Medievalists (and, well, all researchers!) are invited to join a three-hour Medieval Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Wednesday 28th October 2020, wherever you are in the world!
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- Online!
- Wednesday 28 October 2020
- 13:00-16:00 GMT (UK) and 14:00-17:00 CET (Berlin)
- Organisers:
Let us know you are coming
1. Sign up via Eventbrite - click here - if you want to join the Zoom call which will include a short training session.
2. Add your Wikipedia username below, observing that the list is alphabetical by user name.
You can add your name by clicking the 'Sign your posts on talk pages' icon at the bottom of the editing screen, or just copy and paste four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date.
- Lajmmoore (talk) 11:40, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
- Srsval (talk) 18:58, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
- Eklektikos (talk) 10:03, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
- Bethanymay (talk) 10:59, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
- Alarichall (talk) 09:04, 26 October 2020 (UTC) (I won't be able to make it till after 1400 UK time, but hopefully after that ... it's hard to prevent weekdays from filling up with meetings!)
- LeCarla47 (talk) 10:48, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
- Booksandbonsai (talk) 23:02, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
- SZRMedieval (talk) 14:40, 27 October 2020 (UTC) (Interested, but a. event closed on Eventbrite and b. possibly would have to dip in and out on the day)
- Cssiar (talk) 07:03, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
- Hack the Universe (talk) 12:13, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
- H2748 (talk) 12:19, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
- Renedit44 (talk) 12:42, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
Cbeattie73 (talk) 12:54, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
- RaySericus (talk) 21:50, 28 October 2020 (CST)
Sign-Up - Without joining our Zoom workshop
editWherever you are in the world, you can be a part of this #medievalwiki event. You don't have to just take part 13:00-16:00 GMT on the 28th October. We invite you to make edits any time between 26th-30th October. Add your username here, and be sure to record your contribution at the bottom of this meetup page.
Please add your Wikipedia name below, observing that the list is alphabetical by user name.
You can add your name by clicking the 'Signature and timestamp' icon, or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date.
- names go here. Asterisk creates a bullet point.
Articles to Create: Wikidata Redlist
editThe #MedievalWiki Wikidata Redlist shows women from across the globe who lived between 400-1600 CE, who do not have wikipedia pages, but do have Wikidata associated with them!
Articles to create or improve: Medieval Women
editPlease add to the list below to suggest articles to edit/create. Once you've made any new pages or edits, please add your work to the 'outcomes' section below.
- Sarah Salih, Versions of Virginity in Late Medieval England (D.S. Brewer, 2001)
- Laura Varnam, ‘The crucifix, the Pietà, and the female mystic: Devotional objects and performative identity in The Book of Margery Kempe’. Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures 41 (2015): 208-237.
- Laura Varnam, ‘The Importance of St Margaret's Church in 'The Book of Margery Kempe': A Sacred Place and an Exemplary Parishioner’. Nottingham Medieval Studies (2017)
- Williams, Laura K. ""Slayn for Goddys lofe": Margery Kempe's Melancholia and the Bleeding of Tears." Medieval Feminist Forum 52.1 (2016) : 84-100
- Spencer-Hall, Alicia. Medieval Saints and Modern Screens: Divine Visions as Cinematic Experience. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018, pp. 165-92
- Catherine Karkov, ‘The Body of St. Æthelthryth’, The Cross Goes North ed. Carver (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2003)
- Note of Maureen Duffy's play. Does this belong here or on a 'new medieval work' page? Also requires an edit on Maureen Duffy's page, with ref to play performed at Jermyn St Theatre. http://exeuntmagazine.com/reviews/review-hilda-virginia-jermyn-street-theatre/
- Add content from primary sources to flesh out details of her life, plus can include a few citations of contemporary scholars.
