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Alphabet run: Q & R edit‑a‑thon
Online event September 2025
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Alphabet run: Q & R
September 2025

Recently completed:	Alphabet run: O & P Indigenous women Film and stage
New this month:	Alphabet run: Q & R Women writers & their works Geofocus: Microstates
Ongoing initiatives:	Music #1day1woman
Upcoming events:	Alphabet run: S & T Women in STEM Halloween 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 Q and R, and can be applied to any given name, middle name, or surname of a subject, e.g. Rosita Quintana (both names), Rae Frances (first name), Gladys Ruth Gibson (middle name) or Marian Quartly (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, Randy and Robin which are also used for men and also names of 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 Q or R. 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) External links Australian Women's Register (AWR) Austria, poets and writers Austrian Women's Lexicon: A-H Austrian Women's Lexicon: I-O Austrian Women's Lexicon: P-Z Women in the History of Academic Science in Bulgaria Czech Biographical Dictionary Dutch Biography Portal Polish Biographical Dictionary Svenskt biografiskt lexikon Prominent personalities in the USSR 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 Q or R: Q: first names beginning with Q R1: first names beginning with Ra to Rm R2: first names beginning with Rn to Rz

Participants

• Penny Richards (talk) 17:45, 23 August 2025 (UTC)
• Spiderpig662 (talk) 22:17, 25 August 2025 (UTC)
• WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 21:24, 26 August 2025 (UTC)
• DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 00:45, 27 August 2025 (UTC)
• Rosiestep (talk) 16:26, 27 August 2025 (UTC)
• Victuallers (talk) 18:10, 29 August 2025 (UTC)
• SarahTHunter (talk) 09:01, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
• Family27390 (talk) 02:13, 1 September 2025 (UTC)
• PamD 07:59, 1 September 2025 (UTC)
• SDGB1217 (talk) 10:57, 2 September 2025 (UTC)
• Animaliak (talk) 08:15, 6 September 2025 (UTC)
• Scanlan (talk) 14:02, 6 September 2025 (UTC)
• RevelationDirect (talk) 11:33, 10 September 2025 (UTC)
• Geschichte (talk) 21:02, 14 September 2025 (UTC)
• Ajeeshkumar4u (talk) 10:52, 15 September 2025 (UTC)
• Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 16:45, 15 September 2025 (UTC)
• Grnrchst (talk) 22:58, 15 September 2025 (UTC)
• Curbon7 (talk) 05:58, 16 September 2025 (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 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

New or upgraded articles

• Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new and biographical dictionary, if used:

1. Margaret Romaine
2. Edith Rubel
3. Sara Bulkley Rogers
4. Rachel Cohen (also 348)
5. Marie Roemaet Rosanoff
6. Ruth Chinangwa
7. Mary Atherton Richards
8. Rachel Butler
9. Rosa Lewis (actress)
10. Roberta Yerkes Blanshard
11. Lyubov Radchenko (also 348)
12. Roberta G. Simmons (also 348)
13. Pauline Root
14. Eve Robson
15. Mary Kring Risley
16. Rema Menon (also 348)
17. Rebeca Santos
18. Ragnhild Bergheim
19. Rachel Nordtømme
20. Rosemary Mkandawire
21. Maud Stepney Rawson
22. Millicent Barton Rex
23. Bibiana Quintos
24. Rita J. Simon (also 348)
25. Edna Richolson Sollitt
26. Fabiola Rueda exp
27. Corinne Rider-Kelsey
28. Lee Jia Rong
29. Ruth Hughey (also 348)
30. Pilar Calvo Rodero
31. Roberta T. Manning (also 348)
32. Neira Riegger
33. Matilde Calvo Rodero
34. Ninon Romaine
35. Raymonde Jore
36. Ruth Helen Davis
37. Ruth Crawford Mitchell add img, infobox
38. Ruth A. McIntyre (also 348)
39. Ruth Breton
40. Thea Garcia-Ramirez (also 327, 349)
41. Raymonde Rolly
42. Rosette C. Lamont (also 348)
43. Jessica St. Rose
44. Ruth Bingaman
45. Geva René (also 349)
46. Villaney Remengesau (also 349)
47. Quixotic Desire (also 348)
48. Roselyn Silva (also 327, 349)
49. Ruby Cutter Savage
50. Rapture Encaged (also 348)
51. Nancy Reagan Foster
52. Roma Rudd Turkel
53. Gladys Roberts (also 327)
54. Ruth El Saffar (also 348)
55. Reeva Greenwood
56. Gauri Rani Banerjee (also 327) Encyclopedia of Social Work
57. Rona Goffen (also 348)
58. Fiona Rayment
59. Roberta Bajada (also 348 & 349)
60. Reba Paeff Mirsky (also 326 and 348)
61. Rebecca Wiswell
62. Marcela Rizzotto
63. Rosa Torres
64. Ragna Linne
65. Rachel Morton Harris
66. Hima Raza

Outcomes (media)

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

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  Edith Rubel
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  Rosa Lewis (actress)
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  Pauline Root
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  Millicent Barton Rex
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  Neira Riegger
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  Ninon Romaine
• 
  Ninon Romaine
• 
  Raymonde Jore
• 
  Raymonde Jore and Raymonde Rolly
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  Ruth Helen Davis
• 
  Ruth Crawford Mitchell
• 
  Raymonde Rolly and Raymonde Jore
• 
  Raymonde Rolly
• 
  Ruth Bingaman
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  Ruby Cutter Savage
• 
  Roma Rudd Turkel
• 
  Reeva Greenwood
• 
  Rebecca Wiswell
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  Rosemary Argente
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  Rosa Torres
• 
  Rachel Morton Harris

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Event resources

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