Today was too much really. As we hit the last two weeks of term I've basically filled every hour I'm not teaching with student meetings, so I am doing quite a lot. But there was also #WCCWiki and Games academic drinks, so some really nice things mixed in with a long day!
Tomorrow! #WCCWiki
March’s #WCCWIKI editing session is happening next week! Tuesday 24th at 1pm. Join with the link below!! 🏛️🏛️
Join Zoom Meeting us06web.zoom.us/j/85192010168.
Ancient Egyptian Predynastic Statue of Woman with Child, Egyptian Gallery, Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany
The #WCCWiki meet-up for March is happening online on Tues 24 March, 13.00-15.00 GMT. All warmly welcome. Editing session on Zoom, with training if needed.
Join Zoom Meeting us06web.zoom.us/j/85192010168. Email womensclassicalcommittee@gmail.com for more info.
@womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social
Fantastic to see you Katherine, and great work on a new page for Prof. Rachel Mairs who has been on our list for such a long time!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_... ✨ #WCCWiki
Back editing with the #WCCWiki crew today after a phd-related hiatus. Started an article for Carmen Alfaro Asins who was head of numismatics at Museo Arqueológico Nacional in Madrid. She sounds PHENOMENAL - two sylloges, reinvigorated the whole dept, medallist 🪙🩷🪙
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_...
I only managed to turn up for the last 45 mins of this, but so glad I did! #WCCWiki
#WCCWiki editing session online today!
#WCCWiki meet-up is tomorrow, 12.00-14.00 GMT. All warmly welcome. Editing session on Zoom.
Join Zoom Meeting us06web.zoom.us/j/85192010168. Email womensclassicalcommittee@gmail.com for more information.
@womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social
#WCCWiki is not today, but is actually one week today! See you then!
Portrait image slightly in profile of Cleopatra, as imagined in HBO's Rome TV series
Next #WCCWiki meet-up online on Tuesday 24 February 2026, 12.00-14.00 GMT. All warmly welcome. Editing session on Zoom.
Join Zoom Meeting us06web.zoom.us/j/85192010168. Email womensclassicalcommittee@gmail.com for more information.
@womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social
Table showing statistics of #WCCWiki Wikipedia articles - at least 843 created or edited
You can find out more about the #Wikipedia pages we edited and created in 2025 on our project page here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Another huge effort has taken the total number of #WCCWiki pages up to 843! We need to see 900 by the end of the year!
Book cover, Helene P. Foley
Book cover, Helene P. Foley
Finally (this thread is getting too long!!), Helene P. Foley is Professor of Classical Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. She specialises in ancient Greek literature, women and gender in antiquity, and the reception of classical drama #WCCWiki
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helene_...
Poster advertising the Betty Behrens Seminar on Historiography
None of this is on his #Wikipedia page. Behrens' archive in 19 boxes is uncatalogued. The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography was established at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, in Behrens' honour. #WCCWiki
... one wife was left when she already had terminal cancer, another abandoned, when Carr was almost ninety, because she was ‘depressing’.' Carr had lost his Chair at Aberystwyth Uni because he had affairs other professors' wives. #WCCWiki
Virginia Woolf, by Barbara Strachey, bromide print, 1938. In a hat
As Virginia Woolf explained, it was an important statement about uniforms & professional status.
Women were only admitted to become full members of Cam Uni in 1948, the last university in the UK #WCCWiki
In 1939, at the age of just 34 years old, she was appointed lecturer in History, Uni of Cambridge.
Behrens lectured in a hat because women were not full members of Cambridge University, and were therefore not entitled to lecture in academic gowns. #WCCWiki
Black and white portrait image of Betty Behrens
Betty Behrens (1909-84) was a medieval & early mod historian. She never attended school & was tutored at home. She learned French because her mother didn't believe novels should be read before lunch, but she made an exception for novels in French #WCCWiki en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_B...
Image of Petra Sijpesteijn, Professor of Arabic at Leiden University
Petra Sijpesteijn is Prof. of Arabic at Leiden University. She was the founding president of the International Society for Arabic Papyrology. She focuses on the history of Islam in 6th & 7th cen., & the rel between Islam & political power in the Mid East #WCCWiki
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra_M...
Webb traveled around the Med in 1936, beginning in England & on to N. Africa, France, Athens, Turkey, Cappadocia, Germany, Syria & Mesopotamia inc. Ur and Babylon. She mostly traveled alone, by bus and by train. She was still teaching, posting exam papers back to Australia for her students #WCCWiki
Front cover of Ethnies, nations et développement en Afrique : quelle gouvernance?: Actes du colloque de Brazzaville (Congo), du 26 au 28 mai 2014
Another #WCCWiki page for Scholastique Dianzinga, a Prof. of Contemporary History who specialises in women's history. She has campaigned for greater recognition of women in Africa, both in historical research and in public monuments
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholas...
The lady at the window ivory plaque, part of the so-called Nimrud ivories, 9th to 7th century BCE. From Nimrud, Iraq. The Iraq Museum, Baghdad.
Iraq Museum, with palm trees
Al-Mutawalli was issued with an AK-47, and guarded the museum alongside other colleagues and archaeologists before the fall of Baghdad in 2003. ca. 15,000 items were looted from the Museum. #WCCWiki
A bulla (or clay envelope) and its contents on display at the Louvre. Uruk period (4000–3100 BC).
Nawala Ahmed Al-Mutawalli (نوال المتولي) is an Iraqi archaeologist & and former director of the Iraq Museum. She is an expert in cuneiform & bullae, hollow clay balls that contained tokens that identified the quantity and types of goods being recorded #WCCWiki
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nawala_...
2025 was a wildly fascinating ride into gendered histories throughout the past!! Here's a selection of some of the #WCCWiki #Wikipedia pages from across the year that we created or edited, including the achievements and challenges we faced as a community ...
Over 2025, #WCCWiki met monthly online to create and edit #Wikipedia pages together. Meetings were open to everyone and training offered if people were new to editing. Everyone's a volunteer! And most of our community are ECRs or precariously/underemployed.
Women in Red logo
This means that women and non-binary classicists on #Wikipedia are represented just as well (or just as badly!) as women on English-language Wikipedia more generally, making up around 20.28% of biographical articles.
Look up #WomenInRed for more info #WCCWiki
Table showing gendered ratios of English-language Wikipedia pages and pages for Classicists
In 2016 7% of biographies on #Wikipedia about classicists were about women. Now @richardnevell.bsky.social's wonderful analysis shows that 10 years later, that number is now almost 20%. That's a huge achievement! #WCCWiki
Women villa della Pisanella Pompeii Museum Boscoreale. Fragment of a fresco wall decoration from the upper floor of the "Villa Pisanella", featuring a woman on a black background presenting fruits. End of the second style, beginning of the third, (40 - 20 BCE)
What happened with #WCCWiki in 2025? How are women and non-binary classicists looking on #Wikipedia?
Here's a thread to wrap-up last year, and to forge a path for 2026 ...
#WCCWiki is tomorrow!
The first #WCCWiki editing session of 2026 is happening next Thursday!
22 January 2026 13.00-15.00
Join below! 🏛️
Join Zoom Meeting us06web.zoom.us/j/85192010168.
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