Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women artists/Archive 1

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Video Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women artists/Archive 1

Help needed - please double check anything "bot" related

Hi everyone. I always have a challenge setting up bots for projects. It would be great of some folks, who are comfortable working with bots/json/whatever could double check the recognized content bot, and the User:WP_1.0_bot/Tables/Project/Women_artists page. I hope they are working right! I know sometimes it takes time to get them running for a new project :) Thanks everyone. SarahStierch (talk) 22:24, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Maps Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women artists/Archive 1

Any idea where we go to get the project watchlist fixed?

Both this project and Wikiproject Women scientists seem to have Python errors on their watchlists sometimes ... Djembayz (talk) 04:27, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

I'm not sure what's causing that. You might try Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). Gob?nob? ^{+ c} 05:13, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

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Scope

Thank you for setting up this wikiproject Sarah!

I'm curious what the scope of this project is going to be. Biographies of women artists, of course, but do we include performance artists as well as visual artists? I'm wondering specifically whether musicians, filmmakers, dancers, and actors would be included here. How about art collectors and patrons of the arts? Architects? Gob?nob? ^{+ c} 02:11, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

Hi there. I consider subjects in the realm of the article of women artists. Creative professionals who work in the fine arts as performance artists, visual artists, installation artists, video artists... I'm open mined about art collectors and patrons.

When I created this project, I wanted it to focus on those areas. Not musicians, filmmakers (except video artists and experimental filmmakers), dancers (ballet/hip hop/etc), and actors. SarahStierch (talk) 02:22, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

Same here! I have been editing quite a few articles about female Dutch designers (product design, fashion design) on nlwiki lately. I suppose these are out of the scope of this project? I'm absolutely fine with that, just wanted to make this explicit in order to avoid future confusion. Spinster (talk) 10:27, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

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Articles with notability concerns

I'm placing them here until article alerts starts working (I think I set it up right...we'll see!). These are PROD'd. SarahStierch (talk) 19:58, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

I've nominated two articles for deletion as discussing non-notable artists (input will be appreciated): Vesna Hocevar, Tja?a Iris. --Eleassar ^{my talk} 08:28, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Argh, the main actibvity of this project so far seems to be to delete as many articles about women artists from Wikipedia! PROD'ing is generally worse than AfD'ing, because at least at AfD there is an opportunity for discussion. Sionk (talk) 16:52, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

I'm categorizing and adding articles to the project using the template. Sadly, out of hundreds I've been looking at in a day, a few happen to fail WP:ARTIST upon my brief research. I thought prodding would maybe be better. I can easily remove the PROD and nominate them for deletion. In the end we have to do this, eventually it'll happen, and I'd rather good faith project members do it than others who have little to no knowledge of fine art and arts research. SarahStierch (talk) 18:14, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

• Comment See this section of this page to see what I've attempted to do to resolve this. SarahStierch (talk) 18:58, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

This all seems contrary to the scope of the project, to reduce systematic bias. I'm a deletionist at heart, but I put in much more thought before trying to delete an article on an under-represented subject. We now have a project here that is systematically going through articles about women artists finding suitable candidates to delete. It doesn't make a lot of sense.

I could maybe understand articles being deleted for clear copyright violations, clear promotion and/or clearly unsalvagable articles, otherwise I would suggest tagging them and taking a closer look at some other time. Nominating (particularly PROD'ing) after "brief research" just seems plain counterproductive. Sionk (talk) 22:37, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

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Resolving the notability/AfD/PROD situation

I've created this page. Will that work for people? Feel free to be bold and organize or come up with a better idea. Add it to your watchlist if so desired. SarahStierch (talk) 18:57, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

The article alerts are working now too and list all AfDs and PRODs for articles in this project's scope. It is also possible to watchlist the Wikipedia:WikiProject Women artists/Article alerts page. Gob?nob? ^{+ c} 21:00, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Great idea! Sionk (talk) 13:18, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

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Sharing article successes - on the main page or worklist or...?

How should we celebrate article successes? I'd like to eventually see the project have a barnstar/award (but I suck at that type of design), but I'd like to have a place where we can at least post article successes (new articles, expansions, clean ups, etc - outcomes) for the project. Should we start a new page? Transclude something? What do you think? Let's be bold but find a way to brag. SarahStierch (talk) 18:36, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Off the top of my head:

• Once up and running get an article in the projects section of the The Signpost
• Nominate FAs at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests, to increase their exposure
• Now and then GA has newsletters that get posted on all project participant talk pages. But that involves bots, so don't ask me... hamiltonstone (talk) 11:56, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Good ideas. I hope others can help with this. What about locally in the project? I also run social media for the WikiWomen's Collaborative and do a lot of [1] work, so I do hope to promote our work through those areas. But, I'd like to think of some type of place here in the project, too? SarahStierch (talk) 17:15, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

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Article that needs merger

Looks like this one has been waiting around a while: Anna Hyatt Huntington/Works of Anne Hyatt Huntington if anyone feels like stopping by and merging it :) SarahStierch (talk) 19:50, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

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Userbox

I made an attempt at creating a userbox for this project at Template:User WikiProject Women artists. I'm not very good at userboxes though. If anyone wants to improve on it, please be my guest. Gob?nob? ^{+ c} 23:40, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Awesome :) SarahStierch (talk) 01:49, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

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I just labeled

two articles of photographers as being part of this project, Tina Modotti and Margrethe Mather. I have never done that sort of thing before and the Modotti article was labeled as being a Start-class article and I think it is beyond that. Perhaps someone cam take a look and perhaps change it. I also feel that ranking Modotti as a Low-importance women's history article is shortchanging her by a lot but I am reluctant to start slash and burning other folks labeling since it is not something I do. Again, any takers? Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 17:01, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

Hi there. That's awesome Einar. We're actually not using importance - since they're all important to us :) Feel free to go about being bold. Not having importance levels allows for less slash and burning, as you said, and rating something's class isn't a terrible thing, just means more work to be done. Thanks for being a part of the project. SarahStierch (talk) 00:39, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

I almost had no choice but to join the project since you have been lighting my watchlist up like a pin ball game recently. And for that Sarah, (and others) I thank you. Carptrash (talk) 14:46, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

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Pre-reviewing articles that fail notability (among other things) before nominating for deletion

Sionk suggested that instead of nominating biographies for deletion, we review them first in a section of this project. I'm not sure how that process would work, really. For example, I'm categorizing articles and tagging them as part of the project and I've found some fairly non-notable stuff (that I've researched myself off of wiki before I nominate them). I'm open minded for things, I just fear being guilt tripped for nominating articles I find that fail notability because they are women biographies, despite it being part of the process that I've been so used to for eight years now (nominating notability fails regardless of gender or subject matter). Hope this makes sense, input welcome. SarahStierch (talk) 02:42, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

Sorry for guilt tripping you, that wasn't my intention ;) My comment was triggered by your nomination of a second article that I had tried earlier to improve (with limited success, admittedly). Considering the intention of this project to improve the coverage of woemen in this area of the visual arts, it seems more sensible to look for articles that can be added or improved, rather than highlighted at AfD and culled. Someone else will no doubt eventually come along and take AfD action for these questionable articles, but I don't think it should be us. Sionk (talk) 03:02, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

Ha, thanks. I'm pretty sensitive somethings about these things :) If I stumble across anything questionable I'll either post it here or perhaps in the worklist ("immediate attention articles") or something. Hmm... SarahStierch (talk) 03:09, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

I've always liked how WikiProject Feminism has article alerts linked from the project page. It is an easy way to keep track of which articles are being listed for AfD or PROD and it is automatically transcluded. Perhaps we can set up article alerts and review the deletion workflows as we go? Is there an active bot request to add the wikiproject template to all articles in certain categories? Gob?nob? ^{+ c} 03:14, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

Um, no, I didn't know there was a bot request option for that. (I'm so old school with my manual work!) I attempted to do article alerts in the announcements section. I started getting so frustrated I gave up on it for now. What can we do with the "immediate attention" buttons for WikiProjects? I guess prodding is a better idea than anything else. SarahStierch (talk) 03:21, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

Hmm, the bots that I've seen used in the past seem to be inactive. It seems that User:SatyrBot might be active, but the operator isn't too active lately. I'll leave messages with SatyrTN and at WP:BOTREQ to see if we can have a bot add the project banner to articles in defined category sets. Gob?nob? ^{+ c} 03:45, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

thanks Gobonobo! SarahStierch (talk) 04:00, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

Bot request categories

I'm preparing a request for Anomie's bot at User talk:AnomieBOT. Here are the instructions/caveats/options:

This project will need to give explicit consent for the list of categories to be processed. Based on the scope on the project page, here are the categories I think should be included (strike or add categories as you like):

