Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/10

Hi

I have just added my name to this worthy meetup (not that others aren't). i will be creating some notable children's books over the next couple of weeks, but in the interim i like to add appropriate projects to articles and assess them. please note i am quite conservative in my assessments and welcome them being upgraded by other editors. thanks Coolabahapple (talk) 03:17, 18 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

April 2016

WikiProject Women Writers
There is a draft proposal here
possible dates
possible sponsor
Redlink lists:

Comments

I was just looking for the right place to suggest a Women in Journalism meetup when I saw your comment. It seems very timely for 2016, in part because of the stepped-up threats to journalists worldwide in recent years. Also, in my general researches, I find myself regularly coming across women who worked at some level of journalism (broadly construed) who aren't represented here, so it struck me as a potentially rich field. It occurs to me also that 'writers' is such a gigantic category that breaking it down into even just a couple of subfields could allow for more focused editathons.Alafarge (talk) 18:47, 19 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Books by women

There are a number of books by women that should probably have their own page, and one way to get those would be to focus a meetup specifically on writing up such pages. Books like: early travel memoirs and pioneer memoirs; or missing books by notable women like Germaine Greer, Elena Ferrante, Octavia Butler, etc., etc. I imagine one could start a list by scraping in redlinked books from various Wikipedia categories & then crowd-sourcing it further.Alafarge (talk) 19:10, 19 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Perfect timing @Alafarge and LovelyLillith:, as Rosiestep and I were discussing writers for April. SusunW (talk) 20:42, 19 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Rosiestep and Megalibrarygirl: Boldly setting up writers for April since several have suggested it. Do we need Journalists or books on a separate list? SusunW (talk) 18:01, 20 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@SusunW, Megalibrarygirl, Alafarge, and LovelyLillith: I didn't get a ping about this post so sorry for my delay in responding (argh!). I think writers can be broadly construed, can include journalists, and can include written works by women. --Rosiestep (talk) 01:06, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Rosiestep:, there are a ton of writers to work on. Children's and YA writers are also poorly represented on wiki. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 02:45, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Alafarge:, I'll start a books list. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 02:56, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I made a list and I started separating it not by nationality, but by type. So I've started with Children's books. We could expand with genres as well. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 03:11, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent! I'll join in on adding to it.Alafarge (talk) 16:27, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Megalibrarygirl: Thank you for starting the book redlist; very needed. --Rosiestep (talk) 16:53, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

NYC events

We can try to do an event at New York Public Library for this. And also, several people in the WP:NYCEDU group have been specializing in developing novel articles in a classroom context, particularly for Octavia Butler.--Pharos (talk) 18:49, 22 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]