Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's Classical Committee/Tools and guides

Resources

This is our Dropbox which can be used for storing reference materials related to the biographies the group is working on. If you are new to the group and need access, please leave a message on the discussion page, or ask using the chat channel during an editing session (details on Events & Workshops tab).

The Women's Classical Committee website has some links to pages on women in the ancient world, and to scholarly editions, translations and anthologies by women.

Google books link to Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly 2016 eds. Hall, E.; Wyles, R., OUP

Google books link to Breaking Ground: Pioneering Women Archaeologists 2006 eds. Cohen & Jouwkowsky, U. Michigan Press.

Google books link to Millett, M. (2016). "Roman Britain since Haverfield". In Millett, M.; Revell, L.; Moore, A.J. The Oxford Handbook of Roman Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 22–42

Google books link to 'Classicism, Black, in the United States', Ronnick M.V. (2004), in Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. Appiah, K.A. and Gates Jr.,H.L. (eds.) OUP, pp.120-123

Link to Cloelia journal, which has some useful pieces for some of our target pages https://medium.com/cloelia-wcc

A useful list to think with. 'An Impressive List of Female Authors from Antiquity' https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2016/08/01/an-impressive-list-of-female-authors-from-antiquity/

Tools and guides

Ever wondered how many people read about Cicero or Mary Beard? This tool lets you find out.

Want to brush up on editing? The University's Wikimedian in Residence has made some tutorial videos helpfully split by subject.

Editorial guidance to consider when writing about women.

Happily many of the biographies we edit are about living people. Wikipedia has useful guidance for writing biographies about living people.

Not all academics are notable! Nor do all notable academics have a Wikipedia page. For a guide to what constitutes a notable academic this can be helpful

Stuck? Try The Missing Manual for help.

Need some white noise? You can listen to Wikipedia as you edit.

A guide to editing Wikipedia
A guide to adding files to Wikimedia Commons
A cheat sheet to get started with wikicode

Bibliographical Resources

Wikipedia Editing: Women, Gender, Unequal Representation, and Activism

Emma Bridges, Claire Millington, and Victoria Leonard, 'Editing a Fairer Wikipedia: The Women’s Classical Committee Editathon’, Classics and Social Justice Blog, https://classicssocialjustice.wordpress.com/2017/02/01/editing-a-fairer-wikipedia-the-womens-classical-committee-editathon/, accessed 23 March 2018.

Noam Cohen, ‘Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikimedia’s Contributor List’, The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/business/media/31link.html. Accessed 23 March 2018.

Siân Evans, Jacqueline Mabey, Michael Mandiberg, ‘Editing for Equality: The Outcomes of the Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thons’, Art Documentation. Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America, vol. 34, no. 2 (2015) 194-203.

Amanda Filipacchi, 'Wikipedia’s Sexism Toward Female Novelists', The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/wikipedias-sexism-toward-female-novelists.html. Accessed 23 March 2018.

Eileen Guo, ‘Inside the Fight to Change Wikipedia's Gender Problem’, Inverse, https://www.inverse.com/article/39999-wikipedias-women-editors. Accessed 23 March 2018.

Hannah Harshe, 'Apparently, Sexism Has A Serious Grip On Wikipedia Too & Here's What People Have Done To Change That', HerCampus, http://www.hercampus.com/news/apparently-sexism-has-serious-grip-wikipedia-too-heres-what-people-have-done-change. Accessed 23 March 2018.

Tori Herridge, ‘Wikipedia gets the TrowelBlazers treatment at the NHM’, Toriherridge, https://toriherridge.com/2013/11/06/wikipedia-gets-the-trowelblazers-treatment-at-the-nhm/. Accessed 23 March 2018.

Emma Kerr, 'Women’s-Studies Students Across the Nation Are Editing Wikipedia', The Chronicle of Higher Education, https://www.chronicle.com/article/Women-s-Studies-Students/242866. Accessed 23 March 2018.