Importance will not need to be set since the template doesn't use it. Class can be auto-assessed if we like (I believe the bot will just borrow the class being used by other projects). If there are other parameters that we'd like to have the bot auto sign, we'll need to know those as well before the request goes in. Once this is all approved by the project, the bot request can be submitted. Gob?nob? ^{+ c} 04:53, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

AnomieBOT has finished and has added the project's banner to 2691 talk pages. If you see that the bot made any errors, please let me know. Gob?nob? ^{+ c} 15:10, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

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A note on categories

While I realize the utility of categories for this project, you should also be careful to not fall afoul of WP:EGRS. For example, creating categories like Category:American women experimental filmmakers is problematic because this is a last rung category, that divides Category:American experimental filmmakers by gender when that category is not otherwise divided. Such categories are usually deleted because they tend to ghettoize. While Category:Women artists as a high-level category is acceptable, because there are so many sub-categories of Category:Artists into which people can be placed, I don't think you can make the case that all of the subcategories of Category:Women artists are truly defining and where being a woman has a special relation to each particular style of art as opposed to categories for men - for example, Category:Women textile artists I think would be hard to defend that women have traditionally been excluded from textile arts; indeed, traditionally, women have been quite involved in this field. As such, I'd encourage you to hesitate before creating new gendered categories - you can use the project template to track women artists you want to track, but our guidelines would not permit a creation of (women + arbitrary type of artist), these have to be handled on a case by case basis and you need to be able to defend that this particular job + gender is truly defining and that the women within are discussed as a group and that gender has a special relation to that particular job. All of the current cats in the scope of this project should be found here Category:Category-Class_Women_artists_articles.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 08:23, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

Also, all of these categories should be marked as non-diffusing with {{Distinguished subcategory}}; see Category:American women novelists for an example of how this can be used. I'd be happy to show you how to use category intersection to both identify women artists who aren't yet categorized as such (for categories which should remain), and to identify women artists who are currently ghettoized by gender.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 08:39, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

I see that my latest article almost fell down a WP:EGRS hole called Category:American women artists (thanks for rescuing poor Harriet, User:SarahStierch!). Categories are a minefield, and some of us tend to get a little trigger-happy with the HotCat. It's just so easy to add categories, but more, apparently, isn't better. --Sarasays (talk) 21:54, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

From what I can see the articles aren't being ghettoized because they are also in a more general, gender-neutral category i.e. Category:American experimental filmmakers. But I didn't know about the {{Distinguished subcategory}}, thanks Obi for pointing that out! Sionk (talk) 22:18, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

I just noticed that Grandma Moses and Georgia O'Keeffe had been ghettoized into American women painters - they should not be dropped from American painters just because they are female! Jane (talk) 16:09, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

Note: similary to Category:American novelists, the Category:American painters category should be emptied with the contents diffused to the by-century subcats, as well as any more specific painting categories.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 16:41, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

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Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Amy Feldman

Participants may be interested in rescuing an article at AfC, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Amy Feldman. It has been slightly improved by the author but declined again by a reviewer. Feldman is an award winner and seems to be an established name. I've made a start, but don't have time to finish the task. Sionk (talk) 13:28, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

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Interesting stats on women & GLAMS

I just created two lists of artists for leading museums in the Netherlands based on the data in the RKD and hope to create a few more soon. The somewhat depressing result is an average of less than 2% of the names is female. Maybe it's time to complain about this for your local GLAMs? They probably have their local female artists in their collections, but they do not publish this! The art is there, it's just not represented in the databases. At first I thought it was just these two museums, but even the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam scores pretty much the same with 32 female artists out of 1205 names. I will be publishing that one shortly. See List of painters in the collection of the Frans Hals Museum and List of artists in the collection of the Mauritshuis. Jane (talk) 12:06, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

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Would like to be involved / join

I hope it is ok i added myself as a member. I noticed that some of the women artist from our list here Category:Israeli women artists made the WikiProject Women artists list and some did not. Should I add the template for the project to the rest or is there a reason they were not included? Drkup(IMJ) (talk) 17:39, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi! Great to see you here and welcome. Please do add the talk page templates and categories as necessary to any articles about women artists that fall under the project criteria at the top of the project page. SarahStierch (talk) 20:02, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

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Art by women

I've started working on the following articles:

• Feminist art
• Feminist art movement
• Feminist art movement in the United States

... and it seems to be working well to tackle this together. I changed the feminist art and feminist art movement redirects into their own articles because they linked to the feminist art movement in the United States.

Why I'm posting something here is:

• I am seeing feminist art as a place to explore the works themselves
• feminist art movement as an article with a (hopefully) world-wide view. I say hopefully because so much is written from a US/Europe perspective.
• and expanding the US article, which had just touched on the initial developments in the 1970s.

Does my take on the three articles make sense? Before I go to far afield, it would be great to ensure I'm headed in the right direction. If you have the opportunity to look at this, that would be great!--CaroleHenson (talk) 00:11, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Oh, I also created Template:Feminist art movement in the United States, which is still a work in progress.--CaroleHenson (talk) 00:14, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

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Images for articles about women artists

I am blown away by the lack of images, unless I'm just not searching correctly, for women artists. Any ideas for how we can get more images to commons would be great!--CaroleHenson (talk) 00:15, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

You can either make a request for an image, on the Talk page, or (if for example there is an important work of art which needs illustrating) find a non-free image. I recently added a non-free image to the new Aleah Chapin article, it was one that had been widely used online in news reports about her. Sionk (talk) 00:44, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Ok, thanks! That helps. Any thoughts about the feminist art, movement, movement in the US that I posted just about this one?--CaroleHenson (talk) 03:17, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

The Non-free content police are (often quite rightly) looking closely at the use of images in general articles about art. It looks like you are the new world expert in the subject of US feminist art, judging by your recent edits! If there are a small handful of very important, key works that represent highlights of the movement, you will be justified in using non-free content (in my view). Though as a rule, non-free images of important artworks are best placed in the article about the artist (or the artwork).

Images that are out-of-copyright tend to be for artists that are long dead. The feminist movement dates from the last 45 years, so unless a copyright holder has waived their copyright then finding decent free images may be difficult.

It will be a shame if there are no suitable images at all on Wikimedia Commons, but I guess that reflects the situation we're trying to address, a bias in interests on Wikipedia. Sionk (talk) 03:46, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the distinction between images used for the artist's articles vs. art movement topics. I've posted the request for images and ran the tool mentioned in the posted request, and as you said I really didn't come up with anything. I am beginning to wonder if it makes sense to reach out to artists and organizations (A.I.R. Gallery, Women's Interart Center, etc.) directly and ask if they can help out.--04:15, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Here is the explanatory link to the Commons template for artists who died after their copyright cut-off date: Commons:Template:URAA_artist. For such artists, permission from themselves or their descendants is needed via OTRS in order to publish pictures on Commons that can be shared by other projects than just the English Wikipedia. Jane (talk) 08:21, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

And as a footnote to that, here is a link to a work that either has an unknown creation date, or which was dated after the USRAA 1923 cutoff date and before the moment that the work entered the public domain in it's source country: Young woman with a hat. Such images can be hosted in Canada on Wikilivres and linked to from articles, but cannot be shown as a thumbnail. Jane (talk) 08:38, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

Ok, thanks for the information.--CaroleHenson (talk) 15:02, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

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Prepped page for archival

I've formatted the talk page for archival, please feel free to modify it as you wish! :)

Good luck with the initiative,

-- Cirt (talk) 17:58, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

WP Countering Systemic Bias in the Signpost

Comment below is reposted. Djembayz (talk) 22:58, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Countering Systemic Bias for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions, so be sure to sign your answers. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. -Mabeenot (talk) 00:52, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

Art and Feminism edit-a-thons

They are taking place across the US (so far, but it'd be nice to have more international events) in Feb. I'm going to be doing a Bay Area event. Please connect and get involved! Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism. SarahStierch (talk) 17:41, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

This article in ARTnews - "101 Women Artists Who Got Wikipedia Pages This Week" - may be of interest. Adding them all to the list of new articles may become a full-time job!! Sionk (talk) 20:27, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

No importance

For now, there isn't a category Category:Women artists articles by importance, and associated sub-categories. see Category:Women_scientists_articles_by_importance for an example of how this is done at wikiproject women scientists. Is there a reason this project doesn't have an importance scale? It would seem to be a useful way to focus work, or at least catalogue the most high profile/important artist pages.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 15:44, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

The image/photograph posted in Wikipedia is insulting Asian American women in United States

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I want to report the photograph "Miru Kim at Lodz Biennale 2010, Poland" posted in the article "Miru Kim" is an insult to Asian American women in United States. Miru Kim is an artist. She was born in Stoneham, Massachusetts and was raised in South Korea. She took part in the series, "The Pig That Therefore I am". In this series, she took the pictures of herself nude and immersed herself amongst the pigs. In her next video performance "I Like Pigs and Pigs Like Me" in Miami, she got naked and slept with the pigs in front of the carmera. Would you say this is not an insult to Asian American woman in United States? I feel this is really an insult to Asian American woman in United States. That photograph posted in Wikipedia is from her series "The Pig That Therefore I Am" that she was naked inside the pigs. Please look at it and see what's wrong in it. This is a photograph of a naked Asian American woman pretending as she was a pig. You may ask other artists, authors, editors, or even Miru Kim herself to look at it. I would like to ask Asian American women right in United States for advice if this doesn't work. Thank you for understanding.

