SunoikisisDC: Working with Wikipedia

Speakers: Gabriel Bodard (University of London), Kate Cook (King's College London), Richard Nevell (Wikimedia UK), Katharine Shields (King's College London) 

Sunoikisis Digital Classics session 5

This session introduces the community-edited Wikimedia ecosystem, especially Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons. We discuss a couple of classics- and archaeology-specific projects on Wikipedia, communities that aim to improve coverage in these areas. We focus on issues and challenges, including representation, accuracy, bias, sources and intellectual property, and projects and communities that aim to address inequalities and other problems with the recording especially of historical and classical information in Wikipedia, including the case study of the Women's Classical Committee’s Wikipedia project, creating articles for underrepresented woman classicists. Guidance on authoring and editing for Wikipedia is also given, and an editing project suggested as an exercise for students to try in their own time.

Follow live or later at: https://youtu.be/m_Hs5uwYCsk

Further information, readings and exercise at: https://github.com/SunoikisisDC/SunoikisisDC-2024-2025/wiki/5-Wikipedia