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WCCWiki Roundtable, Classical Association Conference, University of Cambridge: Teaching Classics with Wikipedia

Room G.19, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, and online

Educational institutions in the UK and beyond are increasingly recognising the value of incorporating Wikipedia editing into teaching activities. Learning how to edit Wikipedia not only provides a better critical understanding of this collaboratively-written encyclopaedia, but enables students to gain valuable transferable skills including digital literacy, independent research, evaluating the reliability of secondary sources, and the correct use of citations. Students learn how to write accessibly for a general audience, while also contributing to the public availability of information about their field of study. Fifteen UK higher education institutions currently have educational partnerships with Wikimedia UK (wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Universities), the organisation that runs Wikipedia, and Wikipedia editing assignments have been incorporated into a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses, as well as into secondary school education (open.ed.ac.uk/wikimedia-in-education/).

This roundtable session will feature 5-10 minute presentations from each speaker on their experiences in using Wikipedia for teaching purposes and the particular challenges and advantages this brings. An open discussion will follow between the speakers and audience about the prospects of expanding the use of Wikipedia editing in teaching school and university students about the ancient world.

Panellists:

Ewan McAndrew, University of Edinburgh, Supporting staff and students as university Wikipedian in Residence, and on the Wikimedia in Education programme
Juliana Bastos Marques, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro [online], Wikipedia in teaching: research using Wikipedia to explore issues of authorship, authority and the writing of history
Victoria Austen, Carleton College [online], Wikipedia editing in an undergraduate course on Roman Britain
Chelsea Gardner, Acadia University, Setting Wikipedia editing assignments as part of undergraduate Classics courses
Nadege Forde, Sankofa Project, Wikipedia and history in schools
Lucy Moore, University of York and Leeds Museums and Galleries [online], Wikipedia editing at museum events

Facilitators: Katharine Shields, KCL and #WCCWiki, Victoria Leonard, Coventry University and #WCCWiki, and Anna Judson, Durham University and #WCCWiki. #WCCWiki aims to improve the online representation of women and non-binary classicists (broadly conceived).

MedievalWiki/#WCCWiki Editathon, Orosius Through the Ages Conference

Wednesday 25 May 2022 Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, University of London, and online

This Wikipedia editathon is part of the Conference Orosius Through the Ages, supported by MedievalWiki and #WCCWiki. This event aims to improve the visibility of those who identify as women and non-binary in Orosian studies on Wikipedia. No experience editing Wikipedia is necessary, as training will be provided. This will be a hybrid online and in-person event.

Although often overlooked, those who identify as women and non-binary have made essential contributions to the study of Orosius and the Historiae adversus paganos, such as Elizabeth Elstob who worked on an edition of the Old English Orosius in the early eighteenth century. Other experts on Orosius that could benefit from an improved online representation includes: Dorothea Koch Peters, Brenda Deen Schildgen, Elizabeth M. Tyler, Natalia Lozovsky, Janet Bately, Ann Christys, Marie-Pierre Arnaud-Lindet, Maijastina Kahlos, Mary Kate Hurley, Yvette Duval, and Eszter Spät.

The dashboard for the event is here: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/School_of_Advanced_Study/Orosius_Through_The_Ages/home

The conference is generously sponsored by the Royal Historical Society, the Classical Association, Coventry University, Past & Present, and the Institute of Classical Studies. For more information, please see the conference website here: https://orosiusconference.wordpress.com/wikipedia-editathon/. Organised by Victoria Leonard with MedievalWiki and #WCCWiki

#WCCWiki Workshop at the Classical Association Conference

Saturday 9 April 2022 Prifysgol Abertawe (Swansea University)

In-person (Faraday B) and online

Following the success of #WCCWiki’s workshop at the FIEC/Classical Association in 2019, the Women’s Classical Committee UK is holding a Wikipedia editathon at the Classical Association Conference in 2022 to improve the online representation of classicists who identify as women or non-binary. Classicists are broadly conceived, to include archaeologists, ancient historians, religious studies and reception experts, theorists, theologians, art historians, and others who work on the ancient world.

The workshop seeks to improve the representation of classicists who identify as women or non-binary on Wikipedia, with a particular focus on overlooked Welsh women or non-binary classicists, such as Kathleen Freeman, Käthe Bosse-Griffiths, Sara Elin Roberts, Jacqui Mulville and Juliette Wood, or those whose research focuses on Wales’s culture and history, such as Catherine Clarke and Emma Cavell. Of those six women historians who are Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales, an important notability criteria for Wikipedia, five need their pages improving and one lacks a page entirely. The workshop will be an important starting point to addressing this imbalance, and promoting the online visibility of Welsh classicists (broadly conceived) who identify as women or non-binary. We welcome further suggestions for Wikipedia pages that need creating or editing.

The two-hour workshop welcomes people of all genders, and is aimed at those who have never edited Wikipedia before as well as more experienced contributors. Training will be provided for the first 30 minutes, followed by a supported editing session. We intend that the session will operate both in-person and online. If attending in-person, please bring your own laptop if possible (a small number of laptops will be available for use by participants but these are very limited in number).