Jenny Kleeman, ‘The Wikipedia Wars: Does it Matter if Our Biggest Source of Knowledge is Written By Men?’, New Statesmen, http://www.newstatesman.com/lifestyle/2015/05/wikipedia-has-colossal-problem-women-dont-edit-it. Accessed 23 March 2018.

Allison Littlejohn and Nina Hood, 'Becoming an online editor: perceived roles and responsibilities of Wikipedia editors', Information Research, vol. 23, no. 1, March 2018, http://www.informationr.net/ir/23-1/paper784.html. Accessed 23 March 2018.

John Lubbock, ‘The Welsh Gender Equilibrium: Welsh becomes the biggest language Wikipedia to achieve gender balance!’, Wikimedia Blog, https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2016/12/the-welsh-gender-equilibrium-welsh-becomes-the-biggest-language-wikipedia-to-achieve-gender-balance/. Accessed 23 March 2018.

Ellie Mackin, ‘Women's Classical Committee Wikipedia Editing Day!’, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAWxTPZZNrg. Accessed 23 March 2018.

Emma Paling, 'Wikipedia's Hostility to Women', The Atlantic, https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/how-wikipedia-is-hostile-to-women/411619/. Accessed 23 March 2018.

Ariella Rotramel and Cassidy Villeneuve, 'Learning to claim Wikipedia: Feminist pedagogy and praxis', https://wikiedu.org/blog/2018/05/16/learning-to-claim-wikipedia-feminist-pedagogy-and-praxis/. Accessed 16 May 2018.

Kat Stoeffel, ‘Closing Wikipedia’s Gender Gap – Reluctantly’, The Cut, http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/02/closing-wikipedias-gender-gap-reluctantly.html. Accessed 23 March 2018.

Nicole Torres, ‘Why Do So Few Women Edit Wikipedia?’, Harvard Business Review, https://hbr.org/2016/06/why-do-so-few-women-edit-wikipedia. Accessed 23 March 2018.

Leen Van Broek, ‘Women's Classical Committee Wikipedia Editathon - 23 January 2017’, Roman Wafflings, http://romanwafflings.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/my-most-recent-but-not-so-recent-blog.html#!/2017/01/my-most-recent-but-not-so-recent-blog.html. Accessed 23 March 2018.

Claudia Wagner, David Garcia, Mohsen Jadidi, and Markus Strohmaier, ‘It’s a Man’s Wikipedia? Assessing Gender Inequality in an Online Encyclopedia’, Proceedings of the Ninth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, (2015) 454-63.

Claudia Wagner, Eduardo Graells-Garrido, David Garcia and Filippo Menczer, ‘Women Through the Glass Ceiling: Gender Asymmetries in Wikipedia’, EPJ Data Science, vol. 5 (2016) 1-24.

Deanna Zandt, ‘Yes, Wikipedia Is Sexist -- That's Why It Needs You’, Forbes, https://www.forbes.com/sites/deannazandt/2013/04/26/yes-wikipedia-is-sexist-thats-why-it-needs-you/#4c3a7c2c64bf. Accessed 23 March 2018.

Wikipedia Editing: Gender and Pedagogy

Nancy Andrews, 'Why You and Your Students Should Work To Improve Wikipedia', MediaShift, http://mediashift.org/2016/05/why-you-and-your-students-should-work-to-improve-wikipedia/. Accessed 23 March 2018.

Ewan McAndrew, 'Wikipedia assignments – getting past the ‘Penguin effect’ and down to the brass tacks of sharing open knowledge', The University of Edinburgh Teaching Matters Blog, https://www.teaching-matters-blog.ed.ac.uk/?p=2039. Accessed 23 March 2018.

Ariella Rotramel, 'Feminist Praxis and Wikipedia in the Classroom', Wikiedu, https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/how-wikipedia-is-hostile-to-women/411619/. Accessed 23 March 2018.

Thinking Critically About Wikipedia

Mostafa Mesgari, Chitu Okoli, Mohamad Mehdi, Finn Årup Nielsen, Arto Lanamäki, '“The sum of all human knowledge”: A systematic review of scholarly research on the content of Wikipedia', Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 66, issue 2 (February 2015) 219-45 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/asi.23172