Wikipedia:WikiProject MedievalWiki

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Welcome to MedievalWiki! No one is in charge here: everyone is welcome to contribute, create a Wikithon under the MedievalWiki banner, and join the participants list - provided your editing intentions align with MedievalWiki aims!

Please feel free to make changes and additions to the format and content of these pages, and use the Talk page to leave questions and comments.

This project was established to create a permanent project building upon Wikipedia:Meetup/MedievalWikiIWD2018, an event which was inspired by User:Whistlaw/Jan_28_Editathon 2015, and Wikipedia:Meetup/MedievalFeminist 2014.

MedievalWiki Aims

Anyone who is committed to redressing the gender and racial imbalances on medieval Wikipedia is welcome to join the MedievalWiki project.

This project is all about:

• Improving references to scholarly work by Black medievalists and medievalists of colour, women and non-binary medievalists in articles related to medieval studies
• Creating and improving biographical pages for Black medievalists, medievalists of colour, women and non-binary medieval scholars and artists who use medieval texts, objects, or themes in their work / create works of medievalism.
• Improving coverage of scholarly work about and references to theories and interventions indebted to critical race, gender studies, queer studies, and sexuality studies in medieval historical Wikipedia articles is also firmly within the scope of the project.

We encourage anyone interested in the medieval past and modern medievalisms - whether archaeologists, palaeographers, historians, linguists, artists, philologists, literary critics, or anyone else - to edit Wikipedia with this focus.

Everyone in the MedievalWiki community is encouraged to hold Wikipedia training and editing sessions, and to add to and make use of the resources list compiled here.

Foremothers and sister projects

We are excited to be following the example set by the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (thank you for laying a path to follow).

Thanks also to a whole host of other feminist and academic organisations around the world who have created documentation to follow, or provided friendly help! Thanks especially to the Women's Classical Committee.

Forthcoming events

Anyone is welcome to organise a wikithon under the badge of MedievalWiki (if your editing aims are in the same spirit as those outlined here!). Please add forthcoming events below. You can find details of Past Events here.

... TBC

Outcomes

We have a dashboard that collects outcome stats here https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/medievalwiki/programs

Add your edits below, and create a new month sub-section above the last month if necessary. Use an asterisk to create a bullet point.

May 2023

• Sonia Chadwick Hawkes promoted to Good Article - medieval archaeologist specialising in early medieval cemeteries in England
• Vera Hatz - new article

November 2022

• New page: Antonette diPaolo Healey - philologist and former editor in chief of the Dictionary of Old English

September 2022

• New page: Eleanor Janega - mediaeval historian

May 2022

• New Natalia Lozovsky - #OrosiusThroughTheAges
• New Eszter Spät - #OrosiusThroughTheAges
• New Wikiquote:Orosius - #OrosiusThroughTheAges
• New Wikiquote:Natalia Lozovsky - #OrosiusThroughTheAges
• New page: Sara al-Qutiyya - Visigothic noblewoman

October 2021

• New page: Rachel Swallow - landscape and medieval archaeologist
• New page: Margaret de Neville - medieval landowner from Leeds (ish)

August 2021

• New page: Dorothea Menadier - German numismatist
• New page: Nancy Campbell - contemporary poet who works with medieval sources Bethanymay (talk) 09:58, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
• Added +4000 bytes to Barbara Yorke Medievalfran (talk) 22:04, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

July 2021

• Over 100 Wikidata edits made as part of Leeds IMC Wikidata workshop. See the stats here! https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Leeds_IMC/MedievalWiki_WikiData_at_Leeds_IMC

• New page: Adasse (townswoman) - Jewish creditor who was granted citizenship c.1348

• New page: Sophie T. Ambler - medieval historian

June 2021

• Updated page for Pega - Bethanymay (talk) 12:35, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

May 2021

• New page for Pamela Marshall (archaeologist): archaeologist and historian specialising in Anglo-Norman castles - Richard Nevell (talk)

April 2021

• New page for Saint Aurea of Paris - Medievalfran (talk) 17:38, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
• New page for Mary Rambaran-Olm - Lajmmoore (talk) 21:05, 8 July 2021 (UTC)
• Small edits to Roberta Frank and Catherine Karkov - Medievalfran

February 2021

• New page for G. David Houston - Lajmmoore (talk) 22:06, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
• New page for Su'da - Lajmmoore (talk) 08:57, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

May 2022

• Wikithon for the #OrosiusThroughTheAges conference - see dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/School_of_Advanced_Study/Orosius_Through_The_Ages/activity/recent

More outcomes

For a complete archive of edited and new pages, see Past Events and Outcomes.