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WikiProject Australian literature is a collaboration space and central forum for editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Australian literature. Relevant articles will be categorised so they can be easily accessed for assessment and cleanup, gaps in coverage of core topics will be identified, and resources will be available to help improve article quality. If you're interested in Australian writers and writing (fiction or non-fiction, poetry or prose, high brow or pop) and would like to see Wikipedia become an excellent source of information about Australian literature, join in and Be Bold!. The project acts as a joint general literature and narrative prose "work group"/"task force" of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia and the Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels.

Australian literature articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
FA			1			1
FL				4		4
GA			3	3		6
B	1	11	20	41		73
C	6	25	105	285		421
Start	1	30	185	1,684		1,900
Stub		3	98	1,315		1,416
List		2	3	215		220
Category					537	537
Disambig					1	1
File					1	1
Project					2	2
Redirect			5	71	21	97
Template					23	23
NA					8	8
Assessed	8	71	420	3,618	593	4,710
Unassessed				1		1
Total	8	71	420	3,619	593	4,711
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 19,952			Ω = 5.22

• To coordinate and improve articles related to Australian literature;
• To foster collaboration between editors in the Australian literature and other literature projects;
• To establish appropriate linkages with the Wikipedia Australia project and portal;
• To ascertain and identify the Australian literature component of other Wikipedia projects;
• To seek peer review and collaboration of editors in other Wikipedia projects.

To encourage coverage of historical and contemporary Australian literature to give balance to historical and contemporary contexts.

To improve iconic and high-profile Australian literature articles to GA and FA quality.

• People: Writers, dramatists, essayists, poets.
• History: Australian regional and State and territory literary histories. Nineteenth century Australian literary history, Twentieth century Australian literary history.
• Genres: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Essays.
• Controversies: Fraud, Hoaxes, Critical,

WikiProject Australian Literature maintains and improves articles within the Australian Literature category structure.

Articles to be merged

• 29 Oct 2024 – Les Wicks (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Meuse Press by Lizthegrey (t · c); see discussion

For overview of Portals - see Wikipedia:Portal/Directory

This project is directly related to the:-

• Portal:Literature

• Portal:Oceania
• Portal:Australia

• Portal:Poetry

To keep to the guidelines as designated in Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide

Also see: Wikipedia:Writing about fiction

Useful templates:

• {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/ArticleTemplate}} - article template for novel articles
• {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/InfoboxCode}} - infobox for novel articles
• {{Template:Infobox Writer}} - infobox for writer biographies

For novel articles, please note the official Wikipedia policy regarding plot summaries:

"Wikipedia articles on works of fiction should contain real-world context and sourced analysis, offering detail on a work's achievements, impact or historical significance, not solely a summary of that work's plot. A plot summary may be appropriate as an aspect of a larger topic."

There are no active tasks for this page

• List of Australian literary awards – each award needs to be checked and updated, as necessary, with recent winners and shortlists and references

• Black Dog Books - stub
• Giramondo Publishing - improve refs
• Makar Press
• Nelson Books
• Scribe - stub
• Transit Lounge
• University of Queensland Press - improve

• Austral Society - stub
• Australian Bush Poetry- improve
• Ipswich Poetry Feast - tagged refimprove

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

There are no unreferenced BLPs in Category:WikiProject Australian literature articles.

