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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 4723 articles out of 38,925 Good Articles on the site (roughly 12.1%) and 522 articles out of 6,415 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[edit]

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:

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Inactive members[edit]

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.

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Hot 100[edit]

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 – Muhammad's third wife (c. 613/4 – 678)
  2. Susan B. Anthony – American women's rights activist (1820–1906)
  3. Marie Antoinette – Queen of France from 1774 to 1792
  4. Joan Baez – American contemporary folk musician (born 1941)
  5. Josephine Baker – American-born French dancer, singer and actress (1906–1975)
  6. Lucille Ball – American actress (1911–1989)
  7. Asha Bhosle – Indian playback singer (born 1933)
  8. Benazir Bhutto – 11th and 13th prime minister of Pakistan (1953–2007)
  9. Maeve Binchy – Irish novelist (1939–2012)
  10. Bonnie Blair – American speed skater
  11. Helena Blavatsky – Russian mystic and author (1831–1891)
  12. Karen Blixen – Danish writer (1885–1962)
  13. Nellie Bly – American investigative journalist (1864–1922)
  14. Charlotte Brontë – English novelist and poet (1816–1855)
  15. Emily Brontë – English novelist and poet (1818–1848)
  16. Carol Burnett – American comedian and actress (born 1933)
  17. Maria Callas – American-born Greek operatic soprano (1923–1977)
  18. Catherine the Great – Empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796
  19. Coco Chanel – French fashion designer (1883–1971)
  20. Christina, Queen of Sweden – Queen of Sweden from 1632 to 1654
  21. Cindy Crawford – American model and actress
  22. Celia Cruz – Cuban-American singer (1925–2003)
  23. Bette Davis – American actress (1908–1989)
  24. Diana, Princess of Wales – Member of the British royal family (1961–1997)
  25. Doris Day – American actress and singer (1922–2019)
  26. Judi Dench – English actress (born 1934)
  27. Marlene Dietrich – German actress and singer (1901–1992)
  28. Mary Baker Eddy – American founder of Christian Science (1821–1910)
  29. Eleanor of Aquitaine – Queen of France (1137–52) and England (1154–89)
  30. Elizabeth of Russia – Empress regnant of Russia from 1741 to 1762
  31. Fatima – Daughter of Muhammad (c. 605–632)
  32. Ella Fitzgerald – American jazz singer (1917–1996)
  33. Aretha Franklin – American singer, songwriter, and pianist (1942–2018)
  34. Anna Freud – Austrian–British psychoanalyst (1895–1982)
  35. Indira Gandhi – Prime Minister of India (1966–1977, 1980–1984)
  36. Greta Garbo – Swedish-American actress (1905–1990)
  37. Lillian Gish – American actress (1893–1993)
  38. Steffi Graf – German tennis player
  39. Jane Goodall – English primatologist and anthropologist (born 1934)
  40. Nadine Gordimer – South African writer (1923–2014)
  41. Florence Griffith Joyner – American track and field hurdle athlete (1959–1998)
  42. Hatshepsut – Egyptian queen and pharaoh, fifth ruler of the Eighteenth Dynasty (c. 1479/8–1458 BC)
  43. Caroline Herschel – German-British astronomer (1750–1848)
  44. Hildegard of Bingen – German Benedictine, composer and writer (c. 1098–1179)
  45. Dorothy Hodgkin – English chemist (1910–1994)
  46. Billie Holiday – American jazz singer (1915–1959)
  47. Grace Hopper – American computer scientist, mathematician, and US Navy admiral (1906–1992)
