Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/298

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Black women editathon
Online event February 2024
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Black women
February 2024

Recently completed:	LGBTQ+ women | Wiki Loves Pride Women in Music Alphabet run: X–Z
New this month:	Translation Science Fiction and Fantasy Women in Sports
Ongoing initiatives:	#1day1woman Education
Upcoming events:	Ideas

Welcome!

In February 2024, Women in Red is once again focusing on Black women in conjunction with Black History Month. In this connection, we welcome the collaborative efforts of WikiProject Black Lives Matter.

We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about Black women, as well as their achievements, writings, organizations, and awards. This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in our initiative. You are of course also welcome to add articles on any other notable women who deserve to be covered, for example under our #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 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, Instagram)

What else?

• Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you create 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 tweet about any of the articles, or upload any of the images to Pinterest, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.

Thank you!

Redlists

These are lists of redlinked articles to be created. A wide variety of redlink lists can be found on our Redlist index. Those relating to Black women are listed below:

African-American women (WD) Black history (CS) Black women in Food History (CS) Black women in the Visual Arts (WD) Indigenous women (CS) Biographical dictionaries and encyclopedias BlackPast (WD) Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (CS) Dictionary of African Biography (WD) Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers (WD) Notable Black American Women (CS) (WD) Noted Negro Women: Their Triumphs and Activities (CS) Who's Who among the Colored Baptists of the United States (CS) Women of Distinction (WD) There are also individual lists which incorporate Black women from the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. These include: Angola (WD) Bahamas (WD) Barbados (WD) Benin (WD) Botswana (WD) Burkina Faso (WD) Burundi (WD) Cameroon (WD) Central African Republic (WD) Chad (WD) Democratic Republic of the Congo (WD) Djibouti (WD) Dominica (WD) East Timor WD) Equitorial Guinea (WD) Eritrea (WD) Eswatini (WD) Ethiopia (WD) Fiji (WD) Gabon (WD) Gambia (WD) Ghana (WD) Guinea (WD) Guinea-Bissau (WD) Haiti (WD) Ivory Coast (WD) Jamaica (WD) Kenya (WD) Lesotho (WD) Liberia (WD) Madagascar (WD) Malawi (WD) Mali (WD) Mozambique (WD) Namibia (WD) Niger (WD) Nigeria (CS) (WD) Republic of the Congo (WD) Rwanda (WD) Saint Kitts and Nevis (WD) Senegal (WD) South Africa (WD) Tanzania (WD) Uganda (WD) Zambia (WD) Zimbabwe (WD)

Add other red links here, if possible with a source:

• Lots of women in East African Legislative Assembly who could be written if sources can be found.
• Gee Bernard (1934–2016), first Black councillor in Croydon and member of the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA).[1],[2], [3],[4]
• Brooke Cunningham Health Commissioner Minnesota Department of Health
• Dominique Leach
• Washington, D.C. health directors:
  • Sharon Lewis <-- Needs disambiguator
  • Ayanna Bennett
• Mary Anne Smith, (née Spencer, 1917-2001) 1st Black real estate agent in San Jose, California, worked to eliminate redlining [5],[6]
• Charlot Kristensen, visual artist and comic creator [7]
• Jill Jerold first ever black female character to appear in a Marvel comic book.

Participants

• Curbon7 (talk) 20:11, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
• WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 17:44, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
• ---Another Believer _(Talk) 17:12, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
• Penny Richards (talk) 18:14, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
• SusunW (talk) 21:01, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
• PigeonChickenFish (talk) 02:36, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
• Puppies937 (talk) 15:34, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
• Darwin Naz (talk) 23:10, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
• Eventhisacronym (talk) 03:52, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
• Grnrchst (talk) 15:18, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
• Victuallers (talk) 16:48, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
• PamD 08:36, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
• Roundtheworld (talk) 15:17, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
• Fernushki (talk) 19:02, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
• EponineBunnyKickQueen (talk) 19:49, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
• Rubystaramaryllis (talk) 20:06, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
• Lajmmoore (talk) 19:46, 9 February 2024 (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 IG after the article if you post it 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

