Wikipedia:WikiProject Women writers

WikiProject Women writers
	Mary Wollstonecraft
Shortcut	WP:WPWW
Categories	WikiProject Women writers articles, Women writers
Portals	Biography; Literature
Wikimedia Commons	Female writers
Parent; project(s)	Biography, Literature
Project banner template	{{WPWW}}
Helps organise child projects?	No
Has goals?	Yes
Assessment	Wikipedia:WikiProject Women writers/Assessment

This is a WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians. New participants are welcome; please feel free to participate!

Shortcut

WP:WPWW

Short URL: https://w.wiki/Ptc

Welcome to...
WikiProject Women Writers was established 30 August 2014. It is a WikiProject dedicated to ensuring quality and coverage of articles about women writers and their works. There are more than 65,443 articles within the scope of this WikiProject. You are warmly welcome to increase the quantity and improve the quality of these articles. Many are still missing so let's keep working.

As of 10 June 2023, there are 61,592 articles and 275 lists within the scope of WikiProject Women writers, of which 140 are featured and 619 are good articles. These articles have the {{WikiProject Women writers}} template on their talk page.

Milestones[edit]

2 September 2014, first post by WP 1.0 bot: 45 articles within the scope of WikiProject Women writers, of which 1 is featured. Note, WP 1.0 bot doesn't provide daily updates but the closest-available annual updates are provided here.
31 Aug 2015: 22,958 articles, of which 78 are featured.
30 Aug 2016: 25,769 articles, of which 79 are featured.
30 Aug 2017: 27,586 articles, of which 88 are featured.
30 Aug 2018: 30,584 articles, of which 94 are featured.
30 Aug 2019: 34,606 articles, of which 99 are featured.
31 Aug 2020: 52,467 articles, of which 118 are featured.
30 Aug 2021: 58,385 articles, of which 136 are featured.
30 Aug 2022: 61,914 articles, of which 136 are featured articles/lists.

Scope[edit]

women writers
works by women writers
awards honoring women writers
women writers' organizations

Members[edit]

Please join us and become a member of our WikiProject.

Most active pages within the project[edit]

Guidelines[edit]

The Manual of Style for biographies
Biographies of living persons
Writing about women
Notability:
- Notability (academics)
- Notability (people)#Creative professionals — includes writers & academics
- Notability (books)

Organization[edit]

project parentage
related projects and task forces
related portals
categories

Awards[edit]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Women writers/Awards

Get involved[edit]

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Tag the talk pages of relevant articles with the {{WikiProject Women writers}} banner so they can be automatically added to Category:WikiProject Women writers articles. See the Assessment page for further information.
Improve categorization of articles (see the category tree).
Create or translate a woman writer's biography; a redlinks list is maintained at Missing Articles List.
Expand or improve women writer biographies.
Cite edits with reliable sources. Content that isn't cited can be removed!
Remove templates from article pages after you successfully complete the task or fix the problem.
Requested tasks: Sometimes a larger cleanup activity needs a little more help than one editor can do. If you have a project that would be best completed with community help, add it here (please add tasks as bulleted (*) tasks so that they can be easily tracked below). This lists should not be for listing individual pages to work on: this is part of the reason for the article assessment system described elsewhere on this page. Rather, try to propose more systematic projects.
Find inspiration in example articles: The articles in the Featured article and Good article categories can provide examples of good layout and content coverage.

