Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's Classical Committee



Welcome

In January 2017, the English Wikipedia hosted over 200 biographies of classicists but only approximately 10% were of women. The Women's Classical Committee set up this project to take steps towards redressing this gender imbalance, by training and encouraging classicists - whether archaeologists, epigraphers, historians, linguists, numismatists, philologists or anyone else working within this varied discipline - to edit Wikipedia with this focus.

We hold editing sessions online each month and welcome new members to our friendly group. See our events and workshops page for more info.

Seven years on, the English Wikipedia has nearly 3,400 biographies of classicists and 19% are now of women. The WCC has been instrumental in this shift, creating hundreds of articles.

Outcomes
The list below shows the outcomes for the project for 2022. For work in past years see the project archives for 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022

New and upgraded articles
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Articles created or improved (July 2024)

 * 1) Liba Taub
 * 2) Renée Vivien
 * 3) Mayte Penelas
 * 4) Silvia Ronchey
 * 5) Margarita Torres

Articles created or improved (May 2024)

 * 1) Barbara Birley
 * 2) Mary Ella Milham (new)
 * 3) Margaret Birley (new)

Articles created or improved (April 2024)

 * 1) Victoria Emma Pagán (new)
 * 2) Hatice Gonnet-Bağana
 * 3) Malekeh Malekzadeh Bayani (new)
 * 4) Barbara McManus (new)

Articles created or improved (March 2024)

 * 1) Gay van der Meer, Dutch numismatist
 * 2) Roberta Mazza, Italian papyrologist

Articles created or improved (February 2024)

 * 1) Lesley Smith (historian)
 * 2) Rebecca Flemming
 * 3) Lauren Kassell
 * 4) Laurence Totelin
 * 5) Adrienne Mayor
 * 6) Elizabeth Craik
 * 7) Blossom Stefaniw

Articles created or improved (January 2024)

 * 1) Siri Sande
 * 2) Sharon James
 * 3) Kathryn Welch
 * 4) Lilian Armstrong
 * 5) Elizabeth D. Carney
 * 6) Eugénie d'Alsace
 * 7) Růžena Dostálová
 * 8) Liz Herbert McAvoy
 * 9) Rita Lizzi Testa
 * 10) Aleida Assmann
 * 11) Carmen Arnold Biucchi
 * 12) C. H. E. Haspels
 * 13) Leslie Kurke

Articles created or improved (November 2023)

 * Anna Sadurska
 * Teresa Lodi
 * Megan Cassidy-Welch

Articles created or improved (October 2023)

 * Yordanka Youroukova (new)

Articles created or improved (September 2023)

 * 1) Celia Schultz
 * 2) Nancy Worman

Articles created or improved (July 2023)

 * 1) Sappho: A New Translation - new

Articles created or improved (June 2023)

 * 1) Kayt Hawkins
 * 2) Norena Shopland
 * 3) Marta Weigle
 * 4) Kristina Milnor
 * 5) Hope Mirrlees
 * 6) Isabel Ruffell

Articles created or improved (May 2023)

 * 1) Rhiannon Ash
 * 2) Betty Radice
 * 3) Ulla Westermark
 * 4) Marta Weigle
 * 5) Shelley Haley
 * 6) Averil Cameron

Articles created or improved (April 2023)

 * 1) Galli - added reference to Hungate, York
 * 2) Joyce Reynolds (classicist)
 * 3) Jane F. Gardner
 * 4) Isabel Ruffell
 * 5) Milada Paulová
 * 6) Judith McKenzie (archaeologist) - added a bit more on research in Petra
 * 7) Eva Kolníková‎
 * 8) Fiona McHardy
 * 9) Kristi Upson-Saia

Articles created or improved (March 2023)
(UCU Strikes)
 * 1) Allison Glazebrook

Articles created or improved (February 2023)
(UCU Strikes)
 * 1) Edith Mary Walker

Articles created or improved (January 2023)

 * 1) Sarah Jennings (archaeologist) - new
 * 2) Akiko Kiso - new
 * 3) Dorota Malarczyk - new
 * 4) Amélie Kuhrt
 * 5) Dorothy Hodgkin

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