Wikipedia:WikiProject MedievalWiki/archive1

Our dashboard
Our MedievalWiki project dashboard is here: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/medievalwiki/overview

Impact and news
May 2024: we published a call to arms/ archive piece on Medieval Wiki! It's open access, free to read on Postmedieval. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41280-024-00321-6
 * addendum! We managed to miss this project from 2015 from our reference list https://wikiedu.org/blog/2015/12/14/the-roundup-medieval-women/

October 2021: The amazing Lajmmoore has been awarded 2021 Up and Coming Wikimedian! Congratulations! https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/UK_Wikimedian_of_the_Year_2021 https://southleedslife.com/wikimedian-award-for-lucy/

July 2021: IMC Leeds Wikidata workshop write up https://medievalwomenwiki.wordpress.com/2021/07/23/medievalwiki-wikidata-workshop-at-leeds-imc-2021/

October 2020: MedievalWiki workshop write up https://medievalwomenwiki.wordpress.com/2020/11/05/medievalwiki-october-2020-write-up/

April 2018: IWD Wikithon write up https://medievalwomenwiki.wordpress.com/2018/04/20/2018-blog/

May 2022

 * Wikithon for the #OrosiusThroughTheAges conference - see dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/School_of_Advanced_Study/Orosius_Through_The_Ages/activity/recent

October 2021

 * New page: Rachel Swallow - landscape and medieval archaeologist
 * New page: Margaret de Neville - medieval landowner from Leeds (ish)

August 2021

 * New page: Dorothea Menadier - German numismatist
 * New page: Nancy Campbell - contemporary poet who works with medieval sources Bethanymay (talk) 09:58, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Added +4000 bytes to Barbara Yorke Medievalfran (talk) 22:04, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

July 2021

 * Over 100 Wikidata edits made as part of Leeds IMC Wikidata workshop. See the stats here! https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Leeds_IMC/MedievalWiki_WikiData_at_Leeds_IMC


 * New page: Adasse (townswoman) - Jewish creditor who was granted citizenship c.1348


 * New page: Sophie T. Ambler - medieval historian

June 2021

 * Updated page for Pega - Bethanymay (talk) 12:35, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

May 2021

 * New page for Pamela Marshall (archaeologist): archaeologist and historian specialising in Anglo-Norman castles - Richard Nevell (talk)

April 2021

 * New page for Saint Aurea of Paris - Medievalfran (talk) 17:38, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
 * New page for Mary Rambaran-Olm - Lajmmoore (talk) 21:05, 8 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Small edits to Roberta Frank and Catherine Karkov - Medievalfran

February 2021

 * New page for G. David Houston - Lajmmoore (talk) 22:06, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * New page for Su'da - Lajmmoore (talk) 08:57, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

December 2020

 * New page for Sochigel - Lajmmoore (talk) 20:04, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

November 2020 Outcomes

 * Created page for Angela Care Evans - Medievalfran (talk) 12:03, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
 * New page for Jean Le Patourel - Lajmmoore (talk) 19:21, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

October 2020 Outcomes

 * A new page for Fatima al-Suqutriyya - ninth century poet from Socotra Lajmmoore (talk) 21:43, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Created page for Haruko Momma - Bethanymay (talk) 09:51, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Page for Saint Ninnoc & added references to Elizabeth Pirie's work a few pages Lajmmoore (talk) 12:31, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Added +3784 bytes to Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship mostly on history and starting a list of members with wikipedia pages! Medievalfran (talk) 15:08, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Added +1373 bytes to Caedmon page - references to scholarship by Lees and Overing. Medievalfran (talk) 20:20, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Added 420 bytes to Clare Lees on scholarship. Medievalfran (talk) 20:20, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
 * New article on Aleksandra McClain (+1,997)
 * Edited a couple of lines on article Mathilde, Abbess of Essen to better reflect her achievements rather than paternal family. I did insert the information later on in article. SZRMedieval (talk) 16:05, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
 * New article on Haruko Momma (+6,001) Bethanymay (talk) 09:27, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Added Miller Wolf Oberman translation to Wulf and Eadwacer page. Bethanymay (talk) 09:27, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Added +501 to River Blackwater, Essex on The Battle of Maldon, included some scholarship and removed uncritical reference to the Dark Ages! Bethanymay (talk) 15:13, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Added +2027 bytes to Anglo-Saxon riddles - Eklektikos
 * Putting together further research (still sandbox stage) for page about Hind bint al-Khuss al-Iyādiyya, a legendary pre-Islamic female poet, one of the first lesbians in Arab culture. - Alarichall
 * Started collecting additional information to add to English-language page for Anneliese Maier, a German historian of science. - LeCarla47
 * Started collecting information for a new page about María de las Mercedes Brea López - H2748
 * Cbeattie73 flagged there is no wikipedia page for Gender and Medieval Studies - added to the project to do list.
 * Started a page for Tamta Mqargrdzeli, the daughter of Ivane Mqargrdzeli, who was a prominent figure in the Kingdom of Georgia in the 13th century.- RaySericus
 * Alarichall added Aisha Abd al-Rahman, Zarqa al Yamama and added many more names to the project 'to improve' list.
 * Lajmmoore created a Red List from Wikidata, for people tagged as 'medieval' and 'women' in wikidata. (A whole list to explore if you want to get started and would like to explore history of someone you've perhaps never heard of before!)
 * User LeCarla47 added some information on the biography page of historian of philosophy of the Middle Ages, Anneliese Maier, including some short hints at the content of her main work.

