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Alphabet run: X, Y, Z edit‑a‑thon
Online event December 2025
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Alphabet run: X, Y, Z
December 2025

Recently completed:	Indigenous women Alphabet run: Countries starting with N and O Women born before 1900
New this month:	Writers & their works Alphabet run: Countries starting with P, Q & R Labour activists
Ongoing initiatives:	#1day1woman: 2026 Sports
Upcoming events:	Women in STEM Alphabet run: Countries starting with S Ideas

Welcome!

Now, in December 2025, Women in Red is completing our third collective "alphabet run", where editors work consecutively through the letters of the English alphabet. The December letters are X, Yand Z, and can be applied to any given name, middle name, or surname of a subject, e.g. Yoshiko Yamaguchi (both names), Zora Cross (first name), or Malala Yousafzai (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, people named Yuri which is 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 X, Y or Z. 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) – 1 (more not on wikidata!) Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers – complete Western Canadian women (CS) – 7 Dictionary of African Biography (WD) – 2 Onze Musici (WD) – 11 Biographical Dictionary of Spanish Socialism (WD) – 17 Latin America in the Communist International (WD) – 11 Biographical Dictionary of Iowa (WD) – 8 Most frequently redlinked women The lists below cover the first names of women beginning with X, Y or Z: XYZ: first names beginning with X, Y and Z

Participants

• Penny Richards (talk) 17:01, 27 November 2025 (UTC)
• WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 20:09, 28 November 2025 (UTC)
• Rosiestep (talk) 22:26, 28 November 2025 (UTC)
• Spiderpig662 (talk) 00:18, 30 November 2025 (UTC)
• PamD 11:44, 30 November 2025 (UTC)
• Family27390 (talk) 12:32, 1 December 2025 (UTC)
• Gamaliel (talk) 00:52, 2 December 2025 (UTC)
• SDGB1217 (talk) 13:33, 2 December 2025 (UTC)
• Victuallers (talk) 23:54, 2 December 2025 (UTC)
• NoonIcarus (talk) 16:12, 3 December 2025 (UTC)
• Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 00:31, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
• SarahTHunter (talk) 16:55, 13 December 2025 (UTC)
• DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 21:36, 20 December 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. Brumelda Zuma (late addition)
2. Miriam Yevick (converted from redirect)
3. A’ishatu Hamani Zarmakoy Dancandu
4. Zaha Waheed
5. Zohra Mojadeddi (also 360)
6. Yolanda Gutiérrez (also 327)
7. Yuki Chizui
8. Tang Xuemei
9. Zhao Meiling
10. Yuliya Lypetska
11. Yolanda Jurado (also 327)
12. Zora Stančič (also 327)
13. Yvonne Roña Cagas
14. Zhyldyz Abdylasovna Maldybayeva
15. Han Ximeng (also 327)
16. Yvonne Noble
17. Stacy Zinn
18. Yvonne T. Lanni
19. Charlotte Seymour Yapp (also 327) - ODNB
20. Tamara Živković (also 327)
21. Gabrielle Yablonsky
22. Yasmin Davies (also 330)
23. Angelica Zander Rudenstine
24. Codien Zwaardemaker-Visscher (also 327) - Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland
25. Zinesh Abisheva (also 327)
26. Issobell Young
27. Eléonore M. Zimmermann
28. Maria van Zuylekom (also 327) - Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland
29. Jan Ziff
30. Trisha Ziff
31. Narcissa Yager
32. Eunice Young Smith
33. Teresa Ulloa Ziáurriz
34. Zinaida Alvers
35. Zrinka Stahuljak
36. Peggy Zinsser Douglas
37. Yuriko Domoto Tsukada
38. Żaneta Cwalina-Śliwowska
39. Clothilde de Valois Zeller
40. Yuko Hara (voice actress) (destubbed; also 326)
41. Zwelibanzi Moyo Williams (also 356)
42. Mary Zeller
43. Yvonne Walkes
44. Zahra el Hasnaoui Ahmed
45. María Daría Guadalupe Tomasa Olmedo y de la Lama
46. Zahrah Preble Hodge
47. Zainab Kapanda
48. Miriam Yevick (redirect to short bio)
49. Hannah Yevick (redirect to short bio)
50. Raquel Zelaya (also 327)
51. Zelta Feike Rodenwold
52. Yescia Bloom
53. Zeta V. Wood
54. Irina Zolotova (also 357)
55. Zoila Gálvez
56. Zione Ntaba (also 327)
57. Jessie Van Zile Belden
58. Zahia Benarous (also 327)
59. Yanna Momina (also 326)
60. Ajoa Yeboah-Afari
61. Anne Youngson

Outcomes (media)

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

• 
  Narcissa Yager
• 
  Zinaida Alvers
• 
  Peggy Zinsser Douglas
• 
  Jessie Van Zile Belden
• 
  sampler from the Mary Zeller school
• 
  Zahrah Preble Hodge
• 
  Zelta Feike Rodenwold
• 
  Zeta V. Wood
• 
  Belle Yeaton Renfrew

Did You Know features

• ... that three members of the Hamburg Parliament—Mehria Ashuftah, Hila Latifi, and Zohra Mojadeddi—are Afghan refugees? (2026-02-18)
• ... that Variety once called Trisha Ziff a "photographer's photographer"? (2026-02-09)
• ... that Jan Ziff once wore a "World Tour" shirt showing every country United States Secretary of State James Baker had visited? (2026-01-23)

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|355}}