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'''New Challenges in Digital History: Sharing Women'S History on Wikipedia''' - scientific work related to [[Wikipedia quality]] published in 2013, written by [[Mia Ridge]].
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'''New Challenges in Digital History: Sharing Women's History on Wikipedia''' - scientific work related to [[Wikipedia quality]] published in 2013, written by [[Mia Ridge]].
  
 
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In 1908 Ina von Grumbkow undertook an expedition to Iceland. She later made significant contributions to the field of natural history and wrote several books but other than passing references online and a mention on her husband’s [[Wikipedia]] page, her story is only available to those with access to sources like the ‘Earth Sciences History’ journal. Cumulative centuries of archival and theoretical work have been spent recovering women’s histories, yet much of this inspiring scholarship is invisible outside academia. Inspired by research into the use and creation of digital resources and the wider impact of digitality on historians and their scholarship, this paper is a deliberate provocation: if authors believe the subjects of research are important, then authors should ensure they are represented on freely available encyclopedic sites like Wikipedia. Wikipedia is the fifth most visited website in the world and the first port of call for most students and the public, yet women’s history is poorly represented. This paper discusses how the difficulties of adding women’s histories to Wikipedia exemplify some of the new challenges and opportunities of digital history and the ways in which it blurs the line between public history and purely academic research. Bio: Mia is researching a PhD (Department of History, Open University) focusing on crowdsourcing and the collaborative digitisation of historical materials. She has published and presented widely on her research including design for participation in cultural heritage. She is Chair of the Museums Computer Group (UK), a member of the Association for Computers and the Humanities Executive Council and editor of the forthcoming volume ‘Crowdsourcing cultural heritage’. Mia also took part in the 2012 Wikipedia edit-a-thon at the Royal Society and has been exploring the user of digital tools for presenting the lives and work of early scientific women. 33 Various. ‘Hans Reck’. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reck. 34 Mohr, B. A. R. 2010. Wives and daughters of early Berlin geoscientists and their work behind the scenes. Earth Sciences History 29 (2): 291–310. 35 Garton Ash, Timothy. 2011. ‘Look It up: Wikipedia Is Turning 10’. Los Angeles Times. January 14. http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/14/opinion/la-oe-0114-gartonash-wikipedia-20110114. 36 Various. ‘Wikipedia:WikiProject Women’s History’. Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women%27s_History. Cohen, Noam. 2011. ‘Wikipedia Ponders Its Gender-Skewed Contributions’. The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/business/media/31link.html?_r=0. Kennedy, Maev. 2012. ‘Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Brings Women Scientists Out of the Shadows’. The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/oct/19/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-womenscientists. Royal Society. ‘Women in Science: Wikipedia Workshop’. Royal Society. http://royalsociety.org/events/2012/wikipedia-workshop/. Tony1. 2012. ‘Wikipedia Signpost/2012-10-22/News and Notes’. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-10-22/News_and_notes. New challenges in digital history: sharing women's history on Wikipedia Mia Ridge, Open University @mia_out Women’s History in the Digital World, Bryn Mawr College, March 2013 ‘if authors believe the subjects of research are important, then authors should ensure they are represented on freely available encyclopedic sites like Wikipedia ‘Despite the fact that 'bluestockings' made a substantial contribution to the creation and definition of national culture their intellectual participation and artistic interventions have largely been forgotten’ ‘Even the ardent feminist historian, male or female – citing Amazons and tribal matriarchies and Cleopatra – can’t conceal that women have done basically fuck-all for the last 100,000 years’
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In 1908 Ina von Grumbkow undertook an expedition to Iceland. She later made significant contributions to the field of natural history and wrote several books but other than passing references online and a mention on her husband’s [[Wikipedia]] page, her story is only available to those with access to sources like the ‘Earth Sciences History’ journal. Cumulative centuries of archival and theoretical work have been spent recovering women’s histories, yet much of this inspiring scholarship is invisible outside academia. Inspired by research into the use and creation of digital resources and the wider impact of digitality on historians and their scholarship, this paper is a deliberate provocation: if authors believe the subjects of research are important, then authors should ensure they are represented on freely available encyclopedic sites like Wikipedia. Wikipedia is the fifth most visited website in the world and the first port of call for most students and the public, yet women’s history is poorly represented. This paper discusses how the difficulties of adding women’s histories to Wikipedia exemplify some of the new challenges and opportunities of digital history and the ways in which it blurs the line between public history and purely academic research.
  
 
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New Challenges in Digital History: Sharing Women's History on Wikipedia - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2013, written by Mia Ridge.

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In 1908 Ina von Grumbkow undertook an expedition to Iceland. She later made significant contributions to the field of natural history and wrote several books but other than passing references online and a mention on her husband’s Wikipedia page, her story is only available to those with access to sources like the ‘Earth Sciences History’ journal. Cumulative centuries of archival and theoretical work have been spent recovering women’s histories, yet much of this inspiring scholarship is invisible outside academia. Inspired by research into the use and creation of digital resources and the wider impact of digitality on historians and their scholarship, this paper is a deliberate provocation: if authors believe the subjects of research are important, then authors should ensure they are represented on freely available encyclopedic sites like Wikipedia. Wikipedia is the fifth most visited website in the world and the first port of call for most students and the public, yet women’s history is poorly represented. This paper discusses how the difficulties of adding women’s histories to Wikipedia exemplify some of the new challenges and opportunities of digital history and the ways in which it blurs the line between public history and purely academic research.

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