Session 2

SunoikisisDC Digital Classics, Summer 2023

Session 2: The Digital Classicist Wiki

Thursday June 8, 2023, starting at 17:15 CEST (for 90 minutes)

Convenors: Monica Berti (University of Leipzig), Gabriel Bodard (ICS London), Joel Kalvesmaki (Text Alignment Network)

Youtube link

Slides TBA

Outline

In this session we discuss the Digital Classicist Wiki, a site based on the MediaWiki platform that collects information and community reviews of projects, tools, methods and other resources relating to digital study of the ancient world. We introduce the history and aims of the Wiki, and discuss the audience, users, editors, and ongoing value of the site. We end with a hands-on demonstration of using and editing the Wiki, and discussion of the community and how new users can get involved.

• Intro about the history of the DCWiki
• What is the Wiki for — Who edits? Who uses? For what? Who finds the wiki useful
• DCWiki Categories / metadata
• The perspective of editor/user, including hands-on demo
  • The three-window method of editing
    • Window 1: Editor references:
      • https://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/DigiClass/Wiki_editing
      • https://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/index.php?title=Special:Categories&offset=&limit=250
      • https://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/Special:RecentChanges?hidebots=1&limit=50&days=30&enhanced=1&urlversion=2
      • https://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/DigiClass/To_do_list#Categories_of_dubious_value
      • https://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/DigiClass/Pages_that_need_work
      • https://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/DigiClass/External_lists_of_projects
      • https://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/Special:WantedPages
      • https://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/DigiClass/Categories_that_need_work
    • Window 2: Active edits
    • Window 3: Research
• Community; How can you get involved? Member/profile page?