Emma Bridges, Women in Classics Wikipedia Group (DigiClass 2018, 6)
Channel: Digital Classicist London Seminars
Date: 2018-07-06

Emma Bridges (ICS) and Claire Millington (KCL), *The Women in Classics Wikipedia Group*

Institute of Classical Studies
Friday July 6th at 16:30, in room 234
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

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.

Full information: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2018-06eb.html