Wikipedia:Meetup/Raising Representation CIfA
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| Date | April 30, 2025 |
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| Duration | 48:00:00 |
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| Type | Wikipedia training event |
| Theme | Raising Representation of Women and Non-Binary archaeologists and others who are under represented in Archaeology |
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| Organised by | WikiProject Raising Representation |
| Outcome | outreachdashboard |
| Website | w |
Welcome to this Wikipedia training event focussing on raising the representation of Women and Non-Binary people in Archaeology, hosted at the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists conference 2025 with support from volunteers and organisers at Wikimedia UK .
Two ways to contribute
[edit]1. Come to the stand and tell us your stories
[edit]We will build or edit profiles for the people you tell us about.
2. Join us in editing by creating an account, login and enrol
[edit]If you haven't already, please
- create an account by clicking on the create an account now link at WP:ACCOUNT.
- login using the username you've created
- enrol for the event, this allows us to track contributions during and after the event, click this link to enrol
Suggested articles
[edit]Once you've logged in and enrolled, there are two ways to get started
- Create or draft an article by clicking on the red links below, a red link means the article doesn't exist yet
- Improve an existing article see suggestions below, blue links are for articles that already exist
Articles to create or draft
[edit]We have suggested some biographies of Women in archaeology to create or draft that are likely to pass Wikipedia:Notability, some of these starting suggestions are taken from TrowelBlazers.com[1] others from suggestions from colleagues in the department. If you are logged in, you can create the article by clicking on the red link below:
Articles which could be added to
[edit]If you don't want to create or draft a new biography, here are some examples of existing articles (ordered alphabetically by surname) which could be added to with further research:
- Selma Al-Radi
- Crystal Bennett
- Pen Foreman
- Aileen Fox
- Janet Gourlay
- Kayt Hawkins
- Owen Hurcum
- Alexandra Jones (archaeologist)
- Kathleen Kenyon
- Margaret Murray
- Jean Sassoon[4]
- Grace Simpson
- Sharon Sullivan
- Kisha Supernant
- Gertrude Caton Thompson
- Sadie Watson
- Tessa Wheeler
- Kate Clark (archaeologist)
- Lisa Westcott Wilkins
Add your own suggestions here!
[edit]Anyone we missed? Please add your own suggestions below because anyone can edit this page and we can use your suggestions in future editathons:
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Writing biographies
[edit]When writing biographies of people, stick to verifiable facts (see Wikipedia:Verifiability) and avoid opinions. A typical biography might include the following sections
- A lead paragraph (or lede) summarising the subject
- Education and early life - a section summarising their education and early life, for example birthplace, high school and university etc
- Research and Career - what research are they known for? What have they done during their career?
- An openly licensed portrait of the subject or their work if you can upload one (see w.wiki/V5a) or find one already published by searching commons.wikimedia.org
- Publications - list some key publications and citations that support the statements of fact you have made
Once you've created a biography
[edit]- Add them to List of archaeologists.
- Mention them in related pages. For example, Sadie Watson directed the excavations at Bloomberg London but isn't (yet!) mentioned in Bloomberg tablets
Women in Red
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The Women in Red project womeninred.org maintain lists of biographies of notable women that do not have biographies on Wikipedia yet, for example:
- Women archaeologists Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Archaeologists
- Women classicists Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's Classical Committee/Wikidata redlist
- Women Egyptologists, Sinologists, Indologists and Orientalists (ESIO) Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/ESIO
Please give us feedback
[edit]This is the second session that we've run, please give us feedback afterwards on how we can improve (alongside what went well). Details from our previous event can be found at Wikipedia:Meetup/Raising_Representation
Example template to cut and paste
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{{short description|Archaeologist}}
{{Infobox academic
|name= Anne Archaeologist
| birth_name =
|honorific_suffix=
|workplaces= University of Poppleton
|alma_mater=
|thesis_year=
| thesis_title =
| thesis_url =
| awards =
| website = {{URL|https://trowelblazers.com}}
}}
'''Anne Archaeologist''' is an archaeologist.
==Education==
She was educated at the University of Poppleton.<ref>put thesis details</ref>
==Career and research==
Her research is on
===Selected publications===
Her publications are about
===Awards and honours===
Her awards include
==References ==
{{Reflist}}
{{Authority control}}
Post event activities
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If you're feeling inspired, confident and empowered to carry on editing Wikipedia, here are some useful resources to help you continue on your journey:
- Editing Wikipedia: a guide to improving content on the online encyclopedia (pdf) w.wiki/V5Z
- Illustrating Wikipedia: a guide to contributing content (pdf) w.wiki/V5a
- The Wikipedia Adventure (interactive online practical tutorial) w.wiki/3qs
- See also the University of Edinburgh resources developed by their Wikipedian in residence, Ewan McAndrew[7]
References
[edit]- ↑ Anon (2024). "Pioneering women in archaeology, palaeontology and geology — past & present". trowelblazers.com.
- ↑ Anon (2023). "Katharine MacDonald: A Burning Light in Prehistory". trowelblazers.com.
- ↑ Anon (2022). "Kary Dimas: Following the footsteps of the first Mesoamericans". trowelblazers.com.
- ↑ Anon (2017). "Jean Sassoon". trowelblazers.com.
- ↑ Konieczny, Piotr; Klein, Maximilian (2018). "Gender gap through time and space: A journey through Wikipedia biographies via the Wikidata Human Gender Indicator". New Media & Society. 20 (12): 4608–4633. doi:10.1177/1461444818779080. hdl:20.500.11754/81115. ISSN 1461-4448.
- ↑ Anon (2020). "Wikidata Human Gender Indicators (WHGI): Gender by language". wmflabs.org. Wikimedia Foundation.
- ↑ McAndrew, Ewan (2020). "Wikimedia resources – how to get started". ed.ac.uk. University of Edinburgh.