Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/197

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Online event; 1-31 May 2021
	Mary Mary quite contrary

May Mays | May 2021

May: May Mays Mental Health

2021 Apr/May/June: Europe contest

2021 global initiatives: #1day1woman2021 Women's rights

See also: Future events

Welcome!

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Last year we had a successful focus on women associated with the name May. This year, we've decided to focus on those born in May as well as all the corresponding names and all its variants, for example Mary, Maria, Marie, Mariah, Miriam, Miryam, Maryam and Máire, as well as its occurrences in other scripts. You are also welcome to write articles on women associated with the name "May". Women born in the month of May can also be covered.

Anyone can take part in this event. We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about women associated with Mary or May, as well as their achievements, writings, organizations, and awards. This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts wherever they may be to participate in our initiative. Contributors are of course also welcome to add articles on any other notable women who deserve to be covered, for example under our #1day1woman priority.

The main goals of the event are:

to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of some of the world's most prominent women
to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action on a specific area
to support Wikipedia in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
to promote the new/improved articles and images through social media (Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter)

What else?

Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you create 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 tweet about any of the articles, or upload any of the images to Pinterest, 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. Some of those relating to women named May or Mary are listed below:

Add other red links here, if possible with a source:

María José Alonso, pharmacologist, [1]
Margaret Mary Henderson – Consultant Physician and Consultant Emeritus, Royal Melbourne Hospital (also attended Melbourne Girls Grammar)^[1]
Mary Jermyn Heseltine – One of the first Australian doctors to study exfoliative cytology; Established the first gynaecological cytology unit in Australia at King George V Hospital^[2]
Marta Salvat Batista Permanent Representative of Andorra to the United Nations Office at Vienna
Maria Noguer González Andorran ambassador to Finland,Iceland, Poland
Ana María Ramírez (diplomat) Argentinian Ambassador to Poland, Lithuania, Thailand^[3]
Mary McPherson Australian high commissioner to Cyprus “From 1974 to the end of 1992, only thirteen female officers were appointed to head Australian missions overseas, one of them, Mary McPherson, being appointed High Commissioner to Cyprus in 1982.“^[4]
Marie-Louise Vanherk Belgian ambassador to Peru
Claudia Maria Alexis Rocabado Mrden Bolivian ambassador to Canada
Maria-Goretti Blandine Agaleoue Adoua Burkina Faso ambassador to Denmark
Marie Bernard-Meunier
Anne-Marie Bourcier
Anne-Marie Doyle
Marie Legault
Jennifer May
Mary Elizabeth Vandenhoff
Maria de Jesus Veiga Miranda Mascarenhas
Maria Eliana Cuevas Bernales