Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's Classical Committee/Resources
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Examples of 'Good Articles'[edit]
3. Sappho 94
An Archive of Black, BIWoC and BAME Women that need to be better represented on Wikipedia[edit]
List of LGBTQ classicists for WCCWiki[edit]
Bibliography on #WCCWiki[edit]
1. Victoria Leonard, ‘Advancing Feminism Online: Online Tools, Visibility, and Women in Classics’, Studies in Late Antiquity, co-authored with Sarah E. Bond, Vol. 3 No. 1 (Spring 2019) pp. 4-16
2. Victoria Leonard, 'How Can Historians Achieve Inclusivity in Digital Archives?', Historical Transactions. The Blog of the Royal Historical Society. Published 16.12.2019. https://blog.royalhistsoc.org/2019/12/16/how-can-historians-achieve-inclusivity-in-digital-archives/. Accessed 16.12.2019.
3. Claire Millington (16 March 2019). "WCCWiki". Springer Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology.
4. Victoria Leonard, 'Female scholars are marginalised on Wikipedia because it's written by men', The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/dec/12/female-scholars-are-marginalised-on-wikipedia-because-its-written-by-men. Published 12 December 2018. Accessed 16.12.2019.
5. Victoria Leonard, 'How we doubled the representation of female classical scholars on Wikipedia', Times Higher Education. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/cn/comment/18273. Published 2017. Accessed 16.12.2019.
6. Richard Nevell, 'How many biographies of classicists does Wikipedia have? July 2021 update', https://richardthecastellan.wordpress.com/2021/07/28/how-many-biographies-of-classicists-does-wikipedia-have-july-2021-update/. 28/07/2021. Accessed 08.08.2021
7. Victoria Leonard, 'Celebrating #WCCWiki at 50!', https://wikimedia.org.uk/2021/09/celebrating-wccwiki-at-50/ . 22.09.2021. Accessed 23.09.2021
8. Richard Nevell, 'How many biographies of classicists does Wikipedia have? December 2022 update'. https://richardthecastellan.wordpress.com/2022/12/29/how-many-biographies-of-classicists-does-wikipedia-have-july-2021-update-2/. 29.12.2022. Accessed 06.01.2023.
9. Anna P. Judson, Katharine Shields and Victoria Leonard, 'Wikipedia in Classics Education', CUCD Bulletin 52 (2023) https://cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/bulletin/ 1-14
10. Victoria Leonard, 'Looking Up, Looking Online: Gender, Representation, and Bias in Classics', Diversity and the Study of Antiquity in Higher Education: Perspectives from North America and Europe. McHardy, F. & Libatique, D. (eds). London: Routledge, 2023, 72-87
Contingent projects[edit]
1. Medieval Feminist Wikipedia Write-in, 2014: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/MedievalFeminist
2. WikiProject Archaeology/Women in archaeology task force: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Archaeology/Women_in_archaeology_task_force
3. Jess Wade
4. Women in Red "RedList" of missing classicists and of women from the classical period
5. TrowelBlazers
6. #WikiD, women in Design and Architecture https://vimeo.com/360236829; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_Wikipedia_Design
7. 'How Do We Record the History of Women in Classics?', led by Claire Catenaccio for the Society for Classical Studies (SCS): https://classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/claire-catenaccio/blog-how-do-we-record-history-women-classics
8. 'Edit for Equity', New Zealand-based: http://www.antistaticpartners.com/editforequity
9. MedievalWiki
Practical Resources: Sources of Information on Women Classicists[edit]
This is our Dropbox which can be used for storing reference materials related to the biographies the group is working on. If you are new to the group and need access, please leave a message on the discussion page, or ask using the chat channel during an editing session (details on Events & Workshops tab).
The Women's Classical Committee website has some links to pages on women in the ancient world, and to scholarly editions, translations and anthologies by women.
How to write biographical pages for women on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Essays/Primer_for_creating_women%27s_biographies
Google books link to Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly 2016 eds. Hall, E.; Wyles, R., OUP
Downloadable copy of Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly 2016 eds. Hall, E.; Wyles, R., OUP [1]
Google books link to Breaking Ground: Pioneering Women Archaeologists 2006 eds. Cohen & Jouwkowsky, U. Michigan Press.
