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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. {{cite news}}: External link in |agency= (help)

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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.

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✨ Created January 2017

📰 Appeared on the front page March 2017

Dorothy Tarrant (1885–1973) was the first female professor of Greek in the UK, teaching at Bedford College, London from 1909 to 1950. She researched the work of Plato, pioneering the use of stylistic analysis to conclude that he had not written all the work previously attributed to him. She was active in the Classical Association and became its first woman president in 1958.

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a user box for the project: {{User WCC}}

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We are officially on holiday...nevertheless some of us can't keep away.

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Blanche Athena Clough
Émilienne Demougeot
Catherine Johns
Dorothy Charlesworth. Also added her to Veronica Seton-Williams page and linked Veronica Seton-Williams page to Egypt Exploration Society page.
Ellen Swift
Eleanor Scott (archaeologist) - Created by FranMaz at the Wikipedia:TRAC Wikipedia Workshop 2018

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Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer
Helen Maria Chesnutt. Also Charles W. Chesnutt - added his daughter as his biographer and link to her new page
Agnes Hoppin Memorial Fellowship
Marlia Mango
Leila Clement Spaulding
Eleanor Winsor Leach

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Clotilde Tambroni - and moved to watchlist. Also added information and links to her on Adamo Tadolini and Ireneo Affò pages
Grace Macurdy

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Anne Dacier - also edited André Dacier to ensure her notability is accurately reflected on that page and Tanneguy Le Fèvre to add her.
Grace Macurdy
Anna Maria van Schurmann - also added her to University of Utrecht and List of people associated with Utrecht University pages
Dilys Powell
Philomen Probert
Averil Cameron
Winifred Lamb

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Lin Foxhall

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Penguin Classics - Betty Radice connections made.
Grace Macurdy
Kathryn Gutzwiller
Gisela Richter
Elizabeth Craik
Virginia Burrus
Women's Classical Committee UK
Averil Cameron

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Agnata Butler (née Ramsay) - Did You Know ... that Punch honoured Agnata Ramsay's exam success with a cartoon (pictured)? (9 April - 9,966 views)
Barbara Hammond – Did You Know ... that Barbara Bradby was the first woman to ride a bicycle at Oxford University, where her academic prowess inspired a limerick? (7 April - 9,987 views)
Suzanne Dixon
Theodora
Ruth Scodel

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Alison Ruth Sharrock
Amy Richlin – Did You Know ... that Amy Richlin teaches ancient sex? (5 February - 5,588 views)
Beryl Rawson – Did You Know ... that in the late 1970s Beryl Rawson used computers to analyse the family life of Roman slaves? (6 February - 3,464 views)
Dorothy Tarrant – Did You Know ... that the first female British professor of Greek, Dorothy Tarrant, analysed Plato's style to conclude that he did not write the Socratic dialogue on beauty? (19 March - 1,910 views)
Edith Hall (disambiguation)
Edith Sharpley
Froma Zeitlin
Helene P. Foley
Jenny Strauss Clay
Judith P. Hallett
Kate Cooper
Miriam T. Griffin – Did You Know ... that classical scholar Miriam T. Griffin believes that the Roman emperor Nero was hounded by fear, panic, and persecutory delusions at the end of his reign? (22 March - 2,098 views)
Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
Susanna Elm – Did You Know ... that Susanna Elm's book Virgins of God draws on little-known sources such as the Letter to the Virgins Who Went to Jerusalem? (18 March - 783 views)
Elizabeth A. Clark
Mary Harlow

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