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Welcome to Women in Green, an attempt to bring core articles on women and women's works up to minimum Wikipedia:Good article (GA) status. We currently have 4701 articles out of 38,815 Good Articles on the site (roughly 12.1%) and 517 articles out of 6,411 Featured Articles (roughly 8.1%).

Never written a Good Article? No worries! Every incremental improvement of articles within the scope of WikiProject Women is welcome. Do whatever you enjoy doing and if you have questions, or seek a mentor to get an article improved/nominated for GA, just ask. We are in it together.

Members

If you would like to join Women in Green as an active participant, please add your user name to the members' list below. Joining the project is easy! Add your name here in alphabetical order:

1. AirshipJungleman29 (talk)
2. Alanna the Brave (talk)
3. AlastairJHannaford
4. Andrew🐉(talk)
5. Another Believer
6. asilvering (talk)
7. Atiru (talk)
8. Auldhouse (talk)
9. Aza24 (talk)
10. Balance person (talk)
11. BindiS (talk)
12. BJCHK (talk)
13. BennyOnTheLoose (talk)
14. Blackknight12 (talk)
15. Caeciliusinhorto (talk)
16. CaroleHenson (talk)
17. Chiswick Chap (talk)
18. Chocmilk03 (talk)
19. Cielquiparle (talk)
20. ClarityKTMpls (talk)
21. Clovermoss (talk)
22. Delabrede (talk)
23. Dr. Blofeld (talk)
24. Dr. Van Nostrand (talk)
25. The Drover's Wife (talk)
26. DMT Biscuit (talk)
27. Eddie891 (talk)
28. Edwininlondon (talk)
29. EEHalli (talk)
30. Eewilson (talk)
31. ezlev (user/tlk/ctrbs)
32. Eritha (talk)
33. Figureskatingfan (talk)
34. FormalDude (talk)
35. ForsythiaJo (talk)
36. Goldsztajn (talk)
37. GovanRedskirts (talk)
38. GraziePrego (talk)
39. Grnrchst (talk)
40. Habst (talk)
41. History6042 (talk)
42. HouseOfChange (talk)
43. IdRatherBeAtTheBeach (talk)
44. Ingenuity (talk)
45. Innisfree987 (talk)
46. Ipigott (talk)
47. Jon698 (talk)
48. Joel Rodrigues (talk)
49. JuanGLP (talk)
50. Kaizenify (talk)
51. Karl Bildungshunger1965
52. Kerrieburn (talk)
53. Kingsif (talk)
54. Krisgabwoosh (talk)
55. Lajmmoore (talk)
56. Larry Hockett (talk)
57. LEvalyn (talk)
58. LWu22 (talk)
59. LovelyLillith (talk)
60. MaterialWorks
61. Medievalfran (talk)
62. Michael Goodyear ✐  ✉
63. Midnight Citian (talk)
64. Monjento (talk)
65. Montanabw (talk)
66. MsJoat (talk)
67. mujinga (talk)
68. Mvitulli (talk)
69. Netmouse (talk)
70. Ninafundisha (talk)
71. Olivaw-Daneel (talk)
72. Originalmess (talk)
73. Oughtta Be Otters (talk)
74. Pakoire (talk)
75. Pazde
76. PMCH2 (talk)
77. Ppt91 (talk)
78. Ptinphusmia (talk)
79. RedBaron12 (talk)
80. Ritchie333 (talk)
81. Riley1012 (talk)
82. Rosiestep (talk)
83. Rublamb(talk)
84. scwalsh(talk)
85. ScoutHarris (talk)
86. Sportsfan77777 (talk)
87. SueDaNym (talk)
88. SunnyBoi (talk)
89. SusunW (talk)
90. TachibanaLouis (talk)
91. Tayi Arajakate (talk)
92. The Blue Rider (talk)
93. TheTypingKat (talk)
94. TJMSmith (talk)
95. Treesiati (talk)
96. Trillfendi (talk)
97. Tsistunagiska (talk)
98. Valereee (talk)
99. YusufuAM (talk)
100. Vanamonde (talk)
101. White Orchid (talk)
102. Wolbo (talk)
103. Onwuka Glory (talk)

Inactive members

This is a list of Women in Green members who have not made edits to Wikipedia for a minimum of one year. Inactive members are welcome to move their name back to the active members list above when/if they return to Wikipedia work.

