Wikipedia:WikiProject Electronic literature

Electronic literature (elit) is literature that uses digital elements, such as games, hypertext linking, sounds, images, and videos.

Both electronic literature works and writers are underrepresented in Wikipedia, and this project will help create articles that will explain elit's impact over the last few decades, as elit has influenced video and alternative reality games, hypertext language and programming, and more. We will

• Write new Wikipedia biographies of electronic literature academics, writers, and critics.
• Edit existing Wikipedia biographies and works to improve their quality
• Identify notable and influential writers and works who should be on Wikipedia
• Facilitate edit-a-thons and workshops to research women in journalism, edit their Wikipedia biographies and teach others how to become Wikipedia editors.

Women electronic literature writers is a sub-project started in 2022. We meet monthly on the Third Thursday at Three pm UTC, and anyone is welcome to join in. Women writers are underrepresented on Wikipedia, so this project focuses on addressing that gap. Editors of any gender are welcome in Women Electronic Literature Writers. We have been contributing to English, Spanish, and French Wikipedias and we would love to build the capacity for writing, editing and improving articles in these and other languages. We partner with and mutually support mission-aligned projects like Women in Red (WIR) and Women Do News and we gratefully acknowledge our fellow Wikipedians who have supported our work since its beginning.

Participate in the project

Sign up for a Wikipedia account and join us in this work. See this page for information on how to create an account.

Tasks you can help with

• Improve existing articles! Here is an automated list of articles that need more sources or have other issues. Or just dive in anywhere.
• Write new articles! Here is a list of missing articles. Pick one and search for sources! Here is a template you can use for articles about works of electronic literature - switch to Source editing and copy and paste it into the new page you make - then fill it out.
• Add to the list of missing articles! You can add topics we should have articles on, or add links to sources we could use.
• Post any questions on the Talk page for this project!

Userbox template

• You can add our userbox template {{User WikiProject Electronic literature}} to your user page, which will produce:

This user is a participant in WikiProject Electronic literature

List of participants

Add your name by typing an asterisk (*) followed by four tildes (~~~~)

• LoveElectronicLiterature (talk) 00:33, 2 February 2024 (UTC}
• Ipigott (talk) 15:49, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
• Lijil (talk) 16:15, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
• asilvering (talk) 22:49, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
• Rosiestep (talk) 00:33, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
• ~ L 🌸 (talk) 03:37, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
• RayGoForth (talk) 23:13, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
• Lskains (talk) 15:26, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
• Tynkerings (talk) 19:56, 24 February 2024 (UTC)Tynkerings
• jmcdaid (talk) 02:32, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Cleanup list

Cleanup: 63% complete

Of the 279 articles in this project 103 or 37% are marked for cleanup, with 180 issues in total.

A list of WikiProject Electronic literature articles tagged for attention can be found here.

Quality assessment ratings of Electronic literature articles

WikiProject Electronic literature  articles by quality     

FA	A	GA	B	C	Start	Stub	FL	List	NA	???	Total
4	0	8	22	130	115	29	0	4	24	0	336

5% of articles GA-class or better: 77.9% complete

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Please paste this code near the top of the Talk page of articles that should be part of this WikiProject. Add |women=yes if the article is about a woman or about a work by a woman. This automatically puts the articles in categories that allow us to track them.

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• Category:WikiProject Electronic literature articles
• Category:WikiProject Electronic literature - Women electronic literature writers articles

Editing priorities

There are many important figures and works in electronic literature. Please suggest others that we can be working on.

• The NEXT Museum is an important institution that archives electronic literature.

Electronic literature editing events

• We have held an editathon at WikiConference North America 2023in Toronto.

• We hold an editathon every third Thursday at Three UTC on zoom. Please ask LoveElectronicLiterature to get the link.

• We have proposed editathons in conjunction with Conferences:

New Media Writing Prize UnConference May 14-15, 2024

Electronic Literature Organization's Main Conference July 18-19, 2024

Associated organizations

People involved in these organizations also volunteer their time and expertise to help write and edit articles:

• Electronic Literature Organization
• The NEXT: Museum, Library, and Preservation Space at Washington State University at Vancouver, Washington
• Electronic Literature Lab at Washington State University at Vancouver, Washington
• Center for Digital Narrative at University of Bergen
• Indian Electronic Literature Organization