 This event has been co-organised Hannah Cobb, and Laura Thompson at The University of Manchester with support from organisers and volunteers at Wikimedia UK | |
| Date | October 28, 2025 |
|---|---|
| Duration | 2:00:00 |
| Location | The University of Manchester |
| Type | Wikipedia training event |
| Theme | Raising Representation of Women and Non-Binary Colleagues in Archaeology |
| Motive | |
| Organised by | WikiProject Raising Representation |
| Outcome | outreachdashboard |
| Website | w |
Welcome to this Wikipedia training event focussing on raising the representation of Women and Non-Binary people in Archaeology, taking place in the Week 5 Seminars for the course CAHE20501 Doing Archaeology 2 on 28th October 2025 with support from volunteers and organisers at Wikimedia UK .
To begin, create an account, login and enrol
editIf you haven't already, please
- create an account by clicking on the create an account now link at WP:ACCOUNT.
- login using the username you've created
- enrol for the event, this allows us to track contributions during and after the event, click this link to enrol outreachdashboard
.wmflabs .org /courses /University _of _Manchester /Raising _Representation _25 _26 _CAHE20501 _Seminars _(Semester _1 _25 _26)?enroll=
Suggested articles
editOnce you've logged in and enrolled, there are two ways to get started
- Create or draft an article by clicking on the red links below, a red link means the article doesn't exist yet
- Improve an existing article see suggestions below, blue links are for articles that already exist
Articles to create or draft
editWe have suggested some biographies of Women in archaeology to create or draft that are likely to pass Wikipedia:Notability, some of these starting suggestions are taken from TrowelBlazers.com[1] others from suggestions from colleagues in the department. If you are logged in, you can create the article by clicking on the red link below:
Articles which could be added to
editIf you don't want to create or draft a new biography, here are some examples of existing articles (ordered alphabetically by surname) which could be added to with further research:
- Selma Al-Radi
- Crystal Bennett
- Pen Foreman
- Aileen Fox
- Janet Gourlay
- Kayt Hawkins
- Owen Hurcum
- Alexandra Jones (archaeologist)
- Kathleen Kenyon
- Margaret Murray
- Jean Sassoon[4]
- Grace Simpson
- Sharon Sullivan
- Kisha Supernant
- Gertrude Caton Thompson
- Sadie Watson
- Tessa Wheeler
- Kate Clark (archaeologist)
- Lisa Westcott Wilkins
Add your own suggestions here!
editAnyone we missed? Please add your own suggestions below because anyone can edit this page and we can use your suggestions in future editathons:
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Writing biographies
editWhen writing biographies of people, stick to verifiable facts (see Wikipedia:Verifiability) and avoid opinions. A typical biography might include the following sections
- A lead paragraph (or lede) summarising the subject
- Education and early life - a section summarising their education and early life, for example birthplace, high school and university etc
- Research and Career - what research are they known for? What have they done during their career?
- An openly licensed portrait of the subject or their work if you can upload one (see w.wiki/V5a) or find one already published by searching commons.wikimedia.org
- Publications - list some key publications and citations that support the statements of fact you have made
Women in Red
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The Women in Red project womeninred.org maintain lists of biographies of notable women that do not have biographies on Wikipedia yet, for example:
- Women archaeologists Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Archaeologists
- Women classicists Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's Classical Committee/Wikidata redlist
- Women Egyptologists, Sinologists, Indologists and Orientalists (ESIO) Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/ESIO
Please give us feedback
editThis is the second session that we've run, please give us feedback afterwards on how we can improve (alongside what went well). Details from our previous event can be found at Wikipedia:Meetup/Raising_Representation
Example template to cut and paste
edit{{short description|Archaeologist}} {{Infobox academic |name= Anne Archaeologist | birth_name = |honorific_suffix= |workplaces= University of Poppleton |alma_mater= |thesis_year= | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | awards = | website = {{URL|https://trowelblazers.com}} }} '''Anne Archaeologist''' is an archaeologist. ==Education== She was educated at the University of Poppleton.<ref>put thesis details</ref> ==Career and research== Her research is on ===Selected publications=== Her publications are about ===Awards and honours=== Her awards include ==References == {{Reflist}} {{Authority control}}
Post event activities
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If you're feeling inspired, confident and empowered to carry on editing Wikipedia, here are some useful resources to help you continue on your journey:
- Editing Wikipedia: a guide to improving content on the online encyclopedia (pdf) w.wiki/V5Z
- Illustrating Wikipedia: a guide to contributing content (pdf) w.wiki/V5a
- The Wikipedia Adventure (interactive online practical tutorial) w.wiki/3qs
- See also the University of Edinburgh resources developed by their Wikipedian in residence, Ewan McAndrew[7]
References
edit- ↑ Anon (2024). "Pioneering women in archaeology, palaeontology and geology — past & present". trowelblazers.com.
- ↑ Anon (2023). "Katharine MacDonald: A Burning Light in Prehistory". trowelblazers.com.
- ↑ Anon (2022). "Kary Dimas: Following the footsteps of the first Mesoamericans". trowelblazers.com.
- ↑ Anon (2017). "Jean Sassoon". trowelblazers.com.
- ↑ Konieczny, Piotr; Klein, Maximilian (2018). "Gender gap through time and space: A journey through Wikipedia biographies via the Wikidata Human Gender Indicator". New Media & Society. 20 (12): 4608–4633. doi:10.1177/1461444818779080. hdl:20.500.11754/81115. ISSN 1461-4448.
- ↑ Anon (2020). "Wikidata Human Gender Indicators (WHGI): Gender by language". wmflabs.org. Wikimedia Foundation.
- ↑ McAndrew, Ewan (2020). "Wikimedia resources – how to get started". ed.ac.uk. University of Edinburgh.