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Welcome to MedievalWiki! No one is in charge here: everyone is welcome to contribute, create a Wikithon under the MedievalWiki banner, and join the participants list - provided your editing intentions align with MedievalWiki aims!

Please feel free to make changes and additions to the format and content of these pages, and use the Talk page to leave questions and comments.

This project was established to create a permanent project building upon Wikipedia:Meetup/MedievalWikiIWD2018, User:Whistlaw/Jan_28_Editathon 2015, and Wikipedia:Meetup/MedievalFeminist 2014.

MedievalWiki Aims

Anyone who is committed to redressing the gender and racial imbalances on medieval Wikipedia is welcome to join the MedievalWiki project.

This project is all about:

• Improving references to scholarly work by Black medievalists and medievalists of colour, women and non-binary medievalists in articles related to medieval studies
• Creating and improving biographical pages for Black medievalists, medievalists of colour, women and non-binary medieval scholars and artists who use medieval texts, objects, or themes in their work / create works of medievalism.
• Improving coverage of references to theories and interventions indebted to critical race, gender studies, queer studies, and sexuality studies in medieval historical Wikipedia articles is also firmly within the scope of the project.

We encourage anyone interested in the medieval past and modern medievalisms - whether archaeologists, palaeographers, historians, linguists, artists, philologists, literary critics, or anyone else - to edit Wikipedia with this focus.

Everyone in the MedievalWiki community is encouraged to hold Wikipedia training and editing sessions, and to add to and make use of the resources list compiled here.

Foremothers and sister projects

We are excited to be following the example set by the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (thank you for laying a path to follow).

Thanks also to a whole host of other feminist and academic organisations around the world who have created documentation to follow, or provided friendly help! Thanks especially to the Women's Classical Committee.

Please do add to this section if you know of other projects/ events to document!

Forthcoming events

Anyone is welcome to organise a wikithon under the badge of MedievalWiki (if your editing aims are in the same spirit as those outlined here!). Please add forthcoming events below. You can find details of Past Events here.

• Leeds International Medieval Congress - 6th July 2021, 2-4pm BST

In this workshop, we will introduce participants to the wonderful world of Wikidata, and participants will then have time to contribute to the task of narrowing the gender and race gap on Wikipedia. Unfortunately due to huge interest from conference attendees we have to limit spaces to folks who have Leeds IMC tickets this time, but we hope to run another open-to-all Wikidata event soon!

Outcomes

We have a dashboard that collects outcome stats here https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/medievalwiki/programs

Add your edits below, and create a new month sub-section above the last month if necessary. Use an asterisk to create a bullet point.

June 2021

• Updated page for Pega - Bethanymay (talk) 12:35, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

April 2021

• New page for Saint Aurea of Paris - Medievalfran (talk) 17:38, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

February 2021

• New page for G. David Houston - Lajmmoore (talk) 22:06, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
• New page for Su'da - Lajmmoore (talk) 08:57, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

December 2020

• New page for Sochigel - Lajmmoore (talk) 20:04, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

November 2020 Outcomes

• Created page for Angela Care Evans - Medievalfran (talk) 12:03, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
• New page for Jean Le Patourel - Lajmmoore (talk) 19:21, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

October 2020 Outcomes

• (A bit early, but ...) a new page for Fatima al-Suqutriyya - ninth century poet from Socotra Lajmmoore (talk) 21:43, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
• Created page for Haruko Momma - Bethanymay (talk) 09:51, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
• Page for Saint Ninnoc & added references to Elizabeth Pirie's work a few pages Lajmmoore (talk) 12:31, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
• 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 added 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.

September 2020 Outcomes

• Created page for Carol Braun Pasternack - Medievalfran (talk) 12:24, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
• Created page for Lisa C. M. Weston - Medievalfran (talk) 20:08, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

More outcomes

For a complete archive of edited and new pages, see Past Events and Outcomes.