User:FabyBetty/Heritage studies and ICT 2020-2021

My contribution
My contribution in Wikipedia can be found in the following articles:


 * Town: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavriana (Italian)
 * Additional town: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavriana (English)
 * Heritage: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museo_archeologico_dell%27alto_mantovano (Italian)
 * Additional heritage: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiesa_di_San_Biagio_(Cavriana) (Italian)
 * Additional heritage: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Mirra (Italian)
 * Additional heritage: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santuario_della_Madonna_della_Pieve (Italian)

I decided to add information and sources to the main page of my hometown, Cavriana (MN), and as an addition I also improved the English page of my home town. Since I was looking for information about my hometown, I decided to improve the pages of some critical buildings: Museo Archeologico dell'Alto Mantovano being the main one since the page was very poor and it hosts important relics.

How I found sources
The first thing to do, once decided what pages I wanted to change was looking for sources. What came to my mind initially were various stakeholders in the community of Cavriana: elderly people at the top. I started talking with some of my relatives and neighbors and they provided me with some books. Some of them also provided me with old black-and-white photos, even photos of the WWII, but they preferred not to publish them. Unfortunately not everything they said can also be found in official sources: there is so much popular knowledge, about the name of places for example, that is extremely interesting. The second place where I went for my research were two libraries: the one in Cavriana and the Biblioteca Queriniana in Brescia, where I live now. Here I could find many interesting books - with even more interesting bibliography -, even though just one of them has an ISBN. The last resort was the web, where I found some details about the last administration in Cavriana and specific figures (such as altitude and the names of the hamlets) and information about the Museo archeologico.

I also went through my photos in order to find out some pictures of Cavriana: I uploaded 3 of them on WikiCommons because the majority were photos of a particular building (explained later in the text). I really wanted to give some contribution with photos of the Palio della Capra d'Oro, but all the photos were blurred. I will keep on looking for some pictures in the future.

What was interesting, was continuously seeing some surnames throughout history that are still in town.

Town: Cavriana (IT)
The initial page of Cavriana was very poor, as many other pages of Italian municipalities. I wrote in the discussion page that I was going to change it. A user also wrote on my user page to tell me that my contribution was very interesting and reminded me of signing what I wrote in the discussion page, which was very useful since I had not done it.

In order to develop the article in the right way I followed the Wikipedi:Modello di voce/Centro abitato page; I found it very useful for a newbie like me.

I added:

Overall, these are the sources I added to this article:
 * altitude (http://www.comuni-italiani.it/020/018/clima.html)
 * information about the origins of the name, reference to the book Bongiovanni da Cavriana, Anticerberus, a cura di Piervittorio Rossi, traduzione di Daniela Barchi, Cavriana, [Comune di Cavriana], 1995.
 * I changed the word "edifici" with "architetture" and I added information on "architetture religiose"
 * Among "Architetture religiose" I added much information about oratories and described them, and I changed some names, such as the Chiesa a Santa Maria Nova and Pieve since they were not used in official bibliography.
 * information and sources about the UNESCO site, the "Fontana del Torcolo", bunkers, Villa Mirra, Museo Vecchio Mulino, schools.
 * I moved Cucina under Cultura as recommended and added the wines.
 * the template "ComuniAmminPrec"
 * the whole section about history (only the accident of Mille Miglia was present).
 * a section about Tamburello.
 * a "senza fonte" template in something that had been written.
 * appropriate "voci correlate" and bibliography.



Additional town: Cavriana (EN)
Probably I will continue to add information to this page, but so far I have added the most relevant information. I added:


 * the geography section.
 * the history section (only the accident of Mille Miglia was mentioned).
 * the two main churches and Villa Mirra and moved the UNESCO world heritage site in a sub heading under Main sights.
 * the two museums, the wines and the Palio under Culture.
 * I changed the "See Also" section, which was pointing to Rocca di Manerba (on the Garda Lake).

The sources I added here are the ones I used in the page of Wikipedia in Italian.

Images on WikiCommons
As mentioned in How I found sources, I uploaded 3 image on Wikimedia Commons and I used all of them in this article: a (a hamlet of Cavriana) and two views from the castle (one  and one towards the main square). I took them personally during my walks.

Heritage: Museo archeologico dell'Alto Mantovano (IT)
Here I wrote in the discussion page and then I added some information about the museum. I divided the text in the sections Storia and Il percorso museale, which I made almost from scratch. Writing about this museum is essential to me, because it represents an important part of the heritage of Cavriana, which was also declared part of the UNESCO World Heritage List! In order to find relevant information I used the website of the museum Museo archeologico dell'Alto Mantovano, museocavriana.it, and the website of UNESCO, Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, whc.unesco.org. In order to explain the exhibition I followed the guide book (Adalberto Piccoli, Maria Bordoni, Renato Laffranchini, Ferrante Nardi, Giuseppe Pitti, Elena Tommasi (a cura di), Guida : Museo Archeologico dell' Alto Mantovano, [Brescia], [Com&Print], 2006) and I have been many times at the museum.

Additional Heritage: Chiesa di San Biagio (Cavriana) (IT)
I wrote in the discussion page of this article in order to proceed with the changes. After changing the article I also suggested in the discussion to change the title of the article, since San Biagio has resulted to be more connected to the "Parrocchia" than the name of the church itself. Here I divided the article into two sections:"Storia" e "Descrizione", then I added relevant information found in the book - which also has a preface made by the ex parroco of Cavriana -

Additional Heritage: Villa Mirra (IT)
After writing in the discussion page, I added some relevant information about the history of this important building, starting from bibliographical sources. I added a "senza fonte" tag since it is not provided. The sources were:



Additional Heritage: Santuario della Madonna della Pieve (IT)
Unfortunately, I could not create a discussion in this article, otherwise I would suggest to change the title Santuario, since no bibliographical reference suggests that it is the right name of the Pieve. Here I added some relevant information from the book

Conclusion
This work has been extremely intense and it revived my interest in heritage - especially since I did not work a lot on it after the finishing of my bachelor thesis about cultural heritage in Syria. It is incredible how much knowledge is hidden in such a small - and beautiful I must say - town. I will dedicate some more spare time to the changing of some articles - especially Oratorio di Sant'Anna since my grandparents lived there - and I really hope to have the possibility to contribute more. Apart from my interest in heritage, the project was interesting because I had already contributed to Wikipedia but not created a UserPage and used Discussion pages since I did not know that it would have been polite.