Wikipedia:Meetup/Raising Representation CIfA

Meetup/Raising Representation CIfA
DateApril 30, 2025 (2025-04-30)
Duration48:00:00
Location
TypeWikipedia training event
ThemeRaising Representation of Women and Non-Binary archaeologists and others who are under represented in Archaeology
Motive
Organised byWikiProject Raising Representation
Outcomeoutreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Chartered_Institute_of_Archaeologists/Raising_Representation
Websitew.wiki/D3nS

Welcome to this Wikipedia training event focussing on raising the representation of Women and Non-Binary people in Archaeology, hosted at the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists conference 2025 with support from volunteers and organisers at Wikimedia UK .

Two ways to contribute

1. Come to the stand and tell us your stories

We will build or edit profiles for the people you tell us about.

2. Join us in editing by creating an account, login and enrol

If you haven't already, please

  1. create an account by clicking on the create an account now link at WP:ACCOUNT.
  2. login using the username you've created
  3. enrol for the event, this allows us to track contributions during and after the event, click this link to enrol

Click here to enrol

Suggested articles

Once you've logged in and enrolled, there are two ways to get started

  1. Create or draft an article by clicking on the red links below, a red link means the article doesn't exist yet
  2. Improve an existing article see suggestions below, blue links are for articles that already exist

Articles to create or draft

We 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 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:

Create an article... ...or draft it first
Archaeologists
template page Draft:template page
Violet Rodgers Draft:Violet Rodgers
Vicki Cummings (archaeologist) Draft:Vicki Cummings (archaeologist)
Theresa O'Mahony Draft:Theresa O'Mahony
Jennifer Jones (archaeology) Draft:Jennifer Jones (archaeology)
Lacey Wallace Draft:Lacey Wallace
Ruth Tringham Draft:Ruth Tringham
Ruth Weston Draft:Ruth Weston
Katharine MacDonald Draft:Katharine MacDonald
Karina Croucher Draft:Karina Croucher
Kary Dimas Draft:Kary Dimas
Sonya Atalay Draft:Sonia Atalay
Pieta Greaves Draft:Pieta Greaves
Chelsea Blackmore Draft:Chelsea Blackmore
Rachel Crellin Draft:Rachel Crellin
Laura Hampden Draft:Laura Hampden
Kathleen Sterling Draft:Kathleen Sterling
Gill Andrews Draft:Gill Andrews
Jacqueline Palmer Draft:Jacqueline Palmer
Jacqueline McKinley Draft:Jacqueline McKinley
Hannah Fluck Draft:Hannah Fluck
Sarah May (archaeologist) Draft:Sarah May (archaeologist)
Jessica Bryan Draft:Jessica Bryan
Nathalie Cohen Draft:Nathalie Cohen
Judith Winters Draft:Judith Winters
Cara Jones (archaeologist) Draft:Cara Jones (archaeologist)
Susan Macdonald (heritage) Draft:Susan Macdonald (heritage)
Lizzie Glitheroe West Draft:Lizzie Glitheroe West
Harriet Deacon Draft:Harriet Deacon
Kori Filipek Draft:Kori Filipek
Jan Wills Draft:Jan Wills
Natasha Billson Draft: Natasha Billson
Sarah Staniforth Draft:Sarah Staniforth
Nathalie Cohen Draft:Nathalie Cohen
Cheryl LaRoche Draft:Cheryl LaRoche
Robina Mcneil Draft:Robina Mcneil
Lori Wong Draft:Lori Wong
Lisa Westcott Wilkins Lisa Westcott Wilkins
Sadie Watson Sadie Watson
Rachel Crellin Draft:Rachel Crellin
Lindsay Montgomery Draft:Lindsay Montgomery
Laurie Burgess Draft:Laurie Burgess
Gabby Omoni Hartemann Draft:Gabby Omoni Hartemann
Ayana Omilade Flewellen Draft:Ayana Omilade Flewellen
Donna Tartt Draft:Donna Tartt
Ancient historians
Anna Missiou Draft:Anna Missiou
Polly Low Draft:Polly Low
Christina Kokkinia Draft:Christina Kokkinia
Claire Taylor (historian) Draft:Claire Taylor (historian)
Christy Constantakopoulou Draft:Christy Constantakopoulou

Articles which could be added to

If 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:

Add your own suggestions here!

Anyone we missed? Please add your own suggestions below because anyone can edit this page and we can use your suggestions in future editathons:

Writing biographies

When writing biographies of people, stick to verifiable facts (see Wikipedia:Verifiability) and avoid opinions. A typical biography might include the following sections

  1. A lead paragraph (or lede) summarising the subject
  2.  Education and early life - a section summarising their education and early life, for example birthplace, high school and university etc
  3. Research and Career - what research are they known for? What have they done during their career?
  4. 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
  5. Publications - list some key publications and citations that support the statements of fact you have made

Once you've created a biography

Women in Red

Women in red are a group of editors of all genders from around the world tackling systemic gender bias on Wikipedia by turning red links blue. If you haven't already, please consider joining them.

The Women in Red project womeninred.org maintain lists of biographies of notable women that do not have biographies on Wikipedia yet, for example:

Please give us feedback

This 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


{{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

This Editing Wikipedia guide (pdf) is a good starting point if you'd like to add content to Wikipedia, its available at w.wiki/V5Z
The Illustrating Wikipedia guide (pdf) is a good starting point if you'd like to add images of women to Wikipedia biographies, its available at w.wiki/V5a

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:

References

  1. ↑ Anon (2024). "Pioneering women in archaeology, palaeontology and geology — past & present". trowelblazers.com.
  2. ↑ Anon (2023). "Katharine MacDonald: A Burning Light in Prehistory". trowelblazers.com.
  3. ↑ Anon (2022). "Kary Dimas: Following the footsteps of the first Mesoamericans". trowelblazers.com.
  4. ↑ Anon (2017). "Jean Sassoon". trowelblazers.com.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ Anon (2020). "Wikidata Human Gender Indicators (WHGI): Gender by language". wmflabs.org. Wikimedia Foundation.
  7. ↑ McAndrew, Ewan (2020). "Wikimedia resources – how to get started". ed.ac.uk. University of Edinburgh.