  48. Hurrem Sultan – Haseki Sultan of Suleiman the Magnificent
  49. Isabella I of Castile – Queen of Castile and León from 1474 to 1504
  50. Izumo no Okuni – Creator of kabuki theatre
  51. Janis Joplin – American singer (1943–1970)
  52. Frida Kahlo – Mexican painter (1907–1954)
  53. Helen Keller – American author and activist (1880–1968)
  54. Grace Kelly – Princess of Monaco, American actress (1929–1982)
  55. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis – First Lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963
  56. Georgia O'Keeffe – American modernist artist (1887–1986)
  57. Billie Jean King – American tennis player (born 1943)
  58. Aung San Suu Kyi – Burmese politician and democracy activist (born 1945)
  59. Selma Lagerlöf – Swedish author (1858–1940)
  60. Hedy Lamarr – Austrian-born American inventor and actress (1914–2000)
  61. Ada Lovelace – English mathematician (1815–1852)
  62. Rosa Luxemburg – Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871–1919)
  63. Madame de Pompadour – Chief mistress of Louis XV (1721–1764)
  64. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela – South African activist and politician (1936–2018)
  65. Lata Mangeshkar – Indian singer (1929–2022)
  66. Margaret Mead – American cultural anthropologist (1901–1978)
  67. Mary, mother of Jesus – Mother of Jesus
  68. Golda Meir – Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974
  69. Mirabai – 16th-century Hindu mystic poet, saint and devotee of the god Krishna
  70. Joni Mitchell – Canadian-American singer-songwriter (born 1943)
  71. Margaret Mitchell – American author and journalist (1900–1949)
  72. Maria Montessori – Italian pedagogue and physician (1870–1952)
  73. Martina Navratilova – Czech-American tennis player
  74. Nefertiti – Wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten
  75. Florence Nightingale – English social reformer, statistician, and founder of modern nursing
  76. Birgit Nilsson – Swedish dramatic soprano (1918–2005)
  77. Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba – Ambundu queen in Angola (c. 1583–1663)
  78. Yoko Ono – Japanese artist and activist (born 1933)
  79. Rosa Parks – American civil rights activist (1913–2005)
  80. Dolly Parton – American country singer (born 1946)
  81. Alice Paul – American suffragist, feminist, and activist (1885–1977)
  82. Anna Pavlova – Russian ballet dancer (1881–1931)
  83. Édith Piaf – French singer (1915–1963)
  84. Christine de Pizan – Italian poet and author (1364 – c. 1430)
  85. Queen of Sheba – Biblical figure
  86. Rani of Jhansi – Queen of Jhansi
  87. Susan Rice – American diplomat, policy advisor, and public official (born 1964)
  88. Diana Ross – American singer (born 1944)
  89. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – President of Liberia from 2006 to 2018
  90. Harriet Beecher Stowe – American abolitionist and author (1811–1896)
  91. Barbra Streisand – American singer and actress (born 1942)
  92. Joan Sutherland – Australian soprano
  93. Elizabeth Taylor – British and American actress (1932–2011)
  94. Shirley Temple – American actress and diplomat (1928–2014)
  95. Mother Teresa – Albanian-Indian Catholic saint (1910–1997)
  96. Teresa of Ávila – Roman Catholic saint (1515–1582)
  97. Alice Walker – American author and activist (born 1944)
  98. Edith Wharton – American writer and designer (1862–1937)
  99. Oprah Winfrey – American talk show host, actress, producer, and author (born 1954)
  100. Virginia Woolf – English modernist writer (1882–1941)