61.18.56.147 (talk) 19:21, 1 March 2014 (UTC)Asian American in California

if you find the image insulting you may want to take it up with the artist. It's her photo, she chose to do it, and I very much doubt she cares that Wikipedia is giving her series on pigs more exposure. Of course, adding as well a normal portrait of the artist herself would be reasonable if you can find one.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 20:36, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

I've just looked at her website, she seems to be regularly naked in her art - looking over a city, walking through a field, bathing herself in mud, etc. I don't think she's the prude type. Her website has a long statement explaining the pig series which is one of her more recent works and what it represents,, perhaps you could read it to understand what she was trying to say with this pig story.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 20:43, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi 61.18.56.147. The image has been flagged as missing evidence of permission and will likely be deleted after March 8th. I would venture that the image is not intended to insult Asian American woman in United States though. In her artist statement, she explores the nature of skin and humanity's relationship with pigkind; she speaks of the "exteriorized memories on our cutaneous garment" and compares the nakedness of a pig to that of her art. But she never mentions being a Korean American woman. Maybe, like much good art, the work reflects one's own predispositions. gobonobo ^{+ c} 05:43, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Womens art editathon at Goldsmiths College, New Cross London this Saturday

An Womens Art editathon is being organised in London this weekend - March 8, 2014. It will start with a training session for new editors at 11am then after lunch we will start editing. If you can come then please sign up on the linked page. (It's a wikimedia UK page which for some arcane WMF reason can't use your wikipedia account to log in). We will have experienced wikipedia editors available there to help but if anyone here would be available to help online that would be good too. filceolaire (talk) 13:15, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

You forgot to mention it's International Women's Day. All members of this list should try to do at least one little thing today onwiki somewhere: upload or add a picture to an artice, do some catagorizing, write a stub, edit some old Britannica entries on Wikisource,... Jane (talk) 10:05, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Invitation to User Study

Would you be interested in participating in a user study? We are a team at University of Washington studying methods for finding collaborators within a Wikipedia community. We are looking for volunteers to evaluate a new visualization tool. All you need to do is to prepare for your laptop/desktop, web camera, and speaker for video communication with Google Hangout. We will provide you with a Amazon gift card in appreciation of your time and participation. For more information about this study, please visit our wiki page (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Finding_a_Collaborator). If you would like to participate in our user study, please send me a message at Wkmaster (talk) 13:40, 8 March 2014 (UTC).

New articles

I've added a New articles section on the main page, I couldn't see anything similar here yet. Feel free to add your new articles here, it will be an indication of the progress we're making and an opportunity for other project members to improve the articles. If there is a better suggestion of where to put this/how to do it then I'm all ears! Sionk (talk) 12:58, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for adding that Sionk. AlexNewArtBot is a bot that automatically generates a list of articles likely to be in the purview of a wikiproject. It might fit well in that section, though I'm not sure how to set up the rules to make it work. Gob?nob? ^{+ c} 12:13, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

I've never come across another project that identifies new articles using a bot. But open to suggestions. I'm not a 'bot' expert myself either :D Sionk (talk) 13:06, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Good idea! I'll give it a try.--CaroleHenson (talk) 14:17, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

I started the process here, but am having a hard time figuring out how to write the rules, but have asked for assistance. Hopefully there will be feedback soon.--CaroleHenson (talk) 15:24, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Interesting to see the results of the BOT, though it has only picked up one of the January articles that have been added manually! And picked up a category (If we go with this method maybe the section should be renamed "New content"). Does it pick up articles that have been created from redirects? Sionk (talk) 10:34, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ It's all about the rules... and someone helped me set those up because it was way too complicated for me to figure out, and yes, I would expect that it absolutely may need tweaking to get it humming. The query is only going to pick up new articles from the past 14 days, so any articles written before then won't get picked up. Good question about articles created from redirects. I'll take these back and see if we can make some tweaks.--CaroleHenson (talk) 11:01, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Ethel Sands was the only one that should have been picked up by the query.--CaroleHenson (talk) 11:10, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Update: Ethel Sands was picked up now, it was user error (me) - I didn't say that she was an artist in the beginning of the intro. I think the category issue has been resolved - the rules were edited after our postings and I don't see the category now. I have a question in about whether a redirect is made to a new article is picked up by the logic and don't have an answer yet.

Question: Would it be helpful to move the new articles to the "new / improved articles list" on Wikipedia:WikiProject Women artists/Worklist before they roll off (since it's a 14 day snapshot)?

(I saw that some of my new articles were getting added to the "Articles to be expanded/improved" list, so I created that "new / improved articles list", under the premise that any article can be improved. But the articles in this category are not tagged, are fully cited, and were subject to an exhaustive search to find content about the subject.)

--CaroleHenson (talk) 01:45, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

It's a shame the ticker-tape only records the last 14 days, but interesting all the same! It's not entirely accurate, I can see an article about a bloke and at least one music 'artist'. I see several articles have already been nom'd for deletion, argh! From my point of view I'd prefer to keep the manual list of new articles, with the bot feed as a useful backup tool. If any of us spot any decent articles on the list, we can add them to the manual tally (which will at least hang around for more than 2 weeks). Sionk (talk) 04:17, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

The search results at least get a nice list going, maybe we could take the "found" articles and put them in the manual list and collapse the search results. I'll take a stab and see what you think.

Regarding the redirects, the logic picks up "new pages" and so changes to an existing page, like a redirect page are not picked up. See User talk:Bamyers99/Archive 1#User:AlexNewArtBot/Womenartists.--CaroleHenson (talk) 15:02, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Nice idea! Thanks for creating that section. SarahStierch (talk) 20:11, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Wow, there's a flood of new articles today, courtesey (I think) of the Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism! Sionk (talk) 02:41, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Hi all! I created a new article yesterday on Pat Ward Williams and would love to have some other users take a look at it, make improvements, give it a quality rating, etc. I only managed to put something basic together, but I do think she's a notable artist and it will be worth safeguarding the article against deletion. Thanks for your time! Arthistorygrrl (talk) 19:09, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

Membership

Hello! How do I become a member? Thanks!15:07, 8 April 2014 (UTC)Unsung Artists (talk)

Hello back! You become a member by signing the project page. There isn't a whole lot you can do besides that. You can also add this discussion page to your watchlist to keep abreast of various issues. Jane (talk) 09:27, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

Problem with female categories

As some of you may recall, it was decided to keep the "female" categories on the English Wikipedia so we could track the female biographies in various groups. The problem is when the main category is dropped and suddenly the biography disappears from the radar of the main Wikiprojects. This was most recently discussed for the category of "Women novelists". The same thing applies here. If someone is in Category:British women painters then they should be in at least one non-female category for painting as well, such as Category:British painters. One category is for "findability", the other is for tracking. Oh and please don't forget to check that all women artists have correctly filled-in Wikidata items! Thanks, Jane (talk) 09:27, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

Well said! There's guidance about ghettoization at WP:EGRS and a useful tool here - Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bias/Gender_bias_task_force#Deghettoization_algorithm.

