Wikipedia:WikiProject Literature

[[File:Antique-books-woodward.jpg|thumb|250px|"Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me

From mine own library with volumes that

I prize above my dukedom." – Prospero to Miranda in The Tempest, Act 1 Scene 2, by William Shakespeare ]]

Welcome to the Literature Wikiproject main page. This project is devoted to increasing the quality of articles dealing with general literature subjects, literary criticism, and literary terms or genres which encompass several different types of writing. Anyone is invited to join in the effort by adding their name to the members list. A list of current jobs needing to be done can be found in the to do section. We call special attention to our current effort to gather new members and determine project scope and status.

For information on assessments of articles within the scope of the project, please go to /Assessment. For deletion discussions related to literature, see: Deletion sorting/Literature. For the project's most popular pages, see: /Popular pages.

Improve the bird's eye view
Wikipedia's coverage of the entire subject is intended to be summarized in the Outline of literature. It in turn is part of Wikipedia's outline system which is one of Wikipedia's main contents systems. Please look it over and fill-in missing topics. If Wikipedia has an article or article section about those topics, please add links to them.

Scope and Related WikiProjects
WikiProject Literature was assembled to organize and promote quality coverage of literary concepts and other general pages on literature on Wikipedia.
 * Articles concerning people, such as authors, can be directed to WikiProject Biography.
 * Articles concerning books and book publishers can be directed to WikiProject Books.
 * Articles concerning fiction can be directed to WikiProject Novels, WikiProject Children's literature and WikiProject Fictional characters.
 * Articles on poems can be directed to WikiProject Poetry.
 * Articles on films can be directed to WikiProject Films.
 * Articles on theatre and drama can be directed to WikiProject Theatre.
 * Articles on comics can be directed to WikiProject Comics.
 * Articles on magazines and journals can be directed to WikiProject Magazines and WikiProject Academic Journals.

Members

 * If this project interests you, you are encouraged to Join by adding yourself to the membership list.


 * If you are a member, you are welcome to post this userbox on your user page:

Assessment
The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Literature articles. The article ratings are used within the project to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in a set of categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.

Collaboration
The project's Collaboration department seeks to identify particular articles that would benefit from a significant collaborative effort. A single article is selected as the focus, and the project attempts to improve it, potentially to featured article standards. The current collaboration article is Literature.

Any Literature article is eligible, and everyone is invited to nominate articles.

Task forces
Task forces are informal groups of editors gathered for collaborative work on a particular topic within the field of Literature (as defined in the "scope" above); all project members are encouraged to participate in any task forces that interest them.

Awards
Writing good literature articles can be hard work! Why not reward someone you've seen do some good work in the area; decorate their userpage with one of these: