Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women writers/Women electronic literature writers

What image do you think/want included in a logo or template?

Please add a suggestion. Would a smartphone be too cliché? WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:12, 9 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much! A smartphone would be very cliche. Can we have this question as our first conversation when the WP:WELW meet on Thursday Sept 15 at 4 pm UTC? Anyone is welcome to join our meeting--just reply to me and we will get you the link for the zoom call.

How are logo and templates used in wikipedia? LoveElectronicLiterature (talk) 13:36, 9 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

One ofthe tasks listed in "how you can help" was * Make a template for this project that we can paste into the talk page of relevant entries. I thought it would be nice to have a little graphic in that template. And it could be a way that I could help. An example would be Template:WIR-211. Best, WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 15:48, 9 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Way cool! Thank you! We have someone designing a graphic now. We will work on showing that electronic literature has a visual component as well as a textual one. (and there is sound, navigation, linking, etc. but we will simplify). LoveElectronicLiterature (talk) 19:35, 9 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@LoveElectronicLiterature Is the graphic designed yet? It'd be great to have a template! I don't know how to make one, so if @WomenArtistUpdates is still willing it'd be wonderful! Lijil (talk) 18:32, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Lijil, I was never given any follow-up on the preferred graphic. Just that a smart phone was too... I am still able to help if your group has an idea of what it wants. Best, --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:43, 20 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I made a template, see discussion here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Electronic literature#Template for WikiProject Electronic literature Lijil (talk) 21:19, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Questions

If you have better answers to these questions, please add your replies below. Thanks WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 15:39, 10 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

But a way you could really help us out, WomenArtistUpdates, is to give us some advice:

How have you shown iconic art or other images for women artists? Do you ask their permission to provide an image in creative commons?

Actually, I have never tried to get permission for a copyrighted piece of art included in the commons. The image can be owned by both the photographer and the creator. It can be done, I just don't know how. I mainly deal with dead artists and sometimes their artwork falls into public domain (generally the life of the artist + 70 years, but it gets trickier in the United States). To answer questions about copyright take specific question to Commons:Village pump/Copyright.

Note that if an author appears at a public event, you as the photographer, own the image. So, for example of you were to go to an electronic literature event, you could take pictures of authors and post those images to the Commons.

I took a picture of Nike Davies-Okundaye at the Smithsonian when she was there and uploaded it to the commons. She was happy to have her picture taken for this purpose.

Fair use/Wikipedia:Non-free content is a whole other thing. If you are writing an article on a specific work you can post a small image to en-wikipedia under fair use. An example would be the article I wrote on Some Living American Women Artists (collage). I posted a small photo of the work for the infobox of the article. In "external links", I provided a link to a much larger image available at the SAAM website. A fair use image generally can be no larger than 300px at the longest side.WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 15:39, 10 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

How do you explain art and new concepts in wikipedia in an objective tone? For example, I am having a discussion on the wikihelp desk about a title that is written in Mez Breeze mezangelle language--an extension of English that ascribes meaning to punctuation and capitalization. This is not English, and it does need an explanation. It is a visual language. How do you address these types of issues with artists?

I don't understand your question regarding Mez Breeze and their language, perhaps you can point me to the discussion at the the wikihelp desk. More generally, look at WP:PROMO. Avoid descriptions and adjectives like "best", "beautiful", "universally admired". Keep everything to cited facts. Take a look at articles on authors nominated for deletion to see what is considered promotional and non-notable. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 15:39, 10 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

How do you find out the basics that may not be in a third party reference such as birth date, death date (if applicable), universities attended, etc.? Most of our critiques and references are about the works themselves and very few of the women we want to write about have had an official biographer.

If you can't find third party information on birth year and universities attended, you may be writing about a non-notable person. Usually an individual has won some sort of award that has that biographical info listed. I would suggest not digging around or contacting the subject directly. Living people have a right to privacy, so if you find info that is not easily publicly available, you are invading privacy. If you know the subject or their friends and family well enough to ask, well, that's a conflict of interest. Deceased individuals should have an obituary somewhere, publicly available for you to use. If there isn't an obituary, again, you may be writing about a non-notable person. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 15:39, 10 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Are there any issues or pitfalls we should look out for?

