Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's History/Taskforces/World War I

Scope of this taskforce
This taskforce, part of WikiProject Women's History, aims to improve the availability and quality of articles on Wikipedia about women involved in World War I, and the effects of World War I on women. The following are explicitly included as within scope:


 * women in active military service
 * women in nursing, communications, munitions production, and other non-military work
 * women's voluntary work on the home front (eg. fundraising, victory gardens)
 * women's political activity related to the war (including pacifism)

Women of all nations are explicitly included in this taskforce's scope.

Overall goals/tasks to be done

 * Assess the quality of existing articles about women in WW1, as part of WikiProject Women's History
 * Improve the quality of articles about women during WW1
 * Ensure that women's history is included in general articles about WW1, where appropriate
 * Create new articles about notable women in WW1, if they do not already exist

Collaboration with other WikiProjects
We should look into collaborating with related wikiprojects/taskforces on this subject.


 * WikiProject Military history/Operation Great War Centennial
 * WikiProject Nursing

General starting points

 * Category:Women in war
 * Women's roles in the World Wars
 * Women in the First World War

Overview articles by country
Goals:


 * For countries which have articles already existing about "Country during World War I", add a section on the subject of women's involvement (if it does not already exist) or ensure that the section is of decent quality (if it does).
 * If there is sufficient information available, spin off a separate article on the subject of "Country's women during World War I" (see Australia for example). Each article should include an overview section describing women's involvement, details of women's organisations involved in the war, and information about individual notable women from that country and their service.
 * NOTE: due to potential difficulty in adding these sections to existing articles, it may be advisable to first improve articles about organisations, notable women, etc so that you have good stuff to link to.

Countries:


 * General/international: World War I / Women during World War I Women in the First World War
 * Australia: Military history of Australia during World War I / Australian women during World War I
 * New Zealand: Military history of New Zealand in World War I
 * UK: History of the United Kingdom during World War I
 * Canada: Military history of Canada during World War I
 * US: United States home front during World War I, Effect of World War I on Children in the United States
 * France
 * Germany
 * Russia

See Category:World War I by country for starting points.

Organizations
Goal:


 * For each existing article, bring its quality up to at least "start" level (i.e. not a stub)
 * For organisations which do not yet have articles, create one (non-stub)
 * If organisation is an offshoot of a non-women's one, ensure that the article for the non-women's one contains links to the women's one (eg. RAF links to WRAF).

List of organizations:


 * Nursing corps
 * Women's Emergency Corps (British?)
 * Flying Ambulance Corps (British?)
 * Voluntary Aid Detachment
 * Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps
 * United States Navy Nurse Corps
 * First Aid Nursing Yeomanry
 * Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps
 * Canadian Army Nursing Service
 * Women's Royal Air Force (British)
 * Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
 * Women's Royal Air Force
 * Women's Battalion
 * Frauenhilfsaktion Wien
 * Associazione Madri e Vedove dei Caduti in Guerra
 * Land armies:
 * Women's Land Army
 * Australian Women's Land Army
 * Woman's Land Army of America
 * Pacifist and anti-conscription orgs:
 * Labor Women's Anti-Conscription Fellowship (Australia)

Biographies
Goals:


 * Create categories for women by country, add women's articles to them (parent categories should include Category:Women in World War I and a country-specific WW1 category if it exists)
 * Bring article level for each woman up to at least "start" (not a stub).
 * create articles for notable women who don't yet have them.
 * ensure that women in military orgs have the "military person" infobox

Existing categories by country


 * Category:Australian women of World War I
 * Deborah Hackett
 * Alice Ross-King
 * Category:British women in World War I
 * Winifred Lamb
 * Toupie Lowther
 * Sarah Macnaughtan
 * Category:American women in World War I
 * Addie Waites Hunton
 * Mary Abby van Kleeck
 * Amabel Scharff Roberts
 * Category:Canadian women in World War I
 * Category:French women in World War I
 * Cécile Brunschvicg
 * Category:Swedish women in World War I
 * Category:German women in World War I
 * Category:New Zealand women in World War I
 * Category:Russian women of World War I
 * Category:Austrian women in World War I
 * Category:Czech women in World War I

Miscellaneous
Goals: undetermined.


 * Victory garden
 * Canary girl
 * Hello Girls
 * White feather
 * Pacifism
 * Hospital ship
 * War memorials commemorating women's service
 * ensure various medals/awards received by women during WW1 are listed
 * Yeoman (F)

Online sources
The following sources are sufficiently reliable to use as references, and may be of use:


 * Australian Dictionary of Biography Online

Books etc
Add bibliographic references here, if you think they'll be useful to others.

Belzer, Allison Scardino. Women and the Great War: Femininity under Fire in Italy. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.