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Alphabet run: O & P edit‑a‑thon
Alphabet run: O & P edit‑a‑thon
Online event; August 2025
	Pratibha Patil president of India from 2007 to 2012
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Alphabet run: O & P
August 2025

Recently completed:	Alphabet run: M & N Women in Red turns 10 Geofocus: Ten for Kenya
New this month:	Alphabet run: O & P Indigenous women Film and stage
Ongoing initiatives:	Music #1day1woman
Upcoming events:	Ideas

Welcome!

From January to December 2025, Women in Red is embarking on our third collective "alphabet run", where editors work consecutively through the letters of the English alphabet. The August letters are O and P, and can be applied to any given name, middle name, or surname of a subject, e.g. Petra Oyston (both names), Paulina Irby (first name), Irma Poma Canchumani (middle name) or Stella Power (last name).

January 2025 – A & B
February 2025 – C & D
March 2025 – E & F
April 2025 – G & H
May 2025 – I & J
June 2025 – K & L
July 2025 – M & N
August 2025 – O & P
September 2025 – Q & R
October 2025 – S & T
November 2025 – U, V, W
December 2025 – X, Y & Z

Again this year we have lists of the most frequently redlisted women. Based on database searches, these are listed under the first name in the article title. As the searches take account of women's given names, you will discover quite a number that are inappropriate, for example, Patrice or Perry which are also used for men and geographical features. If you write a biography from these lists, please mention "most frequent" when you add it as a New or upgraded article.

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 you 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, under our year-long initiative Music, other topics of the month or our comprehensive #1day1woman event.

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

What else?

Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you created 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 share any of the articles or images on social media, 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 O or P. 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)
Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon (WD)
Dictionary of Canadian Biography (WD)
Dictionary of Welsh Biography (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)

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) – 2 (more not on wikidata!)
Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers (WD) – 5
Western Canadian women (CS) – 7
Dictionary of African Biography (WD) – 2
Onze Musici (WD) – 11
Biographical Dictionary of Spanish Socialism (WD) – 16
Latin America in the Communist International (WD) – 11
American Women Historians (WD) – now complete
Biographical Dictionary of Iowa (WD) – 8

Most frequently redlisted women

The lists below cover the first names of women beginning with O or P:

Participants

Outcomes (articles)

New or upgraded articles

Edith Ostlere
Oda Malmin
Alayne Street-Perrott
Doris Patston
Alexandrina Maria Onslow
Catherina Pieroth-Manelli
Jennifer Poist
Olivia Phikani
Marie-Odile Amaury
Dimitra Proxenou
Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. Ladies
Phyllis J. Wilson
Mardi Pieronek
Gayle Pezzo
Debra Powers
Sandy Pinsonault
Joanna Oleksiuk
Lise Petersen
Daughters of Utah Pioneers (upgraded, image added)
Katie Ann Powell (also 326 and 346)
Prema Jayakumar
Clare Osborne Reed
Charlotte Peege
Ava Pickett (also 346)
Marion Mitchell Ochsner
Berta Ochsner
Sue Pritzker
María Luisa del Pilar García Gurruchaga
Aiko Okazaki
Mihaela Oana (also 341)
Hitomi "Penny" Tohyama (rescued AFC draft; also 326)
Pearl Shepard
Cindy Pritzker
Pauline Smith Crenshaw
Olga Pyzhova
Mary Oates Spratt Van Landingham
Louise Owen
MK Pritzker
Patricia Taft
Paula Shay
Chi Oang
Olga Rakhmanova (also 346)
Margaret Prussing
Paula Jiménez España
Frances Taylor Patterson
Catherine Proctor
Olga Cook
Winifred Prentice

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 IG after the article if you post it on Instagram
Add LI after the article if you post it on LinkedIn
Add Bsky after the article if you post it on Bluesky

Outcomes (media)

Please add this category to the image if you're uploading it to Commons: Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2025

Did You Know features

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged or categorized (e.g. Category:WikiProject Women in Red meetup 344 articles) correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

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Event resources

Please add Category:Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2025 to any media you upload to Commons.
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