I think the pitfall you are most likely to run into is WP:TOOSOON, writing about an individual before they have become notable. Best WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 00:29, 10 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much for helping out and giving us some good advice! LoveElectronicLiterature (talk) 19:41, 9 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata redlist: electronic literature writers

This conversation copied from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red#Wikidata_redlist:_electronic_literature_writers WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 15:36, 10 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Rosiestep: Perhaps you would like to create a redlist on electronic literature writer (Q113663593) to help the new project along. It would be interesting to see if there are any important names with aritcles in other languages.--Ipigott (talk) 08:42, 9 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ipigott Q113663593 was only created in August and as of now there is only one person linked to the item, Annie Abrahams. TSventon (talk) 08:52, 9 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, TSventon: Then there's quite a bit of work to be done from the EN wiki for a start. I see there are a number of women in Category:Electronic literature writers (but there don't seem to be any equivalents in other languages). I've already suggested work along these lines at User talk:LoveElectronicLiterature but I don't know if there will be any follow-up. Looks like a gap that needs to be filled.--Ipigott (talk) 09:05, 9 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Ipigott, Tagishsimon, and TSventon: The issue with the electronic literature writers is that most don't have "occupation=writer", let alone "occupation=electronic literature writer". Instead, their Wikidata association with electronic literature includes triplets of either "interested in=electronic literature" or "genre=electronic literature". Whlie I did create d:Q113663593 as a subclass of writer, so far, no one, including LoveElectronicLiterature's team, has added it to the human items linked to electronic literature. --Rosiestep (talk) 05:10, 10 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I do have a redlist available outside of wikipedia. We have identified about 400 women writers who have been active in the field. As writers, critics, professors, etc. We all have "day jobs." This is the same as most every other creative profession. A majority are in academia as professors of game studies, literary studies, digital studies, computer studies, etc. So human items linked to electronic literature sounds about right. There should be equivalents in other languages, and as we get started with the English project, we are reaching out to our colleagues. ELMCIP and ELO, the major databases for electronic literature, have many entries in other languages. But we thought that first we would start with images (a fun thing) and then get women into wikidata (a housekeeping/list thing) and then determine major works (mostly those from the peer reviewed and judged Electronic Literature Organization's four collections, and other highly regarded reference works). This will be a multi year major effort and we do want to get started in a sustainable fashion. Thank you all for your help!

and yes, lpigott, we are following up. But we are very slow to start. We do not want to be overwhelmed. We will bring tup the need for other language editors at our major international conferences, and I am garnering support slowly slowly slowly. Thank you for all of your patience with us as we begin. I am only able to do this now because I retired 6 weeks ago. So please treat us like the newborn babies we are LoveElectronicLiterature (talk) 13:58, 10 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, WomenArtistUpdates, for copying this to the new WikiProject. I'm glad to see three members of WiR have added their names as participants. If we really want to help them along, then it would be useful if we could find others interested in participating. LoveElectronicLiterature: I apologize if I have appeared to be hurrying you up with my comments on your talk page but I really feel it is important to make some initial progress on the project. Your suggestion of adding photographs might be useful, especially if you can get your colleagues to take photographs of themselves or each other and add them to Wikimedia Commons as their own work. It will be more difficult to add existing photographs as there may well be copyright problems. I also think it would be useful to add a link to your list of 400 electronic writers to the WELW talk page or provide pertinent links. Those of us who are more familiar with editing could then see how many are already included somewhere on Wikipedia or in other Wikimedia projects. Without revealing your name, I have for example discovered that you have your own biography on Wikipedia. I for one would be happy to help you along when I find sufficient time. If it's any consolation, WikiProject Women in Religion got off to a very slow start in October 2018 but thanks to our help is now advancing well. I hope we will be able to offer you similar support.--Ipigott (talk) 17:25, 10 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Women to add and their status

