Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/344

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:	Crime and law Alphabet run: Countries starting with M
New this month:	Indigenous women Alphabet run: Countries starting with N and O Women born before 1900
Ongoing initiatives:	#1day1woman: 2026 Sports
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) 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 O or P: O: first names beginning with O P: first names beginning with P

Participants

• Penny Richards (talk) 16:41, 21 July 2025 (UTC)
• --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 21:39, 22 July 2025 (UTC)
• DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 22:16, 22 July 2025 (UTC)
• Victuallers (talk) 10:47, 23 July 2025 (UTC)
• Curbon7 (talk) 15:09, 28 July 2025 (UTC)
• Spiderpig662 (talk) 20:27, 30 July 2025 (UTC)
• PamD 12:06, 31 July 2025 (UTC)
• Puppies937 (talk) 16:17, 31 July 2025 (UTC)
• Family27390 (talk) 23:28, 31 July 2025 (UTC)
• Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 00:05, 1 August 2025 (UTC)
• MumphingSquirrel (talk) 13:32, 4 August 2025 (UTC)
• SarahTHunter (talk) 14:35, 5 August 2025 (UTC)
• Geschichte (talk) 14:40, 6 August 2025 (UTC)
• Abirose (talk) 21:39, 8 August 2025 (UTC)
• Ajeeshkumar4u (talk) 16:14, 9 August 2025 (UTC)
• Sbbarker19 (talk) 14:03, 11 August 2025 (UTC)
• Gamaliel (talk) 20:38, 16 August 2025 (UTC)
• SDGB1217 13:22, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
• Lajmmoore (talk) 14:13, 24 August 2025 (UTC)
• MerielGJones (talk) 09:18, 25 August 2025 (UTC)
• RevelationDirect (talk) 22:14, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
• Nick Number (talk) 00:56, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

Outcomes (articles)

New or upgraded articles

1. Geraldine O'Grady
2. Glenda Morean-Phillip
3. Leona Savage Osterman
4. Patrycja Kuter
5. P. Geetha (also 346)
6. Amiyu Ozeki (also 327)
7. Patricia M. Yaeger
8. Magdalene Osenbroch (also 346)
9. Marjona Pardaboyeva
10. Patcharapha Seesen
11. Pokiza Akhmadbekova
12. Kya Placide
13. Carolyn Poli (also 327)
14. Pamela Thornburg
15. Urania Marquard Olsen (also 346)
16. Pauline Benton
17. Lee Oxenham
18. Rose Pettigrew
19. Pirira Athumani
20. Nicola J. Patron
21. Paula Yoo (also 327))
22. Odile Ohier (also 327)
23. Sulochana Peiris
24. Kristina Pardalos
25. Sarah Worrall Lankford Palmer
26. Ora Larthard
27. Barbara Pym added image
28. Ora Hanson Snyder
29. Diane Orr (also 346)
30. Prema Ramamurthy (also 326 and 346)
31. Carla Oliveira
32. Prameela Gurumurthy (also 326 and 346)
33. Pat Ferrero (also 346)
34. Mona K. Oram
35. Palkulangara Ambika Devi (also 326 and 346)
36. Kylie Paige
37. Zonita Jeffreys Owens
38. Penny Dewi Herasati
39. Elizabeth Purslowe
40. Mattie Ould Schoolcraft
41. Phyllis Chinlund (also 346)
42. Panka Pelishek (also 326/346)
43. Georgia E. Oden
44. Phyllis Dixon Clemmons
45. Doreen Potter
46. Jenny Lind Porter
47. Fortesa Orana (also 327)
48. Kitty Oxholm
49. Irma La Pierre
50. Pauline Fikelephi Masuku
51. Olivia Ross (also 346)
52. Emma Winifred O'Malley
53. Elizabeth O'Kelly
54. Oona Kauppi
55. Rita Fernández Padilla (also 326)
56. Patti Lewis
57. Olga Gauks
58. Rina Prihtyasmiarsi Soemarno
59. Portia Spennie Blackiston
60. Kim Ok-geum
61. Sofia Pace
62. House of Paquin
63. Maakgalake Pholwane
64. Petra Vandrey
65. Blanca Elena Paz
66. Jennifer Parker (politician)
67. Olga Olgina (also 326/346)
68. Rosemarie Panotes
69. Esther Ortega Arjonilla
70. Nicole Olivierre
71. Gayle Pemberton (also 346)
72. Ava Preacher
73. Edith Ostlere
74. Oda Malmin
75. Alayne Street-Perrott
76. Doris Patston
77. Alexandrina Maria Onslow
78. Catherina Pieroth-Manelli
79. Jennifer Poist
80. Olivia Phikani
81. Marie-Odile Amaury
82. Dimitra Proxenou
83. Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. Ladies
84. Phyllis J. Wilson
85. Mardi Pieronek
86. Gayle Pezzo
87. Debra Powers
88. Sandy Pinsonault
89. Joanna Oleksiuk
90. Lise Petersen
91. Daughters of Utah Pioneers (upgraded, image added)
92. Katie Ann Powell (also 326 and 346)
93. Prema Jayakumar
94. Clare Osborne Reed
95. Charlotte Peege
96. Ava Pickett (also 346)
97. Marion Mitchell Ochsner
98. Berta Ochsner
99. Sue Pritzker
100. María Luisa del Pilar García Gurruchaga
101. Aiko Okazaki
102. Mihaela Oana (also 341)
103. Hitomi "Penny" Tohyama (rescued AFC draft; also 326)
104. Pearl Shepard
105. Cindy Pritzker
106. Pauline Smith Crenshaw
107. Olga Pyzhova
108. Mary Oates Spratt Van Landingham
109. Louise Owen
110. MK Pritzker
111. Patricia Taft
112. Paula Shay
113. Chi Oang
114. Olga Rakhmanova (also 346)
115. Margaret Prussing
116. Paula Jiménez España
117. Frances Taylor Patterson
118. Catherine Proctor
119. Olga Cook
120. Winifred Prentice