The CA conference is an excellent opportunity to gather in-person images of classicists who identify as women or non-binary for Wikipedia pages; only around 19% of biographical Wikipedia pages feature women, and less than 1% of these includes an image. Please get in touch if you can help to improve this imbalance by taking photos (with permission) and getting them on Wikipedia. For more information about #WCCWiki, see #WCCWiki on Twitter. Please contact womensclassicalcommittee@gmail.com with any queries.

Organised by Victoria Leonard, Anna Judson, Katie Shields, and Kate Cook, on behalf of the Women’s Classical Committee UK

The dashboard for the event is here: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/CA/WCCWiki_CA2022

Crowd-sourced list of pages to edit/create, bold indicates an ideal page creation:

Ancient/medieval

Santes Marchell o Dalgarth - 4th-century saint, has a Welsh wiki page with (offline) refs: https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santes_Marchell_o_Dalgarth, https://medievalheritage.eu/en/main-page/heritage/wales/denbigh-st-marcella-church/, see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ystrad_Marchell
Saint Winifred
Saint Non
Gwerful Mechain
Angharad ferch Owain
Joan, Lady of Wales
Gwenllian of Wales
Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd
Saint Gwenfyl
Saint Canna
Saint Callwen

Historic classicists/archaeologists/historians/writers:

Jane Williams (Ysgafell)
Hester Thrale
Angharad Llwyd
Tessa Wheeler (born in SA but lived and worked in Cardiff)
Audrey Williams (archaeologist) https://trowelblazers.com/2015/01/21/audrey-williams/
Käthe Bosse-Griffiths (aka Kate) https://www.100welshwomen.wales/100-women/kate_bosse-griffiths/
Glenys Lloyd-Morgan https://trowelblazers.com/2017/12/11/glenys-lloyd-morgan/
Aileen Fox https://trowelblazers.com/2015/03/13/lady-aileen-fox/
Kathleen Freeman (classicist)

Active classicists/archaeologists/historians:

#WCCWiki Colloquium 2020

The Women’s Classical Committee UK is proud to announce the first #WCCWiki Colloquium. #WCCWiki is a crowd-sourced initiative that aims to increase the representation of women classicists (very broadly conceived) on Wikipedia. Since we began in 2016, we have edited or created more than 450 Wikipedia pages for women classicists.

This event will be held online

Date: 29 July 2020, 10.00am - 3.15pm (GMT)

Institute of Classical Studies

Details

The event is an opportunity to bring the #WCCWiki community together, and to reach out to those interested in learning more about women classicists online and why that’s important. We will share experiences and resources for editing, and develop future objectives for #WCCWiki.

The event is free and open to all. It will begin at 10am and finish at 3.15pm (GMT). It includes five pre-recorded talks followed by live discussion, and a technical how-to? with Wikipedia discussion – bring your queries!

For those who may feel that their participation is compromised by caring or additional responsibilities, the event will include regular breaks, and participants are welcome to attend some or all of the event.

This event is free but places are limited and booking is essential (to book a place see here.

#WCCWiki Colloquium Schedule

Valerie James: technical assistance on Zoom

Chairs/moderators: Emma Bridges, Adam Parker, Richard Nevell, Anna Judson, Victoria Leonard, Katie Shields

10-10.05: Emma Bridges, technical introduction to the event (5 minutes)

10.05-10.20: Introduction, Victoria Leonard: what is #WCCWiki, why is it important, how you can get involved (15 minutes)

10.20-10.25: Talk 1, Richard Nevell: data and statistics (5 minutes)

10.25-10.40: Discussion, chaired by Katie Shields (15 minutes)

10.40-10.50: BREAK (10 minutes)

10.50-11.05: Talk 2, Kelly Foster: Race and Wikipedia (15 minutes)

11.05-11.25: Discussion, chaired by Emma Bridges (20 minutes)

11.25-11.40: BREAK (15 minutes)

11.40-12.20 Discussion: how-to? with Wikipedia – bring your queries! Such as how do I make an infobox? How do I get images online?

Chaired by Anna Judson, with Richard Nevell as the main respondent (40 minutes)

12.20-1.15: LUNCH

1.15-1.25: Talk 3, Adam Parker: Notability (10 minutes)

1.25-1.35: Talk 4, Kate Cook: Achieving good article status (10 minutes)

1.45-2.05: Discussion, chaired by Richard Nevell (20 mins)

2.05-2.10: BREAK (5 minutes)

2.10.2.25: Talk 5, Miller Power: LGBTQ+ Wikipedia editing (15 minutes)

2.25-2.45: Discussion, chaired by Anna Judson (20 minutes)

2.45-2.50: BREAK (5 minutes)

2.50-3.10: Final discussion: round-up and future directions, chaired by Victoria Leonard (20 minutes)

Organised on behalf of the WCC UK by Richard Nevell, Emma Bridges, Katie Shields, Anna Judson, Victoria Leonard, Kate Cook, and Adam Parker