Wikipedia:Meetup/MedievalFeminist

Medieval Feminist Wikipedia Write-In
The Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (http://smfsweb.org/medieval-feminist-wikipedia-write-in-medievalwiki/) will be host a four-day Medieval Feminist Wikipedia Write-In at the International Congress for Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo from May 8-11. http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/sessions.html

We have written up blog posts encouraging medievalists who will attend the Congress to participate and learn how to edit and write Wikipedia entries:

http://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com/2014/04/medieval-feminist-wikipedia-write-in.html

http://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com/2014/04/normal.html

If you're interested in how much traffic the entries get that you have edited, try this link:

http://stats.grok.se/en/latest30/margery%20kempe

and just type in whatever entry you want to find, and select the number of days you want to search for.

Event Details
1060 Fetzer on the Western Michigan University campus Thursday 10-6pm Friday 10-6pm Saturday 10-6pm Sunday 9-12pm

Suggestions

 * Review Empress Matilda, a candidate for Featured article status, at FAC. Don't worry about the technical aspects, just cover the history.

Sign-Up
--Murban06 (talk) 16:30, 8 May 2014 (UTC)== Attending Sign-In ==

Please just add your Wikipedia name below, observing that the list is alphabetical by user name. Ideally sign using 4 tildes "~"
 * dmoneypenny
 * dorothyk98
 * Elisenda1322
 * exJHK
 * laurasaetveitmiles
 * jrnorth
 * kakalinavonkalamazoo
 * kirsa14
 * Mint2872
 * murban06
 * theartdoc
 * RFM2014
 * louandabe
 * finkela
 * avhh
 * chalou37
 * RNamendol
 * Ridingrachel
 * juliantyme
 * carminachromatica

Outcomes from #medievalwiki
Please go ahead and add your username and what you have edited, added, etc.

Editing Medieval Spain (English article). Eep! Not much info! dmoneypenny

Editing Deaconess and removing the text that said there probably weren't deaconesses in the West. I've included a citation for this and added another for the role of deaconesses in Early Christian baptism. theartdoc

Editing Elizabeth of Töss to add that she did write the Revelations of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, with lots of citations and new bibliography of Barratt and McNamer's work on the subject. laurasaetveitmiles

Editing Heloise. Deleted some uncited assertions about Abelard's hormones. Added a bit about Heloise's point of view in the letters (previously only Abelard's). Attempting to post article on The Material Collective, an organization devoted to the study of object agency in the Middle Ages.

Editing Radegund. Corrected date of death, removed references to canonization, added references (needs more), corrected some smaller details. The article heavily emphasizes her English cult but ignores the French area significantly. It also needs more on Baudonivia, who appears as an afterthought. kirsa14

Started editing very problematic Holy Roman Empire entry. JHK (talk) 10:16, 13 May 2014 (UTC)