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DYK collaboration

• Núria Albó
  • Started: 11/22/14
  • Nomination: Template:Did you know nominations/Núria Albó

• Anna Mackenzie
  • Started: 11/29/14
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New categories within the scope of this WikiProject (#3)

Just created Category:Basque women writers and Category:Communist women writers; also Category:Women lexicographers which could use AWB instead of going through all the nationalities by hand. --Rosiestep (talk) 03:18, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

OK - I won't have a chance until later today at the earliest, but I'll look at it with AWB and see what I can do. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 17:51, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

All three have been filled out with AWB. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 07:02, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

Just recreated Category:British women screenwriters which had been previously deleted. I added some bios to it but if you can flesh out the rest of them from Category:Women screenwriters, that would be great. I wanted to recreate Category:French women screenwriters as many of the bios in Category:Women screenwriters are French... maybe later this week, and maybe Category:Australian women screenwriters and Category:Canadian women screenwriters later this week also. --Rosiestep (talk) 04:17, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

Sure. I'll give 'em a look when I can. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 05:57, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

British and French are done. I'll look at the other two when I have a future moment. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 07:05, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

Canadian and Australian are done also. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 01:12, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

Good job. We could also use Category:German women screenwriters. --Rosiestep (talk) 03:10, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

Done and done. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 07:06, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

I created Category:Norwegian women novelists; can you AWB it? --Rosiestep (talk) 05:11, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

Done. Also created and done: Category:Norwegian women poets. They need some cleaning up yet, but I'll get to that later. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 18:01, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

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Sure. I'll get to it in the next day or so sometime. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 04:03, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

Done. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 09:08, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

I've created Category:Namibian women writers. Category:Central African Republic writers is ripe for expansion. At the moment I can find no women writers from the country to write about...that would be an interesting choice to follow up on. Especially as fodder for a DYK entry, perhaps? --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 10:15, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

I'll do some research and see if we can rectify that. --Rosiestep (talk) 15:05, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Another: Category:Swazi women writers. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 06:52, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

And a Christmas present: Category:Gabonese women writers. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 22:56, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

Category:Equatoguinean women writers is now up and running as well. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 06:28, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

Over the weekend, I'll start on Category:Australian women short story writers, Category:Canadian women short story writers, Category:French women short story writers, and Category:German women short story writers in the next few days; if it makes sense to create additional ones, I'll do that, too, and add here. --Rosiestep (talk) 01:59, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

I'll run behind you with AWB, then. :-) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 06:40, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

First run of AWB done. I'll run through and try to pick some other stuff up later. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 00:15, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

I've created Category:Nigerien women writers. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 06:09, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

I created Category:Spanish women short story writers and I filled it with a few but AWB might find others. --Rosiestep (talk) 15:54, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

Didn't find many. Added a few. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 09:01, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

A new creation: Category:Ethiopian women writers. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 09:32, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Four more: Category:Vanuatuan women writers (a bit surprising), Category:Fijian women writers, Category:Nauruan women writers (also a bit surprising), and Category:Papua New Guinean women writers. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 20:43, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

And Category:Cape Verdean women writers. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 03:16, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

It's been a little while - but I created Category:Jordanian women writers and Category:Kuwaiti women writers today. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 21:58, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for that, Ser. I created Category:Galician women writers. This weekend, I'll pull together all the new cats for another bot run. --Rosiestep (talk) 03:06, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Bot run #3 hasn't been requested yet, so this conversation should be moved up into New categories within the scope of this WikiProject (#3). --Rosiestep (talk) 03:09, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

Created Category:Kuwaiti women novelists. --Rosiestep (talk) 03:32, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

I've updated the list within this section to include all (I hope) of the newly-created cats. Please review and if the list looks ok, I'll make a request for Bot Run #3. Does anything need to be added or removed? Thanks. --Rosiestep (talk) 03:24, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

Category:Singaporean women writers created. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 21:11, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Created Category:Flemish women writers. --Rosiestep (talk) 21:02, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

Created Category:Montenegrin women writers. --Rosiestep (talk) 03:53, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

I've put in a request at User talk:AnomieBOT#WikiProjectTagger run #3 for women writers to add these talkpage banners to the articles within these new cats. --Rosiestep (talk) 16:43, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

