant? (2023-02-07)
• ... that ballerina and répétiteur Sara Leland was able to stage more than 30 ballets due to her ability to remember choreography accurately? (2021-01-03)
• ... that for the 80th birthday of King Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga, Adrienne Kaeppler, curator of Oceanic Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution, set up a special exhibition at the Tongan National Museum? (2011-01-02)

In the News articles

• Blanche Lemco van Ginkel (2022-10-27)
• Connie Lawn (2018-04-04)

• Please add this category to the image if you're uploading it to Commons: Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2023

Add here – most recent at the top

• 
  Katherine Sproehnle
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  Laura Lee Lane Weinzierl
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  Eurithe LaBarthe
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  Irena Káňová
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  Helen Kinne
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  Julia Belden Lockwood
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  Family Hunting Party (1756) by Judith Lewis (painter)
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  Carolyn Ringer Lepre
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  Loraine Bedsole Bush Tunstall
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  Lucia Posso
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  Luzmila Abad
• 
  Olimpia Kutuzova

• Invitation: December 2023
• Editathon banner for talk pages – Alphabet run K & L Template:WIR-290: ((WIR-290))