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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 - 2025

• 
  Paula Jiménez España
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  Esther Ortega Arjonilla
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  Rita Fernández Padilla
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  Nicola J. Patron
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  Pauline Benton
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  Ora Larthard
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  Ora Hanson Snyder
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  Mona K. Oram
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  Georgia E. Oden
• 
  Federal Woman's Award 1972 winners, including Phyllis Dixon Clemmons
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  Irma La Pierre
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  Emma Winifred O'Malley
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  Mary Engle Pennington railcar-1910
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  Olivia Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster
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  Olga Olgina
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  Edith Ostlere
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  Doris Patston
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  Katie Ann Powell
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  Clare Osborne Reed
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  Charlotte Peege
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  Berta Ochsner
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  Marion Mitchell Ochsner
• 
  Pearl Shepard
• 
  Pearl Shepard
• 
  Mary Oates Spratt Van Landingham
• 
  MK Pritzker
• 
  Sarah Parker Remond new photo
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  Paula Shay
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  Paula Shay
• 
  Margaret Prussing
• 
  Frances Taylor Patterson
• 
  Frances Taylor Patterson
• 
  Virginia E. Palmer at St Mary's Girls School in Zomba

Did You Know features

• ... that the pianist Panka Pelishek was a Heroine of Socialist Labor? (2025-10-21)
• ... that Texan poet laureate Jenny Lind Porter was described as America's new Emily Dickinson? (2025-10-16)
• ... that Diane Orr and C. Larry Roberts were once said to "epitomize the regional, independent filmmaker"? (2025-10-12)
• ... that opera singer Olga Olgina used the same stage name as her mother? (2025-09-23)
• ... that Hitomi Tohyama, who was raised primarily in an English-speaking environment, did not learn Japanese until she began performing professionally in Japan? (2025-09-21)

Event resources

• Please add Category:Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2025 to any media you upload to Commons.
• Invitation: WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/2025
• Editathon banner for talk pages: Template:WikiProject Women in Red - {{WIR|344}}