Google books link to Millett, M. (2016). "Roman Britain since Haverfield". In Millett, M.; Revell, L.; Moore, A.J. The Oxford Handbook of Roman Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 22–42
Google books link to 'Classicism, Black, in the United States', Ronnick M.V. (2004), in Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. Appiah, K.A. and Gates Jr.,H.L. (eds.) OUP, pp.120-123
Link to Cloelia journal, which has some useful pieces for some of our target pages https://medium.com/cloelia-wcc
Gill, David. 2011 'Sifting the soil of Greece: the early years of the British School of Athens 1886-1919', in Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, https://www.jstor.org/stable/i40176334, has info on women at the BSA
A useful list to think with. 'An Impressive List of Female Authors from Antiquity' https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2016/08/01/an-impressive-list-of-female-authors-from-antiquity/
Open Access PDF of "Archaeologists in Print" [[2]] (Amara Thornton), see esp. Ch.3 'The Women Who Did'
'Database of Classical Scholars', https://dbcs.rutgers.edu/all-scholars, Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences, accessed 27 June 2018.
Judith P. Hallett, 'Amphora: Two Pioneering Feminist Classicists: Grace Harriet Macurdy and Barbara F. McManus', Society for Classical Studies Blog, https://classicalstudies.org/amphora/amphora-two-pioneering-feminist-classicists-grace-harriet-macurdy-and-barbara-f-mcmanus?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook, accessed 26 June 2018.
Database of digitised 'memoirs'/obitaries for fellows of the BA include some of our page subjects (scroll down for more recent) https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/biographical-memoirs-fellows-british-academy
Bibliographical resources: Wikipedia editing: women, gender, race, unequal representation, and activism[edit]
BBC, 'International Women's Day: Closing the online gender gap', BBC, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-51737320, accessed 09/03/2020.
Emma Bridges, Claire Millington, and Victoria Leonard, 'Editing a Fairer Wikipedia: The Women’s Classical Committee Editathon’, Classics and Social Justice Blog, https://classicssocialjustice.wordpress.com/2017/02/01/editing-a-fairer-wikipedia-the-womens-classical-committee-editathon/, accessed 23 March 2018.
Emma Bridges and Claire Millington, 'Women in Classics Wikipedia Group (DigiClass 2018, 6)', YouTube, accessed 4 September 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MRPTQOklws.
Noam Cohen, ‘Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikimedia’s Contributor List’, The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/business/media/31link.html. Accessed 23 March 2018.
Maria Cruz, 'Women in the Wikimedia Movement: Roles, Culture and Opportunities', Medium, https://medium.com/@marianarra_/women-in-the-wikimedia-movement-roles-culture-and-opportunities-c1092b0b924. Accessed 22 November 2018.
Hannah Devlin, 'Academic writes 270 Wikipedia pages in a year to get female scientists noticed', The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jul/24/academic-writes-270-wikipedia-pages-year-female-scientists-noticed. Accessed 24 July 2018.
Siân Evans, Jacqueline Mabey, Michael Mandiberg, ‘Editing for Equality: The Outcomes of the Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thons’, Art Documentation. Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America, vol. 34, no. 2 (2015) 194-203.
Amanda Filipacchi, 'Wikipedia’s Sexism Toward Female Novelists', The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/wikipedias-sexism-toward-female-novelists.html. Accessed 23 March 2018.
Eileen Guo, ‘Inside the Fight to Change Wikipedia's Gender Problem’, Inverse, https://www.inverse.com/article/39999-wikipedias-women-editors. Accessed 23 March 2018.
Hannah Harshe, 'Apparently, Sexism Has A Serious Grip On Wikipedia Too & Here's What People Have Done To Change That', HerCampus, http://www.hercampus.com/news/apparently-sexism-has-serious-grip-wikipedia-too-heres-what-people-have-done-change. Accessed 23 March 2018.
Tori Herridge, ‘Wikipedia gets the TrowelBlazers treatment at the NHM’, Toriherridge, https://toriherridge.com/2013/11/06/wikipedia-gets-the-trowelblazers-treatment-at-the-nhm/. Accessed 23 March 2018.
