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    Revolutionary women edit‑a‑thon
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    May 2025
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    Revolutionary women
    May 2025
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    Welcome!

    This month, Women in Red is focusing on the topic of revolutionary women to highlight women who have been responsible for or have attempted to bring about a great social change.

    Throughout history, women have been in the vanguard of revolutionary movements. In 1789, it was a Women's March on Versailles that forced King Louis to submit himself to the will of the French Revolution. In 1917, it was an International Women's Day demonstration that kicked off the February Revolution and ousted the Russian Czar from power. In 1994, women in the EZLN led an uprising against the Mexican state. And in 2014, the Women's Protection Units made headlines throughout the world for their fight against ISIS.

    This edit-a-thon aims to improve our coverage of women involved in revolutions and in revolutionary movements. Whether they fought on the front lines or in a supporting role, whether they were part of a mass movement or a small group, and whether their movement was successful or not, we would like to see more articles about the women that made their revolutions what they were. Below we have collected a number of red-lists that include hundreds of revolutionary women to write about, so feel free to have a look at these if you want to know where to get started.

    We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about notable women.

    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)

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    There are a wide variety of dictionaries and other reference works available, some that editors might consider are:

    Participants

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    Promote our work

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    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

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

    Outcomes (media)

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