Electronic literature (elit) is literature that uses digital elements, such as games, hypertext linking, sounds, images, and videos. Both electronic literature works and writers are underrepresented in Wikipedia, and this project will help create articles that will explain elit's impact over the last few decades, as elit has influenced video and alternative reality games, hypertext language and programming, and more.

Electronic Literature enthusiasts are working together to create and improve Wikipedia articles for digital media writing. Wikipedia articles inform AI, which informs the world. So we need to get the word out about our wonderful field of literature that uses games, images, sound, navigation, virtual reality and more. Our work is in danger of being overlooked as it may not be published or reviewed in venues traditionally considered notable sources. Moreover, this is a volunteer effort, and we need YOU to volunteer and edit!

1-26-2026 added an article on Loss of Grasp

9-10-2025 added an article on Talan Memmott. 8-23-2025. We have submitted the article for N. Katherine Hayles as a good article, and CELL as an article. Please help us to address comments. 7-6-2025 We have new articles for The Impermanence Agent Nio, Judith Kerman, [[V[R]erses_An_XR_Story_Series Hazel Smith, The NEXT Museum, Electronic Literature Lab, We Descend, Taroko Gorge, Mark Bernstein, Carolina Gainza, Adriana de Souza e Silva, Gabriela Golder, Carmen Gil Martinez and more. Please edit this source and let us know when you create or substantially improve articles.

The Women's Electronic Literature Writers Project meets online only every Third Thursday at 3 pm UTC. All are invited, with no specialized knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia editing experience required. We will present an overview of the Electronic Literature writers page, explain the status and information. A brief overview of the basics of Wikipedia editing will be given at the start of each edit-a-thon.

We have provided edit-a-thons at many events, and our latest one was July 10, 2025 at the Electronic Literature Organization's 25th Conference in Toronto.

We need 5 to 10 word descriptions of each work at List of electronic literature works. Please go to List of electronic literature works, click on a link, read the summary. Write out a 5 - 10 word summary. then click on the List of electronic literature works again, click on edit, and paste that summary. Make sure each work has a publication year.

We need to connect all electronic literature items in Wikidata to the WP:Electronic literature project. To do this, click on Wikidata item. Search for electronic literature or ELMCIP. Add a statement: On focus list of and then in the next box add in: Wikiproject: electronic literature. Select this from the drop down menu as it comes up! Thanks!

• Clean up Improve existing articles! We need to clean up all of these articles on this list of WikiProject Electronic literature articles tagged for attention an automated list of articles that need more sources or have other issues. Please help clean up citations. See Hazel Smith (writer)'s article as a great example of cleaned up citations (Look at the view history/@PeaceRay's edits).

• Write Write new articles! Here is a list of missing articles. Pick one and search for sources! Here is a template you can use for articles about works of electronic literature - switch to Source editing and copy and paste it into the new page you make - then fill it out.

• Add Add to the list of missing articles! You can add topics we should have articles on, or add links to sources we could use.

• Ask Post any questions on the Talk page for this project!

• Add and edit infoboxes If an article does not have an info box, please add, and if it does, please edit for more information, photos if possible, etc. See Help:Infobox

• Translate articles Put the template "" on the talk page of each article you translate from other languages.

• Categorize Add categories to articles (at the bottom of each article). Note that articles should be in the most specific subcategory. So "American electronic literature writers" instead of "Electronic literature writers".

• Find reviews If a book (or work of e-lit) has two reviews in independent, reliable sources, it is notable per WP:NBOOK and eligible for its own Wikipedia article. If an author has two notable works they are also notable (WP:AUTHOR. So adding info about reviews to relevant articles or their talk pages is very helpful. Here’s [User:LEvalyn/Where_to_find_book_reviews|how to find conventional reviews]. For e-lit works you may be more likely to find discussion of the works in scholarly articles, and this also counts if it’s “significant” (typically a paragraph or more). Look in Google Scholar and Google Books to find these.

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

This user is a participant in WikiProject Electronic literature

You can help by accessing the list [1]

Add your name by typing an asterisk (*) followed by four tildes (~~~~) Also, please note what other languages you are connected with

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

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

See the list of women electronic literature writers.

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

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{{WikiProject Electronic literature}}	Electronic literature This article is within the scope of WikiProject Electronic literature, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Electronic literature on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Electronic literatureWikipedia:WikiProject Electronic literatureTemplate:WikiProject Electronic literatureElectronic literature
{{WikiProject Electronic literature|women=yes}}	Electronic literature: Women This article is within the scope of WikiProject Electronic literature, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Electronic literature on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Electronic literatureWikipedia:WikiProject Electronic literatureTemplate:WikiProject Electronic literatureElectronic literature This article is supported by Women Electronic Literature Writers Task Force.

The categories below display the articles with the banner on their talk pages.

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

We hold an editathon every third Thursday at Three UTC on zoom. See infobox or email LoveElectronicLiterature to get the link.

We have held editathons at:

• WikiConference 2023 and 2024
• New Media Writing Prize Unconference, 2023, 2024, and 2025
• Electronic Literature Organization's Main Conference 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025
• Decisionmaking Under Deep Uncertainty Conference Denver 2024

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

• Electronic Literature Organization
• The NEXT: Museum, Library, and Preservation Space at Washington State University at Vancouver, Washington
• Electronic Literature Lab at Washington State University at Vancouver, Washington
• Center for Digital Narrative [no] at University of Bergen
• Indian Electronic Literature Organization

The list of articles that needs creation or expansion can be found here. We have just created articles for We Descend, Carolina Gainza Cortes (From Spanish), and Carmen Gil Martinez (from Spanish), Blikk

Our Women in elit Group library is at: [2]

We gather information as we can. See [3]

To follow the rules in WP:NAVIGATION we should put articles about individual works or writers or critics in the most specific subcategories we can. So a Brazilian work published in 2015 would be put in the categories Category:2010s electronic literature works and Category:Brazilian electronic literature works. An article about a Canadian-Russian writer of electronic literature would be put in the categories Category:Canadian electronic literature writers and Category:Russian electronic literature writers. This means that the article can be accessed both via Category:Russian writers by genre and Category:Electronic literature writers by nationality. Here is the current category tree:

• Category:Electronic literature
  • Category:Books about electronic literature
  • Category:Concepts in electronic literature
  • Category:Electronic literature works
    • Category:Precursors of electronic literature
    • Category:Electronic literature works by decade
      • Category:2000s electronic literature works
      • Category:2010s electronic literature works
      • Category:2020s electronic literature works
    • Category:Electronic literature works by country
      • Category:American electronic literature works
      • Category:Polish electronic literature works
      • Category:French electronic literature works
      • etc.
  • Category:Electronic literature writers
    • Category:Electronic literature writers by nationality
      • Category:Australian electronic literature writers
      • Category:Venezuelan electronic literature writers
      • Category:Russian electronic literature writers

• Electronic literature organizations
• Electronic literature software

• • • • etc
  • Category:Electronic literature critics
    • Currently individual biographical articles go directly in this category.
  • Category:Electronic literature by genre
    • Category:Generative literature
    • Category:Hypertext fiction
    • Category:Interactive fiction
    • Category:Netprov

Note that when we get new nationalities, we need to add those categories to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Literature_by_medium