User:Simona Chiu// Heritage studies and ICT 2020-2021

Description of the contribution
To complete this assignment, firstly I inserted a personal presentation on my userpages, the Italian one (Utente:Simona_Chiu) and the English one(User:Simona Chiu). Then I decided to contribute to the following articles.

Article about the town :


 * English article about Benevento.

Articles about heritage:


 * English article about Strega (liqueur).
 * Italian article about Liquore_Strega.

Article about the town
Benevento is my hometown and that’s why I decided to work on this article.

I worked mainly in the "Main Sights" section because I thought it was not really clear. The section put together the description of the Arch of Trajan with the one of other considerable remains, and the first thing that I did was to separate and to add information about the Arch that I found in an article that I would mention after.

Then I noticed that the sub-section "Other Sights" only had the name of these sights, so I looked for some sources that could help me to fill this void in the section. I found many information and I added some description of the sights. It wasn't possible to update all the sections because I didn't find enough information, but I think that anyway something has been added and people could know more things about the city.

Then, in the section "Sports" I changed the championship in which the city's football team is now playing, because recently, it was relegated to the Serie B.

Lastly, in the section "Transportation" I added information about the new railway line that passes by the city which is a very recent new (May 2021).

I also contributed to the discussion page of this article informing of the fact that I changed and added information to different sections and this discussion page can be found here.

References


 * Truesdell Merrill, E. "Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association - Some Observations on the Arch of Trajan at Beneventum". The Johns Hopkins University Press, (1901), Vol. 32, Pages 43–63.
 * https://www.anteprima24.it/benevento/italo-arrivo-sannio-isolato/
 * Gangale, L. "25 luoghi imperdibili della città di Benevento". (2018), pages: 15-31-32
 * Zevi, L. "Guida a Benevento". Edizioni Dedalo (1993). pages 62-68-70

Articles about heritage
Strega liqueur is really important for Benevento and has become over time a symbol of the city, I thought it could be considered as heritage.

English article

First of all, I added (copying it from the Italian article) the picture of the nougat which was present in the Italian article Liquore Strega but not in the English one.

Then I added a new section, called "Recipe", in which I explained the official and historical recipe of the liqueur taken from the official website of Strega. This section was missing in the English article but is present into the Italian one. Even if it was present, the new section was fully added by me, without copying it, because in the Italian article the source was missing and I didn't consider the existing section affordable, so I looked for a new source and added it.

I also modified the section "Strega Prize". It was lacking sources and I used an article from Journal of Cultural Economics which clearly explicated how the prize was born.

I contributed to the discussion page of this article informing of the fact that I added the new section and this discussion page can be found here.

References


 * https://ricettestregate.strega.it/liquore-strega/
 * Ponzo, M., Scoppa, V. Experts’ awards and economic success: evidence from an Italian literary prize. J Cult Econ (2015). Vol. 39, pag. 341–367

Italian article

In this article, precisely in the section "La Ricetta", the source was missing, so I rewrote the text of this section following what is written in the source I used for the English article too  (official website of Strega ).

I contributed to the discussion page too informing of the fact that I rewrote the section basing on an affordable source and the discussion page can be found here.

References


 * https://ricettestregate.strega.it/liquore-strega/

Fallouts of the assignment
For this project I decided to focus on a town and heritage that I already know, I did it in the hope of knowing information and curiosity about the city where I lived most of my life and about a liqueur that is a symbol for that city.

These expectations were fully met and through the sources used I was able to discover many new things.

This work was really engaging and I'll try to continue contributing to Wikipedia articles.