Thank you. We do have a spreadsheet, and I would like to keep that spreadsheet rather than trying to do things here. I am unable to give a link to it due to wikipedia rules, but it is at tiny url dot com slash welbrain. We also have a google drafting doc where we are putting the images for people. I think our next step is to use the spreadsheet we have to add birth, death, and other wikidata fields. Or we could just add the names to the wikidata with a simple category and fill in on wikidata? Thank you all for your support. We have some great willing staff, and I can spend time corralling our folks as we have time, but we really do not know what we are doing. The whole list is too long to repeat here, but here are the first 20 names just to give an idea. Some of these I linked on the electronic literature writer pages, but others I did not, because we need to first fill in their electronic literature connections on their pages, which will take some time as we need to give citations.

I've started off by adding "electronic literature writer" to the Wikidata entries of all the women under Category:Electronic literature writers. Hope this helps.--Ipigott (talk) 14:56, 11 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

LoveElectronicLiterature: I've added a few details to these above. Can't find your list on tinyURL. Can probably start an article on Albertine Meunier tomorrow.--Ipigott (talk) 16:00, 11 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid I couldn't find enough detailed secondary sources to write about Albertine Meunier as most of those cited in the French article are primary or interviews. In any case, it would probably be better to write a biography of Catherine Ramus, as Albertine Meunier is a pseudonym she uses as a artist. Maybe you and your colleagues can provide acceptable sources if you believe she can be categorized as an electronic writer rather than a digital artist.--Ipigott (talk) 11:16, 12 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Possible candidates for inclusion

Amy Briggs (born 1962), American interactive fiction game developer (Deena added 10/14/2022)
Gladys Afamado (born 1925), Argentine artist and poet involved in digital art?? (Deena notes: Yes, I was not able to find any digital literature though?)
Heid E. Erdrich, American video poet (Deena notes: I really did not see the videos, could we cite a digital work?)
Helen Varley Jamieson (born 1966), New Zealand digital media artist involved in theatrical cyberperformance (Deena added 10/14/2022)
Zoe Quinn, American electronic games developer (Deena added 10/14/2022)

Added list of potential women writers

HI I put all of the names from our initial spreadsheet into a wikipedia page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Women writers/Women electronic literature writers/Missing articles - Wikipedia LoveElectronicLiterature (talk) 02:17, 14 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

List of other works

I am developing a list of electronic literature works that should be in Wikipedia. Should we be comprehensive for this project (e.g., include Hearts and Minds - Rettberg, Tsopokolova, et al, Agrippa by William Gibson, Lexia to Perplexia by Memmott, The Sayings of Omphalos by Roman Verostko, Suzanne Treister No Other Symptoms CD ROM, (re)cursor (1994), World of Awe (Yael Kanarek, 1998)) or should we focus on women's contributions? LoveElectronicLiterature (talk) 20:39, 29 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

fyi, Agrippa (A Book of the Dead) is already here. -- asilvering (talk) 23:45, 29 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

For this project, I think it would be useful to have a list of electronic literature works by women writers. Maybe we also need a category.--Ipigott (talk) 13:29, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that would be a good idea. I am also going through my library books today (before they are due back!) and pulling citations. I just have them on the main electronic literature page right now. LoveElectronicLiterature (talk) 18:04, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Here is a csv with all creative works currently in ELMCIP. Works with multiple authors (or languages) are listed once for each author or language so it looks like there are more than there really are. This list does include works that aren't really electronic literature - it's not cleaned yet, that's what we're currently working at the Center for Digital Narrative. This is a csv of the creative works in the research collection International Electronic Literature by Women Authors 1986-2021. Maybe there is a way to automatically convert these to a list in Wikipedia format? Or Wikidata? But perhaps it'd be better to wait until it's cleaned? Lijil (talk) 19:18, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Recommendations on Wikidata

After talking to @LoveElectronicLiterature at WikiConference NA 2023, and with @Peaceray help, I think the best course of action is to build up the Wikidata presence of people, works, and critical works. Maybe even organizations and publishers too. At the very least, entries like these should be reflected into Wikidata as properties. Also ping Rosiestep.

