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Black women editathon
Black women editathon
Online event; February 2024
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Black women
February 2024

Recently completed:	Science Fiction and Fantasy
New this month:	Indigenous women Women in film and stage
Ongoing initiatives:	#1day1woman Education Translation Women in Sports
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^[1]
Dominique Leach^[2]
Washington, D.C. health directors:
- Sharon Lewis^[3] <-- Needs disambiguator
- Ayanna Bennett^[4]
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 [es] first ever black female character to appear in a Marvel comic book.