User:Mcava19//Heritage studies and ICT 2020-2021

Presentation

Good morning,

I am User:Mcava19, a student of the University of Bergamo.

I am attending the course Heritage Studies and ICT. I am contributing to articles about municipalities, territories and heritage in the frame of Wikipedia. The goal of the project is to enrich existing pages and possibily enlarge the content.

Preparation

Before starting the actual work, I decided which pages I wanted to contribute to and looked for some sources.

After that, I created a Wikipedia account.

Then, I registered on Wikimedia Dashboard through my Wikipedia account and I added a little description on my Wikimedia profile.

I later created my user page in both the Italian (https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Mcava19) and the English (User:Mcava19) version of Wikipedia and there too I added a few pieces of information about who I am and what I am doing on Wikipedia. I also added the links of the pages I intended to modify (as well as putting those links in the list in the respective pages in Italian and in English created for the project).

The pages I decided to contribute to are the following:

Lindisfarne (IT) https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindisfarne
Castello di Lindisfarne (IT) https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castello_di_Lindisfarne
Abbazia di Lindisfarne (IT) https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbazia_di_Lindisfarne
Lindisfarne
Lindisfarne Castle

Work

Lindisfarne (IT)

The work I did in this page (https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindisfarne) was just translating from the already existing page in Wikipedia English into Italian. More precisely:

I created the section “Nome e etimologia” and “Note”.
Before translating into Italian, I checked if the sources of the English page concerning what I wanted to translate were reliable (unfortunately some of them I was not able to check because I did not have access to them).
I translated almost the whole “Name and Etymology” paragraph and the subsection “Tourism” in Italian from the English page.
I added the respective references of the English page in what I had translated (from reference 1 to reference 13).
I specified, before saving, that a translation had been made.
I later left a comment in the DISCUSSION PAGE (https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussione:Lindisfarne), briefly saying what I did in this page.

Castello di Lindisfarne (IT)

The work I did in this page (https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castello_di_Lindisfarne) was just translating from the already existing page in Wikipedia English into Italian. More precisely:

Before translating into Italian, I checked if the sources of the English page concerning what I wanted to translate were reliable (unfortunately some of them I was not able to check because I did not have access to them).
I added details in the “Storia” paragraph (about what happened during the historic period of Henry VIII).
I added information about architect Enric Miralles.
I added the period of closure of the castle between 2016 and 2018.
I added the respective references of the English page in what I had translated (references 7, 9, 12)
I specified, before saving, that a translation had been made.
I later left a comment in the DISCUSSION PAGE (https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussione:Castello_di_Lindisfarne), briefly saying what I did in this page.

Abbazia di Lindisfarne (IT)

In this page (https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbazia_di_Lindisfarne) I only added an already existing picture (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LindisfarneFol27rIncipitMatt.jpg) on Wikipedia (Inserisci→immagini e file multimediali → cerca) that represents the Lindisfarne Gospels (Evangeliario di Lindisfarne), the manuscript that was cited in the text in the section “Storia”.

I specified, before saving, that an already existing picture had been added.

DISCUSSION PAGE (https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussione:Abbazia_di_Lindisfarne): I briefly added what I did on this page.

Lindisfarne (ENG)

This page (Lindisfarne) has a lot of information concerning this small English island, so I decided to add a few details that could go a bit deeper into the already existing content. More precisely I added:

The date of Saint Cuthbert’s burial on the island of Lindisfarne (reference 59)
The fate of the monks after the Viking attack in 793 (reference 52)
A curious thing that can be seen today on the island: upturned boats (reference 85)
An already existing picture on Wikipedia ((Inserisci→immagini e file multimediali → cerca) that represents the above-mentioned upturned boats (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lindisfarne_Upturned_Boats_in_Harbour.JPG)
I specified, before saving, that a translation had been made and also that a picture had been added.

(The sources I used for adding details were from books that I used to write my bachelor's degree dissertation).

I later left a comment in the DISCUSSION PAGE (Talk:Lindisfarne), briefly saying what I did in this page.

Lindisfarne Castle (ENG)

Here (Lindisfarne Castle) I added a few more details concerning the whinstone hill called Beblowe on which the castle is situated, but it is no longer visible. It was removed by another user because it was considered not clear and relevant to the content.

Because of this, I did not add the link of this page here (Wikipedia:GLAM/UNIBG/Heritage studies and ICT) because I did not know whether it was still possibile to be considered "work done".

Collaboration with other users

I did not collaborate with any of my classmates, but while working I had the pleasure to have interacted with two Wikipedians:

One user (Davy1509) thanked me for the things I modified on the Italian page of Lindisfarne Castle and for my message on the discussion page.
One other user (Magnolia677) corrected my contribution in both Lindisfarne Castle (as I have already mentioned) and the Lindisfarne page.

Motivation

I decided to work on this subject because of my bachelor’s degree dissertation, in which I analysed the Viking attack on Lindisfarne in the year 793 in comparison with episode two of the first season (Wrath of the Northmen) of the TV series Vikings. It is a topic that, even after my graduation, I still find extremely interesting and captivating. Furthermore, I saw that the Italian pages concerning this area do not have a lot of information, so I wanted to expand a little bit the content so that also people that do not speak English and are interested in Lindisfarne and what it has to offer can read and learn.

Thank you for the opportunity to take part in this project

- Mcava19.