Stephen Harrison, 'The Notability Blues. The Wikipedia rule that makes it harder to create entries about lesser-known but important women from history', Slate, https://slate.com/technology/2019/03/wikipedia-women-history-notability-gender-gap.html. Accessed 28 March 2019.
Anna P. Judson, 'Women Classicists on Wikipedia', It's All Greek To Me, https://itsallgreektoanna.wordpress.com/2018/09/21/women-classicists-on-wikipedia/. Accessed 23 September 2018.
Emma Kerr, 'Women’s-Studies Students Across the Nation Are Editing Wikipedia', The Chronicle of Higher Education, https://www.chronicle.com/article/Women-s-Studies-Students/242866. Accessed 23 March 2018.
Sadiq Khan, 'Why we need to close Wikipedia's gender page gap', The Telegraph. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/need-close-wikipedias-gender-page-gap/. Accessed 20 June 2018.
Jenny Kleeman, ‘The Wikipedia Wars: Does it Matter if Our Biggest Source of Knowledge is Written By Men?’, New Statesmen, http://www.newstatesman.com/lifestyle/2015/05/wikipedia-has-colossal-problem-women-dont-edit-it. Accessed 23 March 2018.
leodislouise, 'Waging War on the Wiki Gender Gap', The Secret Library | Leeds Libraries Heritage Blog, https://secretlibraryleeds.net/2021/03/06/waging-war-on-the-wiki-gender-gap/, 6 March 2021. Accessed 9 March 2021.
Allison Littlejohn and Nina Hood, 'Becoming an online editor: perceived roles and responsibilities of Wikipedia editors', Information Research, vol. 23, no. 1, March 2018, http://www.informationr.net/ir/23-1/paper784.html. Accessed 23 March 2018.
John Lubbock, ‘The Welsh Gender Equilibrium: Welsh becomes the biggest language Wikipedia to achieve gender balance!’, Wikimedia Blog, https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2016/12/the-welsh-gender-equilibrium-welsh-becomes-the-biggest-language-wikipedia-to-achieve-gender-balance/. Accessed 23 March 2018.
Ellie Mackin, ‘Women's Classical Committee Wikipedia Editing Day!’, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAWxTPZZNrg. Accessed 23 March 2018.
Ewan McAndrew, Siobhan O’Connor, Sara Thomas and Alice White, 'Women scientists being whitewashed from Wikipedia', The Scotsman Blog. https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/women-scientists-being-whitewashed-from-wikipedia-ewan-mcandrew-siobhan-o-connor-dr-sara-thomas-and-dr-alice-white-1-4887048 . Accessed 13 March 2019.
Katherine Maher, 'Wikipedia is a mirror of the world’s gender biases', Wikimedia Foundation Blog. https://wikimediafoundation.org/2018/10/18/wikipedia-mirror-world-gender-biases/. Accessed 14 November 2018.
Bruno Martín, 'Raising the profile of female scientists, one Wikipedia article at a time', El Pais, https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/07/10/inenglish/1531237118_130796.html. Accessed 12 July 2018.
Lucy Moore and Richard Nevell, 'Race, Gender, and Wikipedia: how the Global Encyclopaedia Deals with Inequality', Special Issue: Inequality and Race in the Histories of Archaeology, Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 31 (1): 4 1-19
Emma Paling, 'Wikipedia's Hostility to Women', The Atlantic, https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/how-wikipedia-is-hostile-to-women/411619/. Accessed 23 March 2018.
Ariella Rotramel and Cassidy Villeneuve, 'Learning to claim Wikipedia: Feminist pedagogy and praxis', https://wikiedu.org/blog/2018/05/16/learning-to-claim-wikipedia-feminist-pedagogy-and-praxis/. Accessed 16 May 2018.
Kat Stoeffel, ‘Closing Wikipedia’s Gender Gap – Reluctantly’, The Cut, http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/02/closing-wikipedias-gender-gap-reluctantly.html. Accessed 23 March 2018.
Nicole Torres, ‘Why Do So Few Women Edit Wikipedia?’, Harvard Business Review, https://hbr.org/2016/06/why-do-so-few-women-edit-wikipedia. Accessed 23 March 2018.