Then later on, you might want to make Wikidata entries for each of the works, found at The NEXT museum. You may want to consider making a property/identifier for "The NEXT museum ID" for entries such as:

- Fuzheado | Talk 22:02, 10 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Fuzheado, yes, this has been under discussion for months, even prior to WCNA. At WCNA, we talked about whether the Electronic Literature group had a librarian familiar with Open Refine. Gamaliel offered some assistance, if needed. Subsequent to WCNA, the group's leadership is at the point where it's ready to create a WikiProject, but unsure of the name; WikiProject Electronic literature and WikiProject Digital literature have been mentioned. Thoughts everyone? (cc: @LoveElectronicLiterature, Peaceray, and Ipigott:) --Rosiestep (talk) 16:58, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Rosiestep: I see they already have a database at elmcip. If they can give me some data from their end, an Excel or a .csv file, then it should be relatively easy for me to import that into Wikidata using OpenRefine. Once there are specific properties in place I could add those with OpenRefine as well. Most of my experience is with items for people but I could handle the works as well. Gamaliel (talk) 17:07, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Peaceray and @Lijil are working on ways to propose using ELMCIP as an authoritative source and to bring that data into Wikidata. This will be an important step in developing the Wikidata entries. I am the artist in residence at the moment for the Washington State University at Vancouver, which houses the NEXT Museum, and we can get a list of works in the Museum. But I think it is easier to bring in ELMCIP data first.

Could you get together with them to see what the plan is for figuring outthe data transfer process?

I think we should just be named Electronic Literature as a project. That should suffice for our Project. We will then have more editathons at our Electronic Literature Conferences (I am proposing one for July 2024) and we have our Third Thursdays at Three UTC regular editathons. We are working to provide a website similar to WomenDoNews.

You are all wonderful and I do not want to duplicate efforts! Thank you all! LoveElectronicLiterature (talk) 18:03, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi all - there are various organisations involved here. I'm at the Center for Digital Narrative (CDN) (http://uib.no/en/cdn) at the University of Bergen. We host the ELMCIP database (https://elmcip.net/). After many years with little resources we got major funding this year for the CDN and so have a full-time technical developer and several people working editorially, so we can do a lot more now - but it's only a couple of months since we started the CDN so this is still ramping up. We are planning on redesigning the backend so it connects to Wikidata, and to build a system that revives CELL (the Consortium for Electronic Literature https://cellproject.net/) to check/peer review and then sync data from the different databases for electronic literature (e.g. the NEXT https://the-next.eliterature.org/ and databases for Catalonian, African etc e-lit). We need to go through all the fields in ELMCIP and match them to Wikidata properties, to clean both our data and to figure out the implementation of all this, but this is a priority for us going forwards. Other organisations include the NEXT (not sure if anyone from there is active on Wikipedia) and the Electronic Literature Organization (the ELO which we're all members of). @LoveElectronicLiterature has been coordinating an impressive effort to improve Wikipedia coverage of women in e-lit in particular. She's not at the CDN but we all know each other from ELO conferences and working together on various things. Lijil (talk) 18:23, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi all--I am the Artist in Residence right now at the Washington State University at Vancouver and I am talking to the great folks who do the NEXT (Dene Grigar and Holly Slocum). They are swamped at the moment, but are definitely on board to determine what data fields we need from The NEXT to port over to Wikidata. But they do feel that working with ELMCIP first would be most beneficial. The NEXT is more of a museum and curator space, as they are focused on reviving and re-creating works that are now in obsolete formats.