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

1. SatuSuro 06:20, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
2. baby_ifritah 11:13, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
3. Misarxist 15:35, 8 May 2007 (UTC) mainly contemporary poetry[reply]
4. —Moondyne 03:12, 11 May 2007 (UTC).[reply]
5. Fred Interest: non fiction
6. KteachK joined in 2011. Will contribute mostly biographical information on Australian writers.
7. Kevinalewis (talk · contribs), joined 17 May 2007 - Interested in fictional prose forms known as Novels, Novellas, Novelettes and Short Stories.
8. Perry Middlemiss, joined 28 May 2007 - interested in Australian poetry 1850-1939, modern Australian literary fiction, Miles Franklin award, Australian/Vogel Award, Australian crime and science fiction.
9. Stella started sometime this June 2007 updating categories for writers, mainly Australian women writers. Found lots missing. Currently working through literary awards to find modern writers.
10. Sterry2607 started editing and creating articles in May 2007, particularly in the area of Australian women writers
11. Outcast44. Interested in Australian horror fiction and speculative fiction.
12. Daniel99091 - Interested in novels for young adults.
13. Lady Nimue of the Lake (talk) 05:41, 11 January 2008 (UTC) - Interested in young adult novels, fantasy, science fiction novels...etc.[reply]
14. Matilda ^talk 22:55, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
15. Gemma Interested in contemporary Australian fiction and issues related to Australian publishing.
16. User:Shirt58 Whatever I can help with.
17. Danie Tei Australian fantasy mostly
18. Ali Kayn Interest: Work by Australian C20th and C21st authors, especially crimes, science fiction and fantasy
19. ANZLitLovers, (Lisa Hill) joined 28.2.2009, Interested in Australian Literary Fiction, Biographies of Australian authors & Australian Literary Awards & Prizes
20. Tyranny Sue: Interested in Kate Grenville and Garth Nix. Could possibly help with any awards lists and want to learn more about categorisation. (Also involved with several Australian comedy articles.)
21. Peroxwhy2gen^Talk - Interested in the Ranger's Apprentice series by John Flanagan
22. punkrocker1991^Talk joined 2010-12-17. Interested in Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror (speculative fiction), with a focus on 1991-present.
23. SenatorSteve Grandmother, Cecilia Brown, was born in 1924 and raised until the age of 22 in Melbourne. Met Ralph Chapin, a US MP on RR from Michigan, US. Made five wonderful children, who sadly only produced three children from one family. (No cousins). Still alive with relatives still in Australia! Slowly, but surely participating!
24. User:Pizzagreen Interested in Australian fantasy
25. User:Locochoko Word nerd
26. User:Oronsay
27. The_Cardigan_Kid Not a frequent Wiki editor, but my core interest is in Australian literary fiction, especially 20th century.
28. User:WomenOutLoud Interested in underappreciated Australian Women, particularly literary fiction.
29. User:michaelgfalk Interested mainly in colonial literature, but I will try to take a look at twentieth-century poetry, fiction and non-fiction when I can!
30. User:BindiS interested in contemporary Australian literature and also experienced from working in Australian literature for young children

Userbox

Participants may wish to use the following userbox

This user is a member of WikiProject Australian literature.

by adding {{User ALIT}} to their user page. Else, they may like to just add Category:WikiProject Australian literature participants.

Please note that while the project is under construction and getting ready - any - that is any Australian literature articles you know of - need to be gathered in and tagged - or listed on a sub-page of this project - please give some thought to help us 'capture' the Australian literature articles... not yet setup but coming soon

Please feel free to list your new Australian literature-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Page. (Remove entries over one month old.)

• They're a Weird Mob - split from They're a Weird Mob (film) on 19 April 2010
• The Rosie Result - on 21 Feb 2019

Copy and paste the template

{{WikiProject Australia|? =yes}}

on the talk page of Australian literature articles. Instructions are at Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/Project banner.

If the article already has WP Australia but not Literature - simply add literature=yes - inside the brackets.

Assessment parameters of relevance are:

literature-importance=

(Top, high, Mid, Low, NA) Importance to the Australian literature project

importance=

(Top, high, Mid, Low, NA) Importance to the overall Australian wikiproject

class=

(FA, A, GA, B, Start, Stub, NA, List) quality assessment of the article's current state

Example template for placement on discussion page of article :

{{WikiProject Australia|class= |importance= |literature=yes |literature-importance= }}

• Add the template to new or short articles

{{??-stub}}

to an article's main page. It will then appear in the category:

[[Category:Australia literature stubs]]

Close monitoring of the cleanup project is needed to maintain a close understanding of what is happening in this area.

For Australian literature-related articles needing an image, use {{reqphotoin|Australia literature}} in the talk page. These will appear in this category;

• Requested photographs in Australia literature

Collaboration of the week

Peer review

Assessment

• Category:Australian literature
• Category:History of literature in Australia
• Category:19th-century Australian literature
• Category:20th-century Australian literature
• Category:21st-century Australian literature

The Australian literature project relies upon both online resources and traditional published resources.

• Wilde, William H., Hooton, Joy and Andrews, Barry (1991)The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, Melbourne ISBN 0-19-553273-2

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/To-do/Australian Dictionary of Biography

• Parents: Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia

Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels

• Sister: projects might have regional literature articles or articles about local literature:

Wikipedia:WikiProject Adelaide

Wikipedia:WikiProject Brisbane

Wikipedia:WikiProject Melbourne

Wikipedia:WikiProject Northern Territory

Wikipedia:WikiProject Sydney

Wikipedia:WikiProject Tasmania

Wikipedia:WikiProject Victoria

Wikipedia:WikiProject Western Australia

• Overlap: - there may be limited items in the following projects with literature components: -

• • WikiProject Australian crime
  • WikiProject Australian history
  • WikiProject Australian history/Exploration
  • WikiProject Australian maritime history
  • WikiProject Military history/Australian military history task force
  • WikiProject Australian politics
  • WikiProject Australian sports

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