User:Medievalfran

Hello!
I am a researcher in the afterlives of medieval and prehistoric literature, archaeology, and places, but I enjoy reading widely and trying out methods and theories from different subjects. I like the challenge of starting pages for people in arts and culture, especially Women in Red, and love watching a page get added to.

I followed the Wikimedia UK Train the Trainer course in 2022, which was fantastic (if you want an extra person on any wikithon / workshop, I'm always happy for a chance to practice my facilitation and training skills).

I completed a PhD at King's College London looking at the history of meanings of Sutton Hoo since its discovery in 1939. This research takes into account newspaper articles, TV documentaries, archives of archaeological digs and the Sutton Hoo Society, and many, many site and exhibition visits.

I'm now doing further research on the afterlives and archives of the neolithic stone circle at Avebury, and how and why people today revisit the prehistoric and medieval past to make new work.

Avebury-related editing / COI declaration
Between July 2022-July 2025 I am a postdoc on the Avebury Papers research project. This project is a collaboration between University of York (where I am employed), Bournemouth University, University of Bristol, and the National Trust. As part of this work, I will be making edits, or training other people to make edits, to Avebury-related pages - which I will list here. This will involve auditing pages, establishing what needs to be improved, and making edits to add information, citations, research, and images via uploads to Wikicommons. Please be in touch if you have any questions or concerns!

Edited pages

Denis Grant King - image added from Wikicommons

WP:MedievalWiki
I try and regularly do some editing for a more permanent home for feminist, medievalist editing of wikipedia: WikiProject MedievalWiki. Please say hello if you'd like to work on this too as a one off or more regularly. The brilliant Lajmmoore and Bethanymay also have MedievalWiki hats, and we've run a few workshops for new editors on both Wikipedia and Wikidata. The MedievalWiki dashboard is here https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/medievalwiki/overview.

Works in progress
My full list of Pages Created can be found here. And this link shows all other contributions.

Some articles/ pages that I more or less regularly pop in on/ one day will get round to really overhauling:


 * The Seafarer (poem)
 * Exeter Book
 * Beowulf
 * List of artistic depictions of Beowulf
 * Caroline Bergvall
 * WikiProject_ConwayLibrary
 * Sharon Kinoshita

Some links I like
For workshops / newcomers

Help:Cheatsheet

https://scholia.toolforge.org/topic/Q1671076

The Wikipedia Adventure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure

Listen to Wikipedia http://listen.hatnote.com/

https://online.ucpress.edu/SLA/article-abstract/3/1/4/83368/Advancing-Feminism-OnlineOnline-Tools-Visibility

Courtauld Wikipedia Training Videos https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdeIeT7GyTvjb3s18yhviR73A_ivc1OAb&feature=shared

Links collected from wikimedia train the trainer

WikiProject Women in Red/Essays/Writing women into the encyclopedia

NMDemo - what new users see User:NM Demo

Oral citations https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Oral_Citations#Articles_&_Discussions

Adopt a user Adopt-a-user

Friendly welcome template User:Nick Moyes/sandbox4

Jane Hawkes freely available photographs of art and architecture - for commons? https://dlib.york.ac.uk/yodl/app/collection/detail?ref=browse&id=york%3A796156&page=6

To do

 * https://english.wisc.edu/staff/doane-alger-nick/
 * Donald Scragg User:Medievalfran/sandbox2
 * Elisabeth Okasha - transcribed the inscriptions on the Ruthwell Monument, and many other contributions to early medieval studies!
 * Gillian R. Overing
 * Kari Ellen Gade
 * James W. Earle
 * https://www.pendleradicals.org.uk/pendle-radicals/ethel-carnie-holdsworth/