Leen Van Broek, ‘Women's Classical Committee Wikipedia Editathon - 23 January 2017’, Roman Wafflings, http://romanwafflings.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/my-most-recent-but-not-so-recent-blog.html#!/2017/01/my-most-recent-but-not-so-recent-blog.html. Accessed 23 March 2018.
Jess Wade and Maryam Zaringhalam, 'Why we’re editing women scientists onto Wikipedia', Nature. International Journal of Science, https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05947-8. Accessed 14 August 2018.
Claudia Wagner, David Garcia, Mohsen Jadidi, and Markus Strohmaier, ‘It’s a Man’s Wikipedia? Assessing Gender Inequality in an Online Encyclopedia’, Proceedings of the Ninth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, (2015) 454-63.
Claudia Wagner, Eduardo Graells-Garrido, David Garcia and Filippo Menczer, ‘Women Through the Glass Ceiling: Gender Asymmetries in Wikipedia’, EPJ Data Science, vol. 5 (2016) 1-24.
Deanna Zandt, ‘Yes, Wikipedia Is Sexist -- That's Why It Needs You’, Forbes, https://www.forbes.com/sites/deannazandt/2013/04/26/yes-wikipedia-is-sexist-thats-why-it-needs-you/#4c3a7c2c64bf. Accessed 23 March 2018.
Wikipedia editing: gender and pedagogy[edit]
Nancy Andrews, 'Why You and Your Students Should Work To Improve Wikipedia', MediaShift, http://mediashift.org/2016/05/why-you-and-your-students-should-work-to-improve-wikipedia/. Accessed 23 March 2018.
Emma Bridges and Claire Millington, 'Women in Classics Wikipedia Group' "DigiClass 2018, 6" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MRPTQOklws. Accessed 2 August 2018.
Robert Fernandez, 'Five ways academics can contribute to Wikipedia', Wikimedia Foundation Blog, https://wikimediafoundation.org/2018/11/13/five-ways-academics-can-contribute-to-wikipedia/ . Accessed 14 November 2018.
Shawn Graham, ‘The Wikiblitz: A Wikipedia Editing Assignment in a First Year Undergraduate Class’ in Jack Dougherty and Kristen Nawrotzki (eds.) Writing History in the Digital Age. (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2013). pp. 75-85. Open-access here: https://www.fulcrum.org/epubs/xw42n885n?locale=en#/6/32[chp05]!/4/2/4[p75]/1:0
Ewan McAndrew, 'Wikipedia assignments – getting past the ‘Penguin effect’ and down to the brass tacks of sharing open knowledge', The University of Edinburgh Teaching Matters Blog, https://www.teaching-matters-blog.ed.ac.uk/?p=2039. Accessed 23 March 2018.
Ariella Rotramel, 'Feminist Praxis and Wikipedia in the Classroom', Wikiedu, https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/how-wikipedia-is-hostile-to-women/411619/. Accessed 23 March 2018.
Martha Saxton, 'Wikipedia and Women's History. A Classroom Experience' in Jack Dougherty and Kristen Nawrotzki (eds.) Writing History in the Digital Age. (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2013). 86-95 (Open access here: https://www.fulcrum.org/epubs/xw42n885n?locale=en#/6/34[chp06]!/4/2/4[p86]/1:0)
Claire Thomson, 'Wikipedia for Learning and Teaching': https://ulster.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=f816deeb-ff9d-409a-8faa-ac2400c8f392
Thinking critically about Wikipedia[edit]
Mostafa Mesgari, Chitu Okoli, Mohamad Mehdi, Finn Årup Nielsen, Arto Lanamäki, '“The sum of all human knowledge”: A systematic review of scholarly research on the content of Wikipedia', Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 66, issue 2 (February 2015) 219-45 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/asi.23172
John Naughton, 'In a hysterical world, Wikipedia is a ray of light – and that’s the truth', The Guardian, 2 September 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/02/in-hysterical-world-wikipedia-ray-of-light-truth
Social media hashtags[edit]
- WCCWiki
- MedievalWiki
- POCHistWiki (Person of Colour)
- WomProfs
- NoPageRage
- Foremothers
- WhiteWikipedia