Authority control

Most of the articles within the project's scope -- biographies and book titles (but not organizations/awards) -- should include Misplaced Pages:Authority control at the bottom of the article. With >21,000 articles in our scope, I'm wondering what's the expeditious way to add {{Authority control}} to all the articles which don't have it but should? Have other projects, i.e. WP: WikiProject Women scientists (pinging Keilana) or WP: WikiProject Women's History (pinging Missvain), tackled this? Should this be a bot request? or AWB? I started working on this today, going through List of Albanian women writers and adding {{Authority control}} if it was missing. (P.S. I also added the VIAF # to the Wikidata item if it existed but was missing; I didn't deal with GND, LCCN, ORCID, etc. Very time consuming.) --Rosiestep (talk) 17:23, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

I have no clue what the process is. I would ask User:Maximilianklein, he created the original VIAF/Authority Control bot and can probably lend some insight about getting the AC template on articles. Missvain (talk) 17:24, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

@Missvain: Cool! I will. Thanks! --Rosiestep (talk) 17:28, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

Eep, yeah, I have no idea how that works. Metadata is not my forte at all! Keilana| 17:35, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, Emily. I hope in the "future", the AC template (or its next iteration) would be "automatically" added to the pages which have a foo category. But till then, I'm thinking a bot request rather than AWB. Let's see what Max says. --Rosiestep (talk) 17:53, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

@Rosiestep:, it's not too difficult if you want to add just the text {{Authority control}}, to all the pages in a category. The AC template does not show any text if there are no parameters and no information in Wikidata. I'd be happy to just add the text. However it's also important to know which ones don't have any AC in wikidata of any kind. I might also be able to create a report on this if you were interested. Let me know. Maximilianklein (talk) 18:44, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

Hey Maximilianklein, sounds like this might actually be doable; thank you. We'd want to include most of the subcats within Category:Women writers, but not all of them, i.e. not Category:Organizations for women writers and Category:Lists of women writers, etc. So task #1, I'll work on sorting out cats. If you were to generate a report on which articles don't have any AC in Wikidata, where would it be housed, i.e. a WPWW subpage(s) or on Wikidata? --Rosiestep (talk) 02:08, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

@Maximilianklein: How is it best to add the authority control stuff these days? As an empty authority control template on the wikipage, and then the parameters in wikidata? If so then it sounds like a very good idea to add the template to the right pages. As far as adding the parameters goes, is there any tooling to help do this automatically? (The most useful parameter btw is the library of congress one, since this allows a worldcat identities link to show up, which gives a list of works for readers of the page.) Dsp13 (talk) 09:17, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

@Dsp13:, the best way to add AC these days is an AC-template with no parameters, and then adding the statements to Wikidata. As for tools. I guess AWB isn't a bad idea for doing this. There could be a Bot that constantly monitors a category and adds the AC template when a new page is created, but as per Rosiestep and @Missvain:, I think since there are exceptions to the whether every page in the category Women Writers is in fact a Woman Writer, then its best to keep this "semi-automatic" for now, using a user-driven tool. Maximilianklein (talk) 17:46, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

@Rosiestep:, Ok, I'll generate a report about the pages and subcats that have AC and not, and post it here. It's on my todo-list. Maximilianklein (talk) 17:46, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

@Rosiestep and Missvain:, I know this is not a very dynamicly updating list, but I believe this is the report you wanted. We can chat more about how to generate it more automatically. Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Women_writers/AC_Status_201504 1189 AC-having pages of 1878 total, as of today. Maximilianklein (talk) 01:18, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

@Maximilianklein: cool and thank you! But 1,878 is a very small number -- not at all what I was expecting -- as WikiProject Women writers contains >21,000 articles within its scope, albeit some are about books, awards, etc. Can it be that there are so few women writer biographies accounted for in Wikidata? --Rosiestep (talk) 03:26, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

@Rosiestep:, hmmm 21,000, I must have made a mistake somewhere in the scope. I'll reinvestigate where this discrepancy comes from. I thought there were this many in the all the subcategories of Women Writers. Back to the drawing board. Maximilianklein (talk) 20:47, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

@Maximilianklein: Yes, yes... in all the subcats. I think I'm misunderstanding the 1878 number; help? --Rosiestep (talk) 00:54, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

