Event:MedievalWiki October 2025
- Date - Friday 24 October 2025
- Time - 12:00 - 14:00 (UTC+1)
- Location - Zoom, link will be emailed to participants the day before
- How to sign up - Click the Register button above. Please ensure that you have "Allow other users to email me" enabled in your preferences so that we can send you the Zoom link.
About the event
[edit]Our second online meetup of 2025!
This is a chance to open to everyone who wants to contribute to MedievalWiki's aims. If you are new to Wikipedia, experienced trainers will be on hand to help, and if you've edited before it's a chance to carve out some time in your calendar to edit Wikipedia and share with others what you're working on.
How to prepare
[edit]- Essential
- Create a Wikipedia account – you need one to register for this event!
- Make sure that you email is attached to it so that we can send you the Zoom link.
- Helpful
- Pick a topic you want to work on. This will speed things up on the day. If you can't think of anything we have some suggestions.
- If you've picked a topic, get your sources ready.
MedievalWiki aims
[edit]Anyone who is committed to redressing the gender and racial imbalances on medieval Wikipedia is welcome to join the MedievalWiki project.
This project aims to:
- Improve references to scholarly work by Black medievalists and medievalists of colour, women and non-binary medievalists in articles related to medieval studies.
- Create and improve biographical pages for Black medievalists, medievalists of colour, women and non-binary medieval scholars and artists who use medieval texts, objects, or themes in their work.
- Increase citations of scholarly work about, and references to theories and interventions indebted to critical race, gender studies, queer studies, and sexuality studies, across medieval topics.
We encourage anyone interested in the medieval past and modern medievalisms - whether archaeologists, palaeographers, historians, linguists, artists, philologists, literary critics, or anyone else - to edit Wikipedia with this focus.
Everyone in the MedievalWiki community is encouraged to hold Wikipedia training and editing sessions, and to add to and make use of the resources list compiled here.