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Women who died: 2025 edit‑a‑thon
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Women who died: 2025
December 2025 – January 2026

Recently completed:	Women who died: 2025 Alphabet run: Countries starting with A
New this month:	Alphabet run: Countries starting with B Black women Works by Women: Opera, Theatre and Music
Ongoing initiatives:	#1day1woman: 2026 Sports
Upcoming events:	Ideas

Welcome!

Once again in December and January we are focusing on notable women who died in 2025, from all fields and nationalities. Many of them will have been covered in detail in the obituaries published in newspapers and journals around the world.

We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about notable women who have recently died, including their writings or other works.

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 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 prominent women
• to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action on combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
• to promote the new/improved articles and images through social media and via nominations to Main Page features Did You Know…? and In The News.

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)

We have red-link lists on women from all relevant fields, which can be found in our redlist index. A selection of those which might be most useful for this priority is listed below.

Crowd-sourced (CS) and Wikidata (WD) red-link lists: women's biographies in other language versions of Wikipedia: Women who died in 2025 (WD) Recent deaths (WD) (last two weeks) A wide variety of redlink lists can be found on our Redlist index. For any country or occupation, you can look for those who died in 2025.

Other sources where women who died in 2025 may be found:

• Deaths in 2025 (for prior months, use history to find version before redlinks removed)
• Obituaries in The New York Times
• Obituaries in the UK's The Guardian, including from the (Start of the year)

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

Participants

• Penny Richards (talk) 17:02, 27 November 2025 (UTC)
• WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 20:10, 28 November 2025 (UTC)
• Moondragon21 (talk) 00:09, 29 November 2025 (UTC)
• _-_Alsor (talk) 00:11, 29 November 2025 (UTC)
• Deb (talk)Deb (talk) 09:00, 29 November 2025 (UTC)
• Victuallers (talk) 16:56, 1 December 2025 (UTC)
• PamD 09:21, 3 December 2025 (UTC)
• Animaliak (talk) 19:39, 3 December 2025 (UTC)
• Gazamp (talk) 18:39, 4 December 2025 (UTC)
• Roundtheworld (talk) 11:23, 12 December 2025 (UTC)
• Izlhyl (talk) 20:40, 13 December 2025 (UTC)
• Hawksquill (talk) 23:20, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
• SDGB1217 (talk) 20:43, 19 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. Alana Cruise
2. Barbara Rybałtowska
3. Coby Timp
4. Grace Bakst Wapner
5. Geeske Krol-Benedictus
6. Sylva Akrita
7. Chikondi Chijozi
8. Ledy Zuñiga
9. Nuria Butiña
10. Jacqueline Pradère (also added in Deaths in November 2025)
11. Naomi Stadlen
12. Suzanne Loker
13. Diana McVeagh upgrade and pic
14. Annie Stainer upgrade and pic
15. Priscilla Frisch
16. Jen Bartlett upgrade
17. Jean Frantz Blackall
18. Gabriele Iwersen
19. Anne Scargill pic
20. Lydia Nyati-Ramahobo (also 358)
21. Sine Larsen (also 358)
22. Angelica Bäumer (also 358, 360)
23. Zohra Rasekh (also 358, 360)
24. Dorothy Bosch Keller
25. Galina Matvievskaya
26. Susan Brynteson
27. Anne Rankin Mahoney
28. Jorunn Aanderaa
29. Judy Jean Chapman
30. Kee Malesky add pic by Sarah Stierch
31. Susantha Chandramali add pic
32. Doreen Hall (also 326)
33. Velma Pollard add pic
34. Gerlin Bean add pic
35. Susie Figgis
36. Birthe Wesselhøft
37. Barbara G. Walker - upgraded
38. Allwell Ademola
39. Anna Rusticano (also 326)
40. Angela Tillmann
41. Alicja Bobrowska (also 327)
42. Danuta Ptaszycka-Jackowska (also 327)
43. Daisy Wende (also 327)
44. Alda Rosa
45. Agata Kowalska-Szubert
46. Rosalie Tennison
47. Mária J. Nagy
48. Ivonne Young
49. H. Catherine W. Skinner (promoted on Mastodon)
50. Fernanda Maria
51. Valerie Pearlman
52. Andria Hall
53. Elżbieta Penderecka (also 326)
54. Ada Becchi
55. Teresa Ulloa Ziáurriz
56. Elizette Bayan
57. Cora Weiss
58. Teresa Cupertino de Miranda
59. Maria José Palla
60. Anna Díaz Morello
61. Ana Lía Kornblit
62. Inmaculada García Rioja (also added in Deaths in February 2025)
63. Paulina Tamayo (also 326)
64. Maria da Nazaré
65. Ângela Ribeiro (actress)
66. Olga Cardoso
67. Constança Cunha e Sá
68. Fiorenza de Bernardi (upgraded)
69. Pamela Mabini
70. Vesna Bučić
71. Eli Årdal Berland
72. Jane Reed
73. Agnieszka Maciąg
74. Valentina Basiul
75. Mildred Barnes Griggs
76. Irina Zolotova (also 355)
77. Margaret Miles-Bramwell (also 327 and 356)
78. Marika Sherwood pic
79. Susan Iversen pic
80. Gwen Watkins ibox and pic
81. Charlotte Raven add fair use pic
82. Hazel Walford Davies (already present on cywiki) Deb (talk) 09:01, 29 November 2025 (UTC)
83. Barbara Maxwell (producer) add fair use pic
84. Sabine Wienker-Piepho translated from German
85. Lea Gleitman translated from Swedish

Outcomes (media)

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

• 
  Arabella Suttie
• 
  Liliana Durán
• 
  Sade Fritschi
• 
  first pic of Mary Scott (missionary)
• 
  Jan 21 includes Alanna Kennedy
• 
  Gwen Watkins
• 
  Stella Rimmington
• 
  Brigitte Bardot

Did You Know features

• ... that Paulina Tamayo, despite releasing fifteen albums, preferred direct contact with the public to a prolific discography? (2026-01-20)
• ... that activist Gerlin Bean co-founded the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent in 1978, an event described as "a watershed in the history of Black women's rights activism"? (2022-07-19)

Event resources

• Invitation: WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/2025
• Editathon banner for talk pages: Template:WikiProject Women in Red - {{WIR|357}}