Wikipedia:WikiProject Electronic literature

Electronic literature (elit) is literature that uses digital elements, such as games, hypertext linking, sounds, images, and videos. Both electronic literature works and writers are underrepresented in Wikipedia, and this project will help create articles that will explain elit's impact over the last few decades, as elit has influenced video and alternative reality games, hypertext language and programming, and more.

Edit-a-thon!
The Women's Electronic Literature Writers Project will host an in-person and online edit-a-thon with Washington State University at Vancouver, University of Colorado, and University of California at San Diego. All are invited, with no specialized knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia editing experience required. We will present an overview of the Electronic Literature writers page, explain the status and information. A brief overview of the basics of Wikipedia editing will be given at the start of the edit-a-thon. Here is our list of suggested edits.

About Electronic Literature Project
Electronic Literature enthusiasts are working together to create and improve Wikipedia articles for digital media writing. Wikipedia articles inform AI, which informs the world. So we need to get the word out about our wonderful field of literature that uses games, images, sound, navigation, virtual reality and more. Our work is in danger of being overlooked as it may not be published or reviewed in venues traditionally considered notable sources. Moreover, this is a volunteer effort, and we need YOU to volunteer and edit!

Event Details and Agenda
Date: Thursday August 15 Time: 3 PM UTC Location:online and at the University of California, San Diego, and the University of Colorado, Washington State University at Vancouver Event Agenda:
 * Presentation, follow along or review,
 * Present our project (WP:ELIT)
 * Goals:
 * -Create a user account (if new to Wikipedia)
 * -Create user page with at least one sentence
 * -Join the Electronic Literature Project by adding to your user page
 * -Sign up on
 * -Make at least one edit to a Wikipedia page

Who should attend: Digital media folks, electronic literature lovers, historians, students, photographers, teachers, writers, journalists, curators,the curious... What to Bring: Your laptop and a friend! Hashtag: [ #Eliterature]

Suggested articles to update and edit
These articles need to fix link rot, add citations and more information. To find where citations are needed, press Control and F. To add citations: 1. In the Wiki article, click on edit. 2. Click on the big quote marks. 3. Choose Automatic, and paste the URL. 4. Publish your changes.

If there is a plain link, please fix. Follow the link and copy it if it is good. Search for a replacement if the link is not good.
 * Melinda_Rackham Add an introduction and more info
 * Sarah_Smith_%28writer%29 Needs more information and citations
 * Jo-Anne_Green Needs more information and sources
 * Sharon_Daniel Needs to fix citations
 * The_NEXT_Museum Add more content about what The NEXT has to offer
 * Net-poetry Fix link rot.
 * Nonlinear_narrative Add your favorite non-linear narrative!
 * Interactive_storytelling Rewrite and simplify

Search for good places to link the story No_World_4_Tomorrow. Then edit those articles (climate change, education, electronic literature lists, etc.

Suggested articles to write

 * Your Favorite Electronic literature work! Search to see if your work is listed and if not, start writing! See Patchwork_Girl_(hypertext) as a great example of an article on a literature work.

Recent Successes!
Electronic literature is now a Language and literature good article and is listed as high importance!! Metagaming (book), The NEXT Museum. See the New Media Prize as well!

HOW TO HELP:
Sign up for a Wikipedia account and join us in this work. See this page for information on how to create an account.

Please help with our list of things to work on!!

Tasks you can help with

 * Clean up Improve existing articles! We need to clean up all of these articles on this list of WikiProject Electronic literature articles tagged for attention an automated list of articles that need more sources or have other issues.


 * Write Write new articles! Here is a list of missing articles. Pick one and search for sources! Here is a template you can use for articles about works of electronic literature - switch to Source editing and copy and paste it into the new page you make - then fill it out.


 * Add Add to the list of missing articles! You can add topics we should have articles on, or add links to sources we could use.


 * Ask Post any questions on the Talk page for this project!