This is an unpaid position so I am not being compensated for this work in any way. (I might have a conflict of interest if we did an article on the NEXT itself, but I am not sure of that?) LoveElectronicLiterature (talk) 19:29, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I think I answered too fast - thank you, @Gamaliel for offering to help import the data. I think we should probably clean the data more first. I've worked on a related dataset that we actually ran through OpenRefine and found Wikidata IDs - this has more digital art than electronic literature, but Wikidata is also very lacking in digital art. The dataset is here and cleaned and ready for importing - but I don't know how to do it or what format the data should ideally have? You'll see a lot of the works (most of them?) do not have Wikidata IDs because there wasn't an entry for them. I added some manually at the time but haven't learnt the automated ways. https://dataverse.no/file.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.18710/2G0XKN/WFJ9WK&version=2.2 Lijil (talk) 18:28, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Lijil: It will be relatively easy to automate the creation of Wikidata items all the works using OpenRefine. The hard part is getting the data together, which you've already done. I had a look at the dataset but it's giving me an error I am not familiar with ([line: 1, col: 7 ] Bad character in IRI (space): <?xml[space]...>) when I try to import it into OpenRefine. Gamaliel (talk) 18:35, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

As for the name: I vote for Electronic literature, because this is an established term in the field, as evidenced by the Electronic Literature Organization, the category name Category:Electronic literature and so on. The term digital literature is less common in scholarship and the community, although it is used for instance in German (dichtung digital or digitale literatur) and Norwegian (digital litteratur). Lijil (talk) 18:31, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi all, I have worked on two items thus far.

Adding properties to ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base (Q113705072)
Wikidata:Property proposal/ELMCIP author ID; I have marked this with wikidata:Template:Under construction & have not listed it yet at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control. I want to add a couple of more examples before I move onto other ELMCIP properties like Creative Works, then list them at the same time at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control & maybe cross reference them.

Peaceray (talk) 18:42, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I should mention that I want to swap out the examples that are Record Status: Not yet reviewed for examples that are Record Status: Approved record. Peaceray (talk) 18:45, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This looks great! I am very new to discussions on Wikidata so added a support but I'm not sure what kind of input is useful here. Can't do more this weekend due to family and other commitments, but will be back on Tuesday. Lijil (talk) 19:33, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I renamed it to Wikidata:Property proposal/ELMCIP person ID to reflect the ELMCIP nomenclature. Please review & let me know what you think! There is also now Wikidata:Property proposal/ELMCIP organization ID. Peaceray (talk) 03:57, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I have little experience with adding entries on organizations and works to Wikidata but am pleased to see Gamaliel and Peaceray are making progress with these. In particular, I welcome the work on ELMCIP which now seems to be progressing well at a time when the organization/data base is undergoing considerable expansion. It would certainly be useful if it could gain Authority control status on Wikidata. I will continue my usual efforts in connection with Wikidata entries for authors, artists, etc., especially in connection with Wikipedia articles.--Ipigott (talk) 07:12, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I have created the following proposals:

The previous two are:

Please review & let me know if I should go ahead & transclude these proposals on wikidata:Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control. Peaceray (talk) 05:50, 23 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@LoveElectronicLiterature, Ipigott, Lijil, Gamaliel, Rosiestep, HanAck, and Fuzheado: Please see AdamSeattle's comments at wikidata:Wikidata:Property proposal/ELMCIP person ID#Discussion suggesting a change to one ELMCIP ID using the permanent URL, https://elmcip.net/node/$1 (where $1 is the numeric ID), instead of the four properties that I initially proposed. AdamSeattle also made similar comments on ELMCIP creative work ID, ELMCIP critical work ID, & ELMCIP organization ID. Peaceray (talk) 19:44, 23 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@LoveElectronicLiterature, Ipigott, Lijil, Gamaliel, Rosiestep, HanAck, and Fuzheado: I have proposed a single ELMCIP ID at wikidata:Wikidata:Property proposal/ELMCIP ID. Please add your comments to the discussion when your are able. Peaceray (talk) 21:51, 24 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed new wikiproject

Is it time we create Wikipedia:WikiProject Electronic literature (or Wikipedia:WikiProject Electronic Literature)? --Rosiestep (talk) 09:16, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

