Wikipedia:Women's Classical Committee

This is a WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians. New participants are welcome; please feel free to participate!

Welcome

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.
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.

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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.

Outcomes[edit]

The list below shows the outcomes for the project for 2022. For work in past years see the project archives for 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021.

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Add newest articles to top of list please

Wikimedia UK banner for 2021 Women's History Month, featuring Victoria Leonard talking about #WCCWiki

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Kayt Hawkins

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Galli - added reference to Hungate, York
Joyce Reynolds (classicist)
Jane F. Gardner
Isabel Ruffell
Milada Paulová
Judith McKenzie (archaeologist) - added a bit more on research in Petra
Eva Kolníková‎
Fiona McHardy
Kristi Upson-Saia

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(UCU Strikes)

Allison Glazebrook

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(UCU Strikes)

Edith Mary Walker

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Sissel Undheim

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In collaboration with Women in Red, 'Women in the Ancient World' theme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Meetup/229

Elizabeth M. Tyler #OrosiusThroughTheAges
Elizabeth Elstob - #OrosiusThroughTheAges
Janet Bately - #OrosiusThroughTheAges
Natalia Lozovsky - #OrosiusThroughTheAges
Eszter Spät - #OrosiusThroughTheAges
Wikiquote:Orosius - #OrosiusThroughTheAges
Wikiquote:Natalia Lozovsky - #OrosiusThroughTheAges
Napir-Asu
Eve MacDonald
Cleopatra_the_Physician
Kathleen Freeman (classicist) - Did You Know...?
Susanna and the Elders in art
Marion Tully Dimick - PIN
Georgina Herrmann - upgraded (904 characters --> 2986 characters)
Daduhepa - new
Thánh Thiên - new
Barum woman - is she the oldest in the encyclopedia? Lucy?
Sara Anderson Immerwahr Galt's tutor, add pic and update, PIN
Caroline Morris Galt - PIN
Louise Fitz Randolph - PIN
Sallie Wagner - PIN
Ellen S. Spinden - PIN
Sally Katary recreated deleted page
Mary Brebner

Articles created or improved (April 2022)[edit]

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Did you know

22 Dec 2022 – Judith Marquet-Krause (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Lajmmoore (t · c); see discussion