Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's History/Taskforces/World War I
Scope of this taskforce
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
[edit]We should look into collaborating with related wikiprojects/taskforces on this subject.
General starting points
[edit]Work to be done
[edit]Overview articles by country
[edit]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 IWomen 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
[edit]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 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:
- Pacifist and anti-conscription orgs:
- Labor Women's Anti-Conscription Fellowship (Australia)
Biographies
[edit]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
- Category:British women in World War I
- Category:American women in World War I
- Category:Canadian women in World War I
- Category:French women in World War I
- 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
[edit]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)
General resources
[edit]Online sources
[edit]The following sources are sufficiently reliable to use as references, and may be of use:
Books etc
[edit]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.