While I think it is important for us to continue work on Women electronic literature writers, an open-ended Electronic literature wikiproject would facilitate more general coverage and provide a venue for including male contributors and developments relevant to both men and women. In this connection, together with LoveElectronicLiterature, I've been trying to improve our List of electronic literature authors, critics, and works, which could become a basic resource. It would be useful if we could also involve male authors involved in the field, including any who are already active on Wikipedia. I suggest that with Rosiestep's help, we first create a basic, maybe even draft wikiproject and then promote involvement by mentioning it on the talk pages of relevant wikiprojects such as Novels, Visual art, Books, Science Fiction, Poetry and Literature, as well as on Women writers and Women in Red. While I am happy to help with the development of the new project, my main interest is still to contribute to work on women players.--Ipigott (talk) 13:26, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It seems like having a task force ("Wikiproject Electronic literature: Women writers task force" or something) would be helpful for this. Then you'd be able to get a separate maintenance task list and article rating table just for the women writers. -- asilvering (talk) 19:13, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds useful to me! -- asilvering (talk) 19:11, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Asilvering: I think there is a misunderstanding here. We already have Wikipedia:WikiProject Women writers/Women electronic literature writers which is progressing well. The proposal is to have a more general project along the lines of WP:Novels or WP:Poetry to cover the expanding field of electronic literature for all those involved, both men and women.--Ipigott (talk) 21:27, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Right, but couldn't we just fold the Women Electronic LIterature Writers into a sub-project/taskforce/whatever we call it under Electronic Literature? LoveElectronicLiterature (talk) 02:31, 20 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, Asilvering that's a strong possibility. If the participants agree, It could be tied up both with WP Women writers and WP Electronic writers.--Ipigott (talk) 06:14, 20 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that's exactly what I meant. -- asilvering (talk) 07:39, 20 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It might be useful to point out that at the moment, the large majority of articles about electronic literature writers are in fact about women (see list of authors on List of electronic literature authors, critics, and works). If the new electronic literature wikiproject is to be viable, then we will need to encourage efforts to create biographies of male contributors. We need to find editors who are interested in taking up this challenge.--Ipigott (talk) 15:40, 20 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

As electronic literature (EL) is a relatively new literary field, there is a large learning curve for society in general. By developing a WikiProject specific to the genre, and fleshing it out with Wikipedia articles addressing all areas related to the genre (e.g., people, organizations, books, historical perspective, geographic acceptance, peer-reviewed research, etc.), not only does EL in general benefit, but its notability in particular will be better understood by Wikipedia editors. When "notability" in the context of EL is discussed and documented within this WikiProject, it will provide context that's currently blurry for most editors. This blurriness is one reason why articles within the scope of EL might be forwarded to AfD and eventually get deleted. --Rosiestep (talk) 17:29, 20 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I agree. Our field has its own version of notability within the field. This field has grown over the 30 years and we are beginning to get scholars to comment (We are working on a critical studies list). But I do think having ELMCIP data will help and having a WikiProject noted as Electronic Literature would provide a context. Yes, the field itself is blurry--but honestly, does any field have tightly defined boundaries? We do have a pretty good working definition: Any literature that uses an electronic element in an intrinsic and essential way to convey meaning within the text. LoveElectronicLiterature (talk) 02:24, 23 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Rosiestep Does this mean we should describe criteria for notability that are field-specific? For example, having exhibited a work at an exhibition, or presented it at a conference are significant in electronic literature (and digital art) but not common in print literature or traditional art, where the number of book reviews or having a work purchased by a museum are mentioned in the notability guidelines. (See WP:AUTHOR) Lijil (talk) 10:59, 24 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Lijil, yes, you should describe it, from your point of view, and include opportunity for discussion about it on your WikiProjects alkpage with all the other editors who may wish to provide opinions, and then reach consensus. At WikiProject Women in Red, we developed essays that provide guidance regarding notability, etc. So, maybe something like that. --Rosiestep (talk) 11:04, 24 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Whether "Women electronic literature writers" remains a task force of WP:WPWW or shifts to be a task force of WikiProject Electronic literature can be decided in the future by its members when they want to address it. --Rosiestep (talk) 17:29, 20 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]