If you need help[edit]

... editing, stop by the Teahouse and ask a question!
... finding resources to start from, check out the following bibliographies:
- List of biographical dictionaries of women writers in English
- The list of resources on the "Women's writing" page

Templates[edit]

Biography of living person
Infobox for writers
Invitation to WikiProject Women writers
Library resources box
Mary Wollstonecraft Award
Project banner for talk pages
Userbox for project participants
Stub

Articles overview[edit]

Women writers articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	11	18	47	41			117
FL		1	11	11			23
A			4	1			5
GA	8	28	131	452			619
B	56	161	606	1,636			2,459
C	35	336	4,212	12,386	1	1	16,971
Start	3	129	5,577	19,868	4	1	25,582
Stub		33	3,314	12,434	24	1	15,806
List	4	8	145	117			274
Category					2,462		2,462
Disambig					5		5
File				1	92		93
Portal		1		2			3
Project			1		20		21
Template				4	378		382
NA				18	448		466
Other					128		128
Assessed	117	715	14,048	46,971	3,562	3	65,416
Unassessed						4	4
Total	117	715	14,048	46,971	3,562	7	65,420
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 299,276			Ω = 4.86

Assessing importance[edit]

When assessing the importance of articles within WikiProject Women writers, its important to follow the following guidelines:

**Article importance grading scheme**
Label	Criteria	Examples
Top	Individuals, works and concepts that are "core" topics for the study and communication of women writers and/or women's literature.	Virginia Woolf Maya Angelou Pride and Prejudice Women's writing (literary category)
High	Subject is very notable or significant within the study of women writers, women's literature or the public's perception of women writers.	J.K. Rowling Ursula K. Le Guin British women's literature of World War I Leslie Marmon Silko
Mid	Subject is notable or significant within a specific scholarly community of interest or community of writing practices, or has broader cultural significance as a woman writer or women's literature, but may not necessarily have significant long lasting impact or impact outside the subset of interested peoples.	The Devil Wears Prada (novel) Amanda Filipacchi Rebecca (novel)
Low	Subject is not very significant within the general study of women writers or literature, nor very important for specific communities or bodies of scholarship, but meets the basic requirements for notability. This category might include topics of particular notability to other projects, but not to the topic of Women writers and women's literature.

Recognized content[edit]

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged (e.g. {{WikiProject Women writers}}) or categorized correctly. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

Featured articles[edit]

Former featured articles[edit]

Featured lists[edit]

Good articles[edit]

Former good articles[edit]

Featured pictures[edit]

Alice Roosevelt by Frances Benjamin Johnston
Amalia de Llano y Dotres, condesa de Vilches (Federico de Madrazo)
Ana Santos Aramburo en la sede de Recoletos de la Biblioteca Nacional de España (crop 2)
Avril de Sainte-Croix - Restored, cropped
Bernhardt Hamlet2
Bertha Lutz 1925
Carl Van Vechten - Shirley Graham Du Bois
Colette and Maurice Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges, 1st scene
Colette and Maurice Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges, 2nd scene
Ethel Smyth
Flora MacDonald Denison - Records of the National Woman's Party
Florence Earle Coates Platinum Print 3 - Restoration
Frances Benjamin Johnston, Self-Portrait (as "New Woman"), 1896
George Charles Beresford - Virginia Woolf in 1902 - Restoration
George Sand by Nadar, 1864
Gilbert Studios photograph of Harriet Jacobs
Helen Keller circa 1920 - restored
Ida M. Tarbell crop
Jane Addams - Bain News Service
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres - Comtesse d'Haussonville - Google Art Project
Laura Dekker (cropped)
Liliuokalani, c. 1891
Louisa May Alcott, c. 1870 - Warren's Portraits, Boston
Marie Stopes in her laboratory, 1904 - Restoration
Mary Pickford cph.3c17995u
NPG 2010 112 Lucia Chamberlain by Zaida Ben-Yusuf
Portrait of Pearl Bailey as Butterfly in St. Louis Woman
RJ Palacio at BookCon (16102)
Ray Strachey restored
Rosalind Goodrich Bates (1931)
Ruth Muskrat
Sally Ride (1984)
Sarah Bernhardt, par Nadar, 1864, sepia
Self-portrait in a Straw Hat by Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun
Sándor Vay - Restoration
Séverine, debout, un poing sur la hanche - Nadar
Victoria Claflin Woodhull by Mathew Brady - Oval Portrait
Voltairine de Cleyre (Age 35)