Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's Classical Committee/Impact

Impact

Impact of #WCCWiki

- #WCCWiki integrated into undergraduate teaching at the University of Warwick: 'getting materials together to teach my Intro to Roman History seminar next Thursday, which will be a #WCCWiki @womeninclassics based computer lab. I've got 48 students standing by ready to make Wikipedia more 'woke'. ;-) Making the history we want to see @ClassicsWarwick'. Twitter, 7 January 2020: https://twitter.com/ancient_tokens/status/1214572801446875143. Token Communities is a Project at the University of Warwick: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/research/dept_projects/tcam/.

- #WCCWiki featured on the blog and video 'Closing the Gender Gap', produced by Wikimedia UK, 30.12.2019: https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2019/12/wikimedia-uk-publishes-closing-the-gender-gap-video/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9CzjIL-A1Q

-'How Do We Record the History of Women in Classics?', led by Claire Catenaccio for the Society for Classical Studies (SCS): https://classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/claire-catenaccio/blog-how-do-we-record-history-women-classics

- "...Zena Kamash’s Public Engagement Showcase and the Women’s Classical Committee UK’s Wikipedia Editathon, both of which provided excellent examples of public-facing Classics that seeks to make a difference beyond the walls of the academy." Katherine Harloe, Classical Association News, September 2019, Number 61, ISSN 963-4789, p. 3.

- On 16 March 2019, WCCWiki received an entry in the Springer Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, authored by Claire Millington. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-3-319-51726-1_3432-1

- In December 2018 Victoria Leonard published an article in The Guardian: ‘Female scholars are marginalised on Wikipedia because it's written by men’ (https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/dec/12/female-scholars-are-marginalised-on-wikipedia-because-its-written-by-men).

#WCCWiki Events

- '#WCCWiki - Women's Classical Committee Wikipedia Editathon', Classical Association/FIEC Conference 2019, University of London, Friday 5 July 2019. Directed by Anna P. Judson. Generously supported by the Institute of Classical Studies and the Classical Association. https://www.fiec2019.org/wccwiki-womens-classical-committee-uk-wikipedia-editathon/

- '#MedievalWiki: Editing Women in Wikipedia', Cohen Cluster, 14:00 - 16:00, 2nd July 2019, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds. Directed by Kate Cook. Generously supported by the IMC. https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc2019/events/workshops/ and https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2019-materialities-in-pictures/.

- In May 2019 Victoria Austen-Perry presented on #WCCWiki at the Classical Association of Canada Conference.

- In May 2019 Anna Judson organised a #WCCWiki training and editing workshop at the University of Cambridge.

- In March 2019 the Classics Department at Durham University ran their own WCC Wikipedia Editing Session, organised by Stuart McKie.

- In March 2019 Jane Draycott presented at the University of Glasgow on #WCCWiki at ‘Feminism in the Humanities’

- In January 2019 Lisa Lodwick and Claire Millington organised a Wikipedia editing event in the School of Archaeology at Oxford University, attended by 16-18 people, including Clare Rowan who subsequently introduced Wikipedia editing to undergraduate teaching at Warwick University (see above).

- In November 2018 Emma Bridges presented at the online Sunoikisis Digital Classics Seminar about Wikipedia editing and WCCWiki, ‘Digital Cultural Heritage and Public Engagement’: https://github.com/SunoikisisDC/SunoikisisDC-2018-2019/wiki/Session-5.-Digital-Cultural-Heritage-and-Public-Engagement)

- September 2018, Emma Bridges, Claire Millington and Kelly Foster presented on #WCCWiki and ran training at a workshop and editathon at University College London, organised by Katharine Shields.

- July 2018, Emma Bridges and Claire Millington presented on ‘The Women in Classics Wikipedia Group', Institute of Classical Studies. Watch the presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MRPTQOklws

- 28 March 2018, Claire Millington presented #WCCWiki to 'Medieval Women, Women Readers', a wikithon to mark International Women's Day 2018 at King’s College London, organised by Fran Allfrey and Beth Whalley.See https://blogs.kcl.ac.uk/english/2018/04/18/medieval-women-modern-readers/.

Franchises of #WCCWiki

- August 2019, the Department of Classics and Ancient History, Warwick University said that they were integrating #WCCWiki into their introductory survey modules on Greek and Roman History for undergraduates: https://twitter.com/ClassicsWarwick/status/1161556775914655744

- In April 2019, Jane Sancinito, a classicist at Oberlin College, Ohio, organised an editathon directly inspired by #WCCWiki, ‘Classics and Women of Colour’. They attracted 23 editors and edited nine articles. Jane wrote: ‘I love the #WCCWiki project and everyone involved has been so welcoming and helpful. It really got my event off the ground and it was so nice to tell the students that they weren’t just following my whims, but were participating in a global effort.’ (https://twitter.com/JaneSancinito/status/1120714812902772737)

Milestones and Statistics

- In February 2020 Anna Judson's article on archaeologist Winifred Lamb was featured in the 'Did you know?' section of Wikipedia's front page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winifred_Lamb); the page passed the 'Good Article' review in January 2020.

- In March 2018 Kate Cook’s article on classicist Grace Macurdy passed the ‘Good Article’ review (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Macurdy) and in August made it on to Wikipedia’s front page in the ‘Did you know?’ section.

- Statistical analysis by Richard Nevell: "271 articles have been created about classicists on the English Wikipedia of which 116 (43%) are about women. That proportion is down largely to the work of WCC." https://richardthecastellan.wordpress.com/2019/12/06/how-many-biographies-of-classicists-does-wikipedia-have-december-2019-update/