Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's Classical Committee

This page has been mentioned by multiple media organizations: Victoria Leonard (11 June 2017). "How we doubled the representation of female classical scholars on Wikipedia". Times Higher Education. While reversing Wikipedia's gender skew may seem like an insurmountable task, breaking it down makes it much easier to achieve. The online activism of the Women's Classical Committee offers a good example of how real progress can be made by small groups or individuals without specialist knowledge or funds, just desire for change. Victoria Leonard (12 December 2018). "Female scholars are marginalised on Wikipedia because it's written by men". The Guardian. the Women's Classical Committee is looking to counteract the stranglehold men exert over English-language Wikipedia. ... #WCCWiki refuses to let these women be forgotten – women such as the trailblazer Dorothy Tarrant ... Claire Millington (16 March 2019). "WCCWiki". Springer Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. #WCCWiki is an initiative run by the Women's Classical Committee UK (WCC UK) that seeks to achieve comprehensive representation on Wikipedia of women within all classical disciplines and has a strong focus on classical archaeologists. Victoria Leonard (16 December 2019). "How Can Historians Achieve Inclusivity in Digital Archives?". Royal Historical Society. By foregrounding positive female role models, #WCCWiki helps to curate the online and open-access archive of women's history enabled by Wikipedia, simultaneously making digital spaces fairer and more inclusive.

In January 2017, the English Wikipedia hosted over 200 biographies of classicists but only approximately 10% were of women. The Women's Classical Committee set up this project to take steps towards redressing this gender imbalance, by training and encouraging classicists - whether archaeologists, epigraphers, historians, linguists, numismatists, philologists or anyone else working within this varied discipline - to edit Wikipedia with this focus.

We hold editing sessions online each month and welcome new members to our friendly group. See our events and workshops page for more info.

Seven years on, the English Wikipedia has nearly 3,400 biographies of classicists and 19% are now of women. The WCC has been instrumental in this shift, creating hundreds of articles.

Outcomes

The list below shows the outcomes for the project for 2026. For work in past years see the project archives for 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

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March 2026

1. Regina (freedwoman)
2. Fortunata (enslaved person)

February 2026

1. Julia Velva
2. Rachel Mairs
3. Melek Delilbaşı
4. Cambridge Latin Course
5. Carmen Alfaro Asins
6. Olivette Otele
7. Philippa M. Steele

January 2026

1. Elizabeth Pat Story
2. Margaret Clement (prior)
3. Helen McGaffey Searles

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