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editThis meetup was part of the project WP:MedievalWiki
#MedievalWiki for International Women's Day 2018
editStudents and staff at King's College London invite you to join a three-hour Medieval Feminist Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Wednesday 28th March 2018, in person, or wherever you are in the world!
Read more about the project on our blog.
[Project update 8th Feb 2018] We planned to hold our wikithon on the 7th March, and publicise the fruits of our labour on International Womens' Day, 8th March. However, in support of the UCU pensions strike, we will host the wikithon on Wednesday 28th March. Find out more about the UCU strikes and how you can support them, here.
Any questions? Leave a query on our talk page Wikipedia talk:Meetup/MedievalWikiIWD2018
Sign-Up - Workshop at Senate House, London
editEvent details
- Room 349, Senate House, Malet Street, WC1E 7HU
- Wednesday 28 March 2018
- Wikipedia Training Session 1:30pm
- Editing Session 1:30-4:30pm
- Organisers:
Let us know you are coming
1. Sign up via Eventbrite - click here - to let us know you're coming (so that we make sure we have enough refreshments to go round, and, if you are not a King's ID card holder, we need to provide a list of names to security).
2. Add your Wikipedia username below, observing that the list is alphabetical by user name.
You can add your name by clicking the 'Signature and timestamp' icon in the editing toolbar, or just copy and paste four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date.
- Bethanymay (talk) 16:38, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
- Mearainbow (talk) 16:25, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
- Medievalfran (talk) 18:00, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
- Claire 75 (talk) 14:18, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
- Delire-a98 (talk) 15:23, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
- Steida (talk) 12:46, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
- Sophiemayer (talk) 10:31, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
- Andrew D. (talk) 13:14, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
- Davisqmw (talk) 13:16, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
- Cpotter419 (talk) 14:39, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
- DamesnetV (talk) 14:41, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
- DamesnetB (talk) 14:41, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
- Henryravenhall (talk) 15:03, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
- Cearleslasta (talk) 15:03, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
Sign-Up - Remote individuals
editWherever you are in the world, you can be a part of this #medievalwiki event. You don't have to just take part 2-5pm GMT on the 28th March. We invite you to make edits any time between 1-31 March. Add your username before, and 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.
Sign-Up - Remote Groups
editPlease do get together with friends and colleagues, staff and students, to run a sister branch of this wikithon at your workplace! Add your institution with usernames below.
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.
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.
Isotta Nogarola - I'm planning to work on this Claire 75 (talk) 14:20, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
- 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/
- Related work on the Caedmon article, with regards to historicity by Lees and Overing.[1] they call the Caedmon story a 'patriarchal myth' p. 26.
- Lees and Overing note that 'Caedmon is the so-called "father" of English poetry', and discuss that 'the elevation of an illiterate laborer Caedmon to divinely inspired poet (and almost saint) has acquired the quasimythological status of an originary narrative'.[2]
- 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
Articles to create or improve: Medieval Texts and Material Culture
edit- 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 by women
- Mercie Lack and Barbara Wagstaff, photographers
- Work of Angela Care Evans as curator at British Museum
- Helen Geake
- Sue Brunning as curator at British Museum
- Sutton Hoo Society
- To add section on translations and adaptations: Kevin Crossley-Holland, Michael Alexander, Paul Muldoon, Fiona Sampson, Vahni Capildeo, Burton Raffel, FEN, Hamish Clayton, Blood Axis, Kerry Carnahan,
- 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?
List of artistic depictions of Beowulf
- Insert reference to Sian Echard, 'Boom: Seeing Beowulf in Print', Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination
- 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.
Émilienne Demougeot - page requires expansion
Janet Bately - major expansion needed
Elizabeth Jeffreys - Byzantine Historian
- 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
Monica Green (historian) - page needs expanding, partic on her important work on medieval medicine, genetics, women's health
- Very low number of references within this article. Requires further sources for range of biographical and bibliographical details.