- Fiona J. Griffiths, 'Siblings and the Sexes Within the Medieval Religious Life' Church History 77.1 (2008), 26-53
- Wiesje Nijenhuis, 'In a Class of Their Own, Anglo-Saxon Female Saints', Mediaevistik 14 (2001), 125-48
- Walter de Gray Birch, Memorials of St Guthlac of Crowland (Wisbech: 1881)
- Robin Norris, 'The Augustinian Theory of Use and Enjoyment in “Guthlac A” and “B”', Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 104.2 (2003), 159-178
- Primary sources: Chronicon ex chronicis (1140); Felix’s Life of Saint Guthlac: Text, Translation and Notes, ed. Bertram Colgrave (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009); MS. Dd. Xi. 78, University Library, Cambridge; Harley Roll Y6, Roundel 15, BL; Jane Roberts, The Guthlac Poems of the Exeter Book (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979)
- French speakers can find much to translate from French wikipedia into English
- Heloise's mum. Lacks an entry in English; has entries in some other languages.
- One of the most significant premodern writers, yet she doesn't even have her own article. The Perpetua and Felicity article concentrates on this pair almost entirely on their veneration as saints and does not take modern scholarship into account; The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity article is better but does not consider Perpetua as a writer.
- Has an entry in Encyclopaedia of Islam second and third edns -- looks interesting.
- Has an entry in Encyclopaedia of Islam second edn (maybe third too, I haven't checked) -- if she's there she probably deserves to be in Wikipedia. A bit late for us: 1672-1727CE. But thought I'd mention her since I'd noticed her.
- Entry in English Wikipedia lacks references and is very brief -- it could clearly be improved quite easily, though she doesn't have an entry in the Encyclopaedia of Islam.
- Is in Encyclopaedia of Islam third edn.
- Article could easily be improved using Encyclopaedia of Islam third edn (s.v. Ḥalīma bt. Abī Dhuʾayb)
Karīma bt. Aḥmad al-Marwaziyya
- Is in Encyclopaedia of Islam third edn.
Articles to create or improve: Medieval Texts and Material Culture
editPlease add to the list below to suggest articles to edit/create. Once you've made any new pages or edits, please add your work to the 'outcomes' section below.
- Gale Owen Crocker's work on embroidery
- Patience Agbabi in 'adaptations'
- Caroline Bergvall in 'adaptations'
- Marvin Gaye Chetwynd in 'versions' or 'adaptations'
- Update with information with recent scholarly work
- Generally lacking in recent work by women across entire page. Update to include work by Marijane Osborne, Jane Chance, Stacy Klein, Marilynn Desmond, Christine Fell, Shari Horner, Helen Bennett.
- Suggest structural reorganisation, thinking about adaptations and variety of translations, and taking into account new scholarship.
- Reference to The Riddle Ages blog
- Maureen Halsall is featured on this page, however further interpretations and references can be added from her major book on the poem.
- Suggest that 'Translations' section is given its own page?
- Update of information to include more recent work by women across entire page
- Bear in mind existence of page 'list of artistic depictions of Beowulf'. Translations and artistic depictions of Beowulf?
- General problems with structure, and update of interpretation sections
Articles to create or improve: Contemporary scholars and artists
editPlease add to the list below to suggest articles to edit/create. Once you've made any new pages or edits, please add your work to the 'outcomes' section below
Note that some of these women have well developed pages, but missing references to work in medieval studies or medievalism.
Please observe alphabetical by first name listing. Names that appear in red require pages created for them.
Aisha Abd al-Rahman -- should be easy to improve this using Encyclopaedia of Islam third edn, s.v. 'ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, ʿĀʾisha'
Elizabeth Jeffreys - Byzantine Historian
Émilienne Demougeot - page requires expansion
Janet Bately - major expansion needed
- Translator of biographies of C13th holy women - incl. Christina Mirabilis, Marie of Oignies, Lutgard of Aywières
- Involved with 1980s feminist publishing house Peregrina Publishing (Toronto)?
- Compiler (with Ludo Jongen) of The Holy Women of Liège: A Bibliography
- Died 2018?
- Translations and interpretations of Beowulf
- Medieval scholarship
- Fiction writing - Nine Medieval Romances of Magic
- Film making
Maureen Duffy - well developed page, more on medievalism?