Achievements[edit]

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[edit]

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

  1. Sophia Loren – Italian actress (born 1934)
  2. Imelda Marcos – First Lady of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986
  3. Emily Murphy – Canadian politician
  4. Alla Pugacheva – Soviet-Russian singer (born 1949)
  5. Rekha – Indian actress (born 1954)
  6. Serena Williams – American tennis player (born 1981)
  7. Natalie Wood – American actress (1938–1981)
  8. Temsüla Ao – Indian writer (1945–2022)
  9. Sally Engle Merry – American anthropologist (1944–2020)
  10. Hafsat Abiola – Nigerian human rights, civil rights and democracy activist
  11. Barbara (singer) – French singer (1930–1997)
  12. Mary Rodgers – American composer, author and screenwriter (1931–2014)
  13. Jiang Qing – Chinese political figure and wife of Mao Zedong (1914–1991)
  14. Elena Ceaușescu – Romanian politician and first lady (1916–1989)
  15. Hillary Clinton – American politician and diplomat (born 1947)
  16. Soong Ching-ling – Chinese political figure and third wife of Sun Yat-sen (1893–1981)
  17. Yingluck Shinawatra – Prime Minister of Thailand from 2011 to 2014
  18. Tansu Çiller – 22nd Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey from 1993 to 1996
  19. Tsai Ing-wen – President of Taiwan since 2016
  20. Sheikh Hasina – Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1996–2001, since 2009)
  21. Voltairine de Cleyre – American anarchist writer and feminist (1866–1912)
  22. Octavia E. Butler – American science fiction writer (1947–2006)
  23. bell hooks – American author and activist (1952–2021)
  24. Simone de Beauvoir – French philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986)
  25. Angela Davis – American academic and political activist (born 1944)
  26. Dorothy Day – American religious and social activist (1897–1980)
  27. Isabel Perón – President of Argentina from 1974 to 1976
  28. Margaret Sanger – American birth control activist, educator, and nurse (1879–1966)
  29. Wu Zetian – Empress regnant of China from 690 to 705
  30. Empress Dowager Cixi – Chinese empress (1835–1908)
  31. Theodora (wife of Justinian I) – Augusta (500–548 CE)
  32. Rosalind Franklin – British chemist, biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
  33. Audrey Geisel – American philanthropist (1921–2018)
  34. Ada Galsworthy – English translator, editor and composer
  35. Mia Mottley – Prime Minister of Barbados since 2018
  36. Emily Blunt – British actress (born 1983)
  37. Alexandra Kollontai – Soviet politician and diplomat (1872–1952)
  38. Eugenia Charles – Prime Minister of Dominica (1919–2005)
  39. Corazon Aquino – President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992
  40. Dilma Rousseff – President of Brazil from 2011 to 2016
  41. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo – President of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010
  42. Portia Simpson-Miller – Former Prime Minister of Jamaica
  43. Wangari Maathai – Kenyan environmental and political activist (1940–2011)
  44. Khaleda Zia – Bangladeshi prime minister from 1991 to 1996 and 2001 to 2006
  45. Margrethe II of Denmark – Queen of Denmark since 1972
  46. Victoria, Princess Royal – German Empress and Queen of Prussia in 1888
  47. Ahilyabai Holkar – Ruler of Indore from 1767 to 1795
  48. Juana Inés de la Cruz – Mexican writer, philosopher, composer and poet (1648–1695)
  49. Isabel Allende – Chilean novelist and writer (born 1942)
  50. Rigoberta Menchú – K'iche' Guatemalan human rights activist (born 1959)
  51. Michelle Bachelet – President of Chile from 2006 to 2010 and 2014 to 2018
  52. Vigdís Finnbogadóttir – 4th President of Iceland (1980–96)
  53. Khertek Anchimaa-Toka – Tuvan and Soviet politician (1912–2008)
  54. Ardi – Designation of the fossilized skeletal remains of an Ardipithecus ramidus
  55. Lucy – 3.2-million-year-old fossilized hominid
  56. Enheduanna – Sumerian high priestess of Inanna
  57. Neithhotep – Ancient Egyptian queen consort
  58. Twosret – Pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty
  59. Dido – Legendary founder and first queen of Carthage
  60. Lucretia – Late 6th century BC Roman noblewoman
  61. Anne Bonny – Irish pirate (disappeared after 1720)
  62. Soong Mei-ling – First Lady of the Republic of China (1898–2003)
  63. Artemisia I of Caria – Ancient Greek queen of the 5th century BC
  64. Anna Komnene – Byzantine historian (1083–1153)
  65. Margaret Whitlam – Australian social campaigner and athlete
  66. Joan Kirner – 42nd Premier of Victoria (1938–2015)
  67. Fanny Blankers-Koen – Dutch athlete, winner of four gold medals at the 1948 London Olympics
  68. Sorghaghtani Beki – Leading stateswoman in the Mongol Empire
  69. Töregene Khatun – Regent and khatun of the Mongol Empire
  70. Irene of Athens – Byzantine empress regnant from 797 to 802

Current nominations[edit]

Group goals[edit]

For 2024, Women in Green has four goals: (1) to submit 75 GA nominations about women/women's works of any kind, (2) to complete 60 GA nomination reviews of articles about women/women's works, (3) to submit 5 Featured Article and/or Featured List nominations about women or women's works, and (4) to provide feedback on 15 Peer Review or Featured Article Candidates about women/women's works. All project participants are encouraged to add their nominated or reviewed articles to the 2024 Goal Tracking list.

Past goals[edit]

2023: Women in Green members submitted 22 GA nominations on the theme of women in peacekeeping/diplomacy and 70 "wildcard" GA nominations about women and women's works, achieving a final total of 92 nominations (79 passed, 2 failed, and 11 still awaiting review). Members also reviewed a total of 91 GAN articles (88 passed, 3 failed as not yet meeting criteria) and submitted 6 FA nominations (all passed). This year, we introduced a new goal around contributing reviews to Peer Review articles and Featured Article Candidates, and successfully reached our objective of reviewing 15 of these articles. See 2023 Goals page.

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[edit]

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

Good article nominees

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Featured article reviews


Recent successes[edit]

The following have recently been promoted to GA:

Book requests[edit]

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[edit]

WikiProject Women[edit]


WikiProject Women's History[edit]

Current Featured Content[edit]

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