I think it also helps to put the {{Visual Arts}} project template on the Talk page at the same time as the {{WikiProject Women artists}} template. After all, women artists are of general interest as artists, not only because they are female. Just my opinion. Sionk (talk) 10:33, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

if you are editing these cats it may be useful to place the {{Distinguished subcategory}} template on the cats to note that they are meant to be non-diffusing. Also re 'promoting' the women to the main cat, actually in most cases you shouldn't do this - rather you should ensure that the article is in diffusing sibling categories. For example Category:British painters should not have many, if any, bios, they should all be in the diffusing subcats (eg genre, century) as well as any relevant non-diffusing ones. This is more explicitly laid out at Category:American novelists but the structure here is the same. Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 12:07, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

Well it would be great if someone could make a bot that walks down the entire Category:Women tree and makes sure those subcats are all distinguished then! I think part of the problem is that since the Art&Feminism editathon we have a lot of new material that is categorized more carefully under the "Women" subcat tree than under the "Claim to fame" subcat tree. Jane (talk) 15:01, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

Tagging the cats as distinguished is one thing, but not all that important (more a "if you have time in passing to do it") - OTOH, de-ghettoizing is important, at least the outside world seems to think it is, but it's a pain, and the vast majority of editors here, in spite of all of the drama around American women novelists, literally do not care or don't seem to make the effort to care, perhaps because as that algorithm shows, non-diffusing categories are *really* tricky to get right and avoid ghettoization. But I've thought for a long time whether it would be possible to have an algorithm that deghettoizes, but I think it would require too much contextual knowledge and would be rather tricky to code. If you want to automatically find ghettoized women, this is a little easier if you're smart with category intersection - for example, this scan will give you all British women painters who aren't in any of the diffusing sibling categories (excepting "British painters" and the subcats "English painters", etc). It's a start, and gives a list of about 180 British women painters who are somehow ghettoized. If we were to look across the whole tree I would estimate that the numbers are in the thousands. There are also probably many "women" artists who aren't categorized as such, you can also use cat intersection to find those.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 15:44, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

All the more reason to properly get all of these women correctly documented on Wikidata! Though the tools aren't here yet, I do firmly believe that this mess will become manageable quickly thanks to Wikidata. Jane (talk) 07:29, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

Systemic bias in Art History: Kehinde Wiley's work

Hi all, I suppose one of the reasons we are here is because of the issues discussed during the Art&Feminism editathons in February (I assume most of us found our way here from that). Anyway I was poking around the works of Kehinde Wiley for his series on black women called An Economy of Grace and I wish there was some way we could wikify his work (all copyrighted, though the originals that inspired them are obviously all all PD). I wonder if we could set up a little KW writing challenge sort of like the way the Amical Wikimedia project is doing for Miró? See this page I created for them: Dutch interiors. You can write up the article based on the original, and then link to the Kehinde Wiley one. Only problem is....I don't have a list of the KW works!!! Any thoughts? Jane (talk) 09:58, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

Sounds a bit excessive, to write individual articles about each of a relatively young (and lesser known) artist's works (if I understand you correctly). On the other hande, it makes good sense to try and find free images of the works if possible. Sionk (talk) 10:47, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

well the articles could be a way of featuring the originals, but also to feature the dresses and the models, all fascinating, I think! Jane (talk) 12:22, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014

You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride 2014, a campaign to create and improve LGBT-related content at Wikipedia and its sister projects. The campaign will take place throughout the month of June, culminating with a multinational edit-a-thon on June 21. Meetups are being held in some cities, or you can participate remotely. All constructive edits are welcome in order to contribute to Wikipedia's mission of providing quality, accurate information. Articles related to LGBT art and artists may be of particular interest. You can also upload LGBT-related images by participating in Wikimedia Commons' LGBT-related photo challenge. You are encouraged to share the results of your work here. Happy editing! --Another Believer _(Talk) 19:06, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

Leaflet For Wikiproject Women Artists At Wikimania 2014

Hi all,

My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.

One of our initiatives is to create leaflets to increase the discoverability of various wikimedia projects, and showcase the breadth of activity within wikimedia. Any kind of project can have a physical paper leaflet designed - for free - as a tool to help recruit new contributors. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations.

This is particularly aimed at highlighting less discoverable but successful projects, e.g:

o Active Wikiprojects: Wikiproject Medicine, WikiProject Video Games, Wikiproject Film

o Tech projects/Tools, which may be looking for either users or developers.

o Less known major projects: Wikinews, Wikidata, Wikivoyage, etc.

o Wiki Loves Parliaments, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves ____

o Wikimedia thematic organisations, Wikiwomen's Collaborative, The Signpost

For more information or to sign up for one for your project, go to: Project leaflets Adikhajuria (talk) 16:20, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Past Masters partnership

Hey All. At the Wikipedia Library, we just opened up a partnership with Intelex's Past Masters. Included in the partnership is access to scholarly editions of a number of Women Writers, including all of the scholarly apparatus that makes great source material for writing articles. For more information of what's in the collection, see their list of works. I would like to encourage anyone interested to apply for access at WP:Past Masters!Sadads (talk) 15:57, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

FYI - new series of edit-a-thons

Hi all, just wanted to give you a heads up about a new series of edit-a-thons (or something akin to edit-a-thons) regarding women artists in LA! See Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/Wik-Ed Women and here (Facebook event). The organizer isn't too experienced yet with Wikipedia editing yet, but she's really enthusiastic about getting more people involved. She is envisioning the series more as learners helping each other to gain experience together. Just FYI, and let me (or Simone -- I'm not sure of her username, but she's a host of the Facebook event) know if you're interested in getting involved! Calliopejen1 (talk) 22:07, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

Fall 2014 Art+Feminism IEG & PEG Grants Notification

Hello All, the Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon organizers have prepared an IEG grant, and a PEG grant this week for the fall Wikimedia Foundation grant scholarships. These grants will fund several NYC training sessions, another major international Edit-a-thon, and the creation of infrastructure to support this year, and years going forward. The project is seeking community comment / discussion and endorsement signatures (section at the bottom of the page) to help complete the grant process. We encourage you to take a look at these grants, and offer your feedback and/or your endorsement signature if you feel the project worthy. On behalf of the other organizers. --Theredproject (talk) 01:10, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel

• No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel

I've started a new article on the book by Janice Dickinson -- No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel.

Feel free to help out with additional secondary sources, and/or chip in with collaborative discussion at Talk:No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel.

Thank you, -- Cirt (talk) 06:39, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!

Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

Note: To receive additional notifications about WikiProject X on this talk page, please add this page to Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Newsletter. Otherwise, this will be the last notification sent about WikiProject X.

Harej (talk) 16:58, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

New article needing work

At Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation I've just accepted an article on the artist Jane Rosen. However it is more of a resume than an encyclopedia article at this point. It also needs categories. Thanks. StarryGrandma (talk) 19:11, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Also Emma Smith Gillies, just accepted and needs an infobox and categories. StarryGrandma (talk) 19:39, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Question at the Village Pump

There is a question at the Village Pump that should be of interest to this group:

Risk in identifying as a woman editor on Wikipedia

--Lightbreather (talk) 02:16, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Wikiproject Artworks by Women

Hi all, in preparing for the Art & Feminism edit-a-thon over the weekend of 7 & 8 March, I am creating lists of artworks by women because these are missing for even the greatest women artists. There is also a remarkable lack of articles on artworks. This project deals with the Women artists themselves and it's great to see the progress, but now it is time to flesh those articles out with infrastructure to support individual articles about notable artworks by those women. I would like to see a Category:Artworks by women per century. What do you think? I think we need a new (sub)project for this, as this one is just for the biographies, and the Visual Arts project is massive. I would like to fork the Visual Arts project into a "Artworks by Women" subproject, aimed mostly at the technical nature of making lists of artworks that are indexed here, on Commons, and on Wikidata for reuse in other projects. See as an example List of works by Mary Cassatt. Jane (talk) 08:49, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

I will set this up and report back here with a link from the front page for ease of reference. Jane (talk) 09:45, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Interesting read: Wikipedia:WikiProject_X/Stories#WikiProject_Women_writers. Apparently User:Rosiestep created Wikipedia:WikiProject Women writers and then after that widened the scope to include works by women writers. That's a good idea, so I will do the same here. Jane (talk) 10:47, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Step one is done: Wikipedia:WikiProject Women artists/Lists of works. Next up: Wikipedia:WikiProject Women artists/Artwork articles Jane (talk) 10:16, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Presentation proposal for Wikimania 2015

Hello! Victuallers and I have developed a draft proposal for a talk to be presented at Wikimania 2015. It's titled, How to pick up more women -- as in more women editors and more women's biographies. A friendly FYI... I have mentioned this WikiProject in the proposal! The proposal review process has begun and there's no guarantee that this proposal will be accepted. That's where you come in. Please review our proposal and give us feedback. Ultimately, we hope you add your name to the signup at the bottom of the proposal which signifies you're interested in the talk (it does not signify you'll be attending the event). Thank you! --Rosiestep (talk) 21:30, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Open invitation to the writing challenge

Anyone reading here is invited to the Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Challenge on 7 & 8 March. Jane (talk) 09:45, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for setting that up Jane. In preparation for the event, I've compiled a bunch of lists for feminist and women artists. Check out User:Gobonobo/Gender Gap red list/Artists if you're looking for ideas for new articles. gobonobo ^{+ c} 07:41, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

You're welcome, and thanks, I'll take a look. Jane (talk) 13:17, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Women architects?