1. Cstickel(byu) (talk)
2. Jbox19 (talk)
3. JennaNeiterman (talk)
4. Knope7 (talk)
5. Lyrelyrebird (talk)
6. Marcinus PhD (talk)
7. Miyagawa (talk)
8. MPJ-DK (talk)
9. Nanobright (talk)
10. Ruby2010 (talk)
11. sbowen1986(talk)
12. Tbiw (talk)
13. Tulada (talk)
14. Vixtani (talk)

Userbox

You are also welcome to add our userbox {{User WikiProject Women in Green}} to your user page, which looks like:

This user makes women green.

Barnstar

The Women in Green Barnstar is awarded for significant contributions to the quality of articles about women and women's works. To use this template, create a new section on the user talkpage of the user you want to award the barnstar to, and add {{subst:The Women in Green Barnstar|1=Put your message here. ~~~~}}.

	The Women in Green Barnstar
	Put your message here. ~~~~

Hot 100

The following is a list of 100 women biographies we see as among the most urgent to be brought up to minimum GA status: See also Most prominent women and lower-class vital Women articles. If you intend to start working on one of the following articles within the next few months write your name in brackets after the entry.

1. Aisha
2. Susan B. Anthony
3. Marie Antoinette
4. Joan Baez
5. Josephine Baker
6. Lucille Ball
7. Asha Bhosle
8. Benazir Bhutto
9. Maeve Binchy
10. Bonnie Blair
11. Helena Blavatsky
12. Karen Blixen
13. Nellie Bly
14. Charlotte Brontë
15. Emily Brontë
16. Carol Burnett
17. Maria Callas
18. Catherine the Great
19. Coco Chanel
20. Christina, Queen of Sweden
21. Cindy Crawford
22. Celia Cruz
23. Bette Davis
24. Diana, Princess of Wales
25. Doris Day
26. Judi Dench
27. Marlene Dietrich
28. Mary Baker Eddy
29. Eleanor of Aquitaine
30. Elizabeth of Russia
31. Fatima
32. Ella Fitzgerald
33. Aretha Franklin
34. Anna Freud
35. Indira Gandhi
36. Greta Garbo
37. Lillian Gish
38. Steffi Graf
39. Jane Goodall
40. Nadine Gordimer
41. Florence Griffith Joyner
42. Hatshepsut
43. Caroline Herschel
44. Hildegard of Bingen
45. Dorothy Hodgkin
46. Billie Holiday
47. Grace Hopper
48. Hurrem Sultan
49. Isabella I of Castile
50. Izumo no Okuni
51. Janis Joplin
52. Frida Kahlo
53. Helen Keller
54. Grace Kelly
55. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
56. Georgia O'Keeffe
57. Billie Jean King
58. Aung San Suu Kyi
59. Selma Lagerlöf
60. Hedy Lamarr
61. Ada Lovelace
62. Rosa Luxemburg
63. Madame de Pompadour
64. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
65. Lata Mangeshkar
66. Margaret Mead
67. Mary, mother of Jesus
68. Golda Meir
69. Mirabai
70. Joni Mitchell
71. Margaret Mitchell
72. Maria Montessori
73. Martina Navratilova
74. Nefertiti
75. Florence Nightingale
76. Birgit Nilsson
77. Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba
78. Yoko Ono
79. Rosa Parks
80. Dolly Parton
81. Alice Paul
82. Anna Pavlova
83. Édith Piaf
84. Christine de Pizan
85. Queen of Sheba
86. Rani of Jhansi
87. Susan Rice
88. Diana Ross
89. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
90. Harriet Beecher Stowe
91. Barbra Streisand
92. Joan Sutherland
93. Elizabeth Taylor
94. Shirley Temple
95. Mother Teresa
96. Teresa of Ávila
97. Alice Walker
98. Edith Wharton
99. Oprah Winfrey
100. Virginia Woolf

