Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's History (WP:WHIST)

Welcome to WikiProject Women's History, a collaboration area for Wikipedians interested in improving coverage of women's history. The project's primary purpose is to provide support for members and any other editors in improving Wikipedia's coverage of women from a historical perspective. New members are always welcome! Just add your name to our participants list. You might also want to join one of our task forces. The project currently has two: Women in World War I and Women in technology.  Although we recognize that the definition of women's history as an academic field of study can be flexible and even problematic, this project focuses on:  the lives, activities, achievements, and experiences of women up to the mid-20th century ongoing social and cultural movements and issues that affect women into the present but have historical precedents and origins contemporary women as agents of historic changeA major goal of WikiProject Women's History is to incorporate the perspective of women's history in overview articles of historical periods or pre-1950 events which may currently lack such coverage. A history article (such as American Old West) should be included in this project if reliable sources exist for improving the coverage of women throughout or in a section that focuses on the experiences and contributions of women. Topics of interest primarily because they reflect perceptions or views of women and their prescribed roles, as well as articles on current events without a verifiable historical dimension or on contemporary popular culture, may be more aptly covered by WikiProject Gender Studies, WikiProject Feminism, or other projects. WikiProject Women's History is not "WikiProject Women" or "WikiProject Women's Studies".   === Criteria for inclusion === Below are more detailed criteria for including various types of articles under this project's banner. When in doubt, join us for a discussion. (For more on how these criteria were drafted and consensus on them was reached, see Women's History Scope Workshop.)  New Jersey Women's History @ Rowan University April 6, 2018 Wikipedia:Edit-a-thon/Women Warriors in Times of War Edit-a-thon 2018 Tennessee State University- March 30, 2018 Wikipedia:Meetup/Women in Science Edit-a-thon 2016 - Oklahoma University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma - October 11, 2016 Indigenous Women Edit-a-thon Algoma University, Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada - June 20, 2016 Wikipedia:Edit-a-thon/Women's History Month Edit-a-thon Tennessee State University, Tennessee – March 25, 2016 Medieval Women Editathon, Swansea, Wales – January 28, 2015 2014 Bangalore Edit-a-thon on Indian women in science 2014 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women Edit-a-thon - Toronto – May 24, 2014 Women in Jewish History Editathon 2014 – New York City Wikipedia:Meetup/Ada Lovelace Edit-a-thon 2013 - Brown Wikipedia:Meetup/Ada Lovelace Edit-a-thon 2013 - Brussels Wikipedia:Meetup/Ada Lovelace Edit-a-thon - Harvard (2012)  Improve Top importance articles: Women in the Middle Ages, Women in the Victorian era Expand stubs: See this list of Women's History stubs Update: Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 Assess: The articles on this list need assessment for quality and importance using the WikiProject Women's History guidelines Create a requested article: See Requested Women's History articles for the complete list or to request a new article. Add a requested image: None Translate: Articles needing translation can be found at Requested translations, where you can also add new translation requests. Monitor: Keep an eye on our article alerts page and on recent changes to the talk pages of Women's History articles. Cleanup: The Cleanup listing for WikiProject Women's History includes both challenging and easy tasks, like adding wikilinks, de-orphaning. Repair dead links: Many dead external links can be fixed by searching the link at the Wayback Machine and replacing the dead link with an archived version. Banner: Add {{WMNHIST}} to the talk pages of new (or newly found) articles if they fall with the scope of WikiProject Women's History. This list is bot-generated periodically; recent changes may not appear.  Wikipedia:WikiProject Feminism Wikipedia:WikiProject Gender Studies Wikipedia:WikiProject History Wikipedia:WikiProject Women artists Wikipedia:WikiProject Women scientists Wikipedia:Wikiproject Women writers Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's sportWikipedia:WikiProject Football/Women's football task force Wikipedia:WikiProject National Basketball Association/WNBA task forceWikiWomen's History Month The following Categories are potentially of interest to this project, although not all of their articles may be within the project's scope.  If you are using Wikipedia as an educational assignment, and your students will be writing or editing articles related to women's history, do drop us a note at our project's talk page.  There are many resources available to support such projects including:  Wikipedia:Ambassadors Wikipedia:WikiProject Classroom coordination Wikipedia:School and university projectsUseful tools:  The Educational assignment tag can be used to mark an article as being/having been part of an assignment by placing the following at the top of the article's talk page:{{EducationalAssignment}}Be sure to click "Publish changes" afterwards. There are further options for the template such as adding the date the assignment will end or a link to your project's write-up at Wikipedia:School and university projects, if you have one. There's more information at Template:EducationalAssignment. The Article wizard helps you through the process of submitting a new article to Wikipedia. There are 6 sections to step through, then you'll be taken to the editing page. As each section is completed, the next becomes available.See also:  Dispatches: Featured content from schools and universities, The Wikipedia Signpost, May, 9. 2008 WikiProject Murder Madness and Mayhem for an excellent example of classroom/Wikipedia cooperation, aided by experienced editors, but it did not generate any articles about women or works by women, etc. WikiProject Global Economics for an example of what not to do For a complete list of Recognized content bannered by this project see WikiProject Women's History Recognized content. The page is regularly updated by a bot and includes: Featured articles Former featured articles Featured lists Former featured lists Good articles Former good articles Did you know? articles In the News articlesThe Featured Articles in the hand-maintained list below are relevant to our project, but do not necessarily carry the WikiProject Women's History banner.   === Prominent women in need of peer-evaluation upgrade === Sandra Day O'Connor Ruth Bader Ginsburg (upgrade from GA to FA) Sonia Sotomayor (upgrade from GA to FA) Elena Kagan (upgrade from GA to FA) Heloise (the abbess; needs primary redirect from Heloise)   === Project === {{WikiProject Women's History}}  {{User WMNHIST}}