Is there a reason architecture is not on the list of arts professions included under this WikiProject? Women who are architects have also operated under conditions of under-recognition throughout history.Alafarge (talk) 20:36, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

Whether or not architects are considered to be "artists" in this sort of context has not, apparently, been delved into. I say No. Wikipedia says "The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only. " Carptrash (talk) 22:06, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

As the person who launched the List of female architects article back in the day, I'd have no qualms with this project taking women architects under its wing. Obviously the modern architect role encompasses a far broader scope than visual arts but it is still a creative profession. This project was inspired by the Women Scientists project and architecture probably falls more towards the arts than the sciences (though with heavy doses of construction, engineering and project management). I can't imagine any member of WikiProject Women artists would have any qualms with monitoring and supporting articles about women architects! Sionk (talk) 23:08, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

So, . . . . . . . . . ......... how about dancers? Culinary arts?? Martial arts? Actors? I am not trying to disrespect architects but starting to include then might (opinion) lead to all sorts of issues later on. Actually, more "sooner" than "later." Carptrash (talk) 23:49, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

Who holds the last say on the visual arts definition, and where? I say yes to architects, dancers, and any other arts that fall outside the hugely popular "actress/singer" categories. Jane (talk) 08:41, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

I suggested this as something practical, in the spirit of the project. I didn't suggest it as a semantic debate on the definition of "artist". To include designers in the scope of the project doesn't seem to be a great leap. I'd agree with Jane023 that actors and singers do not suffer from neglect on Wikipedia, so don't need an additional support project. Sionk (talk) 21:47, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

I totally agree with you and uh, looks it's just you and me here these days, so go for it! I think I will set up a structure for artworks myself, I first need to figure out where to set it up. I think under some subheading of the arts portal. Jane (talk) 09:43, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Really weird but I noticed that this Wikiproject didn't "hang" under any portal at all. I just made it a subproj of Arts, Visual Arts, and Biography. Jane (talk) 10:51, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

So what did we decide about architects? I am still here, just in the midst of some medical (eye) issues that make editing difficult. Carptrash (talk) 14:51, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Um, yes? I'll add it explicitly in the top intro. Jane (talk) 19:09, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Wiki Ed "Editing Women's Studies" Brochure: Feedback requested

Hello all, Wiki Ed will be distributing a brochure to Women's Studies courses in the USA and Canada that edit Wikipedia as part of their classroom assignments. It will also be available on-wiki and as a pdf for anyone to read or use. I'm hoping to get some feedback on the brochure's contents -- if anyone has some time to review it, I've uploaded a Wiki draft here. We're looking to have it ready to print by March 3, so feedback would be most useful before then. Thanks everyone!

Eryk (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:20, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Categorizing women engravers

There's new Category:Women engravers, and it would be great if anyone would go through existing subcategories (by nation, by century) of Category:Engravers to identify women & add them to the category. Only Category:21st-century engravers has been covered (yielding 4 women out of 19). :) --doncram 23:53, 9 March 2015 (UTC)?

Pageview stats

After a recent request, I added WikiProject Women artists to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women artists/Popular pages.

The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. You can view more results, request a new project be added to the list, or request a configuration change for this project using the Tool Labs tool. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr.Z-man 04:37, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Cool! Thanks User:Mr.Z-man!! -- Missvain (talk) 06:55, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Draughtsmen, Drawers (artists), Drawing artists?

Category:Draughtsmen is the current category for artists who draw. We should have a non-diffusing subcategory for the women there, but what would it be named? Category:Draughtswomen seems obvious, but could create confusion when subjects are placed in both categories. Perhaps the whole tree should be renamed Category:Drafters? gobonobo ^{+ c} 18:28, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

I have no clue. I don't know anything about drafting and what proper terminology is. Perhaps social media or the article about "Drafting" can help solve that dilemma. Missvain (talk) 18:40, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Weird. I totally assumed that "draughtsmen" in the context of artists meant draftspersons, i.e. those who draw building plans, standing at drafting tables in architectural firms. Or there is draughts, some Victorian-era game or something, so it could mean players of that game. "Draughtsmen" is not common English, at least not in the U.S., and is not going to be understood by most readers to mean artists whose medium is drawing. I wouldn't want to help coin "draughtswomen" as a term that is only clearly meaning female persons but not clear about what the "draughts" part is about. "Sketch artists" doesn't work...one can sketch in paint or pastel etc. "Drawers", no... but there's a Commons:Category:Drawers (artists), oddly. I tend to think "Drawing artists" (and "female drawing artists"?) would be best...google search provides a lot of proper hits on "drawing artists". Deciding this is a matter for a Categories For Discussion (wp:CFD) discussion in wikipedia and connecting to the Commons category too. With considerations here including that draughtsmen is defective both for ambiguity about draughts, and also considering it uses "men" perhaps unnecessarily, rather than gender-neutral options like "person" or "artist". --doncram 15:43, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

That category is fraught with problems. Draughtsman redirects to Drafter on Wikipedia, which is certainly my understanding of what a draughtsman/draftsman is. The article Drafter (which should be the main article for the category) is clear the name does not extend to anyone who picks up a pencil. Sionk (talk) 18:46, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Yes, the Drafter article is very clear that way, it's about technical drawing, not art. It has a hatnote For visual artist who specializes in artistic drawings, see drawing. And drawing article is very clear in the opposite direction, that anyone using a pencil to draw is a draftsman / draughtsman, completely contradicting Drafter! Browsing around i find my way to Wiktionary's definition of draughtsman (plural draughtsmen):

1. A person skilled at drawing engineering or architectural plans.
2. (obsolete) A book illustrator.
3. A piece in the game of draughts (checkers).
4. (obsolete) One who drinks drams; a tippler.

So I learn a draughtsman is not a checkers-like-game-player, but rather a checker piece in the game. Hmm, I tend to think only "drawing artist" is clear, but it is not in common use. English language simply seems to lack a good word or term; I wonder if / expect that other languages might do a lot better. That's all for me on this. Thanks Gobonobo, Missvain, Sionk for your comments. cheers, --doncram 04:23, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Categories, List-articles, and Navigation templates needed

Hi, I find my way here though because I am interested in architects, have started a number of women architect articles, and discussion at Talk:List of women architects pointed me here, about where article requests should be kept.

But I hope you don't mind my suggesting here that it might be good to set up more structure, in categories and list-articles and navigation templates. There's a great guideline Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates which explains how these are complementary. For many women artist categories there can be a corresponding list-article which lists all the articles in the category, plus redlinks where articles are needed. And plus "black-links" to mention women artists who are somewhat notable but don't obviously need articles, e.g. a notable woman architect who is a principal of a notable architectural firm and is covered well enough in the firm's article.

This structure would serve to link between women artist articles, and increase ways readers could navigate to and between them, and I think it would invite/facilitate more development. For each of the major creative professional types covered by this WikiProject and listed on the main page, I think there could/should be a corresponding category and perhaps subcategories, and also there could/should be a corresponding list-article (or a section within a bigger list-article).

I wrote too much more out, sorry, so collapsed the above. Watch Draft:List of woman artists, to become List of women artists, sometime soon. Comments welcome. Cheers, --doncram 15:06, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you doncram. I agree that the project would benefit from more structure and that it would facilitate more involvement. I know that there has been a similar drive to create matching lists for categories over at WikiProject Women writers. In the past I've been reluctant to create gender-based categories as they tend to be brought to CfD quite a bit. I hope that category intersection is implemented someday, but that might be rather far off. gobonobo ^{+ c} 15:06, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Wow, that's a really overwhelming list of stuff. At this point I'm pretty burnt out on developing categories, especially since I created/categorized most of the women artists on Wikipedia after I created the project :) I did enough work in a one month period that it probably takes some people a year to do. I think it's a great idea for people to help with these things, just be forewarned - yes, many of them could be nominated for deletion, which is something I ran into. I'm actually a fan of having women artists in a gendered and non-gendered category - as a researcher and a curator, it makes my job easier when I can just click on "Women painters" :). I love the idea of a nav template. I also don't think we should categorize things under "visual" or "non-visual" arts. I'd rather just leave them all be as their own special selves. Seriously, I strongly advise against that. Because many things can be crossover - I know video artists who would consider their work visual art and basketweavers who would say they are not visual artists but craftswomen. We should avoid getting too meta about things, it just makes it less fun and too nit picky. Also, we do have a TON of people writing content about women artists, so I don't think participation is a problem at all. The only thing is that only hardcore Wikipedians care about categories and stuff like this - most people don't. :) Thanks for the interest and think it's great to see things evolve, as long as it doesn't get "too meta." Missvain (talk) 16:17, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Yes, upon consideration, I agree fully about not splitting categories of women by "visual" vs. "non-visual" artists, and I won't do that...it would seem artificial or too "meta" or something like that. However I notice and like how the artist article is nice in its intro about defining "artist" primarily as regards visual-type arts, separate from entertainers, musicians, dancers, and other performance artists, and also separate from writers though "artist" can be used in such contexts also. This wikiproject is self-defined to be about visual-type artists plus some of the other types. It is self-defined to cover performance art (of the interdisciplinary kind?) but not other performing artists (not musicians, not dancers). It is self-defined to cover experimental film artists but not other film artists? It does not cover writers, who are covered by WikiProject Women writers. I personally think it's fine for this Wikiproject to define its scope how it has been defined so far, or however this group likes, even if the chosen scope doesn't match up very neatly with trees of categories or trees of lists of artists in mainspace.