September 2020 Outcomes

 * Created page for Carol Braun Pasternack - Medievalfran (talk) 12:24, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Created page for Lisa C. M. Weston - Medievalfran (talk) 20:08, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

September 2019 Outcomes

 * Created Tai Shani, artist nominated for the 2019 Turner Prize with work inspired by Christine de Pizan. Medievalfran (talk) 15:13, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

September 2018 Outcomes

 * Created Marijane Osborn. Medievalfran (talk) 10:31, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

March 2018 Outcomes
Add to our list of articles edited. Write your 'what you have edited - username'. Include as much detail as you can! Please share your work done across your preferred social media (using #medievalwiki)


 * Edited List of artistic depictions of Beowulf to include reference to Meghan Purvis' translation and awards, the Unicorn Theatre produced one-woman 'Beowulf' which starred Debbie Korley, and to give reference to Marijane Osborn's list of Beowulf adaptations and translations published by ACMRS. Edited the The Seafarer (poem) with additional information regarding Caroline Bergvall's 'Drift' project Medievalfran (talk) 00:21, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Edited Monica Green (historian) to include her recent win of CARA prize from Medieval Academy of America --Steida (talk) 13:14, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Also edited Alice of Schaerbeek to include refs to manuscripts, more secondary refs, corrected biographical errors, inserted crossrefs to relevant wiki pages -- Steida
 * Edited Maureen Duffy adding information about Hilda and Virginia production at Jermyn Street Theatre in 2018, and image from wikimedia commons. Added reference to Duffy on Hilda_of_Whitby. Made some tweaks to Society_for_Medieval_Feminist_Scholarship, this work will be ongoing for some time (see my sandbox!) --Medievalfran (talk) 14:07, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Edited Caroline Bergvall to reformat and clarify information already provided, to add information on her poem Drift and to add her performance at the KCL Arts and Humanities Festival 2017, and added photograph available on wikicommons --Cearleslasta (talk) 14:22, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Edited Héloïse based on the French wikipedia page. Added section 5 'Influence on Literature'. Henryravenhall (talk) 15:13, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Edited Caroline Walker Bynum to make minor clarifications, improve citations, and most importantly changed the article title to her full, and most commonly used, name. Cpotter419 (talk) 15:16, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Also edited associated pages for Caroline Walker Bynum: Radcliffe College added as alumna, and a link added back to Bynum's page on Affective piety - - Cpotter419
 * Edited Julian of Norwich to update the terms used referring to cited work, and added another image depicting the church she resided in. Delire-a98 (talk) 15:21, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Edited Dream of the Rood to include a paragraph on the scholarship done on gender in the poem. All my sources were already cited in the article, but previous editors had avoided mentioning these interpretations (which was the central argument in one of those sources). --Mearainbow (talk) 15:26, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Work in progress: finding sources which argue that Caedmon and his story is more myth than 'real figure', considering how he has a larger page, and more work attributed to him than Abbess Hilda User:Mearainbow
 * Edited Wulf and Eadwacer to include image of the Exeter Book, info box, and section on translations and adaptations. Also populated Wikidata. --Bethanymay (talk) 09:26, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Created article for Elizabeth Paston and edited associated articles to link Elizabeth with her family members and peers John Paston (died 1466) George Browne (died 1483) William Paston (died 1444) Edward Poynings Robert Poynings - Davisqmw
 * Added image to Maria Jastrzębska - - User:DamesnetV
 * Started working on Queynte Laydies in personal sandbox - - User:DamesnetV
 * Created article for Lellia Cracco Ruggini, and edited Cassiodorus to include link to Ruggini - - Claire_75
 * Edited Coverture adding content on medieval coverture, femme sole status and references to recent historiography. - - User:Whistlaw

Foremothers and sister projects
We are excited to be following the example set by the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (thank you for laying a path to follow).

Thanks also to a whole host of other feminist and academic organisations around the world who have created documentation to follow, or provided friendly help! Thanks especially to the Women's Classical Committee.

Please do add to this section if you know of other projects/ events to document!


 * Meetup/MedievalFeminist 2014. See the write up here https://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com/2014/04/medieval-feminist-wikipedia-write-in.html
 * User:Whistlaw/Jan_28_Editathon 2015

Previous events (post WP:MedievalWiki)

 * May 2022 - Wikithon for the #OrosiusThroughTheAges conference - see dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/School_of_Advanced_Study/Orosius_Through_The_Ages/activity/recent
 * November 2021 - We’ll be at the Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland conference, 9am-11pm, 27 November 2021. Dashboard is here: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/National_University_of_Ireland_Galway/MedievalWiki_WikiData_at_TOEBI_2021?enroll=
 * Wikipedia training session on the 27th October 2021, for new editors.
 * We hosted a table at Wikimania's Unconference on Monday 16 August at 12pm (UTC).
 * Leeds International Medieval Congress - 6th July 2021, 2-4pm BST We introduced participants to the wonderful world of Wikidata.
 * Meetup/MedievalWiki2020 - Wednesday 28 October 2020
 * Meetup/MedievalWikiIWD2018 - March 2018. See the write up here https://medievalwomenwiki.wordpress.com/2018/04/20/2018-blog/
 * #MedievalWiki at IMC Leeds 2019 - https://leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2019/07/12/making-medieval-studies-open-through-digital-humanities-international-medieval-congress-2019/