User:Medievalfran
Hello!
[edit]I am a researcher in the afterlives of medieval and prehistoric literature, archaeology, and places, but I enjoy reading widely and trying out methods and theories from different subjects. I like the challenge of starting pages for people in arts and culture, especially Women in Red, and love watching a page get added to.
I completed a PhD at King's College London looking at the history of meanings of Sutton Hoo since its discovery in 1939. This research takes into account newspaper articles, TV documentaries, archives of archaeological digs and the Sutton Hoo Society, and many, many site and exhibition visits.
I'm now doing further research on the afterlives and archives of the neolithic stone circle at Avebury, and how and why people today revisit the prehistoric and medieval past to make new work.
Wikimedia UK trainer
[edit]I followed the Wikimedia UK Train the Trainer course in 2022, which was fantastic (if you want an extra person on any wikithon / workshop, I'm always happy for a chance to practice my facilitation and training skills).
I have since volunteered to facilitate wikithons, listed below. Please be in touch if you have any concerns about related editing!
October 2023 - Wikithon at the Architectural Association
2 and 6 October 2024 - Wikithon at the Feminist Library
Avebury-related editing / COI declaration
[edit] | This user has publicly declared that they have a conflict of interest regarding these Wikipedia articles: |
Between July 2022-July 2025 I am a postdoc on the Avebury Papers research project. This project is a collaboration between University of York (where I am employed), Bournemouth University, University of Bristol, and the National Trust. As part of this work, I will be making edits, or training other people to make edits, to Avebury-related pages - which I will list here. This will involve auditing pages, establishing what needs to be improved, and making edits to add information, citations, research, and images via uploads to Wikicommons. Please be in touch if you have any questions or concerns!
Edited pages
Denis Grant King - image added from Wikicommons
I try and regularly do some editing for a more permanent home for feminist, medievalist editing of wikipedia: Wikipedia:WikiProject MedievalWiki. Please say hello if you'd like to work on this too as a one off or more regularly. The brilliant Lajmmoore and Bethanymay also have MedievalWiki hats, and we've run a few workshops for new editors on both Wikipedia and Wikidata. The MedievalWiki dashboard is here https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/medievalwiki/overview.
Works in progress
[edit]My full list of Pages Created can be found here. And this link shows all other contributions.
Some articles/ pages that I more or less regularly pop in on/ one day will get round to really overhauling:
- The Seafarer (poem)
- Exeter Book
- Beowulf
- List of artistic depictions of Beowulf
- Caroline Bergvall
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_ConwayLibrary
- Sharon Kinoshita
Some links I like
[edit]For workshops / newcomers
https://scholia.toolforge.org/topic/Q1671076
The Wikipedia Adventure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure
Listen to Wikipedia http://listen.hatnote.com/
Courtauld Wikipedia Training Videos https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdeIeT7GyTvjb3s18yhviR73A_ivc1OAb&feature=shared
Links collected from wikimedia train the trainer
Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Essays/Writing women into the encyclopedia
NMDemo - what new users see User:NM Demo
Oral citations https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Oral_Citations#Articles_&_Discussions
Adopt a user Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user
Friendly welcome template User:Nick Moyes/sandbox4
Jane Hawkes freely available photographs of art and architecture - for commons? https://dlib.york.ac.uk/yodl/app/collection/detail?ref=browse&id=york%3A796156&page=6
To do
[edit]- https://english.wisc.edu/staff/doane-alger-nick/
- Donald Scragg User:Medievalfran/sandbox2
- Elisabeth Okasha - transcribed the inscriptions on the Ruthwell Monument, and many other contributions to early medieval studies!
- Gillian R. Overing
- Kari Ellen Gade
- James W. Earle
- https://www.pendleradicals.org.uk/pendle-radicals/ethel-carnie-holdsworth/ - any medieval novels?
My first barnstar!
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The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar |
| Thank you for your continued service adding to Wikipedia throughout 2020. - Cdjp1 (talk) 17:35, 14 January 2021 (UTC) |
Projects
[edit] | This user is a participant in WikiProject Conway Library |
 | This user is a participant in WikiProject Women in Red (redlinks→blue) |
 | This user is a member of WikiProject #MedievalWiki |
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| 0.00035% | This user has created 24 of the 6,913,975 articles on the English language Wikipedia. |
Wikipedia Adventure badges
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