For mainspace lists, though, I'd like for List of women artists to be defined as primarily about artists of the visual arts types, subsuming lists of sculptors, painters, engravers, etc. But disjoint from List of women musicians (redlink?), List of women dancers (redlink?), List of female performing artists (redlink?), List of women architects, List of women writers. Am "drafting" Draft:List of women artists that way, anyhow. Happy to discuss that list's scope here and/or at Draft talk:List of women artists. --doncram 15:43, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Lists such as List of women musicians are clearly out of the question because they would be so long as to be meaningless. I created List of women architects, for example, because there is plenty of debate and study about why so few women remain in architecture (therefore the women who achieve great success in the field are particularly worthy of note). There has to be a sensible approach, rather than creating articles/lists/categories just for the sake of it. Sionk (talk) 18:11, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks all for your thoughts. Gobonobo's link to proposal at Wikipedia:Category intersection is interesting and is either sobering or encouraging: if the MediaWiki software were changed, then all the categorizing and cross-categorizing would be easy/done, but maybe it won't happen anytime soon. Missvain, thanks. I have never been a great fan of categories and honestly don't really care about them. I do like lists and have been active in developing lists about historic sites, churches, and other places, but not about people. For places, any list can be organized and split out as needed by geographical/political boundaries: split by country, by state, by county, etc., and there's seldom disagreement about how to do that. And it seems not too hard to keep lists nearly all-inclusive of new articles in the corresponding categories. For people, it seems there'd be many ways to split first, then second, and there'd be disagreements and duplication and it would be very hard to keep lists updated. I see List of women dancers lists about 80 United States dancers of all kinds, while a category for American ballerinas alone has more than 200, and I'm not motivated to get involved in updating the list....looks hard and not very useful. The "Wikipedia:Category intersection" project seems very well tailored to addressing the cross-categorizations of persons by gender by nation by occupation etc., very elegantly.

Sionk, I see your point about the List of women architects, although there's no intro to the list-article reflecting anything about what you say (and there should be). I see there's well-developed Women in architecture article which addresses that, and it should certainly be summarized and linked in the list's intro. (BTW, I just raised a question at Talk:Women in architecture.)

Not sure where to go now, maybe will not develop Draft:List of woman artists further, now. Thanks again. --doncram 20:30, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Attention called to Dora Maar article

I completed a first pass re-write of the Dora Maar article, which suffered on many levels, including a complete lack of citations, repeated appearance of (apparent) factual statements out of chronological order, a one sentence lede that completely ignored the many facets of her long life, a lack of any references to her works, a lack of references to her appearances in art, and the presence of an unnecessary info box on Pablo Picasso (containing only 4 relevant wikilinks to Dora Maar images).

The lede is now extended, the Picasso box removed (Maar works moved into a text list in a new section of text), and the first real citation--eminent Caws biographer article in The Guardian--added and used to rewrite the Section on her early life.

The article remains with section tags (most sections unsourced), inline tags regarding repeated statements of unsourced opinions, and article tags calling for citations and move away from essay to encyclopedic.

I ask participation of persons interested in woman poets and visual artists--Maar is a photographer, painter, and poet--to have a look at the sources for this artist and begin to rewrite the long stretches of unsourced prose with accurate, sourced biography for this important artist, fascinating individual, and artistic muse.

Reading knowledge of French and Croatian would help immensely, but even art and art historical experience and fundamental copyediting skills would be very valuable; for instance, I created a stub of a section on Maar's appearances in Picasso's works, wherein each needs name, description, and date (a process which I have only begun). As well, and critically, there is a paucity of references to her work and collections, and this research must be done, and added with sources.

Cheers, and good luck, I will look in. (But please do not remove tags until substantial section by section progress is made; readers, esp. mobile readers, deserve the warning that all is not right, yet, with the article.)

Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 20:07, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nelda Ramos

Please discuss. Bearian (talk) 00:43, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Women artists/Redlinks from Wikidata

I was really happy to stumble upon Wikipedia:WikiProject Women artists/Redlinks from Wikidata and wondered how we could get a similar list for WP:WikiProject Women writers. Is the list auto-generated or did someone do the research one article at a time? I am somewhat facile with Wikidata but not enough to understand how to develop this list. Thank you. --Rosiestep (talk) 00:33, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

Glad you like it - I created one for you here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Women writers/Redlinks from Wikidata. Basically, you go to autolist here and make a query for all female authors with this text: (no quotes) "CLAIM[21:6581072] and claim[106:(TREE[482980][][279])]". Next, you download the result as a text file and open it in notepad (or other editor of choice that doesn't mess up special characters). Next you dump that into a spreadsheet and filter for the Q numbers without enwiki sitelinks, but including a label and a description (I only included the top part for artists as there are way more of them than writers). Next, you create a new view of the filtered data with the wikimarkup and dump that into excel2wiki to get the table. Note you can set your language in autolist to download something other than English to get other language labels and descriptions too. Hope it helps, Jane (talk) 08:40, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

Jane, this is awesome. Thank you so much. --Rosiestep (talk) 16:44, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

looking for those interested in our project

hi wiki women artist community

my name is lori brown (usa) and with justine clark (australia) and eleanor chapman (germany), we have applied for a grant to write more women architects and designers into wikipedia. your own project has been integral to our thinking as well as helping us focus our grant proposal. we welcome comments and support for our project. in our own countries, we hosted wiki writing parties on march 8, international women's day, as a way to begin these efforts. some of these intersected with yours as well as i posted our nyc event on your page.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/More_Female_Architects_on_Wikipedia we look forward to hearing from you. Loriannbrown (talk) 23:28, 20 April 2015 (UTC)loriannbrown

Bechdel test

The scope of this project was broadened to include films that pass the Bechdel test. While I think there are too few films that pass the test, I worry that including all of them could imbalance the project. gobonobo ^{+ c} 17:01, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

Why? In what way? Jane (talk) 06:42, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

@Jane023: While films that pass the Bechdel test will have at least two women actors, many of those films were directed, produced, and written by men. This project already disincludes articles for actors themselves, so it puts us in a situation where we wouldn't have an article for an actor like Audrey Hepburn but we would have an article for a biopic about her. Apart from that, there are currently 5,662 articles within the scope of this project. Assuming we have articles for most of the 3,390 passing films listed at bechdeltest.com, they would comprise a large percentage of this project. gobonobo ^{+ c} 08:27, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

I have long since stopped worrying about compiling the numbers. We have bots for that. I am also not worried that we will be flooded with thousands of articles about films made by men that pass the Bechdel test. I am however very interested in accumulating such articles for the -pedia, and if this becomes a problematic area where the number of articles floods our discussion page, well, then it would be time for a new project. The film industry is ruled by mostly rich white men and women artists working within that industry deal with it, so we can too. Jane (talk) 09:25, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

Discussion notice

There is a discussion at meta, Grants:IdeaLab/Community discussion on harassment reporting, that may be of interest to members of the project. Lightbreather (talk) 14:21, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Deletion nomination of potential interest

See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of female visual artists from Vancouver. I don't personally feel strongly one way or the other about this one, but thought it could use more input. Calliopejen1 (talk) 21:33, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Draft:Danielle Monet Morse

This abandoned draft was up for speedy deletion because it hadn't been edited in six months. I removed the tag to buy another six months in case anyone here is interested in improving it -- seems like a potentially viable article on first glance. Calliopejen1 (talk) 17:25, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight) listed at Requested moves

A requested move discussion has been initiated for Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight) to be moved to Columbia University performance art controversy. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. --RMCD bot 23:21, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

Global Feminist Art class analyzing content gaps

Just thought I'd share this interesting class project: Education Program:University of Washington/Global Feminist Art (Spring 2015)

From the course page:

"Each student will identify a gap in Wikipedia coverage for a course-related topic -- such an artist, topic, concept, or movement. The student will then post an entry to the course project page to describe the gap, propose text to fill the gap, and list sources that could be used to fill it."

