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'''Edit-on dudes: #ClassicsWomen are into Wikipedia'''
'''Thoughts after three years'''


[[File:Parthenon.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The Parthenon - very few things are more classical!]]
[[File:Wikimania_2014_Opening_Ceremony_(14912093381).jpg|thumb|right|200px|Jon Davies speaking at Wikimania 2014]]
''This post was written by Claire Millington, a Classics PhD student at Kings College London. [http://thewordmuses.wordpress.com/2014/09/28/edit-on-dudes-classicswomen-get-into-wikipedia/ It was first published on her blog here]''
''This post was written by Jon Davies, Wikimedia UK Chief Executive''


This week, after a lot of planning and persuading people to get involved, I ran a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetups/UK/Institute_of_Classical_Studies_Sep_2014 Wikipedia editathon] to create and improve the pages of women who have been important to classics disciplines. (And I mean disciplines – philology, archaeology, history, ancient theatre, epigraphy, numismatics – the list goes on.)
Under the pressure of getting our funding application to the Wikimedia Foundation's FDC in yesterday morning I suddenly realised it was my third anniversary of being CEO at Wikimedia UK. As my colleague Fabian sitting next to me said, we've done quite a lot really haven't we!


The idea came about after I went to a conference about over a dozen women in modern history who have made astounding contributions to classics – but who I’d never heard of! Even though I unknowingly am influenced by their work pretty much every day I study.
I still reminisce about that first day in 2011 when I discovered our volunteer community and its vast range and the fun we had at the Herbert Museum Backstage pass in Coventry.


Astonishingly, I realised that it is not a last-century development that women have been grappling with the thorniest problems of translation, publishing, teaching, engaging in classics scholarship at the highest levels – even gaining public recognition for this – but that women have been doing this throughout the modern period. So, having learned something and fixed my own misperceptions, I wanted to do something that would in a tiny way make it easier for other people to also see what – and when – were these achievements. Where better to do this than in the pages of Wikipedia?
Rather more measurable, and going back to the day's main task, this is the third FDC application we have made. In the first year it was an ever so slightly panicked event with Doug Taylor, a trustee at the time, and I putting it together over a long weekend. Last year was a little better organised, though it needed Daria Cybulska breaking into her holidays and working from her parent's house to make sure we met our deadlines.


<span class="plainlinks">[https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2014/10/edit-on-dudes-classicswomen-are-into-wikipedia/<nowiki>[</nowiki>Read the full post here...<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</span>
This year has been a smoother process, despite tight deadlines, but demonstrates the amazing journey we have made over the last 1096 days even if there were a few bumps in the road!
 
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