Achievements

The following articles were promoted to Good Article (GA) or Featured Article (FA) status after being listed on the Hot 100:

1. Miriam Makeba – promoted to GA by Vanamonde (Talk) on 2 June 2017, and to FA on 6 October 2017
2. Sylvia Plath – promoted to GA on 11 June 2017
3. Cleopatra – promoted to GA on 6 April 2018, and to FA on 11 June 2018
4. Margaret Atwood – promoted to GA on 11 May 2018
5. Margot Fonteyn – promoted to GA by Alanna the Brave, Ipigott, SusunW (talk) on 31 July 2018
6. Ida Tarbell – promoted to GA by Auldhouse (talk) on 5 February 2019
7. Ursula K. Le Guin – promoted to GA by Vanamonde (Talk) on 7 March 2019
8. Hannah Arendt – promoted to GA by Michael Goodyear ✐  ✉ on 3 July 2019
9. Valentina Tereshkova – promoted to GA by Coffeeandcrumbs on 12 July 2019
10. Patsy Cline – promoted to GA on 28 September 2019
11. Agatha Christie – promoted to GA on 11 May 2020
12. Marian Anderson – promoted to GA on 1 September 2020
13. Lise Meitner – promoted to GA on 14 October 2020
14. Audrey Hepburn – promoted to GA on 14 December 2021
15. Boudica – promoted to GA on 8 November 2022
16. Astrid Lindgren – promoted to GA by Chiswick Chap on 23 June 2023
17. Angela Merkel – promoted to GA on 7 August 2023

Future suggestions

List entries here which you think should be featured in the Hot 100 at a future date:

1. Sophia Loren
2. Imelda Marcos
3. Emily Murphy
4. Alla Pugacheva
5. Rekha
6. Serena Williams
7. Natalie Wood
8. Temsüla Ao
9. Sally Engle Merry
10. Hafsat Abiola
11. Barbara (singer)
12. Mary Rodgers
13. Jiang Qing
14. Elena Ceaușescu
15. Hillary Clinton
16. Soong Ching-ling
17. Yingluck Shinawatra
18. Tansu Çiller
19. Tsai Ing-wen
20. Sheikh Hasina
21. Voltairine de Cleyre
22. Octavia E. Butler
23. bell hooks
24. Simone de Beauvoir
25. Angela Davis
26. Dorothy Day
27. Isabel Perón
28. Margaret Sanger
29. Wu Zetian
30. Empress Dowager Cixi
31. Theodora (wife of Justinian I)
32. Rosalind Franklin
33. Audrey Geisel
34. Ada Galsworthy
35. Mia Mottley
36. Emily Blunt
37. Alexandra Kollontai
38. Eugenia Charles
39. Corazon Aquino
40. Dilma Rousseff
41. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
42. Portia Simpson-Miller
43. Wangari Maathai
44. Khaleda Zia
45. Margrethe II of Denmark
46. Victoria, Princess Royal
47. Ahilyabai Holkar
48. Juana Inés de la Cruz
49. Isabel Allende
50. Rigoberta Menchú
51. Michelle Bachelet
52. Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
53. Khertek Anchimaa-Toka
54. Ardi
55. Lucy
56. Enheduanna
57. Neithhotep
58. Twosret
59. Dido
60. Lucretia
61. Anne Bonny
62. Soong Mei-ling
63. Artemisia I of Caria
64. Anna Komnene

Current nominations

Group goals

For 2023, Women in Green has five goals: (1) to submit 20 GA nominations on the theme of women in peace and diplomacy, (2) to submit 40 "Wildcard" GA nominations about women/women's works of any kind, (3) to complete 40 GA nomination reviews of articles about women/women's works, (4) to submit 5 Featured Article/Featured List nominations about women/women's works, and (5) to provide feedback on 15 Peer Review or Featured Article nominations about women/women's works (feedback from at least 2 editors for each article). All project participants are encouraged to add their nominated or reviewed articles to the 2023 Goal Tracking list.