Student work is being collected here: Education Program talk:University of Washington/Global Feminist Art (Spring 2015)/gap analysis. --Ryan (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:08, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

New article: Millicent Sowerby

Having become interested in the Sowerby family of naturalists and illustrators, I created Millicent Sowerby (DYK nom). There appears to be additional and/or more extensive coverage in books and other offline sources, so if anyone has relevant knowledge and access to sources, feel free to contribute! --Animalparty-- (talk) 23:38, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

Mattress Performance

There is a discussion at the BLP noticeboard which may be relevant to this wikiproject. --Sammy1339 (talk) 00:52, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

RfC - Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight)

There's currently an open RfC on a topic that may be of interest to readers of this wikiproject.--BoboMeowCat (talk) 03:10, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

Copyright Violation Detection - EranBot Project

A new copy-paste detection bot is now in general use on English Wikipedia. Come check it out at the EranBot reporting page. This bot utilizes the Turnitin software (ithenticate), unlike User:CorenSearchBot that relies on a web search API from Yahoo. It checks individual edits rather than just new articles. Please take 15 seconds to visit the EranBot reporting page and check a few of the flagged concerns. Comments welcome regarding potential improvements. These likely copyright violations can be searched by WikiProject categories. Use "control-f" to jump to your area of interest (if such a copyvio is present).--Lucas559 (talk) 15:53, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

Louisa Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford

Hi all, I recently stumbled across the article on Louisa Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford. I'm a little confused by the content of the article as a lot of detail seems to be about her family/relatives which contextually seems a bit extraneous. I have a book out of the library at the moment which has a chapter on her as an artist - O'Connor, Éimear. Irish Women Artists, 1800-2009. Dublin: Four Courts Press. ISBN 9781846822506. Does anyone have any advice on how to go about overhauling it, or perhaps has an interest in trying to improve it? Thanks! Smirkybec (talk) 19:25, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

Lia Chang

I saved this article from being deleted at an AfD, but various issues in it are under discussion. Can anyone comment here?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Lia_Chang#archive.3F -- Ssilvers (talk) 01:16, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Composers

Could composers be added to this list? Female composers are not well-represented on Wikipedia. Uenuku (talk) 22:58, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

You're invited! Women in Red World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Leadership

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Re-organization of WikiProject Women

There currently is a discussion about the future organization of Wikipedia:WikiProject Women and several other women-related Wikiprojects and taskforces at the above link. Some aspects may be of interests to editors of this project and your participation in the discussion would be appreciated. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 12:09, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

You're invited! Women in Red World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Architecture

RFC: 2015 Art+Feminism Grant

Art+Feminism has prepared a combined renewal of our IEG grant and PEG grant. If awarded, these grants will fund: childcare and refreshments for the 2016 international Art+Feminism Edit-a-thons; in-person training sessions for New York-city based volunteers and online training sessions national and international node organizers; the expansion of our outreach to post-secondary institutions and international Wikimedia chapters; building sustainable infrastructure for node organizers; and making our materials more intersectional. We seek community comment to help complete the grant process: here -- Theredproject (talk) 23:59, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

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Two excellent new lists on Rembrandt

I would like to draw the project's attention to two excellent new lists compiled by Jane023: Rembrandt catalog raisonné, 1968 and Rembrandt catalog raisonné, 1986. Not only do both lists contain all the essential data on Rembrandt's paintings but they also provide references to Wikidata entries on each work which offer further details. I have a feeling it will not be long before the lists appear in Dutch and other languages, given Wikidata's multilingual approach. These lists offer an excellent basis for further developments along the same lines. Rembrandt may not be a woman but he now certainly enjoys dedicated female support.--Ipigott (talk) 16:25, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! Jane (talk) 18:09, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Happy Public Domain Day!

Here is a link to a list of women painters who died in 1945. Not all are from Europe, but the ones who are have now entered PD so paintings can be uploaded to Commons for them. Here's the link Jane (talk) 18:09, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to a virtual editathon on Women in Music

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Women's History Month worldwide online edit-a-thon

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"Women are everywhere"

Hi, "Women are everywhere" is a project about the gender gap problem in Wikipedia, with a focus on Italian Wikipedia. You can find a draft for an Individual Engagement Grant at this link https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Women_are_everywhere. It would be great if I could have your help and your feedback on this project to improve it. Many thanks--Kenzia (talk) 09:27, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Courtney Love article

Hello all, I have been working on the Courtney Love article over a number of years now, and it is currently a Featured Article nominee. I wanted to post here to see if any editors would potentially be interested in doing a review. So far, there are 2/2 reviews supporting it for FA, but I wanted to reach out to some other related WikiProjects to see if anyone would be interested or willing to participate in the review process. Given as divisive of a figure she is, it's been a bit difficult getting interest from editors, in spite of how high-traffic of an article it is. Thank you! Drown Soda (talk) 20:01, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

2016 Just For The Record IEG & PEG Grants notification -- intersectional & gender diversity on Wikipedia!

Just For The Record has prepared a combined IEG grant and PEG grant application to work on the promotion of more gender diversity on Wikipedia with an intersectional perspective. These grant applications build upon the exciting results of our 2015-2016 Brussels-based series of events addressing the gender gap on Wikipedia. Just For The Record has created a network in which expertise on these questions is created and shared. With our new applications, we want to expand this knowledge and network beyond the context of the edit-a-thon!

If awarded, the PEG grant will fund: location and refreshments for the 2016-2017 Just For The Record edit-a-thons. If awarded, the IEG grant will fund: research and analysis into the representation of gender on Wikipedia, combined with the construction of a research/ambassador network, leading to an intersectional non-sexist guide on how knowledge and history can be written in a more diverse way. We seek community comment, discussions and endorsement signatures (section at the bottom of the pages) to help complete the grant process: here and here! Many thanks, Lfurter (talk) 09:32, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

Women in photography

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New page for art historian Julia Friedman could use your assistance please

Note: Wwwwhatupprrr has been indefinitely blocked as a sockpuppet of Art4em. Please see the investigation and the related conflict of interest discussion for details. Rebbing 19:41, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

Greeting editors -- an insightful editor has posted in the Talk page for the article Julia Friedman: This article is within the scope of WikiProject Women artists, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of women artists on Wikipedia. Therefore, I would like to introduce this page to your visitors.

I would like to bring to your attention that I have just created a page for a woman in the field of art history. The page is for Julia Friedman, a Russian born Los Angeles art historian. Needless to say, this page Julia Friedman could use your assistance! I hope you can read the wonderful review that inspired my efforts in The Times Literary Supplement published May 27. I would appreciate any contribution you could make or offer. Despite this mid-career woman's notable talent and scholarship, the past few hours since its launch have been very difficult. --Wwwwhatupprrr (talk) 18:48, 28 May 2016 (UTC)

Coagula Art Journal #113, May 2016

Note: Wwwwhatupprrr has been indefinitely blocked as a sockpuppet of Art4em. Please see the investigation and the related conflict of interest discussion for details. Rebbing 19:41, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

Might this be of interest to any editors/readers? The 113th issue of ''Coagula Art Journal'', May 2016, is the largest ever printed in the magazine's 24 year history at 88 pages. This issue highlights Eric Minh Swenson's documentary photographs of Art Stars - 160 women artists, dealers, and writers in the art scene from New York to California - with an introduction by Mat Gleason. Cecily Brown, Catherine Opie, Alexis Smith (artist), Casey Jane Ellison, Edythe Broad, Hunter Drohojowska-Philip, Julia Friedman, Helen Molesworth, Michele Maccarone, and other notable "art stars" are featured. --Wwwwhatupprrr (talk) 02:45, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

Welcome to the Hall of Fame!

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Nadia Kaabi-Linke

Nadia Kaabi-Linke (b. 1978) is a Tunis-born, Berlin-based visual artist best known for her conceptual art and 2011 sculpture Flying Carpets. Her work explores themes of Tunisian identity, immigration, and geopolitics.

I started this article as part of the recent Guggenheim MENA women artist edit-a-thon. I've been in touch with the artist to get photos and whatnot and in that process, I think it has enough to pass a GA nomination, if anyone is interested in giving it a review. Especially open to feedback on the format/structure, as I plan to work on multiple new contemporary artist articles in the near future. czar 05:45, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Sharon Christian

Hi all! Seeking help to improve page for the artist Sharon Christian. She was an important artist in Western Canada, but like many female Canadian artists (especially pre-internet), her documented notable contributions during her lifetime are not represented on wikipedia. Here's to trying to remedy the situation:

Draft:Sharon_Christian

Thanks!Icareaboutart (talk) 13:39, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to Women in Architecture & Women in Archaeology editathons

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This article has multiple issues with it. The references seem to be correctly cited, however, more content could be added to the page as it is quite scarce. Everything in the article is relevant to the article's topic. Everything seems to be neutral on the subject. Some of the information is out of date and more could be added. Cady FosterCmfoster3 (talk) 16:45, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

2016 Community Wishlist Survey Proposal to Revive Popular Pages

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Georgia O'Keeffe

I became aware that there were just a few articles about Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings at the WikiProject visual arts talk page. Her article was also in very sore shape, with lots of uncited content and other issues. I have been working to clean-up that article and have developed articles for {{Georgia O'Keeffe}} template, which are just a start. If anyone is interested, there are lots of opportunities to expand the articles about her work that are listed in the template. After some initial editings and regrouping of the sections, I am working on the article about her from the top-down.