Monica Green (historian) - page needs expanding, partic on her important work on medieval medicine, genetics, women's health
- Relatively low number of references within this article. Requires further sources for range of biographical and bibliographical details.
Thelma K. Thomas http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/people/faculty/thomas.htm
Articles to create or improve: Journals, Societies, and Significant Research Projects
editPlease add to the list below to suggest articles to edit/create. Once you've made any new pages or edits, please add your work to the 'outcomes' section below.
- Information to be added regarding editors and scholarly work done associated with the project.
Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
- More on committee history, significant events, and prize winners. Important: it may be that there are no sources for history that you know yourself. Is there a way to make this information into a source?
- Information on history, committee, and the journal, 'Studies in the Age of Chaucer'.
- New page; committee history, significant events, and prize winners. Linked to SMFS.
Editing Tips and Resources
editNot all scholars, artists, and writers will be considered 'notable' by the Wikipedia community. See these guides for what constitutes a notable academic, and on notability in general. Of course, some of the criteria serve as barriers especially for women and PoC, so it is up to us to pull together the citations and put our case forward! You might find that a page you create or edits you make are challenged, so be prepared to state your case (and ask for backup from fellow medievalwiki editors).
Editorial guidance to consider when writing about women.
Wikipedia has useful guidance for writing biographies about living people.
Citation tool for generating references from Google Books http://reftag.appspot.com/
PDF of 'Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia', by Joseph Michael Reagle. See especially the Chapter 'Nazis and Norms'
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A guide to editing Wikipedia -
A guide to adding files to Wikimedia Commons -
A cheat sheet to get started with wikicode
Outcomes
editAdd to our list of articles edited. Write your 'what you have edited - username'. Include as much detail as you can! Please share your work done across your preferred social media (using #medievalwiki)
Wherever you are in the world, if you make a change to Wikipedia between 23-30 October 2020, and boost the representation of medieval women, or of women, non-binary, Black or global majority modern readers, make sure you include your contribution below!
- Added +3784 bytes to Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship mostly on history and starting a list of members with wikipedia pages! Medievalfran (talk) 15:08, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
- Added +1373 bytes to Caedmon page - references to scholarship by Lees and Overing. Medievalfran (talk) 20:20, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
- Added 420 bytes to Clare Lees on scholarship. Medievalfran (talk) 20:20, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
- New article on Aleksandra McClain (+1,997)
- Edited a couple of lines on article Mathilde, Abbess of Essen to better reflect her achievements rather than paternal family. I did insert the information later on in article. SZRMedieval (talk) 16:05, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
- New article on Haruko Momma (+6,001) Bethanymay (talk) 09:27, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
- Added Miller Wolf Oberman translation to Wulf and Eadwacer page. Bethanymay (talk) 09:27, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
- Added +501 to River Blackwater, Essex on The Battle of Maldon, included some scholarship and removed uncritical reference to the Dark Ages! Bethanymay (talk) 15:13, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
- Added +2027 bytes to Anglo-Saxon riddles - Eklektikos
- Putting together further research (still sandbox stage) for page about Hind bint al-Khuss al-Iyādiyya, a legendary pre-Islamic female poet, one of the first lesbians in Arab culture. - Alarichall
- Started collecting additional information to add to English-language page for Anneliese Maier, a German historian of science. - LeCarla47
- Started collecting information for a new page about María de las Mercedes Brea López - H2748
- Cbeattie73 flagged there is no wikipedia page for Gender and Medieval Studies - added to the project to do list.
- Started a page for Tamta Mqargrdzeli, the daughter of Ivane Mqargrdzeli, who was a prominent figure in the Kingdom of Georgia in the 13th century.- RaySericus
- Alarichall added Aisha Abd al-Rahman, Zarqa al Yamama and many more names to the project 'to improve' list.
- Lajmmoore created a Red List from Wikidata, for people tagged as 'medieval' and 'women' in wikidata. (A whole list to explore if you want to get started and would like to explore history of someone you've perhaps never heard of before!)
- User LeCarla47 added some information on the biography page of historian of philosophy of the Middle Ages, Anneliese Maier, including some short hints at the content of her main work.