User talk:Monica italiana

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Welcome!

Hello, Monica italiana, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Aristophanes68 (talk) 11:45, 3 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I replied to your comment at the Chaucer/Petrarch/Boccaccio article. I'm leaving this note because you said you were new to WP, and naturally felt tentative. Intelligence and humility are good qualities in an editor, so I too "hope you like the place" (as the welcome template puts it somewhat oddly) "and decide to stay." If I can help you in any way, please leave a note on my talk page. I find that the policies and guidelines have become so obfuscating and baroque that if I were to start today I'd never make my way through them, so if questions arise, perhaps I can point you to the relevant page or section.

Many if not most WP articles in the humanities, particularly literature, need a lot of work and updating. Patience and persistence will often be called for. Since you introduced yourself as new, I couldn't resist looking up your contributions so far, and on the basis of one of your edit summaries thought I'd point out the existence of WikiProject Women's History, which was recently created to help a perceived (I think real) imbalance of topic coverage that may be due to gender bias — which I myself think is mostly unconscious, though here and there virulently sexist. Hm. Now I don't know whether this sounds like a welcome, or a warning. No, really, it's a welcome! Cynwolfe (talk) 19:10, 22 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Monica! I see that Cynwolfe got here first, via the same route, and that he (or she?) has said said several of the things that I would have said. In particular I agree that there is indeed an evident ‘masculinist’ systemic bias which mostly arises quite simply from a preponderance of male editors. But please don’t feel under any pressure to devote your time to countering that bias: do write about whatever interests you at the time. The use of out-of-date sources is also a bane of Wikipedia, but unfortunately it is not one that is likely to go away for some decades: the great majority of editors (myself included, currently) do not have convenient access to university libraries or to on-line repositories of scholarly articles such as jstor. It is a very odd way to write an encyclopedia, but seems to work much better than one would expect. Anyway, I also welcome you and hope that you enjoy Wikipedia. Best wishes, Ian Spackman (talk) 20:59, 22 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Members' input needed at WikiProject Women's History

Hello. I'm writing to you as your name is listed on the members page for WikiProject Women's History. In recent discussions at the project, most notably here, several members have indicated that the scope of the project may need to be more clearly defined and communicated. I have set up a workshop page for this, but it obviously needs as wide a participation as possible to achieve genuine consensus and to allow the project to move forward. You'll find the workshop here.

If you no longer consider yourself an active member of the project, it would help if you could indicate this on the members' page. This will allow us to better gauge how much people-power we actually have. Best wishes, Voceditenore (talk) 04:52, 25 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Women's History Project – Final call for comments on the Scope draft

Our workshop on revising and clarifying the scope of our project has produced a draft outlining our project's scope and criteria for article inclusion. Please join us at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women's History/Scope workshop#Scope draft to discuss this document. There's a separate section beneath it for final comments, which will remain open through Tuesday, June 14th. As Cynwolfe says "with good participation, we should be able to revise our project page soon, clearing up the issues we've been dealing with and preparing us to go on to the fun stuff." Best wishes, Voceditenore (talk) 12:56, 10 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Survey about History on Wikipedia (If you reside in the United States)

I am Petros Apostolopoulos, a Ph.D. candidate in Public History at North Carolina State University. My Ph.D. project examines how historical knowledge is produced on Wikipedia. You must be 18 years of age or older, reside in the United States to participate in this study. If you are interested in participating in my research study by offering your own experience of writing about history on Wikipedia, you can click on this link https://ncsu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9z4wmR1cIp0qBH8. There are minimal risks involved in this research.

If you have any questions, please let me know. Petros Apostolopoulos, paposto@ncsu.edu Apolo1991 (talk) 17:15, 15 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]