Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's Classical Committee

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This page has been mentioned by multiple media organizations:

Victoria Leonard (11 June 2017). "How we doubled the representation of female classical scholars on Wikipedia". Times Higher Education. While reversing Wikipedia's gender skew may seem like an insurmountable task, breaking it down makes it much easier to achieve. The online activism of the Women's Classical Committee offers a good example of how real progress can be made by small groups or individuals without specialist knowledge or funds, just desire for change.
Victoria Leonard (12 December 2018). "Female scholars are marginalised on Wikipedia because it's written by men". The Guardian. the Women's Classical Committee is looking to counteract the stranglehold men exert over English-language Wikipedia. ... #WCCWiki refuses to let these women be forgotten – women such as the trailblazer Dorothy Tarrant ...
Claire Millington (16 March 2019). "WCCWiki". Springer Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. #WCCWiki is an initiative run by the Women's Classical Committee UK (WCC UK) that seeks to achieve comprehensive representation on Wikipedia of women within all classical disciplines and has a strong focus on classical archaeologists. {{cite news}}: External link in |agency= (help)
Victoria Leonard (16 December 2019). "How Can Historians Achieve Inclusivity in Digital Archives?". Royal Historical Society. By foregrounding positive female role models, #WCCWiki helps to curate the online and open-access archive of women's history enabled by Wikipedia, simultaneously making digital spaces fairer and more inclusive.

WP:WMCC

Wikipedia currently hosts over 200 biographies of classicists, and when the Women's Classical Committee looked in January 2017 only approximately 10% were of women. This project is our initiative to take steps towards redressing this gender imbalance, by training and encouraging classicists - whether archaeologists, epigraphers, historians, linguists, numismatists, philologists or anyone else working within this varied discipline - to edit Wikipedia with this focus.

We hold editing sessions online each month and welcome new members to our friendly group. See our events and workshops page for more info.

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Created 23 January 2017

Miriam Tamara Griffin (née Dressler; born June 6, 1935) is an American classical scholar who has been a tutor of ancient history at Somerville College at Oxford University since 1967. She specialises in Roman history and has written books about Emperor Nero and his tutor, Seneca.

Outcomes

The list below shows the outcomes for the project for 2020. For work in past years see the project archives for 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020.

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Articles created or improved (April 2021)

Leïla Ladjimi-Sebaï

Articles created or improved (March 2021)

Vitellia (daughter of emperor Vitellius)
Quita Mould
Judith Perkins
Barbara Goff
Felice Stampfle
Sheila Ager
Jinyu Liu
Fayza Haikal
Valeria
Beatriz Galindo

Articles created or improved (February 2021)

Articles created or improved (January 2021)

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