Institute of Classical Studies
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Friday July 6, 2018 at 16:30 in room 234
Emma Bridges (ICS) & Claire Millington (KCL)
#WCCWiki: Editing Wikipedia with the Women’s Classical Committee UK
With more than 40 million articles in over 300 languages, Wikipedia is the Internet’s largest and most visited source of information. Relying on the collaborative efforts of volunteer editors to generate and update content, it operates a strict set of editing standards, yet is inherently customisable and ever-changing to reflect the preoccupations of its users. This model, which harnesses the power of the crowd, is an effective one, yet some groups are underrepresented among Wikipedia’s editors; this can lead to imbalanced coverage of some subjects. This talk will introduce a project which is working to redress the gender imbalance in the representation of classicists on the online encyclopaedia.
http://digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2018.html
ALL WELCOME
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Dr Gabriel BODARD
Reader in Digital Classics
Institute of Classical Studies
University of London
Senate House
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU
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http://digitalclassicist.org/
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