Wikipedia:WikiProject MedievalWiki/resources

Editing Tips and Resources[edit]

Not all scholars, artists, and writers will be considered 'notable' by the Wikipedia community. See these guides for what constitutes a notable academic, and on notability in general. Of course, some of the criteria serve as barriers especially for women and PoC, so it is up to us to pull together the citations and put our case forward! You might find that a page you create or edits you make are challenged, so be prepared to state your case (and ask for backup from fellow medievalwiki editors).

Tip: If you are struggling to find open-source secondary sources regarding a particular scholarly argument, or biographical details of a person's achievements or history of a group, then why not make a source? Publishing on academic society or university blogs is an excellent way to create the references that some people may be lacking.

Editorial guidance to consider when writing about women.

Wikipedia has useful guidance for writing biographies about living people.

Citation tool for generating references from Google Books http://reftag.appspot.com/

PDF of 'Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia', by Joseph Michael Reagle. See especially the Chapter 'Nazis and Norms'

A guide to editing Wikipedia
A guide to adding files to Wikimedia Commons
A cheat sheet to get started with wikicode

History of the discipline sources[edit]

Women Medievalists and the Academy, ed. by Jane Chance (Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005)
Medieval scholarship : biographical studies on the formation of a discipline, Helen Damico (London: 2000)
Interpreters of early medieval Britain, ed. by Michael Lapidge (Oxford :The British Academy, Oxford University Press, 2002)