Project:WikiProject Women's Classical Committee

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| author= Victoria Leonard

| title=How we doubled the representation of female classical scholars on Wikipedia

| org=Times Higher Education

| url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/how-we-doubled-representation-female-classical-scholars-wikipedia

| date=11 June 2017

| quote="While reversing Wikipedia’s gender skew may seem like an insurmountable task, breaking it down makes it much easier to achieve. The online activism of the Women’s Classical Committee offers a good example of how real progress can be made by small groups or individuals without specialist knowledge or funds, just desire for change."

| author2= Victoria Leonard

| title2=Female scholars are marginalised on Wikipedia because it's written by men

| org2=The Guardian

| url2=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/dec/12/female-scholars-are-marginalised-on-wikipedia-because-its-written-by-men

| date2=12 December 2018

| quote2="the Women’s Classical Committee is looking to counteract the stranglehold men exert over English-language Wikipedia. ... #WCCWiki refuses to let these women be forgotten – women such as the trailblazer Dorothy Tarrant ..."

| author3= Claire Millington

| title3=WCCWiki

| org3=Springer Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology

| url3=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_3432-1

| date3=16 March 2019

| quote3="#WCCWiki is an initiative run by the Women’s Classical Committee UK (WCC UK) that seeks to achieve comprehensive representation on Wikipedia of women within all classical disciplines and has a strong focus on classical archaeologists."

| author4= Victoria Leonard

| title4= How Can Historians Achieve Inclusivity in Digital Archives?

| org4=Royal Historical Society

| url4= https://blog.royalhistsoc.org/2019/12/16/how-can-historians-achieve-inclusivity-in-digital-archives/

| date4= 16 December 2019

| quote4= "By foregrounding positive female role models, #WCCWiki helps to curate the online and open-access archive of women’s history enabled by Wikipedia, simultaneously making digital spaces fairer and more inclusive."

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In January 2017, the English Wikipedia hosted over 200 biographies of classicists but only approximately 10% were of women. The [http://wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk/ 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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Women%27s_Classical_Committee/Events_and_Workshops 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.

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