Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Women's History


 * The following discussion is an archived proposal of the WikiProject below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or the WikiProject Council).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The resulting WikiProject was created at WikiProject Women's History

Description
History about individual women and relevant events/groups/issues. Currently, many entries about individual women on Wikipedia are relatively less complete than entries about men. This is a coverage gap and also a contributing factor in women's relative lack of participation as editors. Creating this project will make it easier to document the gaps in coverage (existing entries and entries that should be created) and to fill them.

In addition, the academic discipline of women's history has focused increasingly on documenting the lives of women across a range of national, ethnic, class, and cultural groups, and a devoted WikiProject is likely to spawn several task forces (e.g. African-American women's history, South Asian women's history, US women's history, etc). Furthermore, Wikipedia is increasingly how students find out about any kind of history, and a devoted WikiProject will ensure that there's an organized effort to keep women in the picture.

Major articles to be included are listed at the project's main page. Topics include biographical, topical, and event-oriented entries on women from around the world. There are at least 100 so far, and the number is growing.

The only other relevant projects I've been able to find are WikiProject Feminism and WikiProject LGBT studies, neither of which are quite right.

---Shane Landrum (cliotropic) 01:07, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Support
Please specify whether or not you would join the project.

Note: we've been asked whether it's required to disclose your full name here. It's not! All we need is your Wikipedia username.


 * 1) ---Shane Landrum (cliotropic) 01:07, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
 * 2) --- "Ericka Kimball (talk) 14:34, 5 February 2011 (UTC)"
 * 3) --- Heather Munro Prescott (User:Hmprescott)
 * 4) --- Great idea. I'm unsure of participating but I try to write on relevant topics now. Creating an organization with a focus often helps solve an institutional imbalance. Nick Levinson (talk) 19:40, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
 * 5) --- Seems like a good idea, I'll mull it over re: joining. Siawase (talk) 13:48, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
 * 6) --- RaGena DeAragon (User:dearagon) I've been contributing articles on twelfth-century women to Wikipedia for several years; I'm interested.
 * 7) --- Kirrily Robert (User:Skud)
 * 8) --- Richard Jensen (User:rjensen) I'm especially interested in women in US history since 1860
 * 9) --- Monroem (User:Monroem) I'm an academic, a woman, and a Wikipedia editor, and I think this is a great idea. There is not enough about women, women's history or women's organizations on this site.
 * 10) --- Thomas Jepsen(User:Tjepsen) I would be glad to contribute in the area of women in technology & engineering, especially telecommunications.
 * 11) --- (User:Cyril montmorency) It sounds like an excellent project, am definitely interested.
 * 12) --- I'd try to contribute - sounds like a great project. Dsp13 (talk) 22:13, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
 * 13) --- PKM (talk) Count me in.
 * 14) ---Already there.Penny Richards (talk) 06:18, 10 February 2011 (UTC)Penny Richards
 * 15) ---Tona Hangen Count me in, I'm happy to have had some tiny part in this project's creation, looking forward to seeing how it develops. (User:Jeans775) 12:14, 10 February 2011
 * 16) --Definitely Will attract women and prod some of us to work on these types of articles. CarolMooreDC (talk) 01:55, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
 * 17) --Glad to see this taking institutional form! Natalieben (talk) 14:19, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
 * 18) -- Iridia (talk) Interested in Australasian individuals and women in science & tech (particularly astronomers).

Discussion
There's also WP:WikiProject Gender Studies. WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:23, 8 February 2011 (UTC)


 * This may be at the proposal stage but the project is already functioning, putting banners on article pages. -- Klein zach  05:30, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I think there were some crossed wires wrt process, but since we've got enough interest now, I'm going to strike this project off the list of proposals and we can consider it active. Wrt WP:WikiProject Gender Studies there is some crossover but mostly in the modern era -- that project doesn't cover eg. Empresses of Byzantium, but does cover issues related to masculinity and current (i.e. non-historical) issues, so I think there's room for both. --Skud (talk) 08:53, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

OK, looks like there's enough support. Project's been struck from the proposed list. --Skud (talk) 08:55, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Here it is for those who drop by later: WikiProject Women's History  CarolMooreDC (talk) 22:31, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Do we need to recategorize this page? I know how to recategorize but I don't know what procedure applies to these pages, like when to do it. Nick Levinson (talk) 04:35, 21 February 2011 (UTC)


 * ''The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or at the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.