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.
- Information on history, committee, and the journal, 'Studies in the Age of Chaucer'.
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 1-30 March 2018, and boost the representation of medieval women, or their woman or non-binary modern readers, make sure you include your contribution below!
- Edited List of artistic depictions of Beowulf to include reference to Meghan Purvis' translation and awards, the Unicorn Theatre produced one-woman 'Beowulf' which starred Debbie Korley, and to give reference to Marijane Osborn's list of Beowulf adaptations and translations published by ACMRS. Edited the The Seafarer (poem) with additional information regarding Caroline Bergvall's 'Drift' project Medievalfran (talk) 00:21, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
- Edited Monica Green (historian) to include her recent win of CARA prize from Medieval Academy of America --Steida (talk) 13:14, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
- Also edited Alice of Schaerbeek to include refs to manuscripts, more secondary refs, corrected biographical errors, inserted crossrefs to relevant wiki pages -- Steida
- Edited Maureen Duffy adding information about Hilda and Virginia production at Jermyn Street Theatre in 2018, and image from wikimedia commons. Added reference to Duffy on Hilda_of_Whitby. Made some tweaks to Society_for_Medieval_Feminist_Scholarship, this work will be ongoing for some time (see my sandbox!) --Medievalfran (talk) 14:07, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
- Edited Caroline Bergvall to reformat and clarify information already provided, to add information on her poem Drift and to add her performance at the KCL Arts and Humanities Festival 2017, and added photograph available on wikicommons --Cearleslasta (talk) 14:22, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
- Edited Héloïse based on the French wikipedia page. Added section 5 'Influence on Literature'. Henryravenhall (talk) 15:13, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
- Edited Caroline Walker Bynum to make minor clarifications, improve citations, and most importantly changed the article title to her full, and most commonly used, name. Cpotter419 (talk) 15:16, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
- Also edited associated pages for Caroline Walker Bynum: Radcliffe College added as alumna, and a link added back to Bynum's page on Affective piety - - Cpotter419
- Edited Julian of Norwich to update the terms used referring to cited work, and added another image depicting the church she resided in. Delire-a98 (talk) 15:21, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
- Edited Dream of the Rood to include a paragraph on the scholarship done on gender in the poem. All my sources were already cited in the article, but previous editors had avoided mentioning these interpretations (which was the central argument in one of those sources). --Mearainbow (talk) 15:26, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
- Work in progress: finding sources which argue that Caedmon and his story is more myth than 'real figure', considering how he has a larger page, and more work attributed to him than Abbess Hilda User:Mearainbow
- Edited Wulf and Eadwacer to include image of the Exeter Book, info box, and section on translations and adaptations. Also populated Wikidata. --Bethanymay (talk) 09:26, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
- Created article for Elizabeth Paston and edited associated articles to link Elizabeth with her family members and peers John Paston (died 1466) George Browne (died 1483) William Paston (died 1444) Edward Poynings Robert Poynings - Davisqmw
- Added image to Maria Jastrzębska - - User:DamesnetV
- Started working on Queynte Laydies in personal sandbox - - User:DamesnetV
- Created article for Lellia Cracco Ruggini, and edited Cassiodorus to include link to Ruggini - - Claire_75
Acknowledgements
editWe are excited to be following the example set by the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (thank you for laying a path to follow).
Thank you to Women's Classical Committee UK for all of your help and support.
Thanks also to a whole host of other feminist and academic organisations around the world. We've collected together previous and ongoing projects that inspired us on our blog.
Bibliography for work-in-progress
editThese references might prove helpful for your article editing!
- ^ Lees, Clare A.; Overing, Gillian R. (2001). Double agents : women and clerical culture in Anglo-Saxon England. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0812236289.
- ^ Lees, Clare A.; Overing, Gillian R. (2001). Double agents : women and clerical culture in Anglo-Saxon England. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. p. 11. ISBN 0812236289.