New or upgraded articles

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

1. Denise Hinton - PIN
2. Dominique Leach
3. Chandra G. Pitts
4. Betty Fairfax
5. Ersa Poston - added image, PIN
6. Jeninah Karungi (also 294)
7. RoseEmma Mamaa Entsua-Mensah (also WIR 294)
8. Lula Warlick - PIN
9. Roberta Clarke (also 299)Round the World challenge - PIN
10. Ana Fabricia Córdoba
11. Olivene Chambers (also 294, 297)
12. Kate Bradley Stovall - PIN
13. Thainara Faria - PIN
14. Juanita Ollie Diffay Tate - PIN (also 294, 297)
15. Karen Schuster Webb (also 294)
16. Esther Merle Jackson (also 294)
17. Fahima Hashim
18. Imagene Stewart - PIN
19. Jennie Joseph
20. Norah Olembo (also WIR 297) - PIN
21. Harriette Estelle Harris Presley - PIN
22. Sarah A. Hughes
23. Jacqline - PIN
24. Dani Balbi - PIN
25. Zélia Amador
26. Cornelia Read
27. Vilma Reis - PIN
28. Phebe Hayes
29. Vivienne Newton Gray - PIN
30. Alyne Dumas Lee - PIN
31. African Methodist Episcopal women preachers
32. Denise Charles
33. Christine Benton Cash - PIN
34. Amélia Mingas (also 294)
35. Marjorie Pitter King - added image, PIN
36. Carrie Still Shepperson - PIN
37. Paula Cardoso (also 297)
38. Rashid Mohamed Mbaraka Fatma
39. Dinah Whipple
40. Carrie Burton Overton - PIN
41. Lyda Moore Merrick
42. Brenda Swann Holmes - PIN
43. Ana Cardoso (enslaved woman)
44. Denice Santiago - PIN
45. Andrea Lykke Oehlenschlæger (also 297)
46. Saba (singer)
47. Leïla Sy
48. W. Gertrude Brown - PIN
49. Mari Malek
50. Susan Wakhungu-Githuku
51. Miss Diddy
52. Tomikia P. LeGrande (also 294/297)
53. Dominga Lucía Molina
54. Nicole Pride (also 294/297)
55. Geraldine Peten - added image, PIN
56. Katherine J. Boskins Barr - PIN
57. Soraya Milla - PIN
58. Vivian Schuyler Key, expanded
59. Phyllis Wheatley Settlement House
60. Denise Ferreira da Silva - PIN
61. Wezlynn Tildon - PIN
62. Liesl Zühlke (also 294) - PIN
63. Christine Johnson McPhail (also 294)
64. Gisela Casimiro
65. Anne Shongwe
66. Stacey Franklin Jones (also 294)
67. Georgia L. McMurray
68. Lillie Patterson - added image, PIN
69. Rougui Dia
70. Louise Parrott Cochran - PIN
71. Karrie G. Dixon (also 294)
72. Bertha LaBranche Johnson - PIN
73. Dana Tippin Cutler
74. Frances Rains - PIN
75. Thereza Piloya (also 294/297)
76. Flávia Oliveira (also 293), PIN
77. Dinha do Acarajé (also 293) - PIN
78. Yalemtsehay Mekonnen (also 294)
79. Annie Walker Blackwell - PIN
80. Pholile Shakantu (also 297) TW, PIN
81. Tendai Moyo
82. Enass Muzamel
83. Marguerite Pétro-Koni-Zezé (also 293)
84. Safiya George (also 294)
85. Patricia Hardaway (also 294/297)
86. Wilma Mishoe (also 294)
87. Scholastica Kimaryo
88. Florence "Frankie" Adams - added image TW - PIN
89. Anita Turpeau Anderson - PIN TW
90. Ibijoke Faborode
91. Molly Gaskin
92. Renita Holmes
93. Leonne Theodore-John - PIN TW
94. Susan Chomba
95. Esi Buobasa
96. Mary Black (Arizona)
97. Vernell Coleman
98. Morenike Oluwatoyin Folayan (also 294/297)
99. Alyce Fraser Denny - PIN
100. Mary Garnet Barboza Women of Distinction
101. Marguerite Frierson - PIN
102. Lillian Steele Proctor (also 297)
103. Dulce Pereira (also 293) - PIN
104. Latonia Moore - upgraded
105. Ivy Baxter
106. Kristen Lovell
107. Josephine Harreld Love
108. Oda Gasinzigwa (also 297)
109. Tchinda Andrade
110. Julia Jeter Cleckley
111. Johanna July
112. Lola N. Vassall - PIN
113. Rosemarie Freeney Harding - PIN
114. Picramnia antidesma
115. Ana Rita Santiago (also 293)
116. Samira Sabou
117. Juanita Ellsworth Miller - PIN
118. Sylvia Olden Lee - added image, PIN
119. Emma Kantema-Gaomas
120. Jane Dabney Shackelford - PIN
121. Natalia ǀGoagoses
122. Shennette Garrett-Scott (also 294)
123. Gladys L. Catchings - PIN
124. Josephine Lemoyan
125. Altamira Cecília dos Santos (also 293) - PIN
126. Ruth Braswell Jones - PIN
127. Petita Palma and 297 TW - PIN
128. Carla Akotirene (also 293)
129. JoNina Abron-Ervin (also 294)
130. Upile Chisala
131. Venice Tipton Spraggs
132. Maria do Carmo Gerônimo (also 293) - PIN
133. Mo-Mamo Karerwa
134. Wendy Phipps (also 297) TW
135. Veora Johnson
136. Eva C. Mitchell - PIN
137. Ethna Beulah Winston - PIN
138. Anna W. Ludlow - PIN
139. Alice Callis Hunter
140. Mary Evans Wilson - added free img, PIN
141. Yolande Du Bois - added img, infobox, PIN
142. Deirdre Cooper Owens (also 294/297)
143. Mae Virginia Cowdery - added img, PIN
144. Eulalie Spence - added img, PIN
145. Georgia Caldwell Smith -added img, PIN
146. Jane Ellen McAllister -added img, infobox, PIN
147. Sarah Kamya
148. Auzerais Bellamy
149. Safe House Black History Museum

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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

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  Denise Hinton
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  Lula Warlick
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  Imagene Stewart
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  Anne Shongwe
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  Oda Gasinzigwa
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  Carrie Still Shepperson
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  Carrie Burton Overton
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  Brenda Swann Holmes
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  Karrie G. Dixon
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  Louise Parrott Cochran
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  Bertha LaBranche Johnson
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  Annie Walker Blackwell
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  Anita Turpeau Anderson
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  Alyce Fraser Denny
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  Lola N. Vassall
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  Juanita Ellsworth Miller
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  Gladys L. Catchings
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  Lucia Posso
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  Ethna Beulah Winston
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  Eva C. Mitchell
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  Roberta Randolph DeMar
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  Easther Mayi Kith of Cameroon and Reading
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  Diana Salazar Méndez of Ecuador
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  Mary Evans Wilson
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  Yolande Du Bois
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  Mae Virginia Cowdery
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  Eulalie Spence
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  Jane Dabney Shackelford
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  Marguerite Frierson
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  Minerva France
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  Eulacie Shamberger Chatman
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  Georgia Caldwell Smith
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  Jane Ellen McAllister

Event templates

• Invitation: February 2024
• Editathon banner for talk pages: Template:WIR-298: {{WIR-298}}