 * Add and edit infoboxes If an article does not have an info box, please add, and if it does, please edit for more information, photos if possible, etc. See Help:Infobox

Userbox template

 * You can add our userbox template to your user page, which will produce:

Cleanup list
Of the 279 articles in this project, 103 or 37% are marked for cleanup, with 180 issues in total. You can help by accessing the list

List of participants
Add your name by typing an asterisk (*) followed by four tildes  Also, please note what other languages you are connected with
 * Rswigart (talk) 00:33, 2 February 2024 (UTC}
 * LoveElectronicLiterature (talk) 00:33, 2 February 2024 (UTC}
 * Ipigott (talk) 15:49, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Lijil (talk) 16:15, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
 * asilvering (talk) 22:49, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Rosiestep (talk) 00:33, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
 * ~ L 🌸 (talk) 03:37, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
 * RayGoForth (talk) 23:13, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Lskains (talk) 15:26, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Tynkerings (talk) 19:56, 24 February 2024 (UTC)Tynkerings (Arabic)
 * jmcdaid (talk) 02:32, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
 * HanAck (talk) 09:46, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
 * ScriptyPod (talk) 20:34, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Stellawisdom (talk) 11:08, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Tommyelit (talk) 22:42, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
 * LewisMetadata (talk) 21:14, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Ez Nima (talk) 21:14, 18 April 2024 (UTC)(Urdu)
 * Forevart (talk) 21:26, 18 April 2024 (UTC) (English) (Bengali) (Hindi)
 * Smileshs (talk) 21:26, 18 April 2024 (UTC) (English) (Haryanvi) (Hindi)
 * Prakruti Bhatt (talk) 17:16, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Sarah Elsewhere (talk) 15:18, 23 May 2024 (UTC)Sarah Elsewhere
 * Jojogreat (talk) 15:23, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Colin_R_Robinson (talk) 15:23, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

Women Electronic Literature Writers Sub Project
Women electronic literature writers is a sub-project started in 2022. We meet monthly on the Third Thursday at Three pm UTC, and anyone is welcome to join in. Women writers are underrepresented on Wikipedia, so this project focuses on addressing that gap. Editors of any gender are welcome in Women Electronic Literature Writers. We have been contributing to English, Spanish, and French Wikipedias and we would love to build the capacity for writing, editing and improving articles in these and other languages. We partner with and mutually support mission-aligned projects like Women in Red (WIR) and Women Do News and we gratefully acknowledge our fellow Wikipedians who have supported our work since its beginning. We:


 * Write new Wikipedia biographies of electronic literature academics, writers, and critics.
 * Edit existing Wikipedia biographies and works to improve their quality
 * Identify notable and influential writers and works who should be on Wikipedia
 * Facilitate edit-a-thons and workshops to research women in journalism, edit their Wikipedia biographies and teach others how to become Wikipedia editors.

See the List of [|women electronic literature writers].

Quality assessment ratings of Electronic literature articles
The Wikipedia quality assessment grades are explained on the Content Assessment page.

Project banner
Please paste this code near the top of the Talk page of articles that should be part of this WikiProject. Add  if the article is about a woman or about a work by a woman. This automatically puts the articles in categories that allow us to track them.

The categories below display the articles with the banner on their talk pages.
 * Category:WikiProject Electronic literature articles
 * Category:WikiProject Electronic literature - Women electronic literature writers articles

Electronic literature editing events

 * We have held editathons at WikiConference North America 2023 in Toronto as well as various electronic literature conferences.


 * We hold an editathon every third Thursday at Three UTC on zoom. Please ask LoveElectronicLiterature to get the link.


 * We have proposed editathons in conjunction with Conferences:
 * New Media Writing Prize UnConference May 14-15, 2024
 * Electronic Literature Organization's Main Conference July 18-19, 2024

Associated organizations
People involved in these organizations also volunteer their time and expertise to help write and edit articles:
 * Electronic Literature Organization
 * The NEXT: Museum, Library, and Preservation Space at Washington State University at Vancouver, Washington
 * Electronic Literature Lab at Washington State University at Vancouver, Washington
 * Center for Digital Narrative at University of Bergen
 * Indian Electronic Literature Organization

Resources
Our Women in elit Group library is at:

We gather information as we can. See