WikiClassics User Group/Classicists
This page organizes the work on covering classicists (scholars and translators of classics) in various Wikimedia projects.
Discovery
[edit]This section covers work on identifying classicists yet to cover. It is expected that Wikidata be used as a central fact repository to help growing coverage on other projects.
Existing lists and resources
[edit]- Catalogus Philologorum Classicorum (~7500 entries)
- Resources in English Wikipedia's Women's Classical Committee
- 'Database of Classical Scholars', Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences (~800 entries)
- Sandys, John, A History of Classical Scholarship (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press) (3 vols.) (vol. 1, 1903; vols. 2 and 3, 1908).
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Useful queries
[edit]- A basic Wikidata query for classicists
- history of result count: July 2019: 6950 people; Feb 2021: 8625 people; Jan 2023: 12980 people
- Example of above query with additional conditions - French classicists without a French Wikipedia article
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Coverage on Wikipedia
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