@Rosiestep and Maximilianklein: Here are some longer lists (each takes a minute or so to generate by hitting ‘Do it!’, and the server is not always robust in my experience): 2201 dead women writers lacking authority control + 181 more using a shorter template, 5071 living women writers lacking authority control + 220 more using a shorter template. Dsp13 (talk) 05:46, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Ohhhh, ok, got it! Thank you, Dsp13. With CatScan, I can visualize what Max was talking about. Now comes the hard part... actually adding it to thousands of pages. --Rosiestep (talk) 14:23, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

I can run AWB over it if need be, long as I have a simple template and a list of articles that require it. Personally, I think a bot would be a better way to go, but I can do it if you think it would be better. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:43, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

List of women in Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature

I've proposed on the talk page of this article that it be moved out of article space and made into a subpage of this project. While the women included in the list are, beyond a doubt, notable, it's not clear that the list itself is notable. Additionally, the list only made it to 'A', so it's quite incomplete. I'd appreciate feedback on this proposal. Pburka (talk) 01:19, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

I agree with you Pburka. Let's see if there are any comments on the article talkpage within, say, 30 days. --Rosiestep (talk) 02:19, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Sounds sensible - it's what happened with the similar Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing which was more complete (though I think also missing some letters of the alphabet). I put both pages up back in the day, before the existence of this wonderful wikiproject :) Dsp13 (talk) 09:08, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

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Writing about women

Hi Rosie, I was wondering whether this new essay, Misplaced Pages:Writing about women (WP:WAW) would be at all helpful to the project, perhaps to link somewhere. It describes some of the ways in which we can be inadvertently sexist when writing about women. Sarah (SV) 03:50, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Hi Sarah, and yes, I this this new essay is very good and it would be helpful when writing about woman. I'll add it to the project mainpage, but if the members think another spot would be better, be bold and move it. --Rosiestep (talk) 04:09, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, Rosie. Also, if people have ideas for things to add or change, any feedback would be most welcome. Sarah (SV) 04:14, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

I found this article a very good summary of the style issues that emerge when writing a page about a woman and I will try to follow its proposals. Best wishes, Brian Bmcln1 (talk) 14:23, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

New categories within the scope of this WikiProject (#4)

Just created Category:Cypriot women writers. --Rosiestep (talk) 01:28, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

Talk:Hillary Rodham Clinton/April 2015 move request

Greetings! A proposal has been made at Talk:Hillary Rodham Clinton/April 2015 move request‎ to change the title of the article, Hillary Rodham Clinton to Hillary Clinton. This notification is provided because this article is listed as being of interest to this project. Cheers! bd2412 T 17:25, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

A pair of deletion discussions that might be of interest

Category:Women historians is up for a deletion discussion; also up for discussion is Category:Male historians. The latter was the springboard for the former, which is why I mention it here. (In the interest of full disclosure, I am the creator of Category:Male historians). --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 13:24, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Classical women writers task force

Interested members are invited to join the Classical Women Writers Task Force. --Jpbrenna (talk) 05:42, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

@Jpbrenna:, thanks for the heads up. The task force is clearly within the scope of WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome and WikiProject Women writers. Is there a way to anchor it to both? --Rosiestep (talk) 17:06, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

@Jpbrenna and Rosiestep: Edits like this and this would be required. Those may need adjustment, particularly since no categorisation is performed. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:08, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

@Redrose64 and Jpbrenna: Sounds good. Do we want to do this? --Rosiestep (talk) 17:09, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

I do. Is it necessary to have a vote vote at the Classical Greece and Rome Project page before adding this code? I have never done that before on Misplaced Pages. I am assuming that its effect will be non-disruptive to the project, but it might a matter of good policy or etiquette to let them know beforehand. --Jpbrenna (talk) 21:06, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

• @Jpbrenna: Yes, please address this with the Classical wikiproject. Then maybe circle back in a month or so?
  
• Members of WPWW, what's your opinion? --Rosiestep (talk) 22:27, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Discussion notice

There is a discussion at meta, Grants:IdeaLab/Community discussion on harassment reporting, that may be of interest to members of the project. Lightbreather (talk) 14:18, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

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Announcing WP:ROMANCE

Just wanted to let you know that a new WikiProject has been started for romance, which includes author articles, so I thought I'd post a notice here in case anyone's interested in joining. Cheers! plange (talk) 03:13, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

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