Past goals

2022: Women in Green members submitted 15 GA nominations on the theme of "women and the environment" and 47 "wildcard" GA nominations about women and women's works, achieving a final total of 62 nominations (59 passed, and 3 failed). Members also blasted through GAN review goals for the year, reviewing a total of 48 GAN articles (44 passed, 4 failed as not yet meeting criteria), and also submitted 8 FA/FL nominations (all passed). See 2022 Goals page.

2021: Women in Green members submitted 16 GA nominations related to women's rights and 41 "wildcard" GA nominations about women or women's works, achieving a final total of 57 nominations (all passed successfully). Members also completed goals relating to GAN reviews and FA nominations: we reviewed 37 GAN articles about women or women's works (34 passed, 3 failed as not yet meeting criteria) and submitted 5 FA nominations (5 passed). See 2021 Goals page.

2020: Women in Green members surpassed their goals of submitting 20 GA nominations about women in sports and 25 "wildcard" GA nominations about women or women's works, achieving a final total of 53 nominations (all passed successfully). Members also completed new goals relating to GAN reviews and FA nominations: we reviewed 22 GAN articles about women or women's works (20 passed, 2 failed as not yet meeting criteria) and submitted 5 FA nominations (5 passed). See 2020 Goals page.

2019: Women in Green members surpassed their goals of submitting 20 GA nominations about women's suffrage and 20 "wildcard" GA nominations about women or women's works, achieving a final total of 44 nominations. All nominations were successfully passed as GA articles. See 2019 Goals page.

2018: Women in Green members surpassed their goal of submitting a collective total of 25 GA nominations about women or women's works, achieving a final total of 27. All nominations were successfully passed as GA articles. See 2018 Goals page.

Nominations waiting review

Below is an automatically generated list of articles about women and women's works which have been nominated for GA and are waiting to be reviewed. *Please Note: Inclusion in this list does not indicate that the nominating editor of the article is a member of Women in Green. This list is merely intended to draw attention to these nominated articles and encourage interested editors to help out by reviewing GA nominations.

Interested in reviewing a GA nomination, but unfamiliar with the process? Please read the GA review instructions and feel free to ask questions at the Good Article Help Desk. All Women in Green project members must follow the GA review instructions, and should not promote articles to GA status without a good faith belief that the article meets the Good Article Criteria.

Featured article candidates

• 14 Nov 2023 – Dorothy L. Sayers (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by SchroCat (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 06 Dec 2023 – Matooskie (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by GnocchiFan (t · c); start discussion
• 05 Dec 2023 – Maria Trubnikova (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Ganesha811 (t · c); start discussion
• 04 Dec 2023 – Stacy Layne Matthews (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Another Believer (t · c); start discussion
• 02 Dec 2023 – Mary Woffington (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Curbon7 (t · c); start discussion
• 02 Dec 2023 – Beatrice Green (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Curbon7 (t · c); start discussion
• 26 Nov 2023 – Femke (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Editør (t · c); start discussion
• 18 Nov 2023 – Umi Sardjono (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by SusunW (t · c); start discussion
• 16 Nov 2023 – Women's International Democratic Federation (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by SusunW (t · c); start discussion
• 14 Nov 2023 – Catherine, Princess of Wales (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by MSincccc (t · c); see discussion
• 10 Nov 2023 – Nelly Núñez (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Krisgabwoosh (t · c); start discussion

(20 more...)

Featured article reviews

• 13 Nov 2023 – Shaylee Mansfield (talk · edit · hist) was put up for FA review by HJ Mitchell (t · c); see discussion
• 20 May 2023 – Concerto delle donne (talk · edit · hist) was put up for FA review by SandyGeorgia (t · c); see discussion

Good article reassessments

• 30 Nov 2023 – Laurentia Tan (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Spinixster (t · c); see discussion

Recent successes

The following have recently been promoted to GA:

• Anna Burke, Australian politician - 7 November
• Ashraf Dehghani, Iranian revolutionary - 25 October
• Cómo Me Duele Perderte, Cuban American Gloria Estefan song - 25 October
• Marina de Escobar, Spanish mystic - 25 October
• Hö'elün, Mongolian noblewoman - 24 October
• Sekai wa Sore demo Kawari wa Shinai, song by Japanese singer Aya Kamiki - 24 October
• Martha Poma, Bolivian politician - 24 October
• Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Belarusian politician - 24 October
• Clara Thalmann, Swiss journalist - 22 October
• Isabelle Urquhart, American singer - 22 October
• Femke Bol, Dutch athlete - 21 October
• Cesária Évora, Cape Verdean singer - 18 October
• Seraphina Sforza, Italian nun - 13 October
• Halyna Kuzmenko, Ukrainian revolutionary - 12 October
• Hellé Nice, French motor racing driver - 4 September
• Lotta Dempsey - 31 August 2023
• Katarina Bogdanović - 22 August 2023
• Xochitl Gomez - 22 August 2023
• Gloria Cameron - 17 August 2023
• Elena Landázuri - 15 August 2023
• Rebecca Primus - 15 August 2023
• Shaparak Khorsandi - 11 August 2023
• Enrichetta Chiaraviglio-Giolitti - 9 August 2023
• Pamela Stephenson - 9 August 2023
• Eliza Stephens - 8 August 2023
• Nasta Rojc - 6 August 2023
• Palmire Dumont - 6 July 2023
• Maria Mies - 6 July 2023
• Addie Brown - 2 July 2023
• Vera Holme - 30 June 2023
• Ida Mett - 17 June 2023
• Soňa Červená – 9 June 2023
• Andromeda (mythology) – 9 June 2023
• Helmi Üprus – 8 June 2023
• Yella Hertzka – 8 June 2023
• Angela Farmer 3 June 2023
• Ana Amado – 2 May 2023
• Helene Lecher - 22 April 2023
• Erna P. Harris - 18 April 2023
• Elisabeth Bagréeff-Speransky - 15 April 2023
• Virginia Tango Piatti - 23 March 2023
• Eugénie Hamer - 14 March 2023
• Shirley Franco - 12 March 2023
• Helene Scheu-Riesz - 8 March 2023
• Cora Slocomb di Brazza - 7 March 2023
• Bertha McNeill - 21 February 2023
• Kae Miller - 7 February 2023
• Enriqueta Medellín - 20 January 2023
• Anyte of Tegea - 5 January 2023
• Melina Laboucan-Massimo - 5 January 2023
• Jessica Martin - 3 January 2023
• Laura Bergt - 30 December 2022
• Varia Kipiani - 21 December 2022
• Perla Batalla - 21 December 2022

Book requests

Interested in working on any of the above articles and promoting to Good Article status? Need books to assist you with the research required to build a high quality, comprehensive article? Please feel free to list books you might need in Wikipedia:WikiProject Women/Women in Green/Book requests and state the names and costs.

Assessment statistics for articles about women

WikiProject Women

WikiProject Women pages by quality
Quality
	Total
FA	124
FL	120
FM	63
A	4
GA	1,060
B	2,995
C	13,472
Start	39,558
Stub	35,346
List	876
Category	9,471
Disambig	106
File	172
Portal	1
Project	100
Redirect	1,477
Template	169
NA	1
Assessed	105,115
Unassessed	5
Total	105,120
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 474,881			Ω = 5.13

WikiProject Women's History

Women's History articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	4	30	63	110			207
FL		1	1	6			8
GA	3	68	260	491		1	823
B	24	392	1,120	2,807		4	4,347
C	33	416	2,306	9,601		1,797	14,153
Start	13	266	2,634	18,424	1	4,954	26,292
Stub	1	9	581	8,824	1	2,701	12,117
List	1	35	272	490	2	14	814
Category			1	6	4,678		4,685
Disambig				5	37		42
File				3	228		231
Portal					1		1
Project	2	1			194		197
Template			2	6	149		157
NA		15	27	213	512		767
Other				1	39		40
Assessed	81	1,233	7,267	40,987	5,842	9,471	64,881
Unassessed					1		1
Total	81	1,233	7,267	40,987	5,843	9,471	64,882
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 275,463			Ω = 4.75

Current Featured Content

Please see our Current Featured Content page for an evolving alphabetical list of current Featured Articles, Featured Lists, and Good Articles about women.

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