I posted this here because it seems such a shame to not properly represent O'Keeffe and her important contribution to American art. If anyone is interested in joining in, that would be great!--CaroleHenson (talk) 15:50, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

I'd love to. I'm an admirer of your work, but not quite sure how I could possibly keep up with you. A practical issue that came up when I started Black Iris (painting) is the copyright status of O'Keeffe's work. If I understand the situation correctly, her work that was published before January 1, 1923 is in the public domain, but later work is not, and nothing will enter the public domain in the US until 2019. Do you know if this is correct? Mduvekot (talk) 22:45, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

I think you are right, but you can better ask that q on commons I believe. It doesn't really matter for illustrating the articles, b/c you can just upload the image to the article here on enwiki under the fair use policy since the article is about the image. We did this with the Europeana art challenge for artworks by painters who died less than 70 yrs ago, and you can see that is the case for some of the works by O'Keeffe already. Just copy the same tl for the image if you want to upload locally. Jane (talk) 09:06, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Susan E. King was nominated for deletion

I just created this page yesterday. She is an important book artist and should be included. Will you all help. Please weigh in on her talk page. Thank you.--Sue Maberry (talk) 16:46, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

Karina Smigla-Bobinski

You may want to weigh in on this Karina Smigla-Bobinski at Articles for Deletion. My arguments do not seem to be taken into consideration. She is a well known New Media artist of note, shown in museums and galleries around the world. Netherzone (talk) 15:10, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

Rita Grosse-Ruyken

Hello, I noticed there are a couple old maintenance issues on the English page for Rita Grosse-Ruyken, a living German artist. The article was challenged three years ago and the decision was to keep, but it needs a little beefing up. I added an internal link to get rid of the article orphan problem, but does it need more sources? There is a German language version of the page that has no issues. Thank you!

Imhr (talk) 22:04, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

Category:Women visual artists up for discussion/merge

See Category:Women visual artists for discussion. Hmlarson (talk) 21:43, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

some afds

Hi, just a heads up, the following articles are up for deletion: Anne Dugan, Duluth Art Institute, Edna Blanchard. Coolabahapple (talk) 06:35, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Fearless Girl statue

To commemorate International Women's Day, I invite project members to help expand the newly-created article, Fearless Girl. Happy editing! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 16:18, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Milly Ristvedt up for deletion

If any editors on this project find a moment to help develop an article on a notable Canadian woman painter, Milly Ristvedt, please do so. it is up for deletion HERE - perhaps you would like to add a comment or opinion. She goes by another name (see her page) and often women artists "fall thru the cracks" because of the discrepancy between maiden name and married name. Netherzone (talk) 00:19, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

Popular pages report

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Are books illustrated by women a part of this project?

Hi all, Mduvekot has removed the women artists project tag from a couple of book talkpages (Click, Clack, Moo and If You Give a Mouse a Cookie) with the edit comment "not in scope of WikiProject Women artists" and "not a biography of a woman artist", i thought that "Welcome to WikiProject Women artists, a WikiProject dedicated to ensuring quality and coverage of biographies of women artists and their works." would include books that contain illustrations by women? a clarification of this would be much appreciated, thanks. Coolabahapple (talk) 02:02, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

Coolabahapple I'm travelling with limited ability to respond. Just revert me where you think I made a mistake and the work is substantially by the artist. I'll review what i did and address your concerns in detail once I have good internet access again, likely Sunday. All the best, Mduvekot (talk) 13:51, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

Illustrators are absolutely a part of this project's scope, Coolabahapple and Mduvekot. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 18:44, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

The context is that I was looking at the stubs in Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_artists/Popular_pages. I updated some tags and removed a number of people who do not meet the broad definition of (visual) artist, like Preeti Gupta, Anais Granofsky and M.O. I have removed two books from WikiProject Women artists; If You Give a Mouse a Cookie which was illustrated by Felicia Bond, whose article is not part of WikiProject Women artists, and Click, Clack, Moo, which was illustrated by Betsy Lewin, who is of interest to WikiProject_Women_artists. I did not mean to suggest that illustrators should not be part this project's scope, and don't believe I ever have. I felt that their work did not meet an admittedly rather narrow definition of "work of art", but I can see that it is impractical to include painters and their paintings and designers, but not their designs. Is it fair to say that the consensus here is that "biographies of women artists and their works" includes any work or substantial part of a work by a women artist? Mduvekot (talk) 03:20, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Khadija Saye

A redirect about the artist Khadija Saye, whose tragic death in the Grenfell Tower fire has been widely reported in the British press, is being turned into an article. I think we could do nothing better to honour her legacy than to make this article the best that it possibly can be. I'm not a great writer, I don't write GAs or FAs, so I'm not the right person to do right by Khadija Saye. To all of you here: please help make the article some of our best work. Thank you, Mduvekot (talk) 02:33, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

Nancy Crow

Would someone from this WikiProject mind taking a look at Nancy Crow? Almost all of the sources cited are WP:BLPSELFPUB so it's not clear whether Crow meets WP:BIO or WP:ARTIST; moreover, the article is a bit promotional sounding, particularly the box quote at the beginning, and makes mention of a number of non-Wikipedia notable collections and exhibitions. Quilting might not get the type of coverage of some other fine arts, so I'd figured it would be best to get feedback from others before adding tags, etc. Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:43, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

I'm sure Crow is notable. Her work has been exhibited in several significant museums and is collected by several museums as well. Definitely an important figure. Mduvekot (talk) 22:57, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for checking on this Mduvekot. I only mentioned "notability" because pretty much all of the sources are Crow's books. This may be fine for referencing certain content, but it doesn't help establishing notability. Anyway, I'm glad I asked about the article at some WikiProjects for feedback since it seems some others have started helping to improve the article. -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:49, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

Are female video game designers part of this?

Would Nina Freeman, a female video game designer who has created a program to help female video game developers, within the scope of this project? -- Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs) 20:59, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Alice Walton

Hi! I am looking for editors interested in art and art collectors to review an edit request for the Art section of Alice Walton, the art collector and chairwoman of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. I will not direct edit the page because I have a Wikipedia:Conflict of interest, which I disclosed on my user page and declared on Talk:Alice Walton. I created a proposed update that tidies up the existing content and includes appropriate sourcing regarding Crystal Bridges and Ms. Walton's collection. I appreciate any help from the community to review and update the section if they agree. Thanks, Kt2011 (Talk · COI:Walton family) 19:47, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

Feedback needed on project proposal: Investigating the Impact of Implicit Bias on Wikipedia

Hi Friends! Here is the current draft of my project proposal: Investigating the Impact of Implicit Bias on Wikipedia. I value your input and would greatly appreciate your feedback. Please share it on the project proposal discussion page. Thank you in advance! Best, Jackiekoerner (talk) 04:19, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Disambiguation links on pages tagged by this wikiproject

Wikipedia has many thousands of wikilinks which point to disambiguation pages. It would be useful to readers if these links directed them to the specific pages of interest, rather than making them search through a list. Members of WikiProject Disambiguation have been working on this and the total number is now below 20,000 for the first time. Some of these links require specialist knowledge of the topics concerned and therefore it would be great if you could help in your area of expertise.

A list of the relevant links on pages which fall within the remit of this wikiproject can be found at http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/cgi-bin/topic_points.py?banner=WikiProject_Women_artists

Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.-- Rod ^talk 20:16, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Revisiting gendered categories

Wikipedia talk:Categorization#Revisiting gendered categories: Let's have a clear criterion of "has or can have a proper article" --Redrose64 ? (talk) 23:19, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

International Women's Day Oxford 2018

In case you weren't aware, Mvolz (talk · contribs) has created Wikipedia:Meetups/UK/International Women's Day Oxford 2018. --Redrose64 ? (talk) 21:12, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon in Portland, Oregon: Jewish Women Artists (March 8)

On March 8 (International Women's Day), and as part of the Art+Feminism project, Shoshana Gugenheim and the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education will be hosting a Wikipedia edit-a-thon to create and improve articles about Jewish women artists. Click here for more information. You can also express interest or suggest article to create or improve here. Remote participation is also welcome! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 19:34, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

Source of the article : Wikipedia