User:Charles Matthews

Vienna Wikisource conference talk 20 November 2015

At the flipchart—Future of Education workshop 2014

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Editor here since 2003. I was Wikimedian in Residence at ContentMine, in Cambridge, from April 2017, from 2018 working on the ScienceSource project, up to May 2019.

• Blogpost series on the Moore Library website.

Double act with User:Johnbod at a Royal Society editathon

• /Out of the Shadows wikithon 24 May 2023
• /ARU 2023, page for course that took place at Anglia Ruskin University
• Took place on 22 June 2022: Healx rare diseases editathon.

• /alox
• /Economics editathon
• /Plant editathon
• /20 Things
• /Newnham training, /Newnham training drafts
• /Heritage science
• Wikipedia:GLAM/NHSF Project
• my next article, Draft:new page, /userspace page

• /Training supporting links Moore Library, 22 June 2017
• /Training supporting links2 Moore Library, 29 June 2017
• List of Fellows of the Royal Society, for Wikidata work
• /Listeria

Wikidata

• /Wikidata queries
• Item creator
• https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/resolver.php
• mix'n'match tool
• Venn on Internet archive: https://archive.org/details/alumnicantabrigipt1vol1univiala, https://archive.org/details/p1alumnicantabri04univuoft, http://archive.org/stream/p2alumnicantabri03univuoft
• /PagePile

Grammar schools

List of English and Welsh endowed schools (19th century) is a vehicle for the early history of grammar schools, an area that keeps coming up.

Miscellany

• Enc. Met. 2nd edition http://archive.org/stream/encyclopdiametr00unkngoog#page/n7/mode/2up
• Railway Times http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0RhCAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA363
• Wikidata terminator tool

Personal

May 2010.

To be found in Cambridge, UK. /About me for some personal details and photos from past events and years. /Interview for television work.

Main userspace areas

Stall time 2013

• /New page area
• /Drafting area
• /Listings area: these are miscellaneous working lists - ask me on my user talk if you ever need to know more.
• /DNB area: the old Dictionary of National Biography is an immense resource for adding 'missing articles', now complete with the first two supplements on Wikisource. Here at Wikipedia:WikiProject Dictionary of National Biography and also on Wikisource (s:User:Charles Matthews, s:Wikisource:WikiProject DNB). Under 7000 articles are now missing from enWP.
• /Your Paintings area: on the old BBC Your Paintings website. /Watercolours and /Wood engravers are listings to try to find other relevant artists.
• /Selected. I largely write historical biographies these days. This list is of a relatively small number of more general articles.
• /Resources area

Meetups in Cambridge

m:Meetup/Cambridge/44 took place on 14 August 2021. m:Meetup/Cambridge/46 took place on Sunday, 18 June 2023, in central Cambridge.

Thursdays now past: Headway Cambridge

Systemic bias

I signed up with the 'systemic bias' project here; years later, systemic bias is still an issue for WP. These days I interpret the commitment as going to work in any unpopular area.

Mentalities

... the "official mind", dour and consistent as it generally was in each small thing, lacked a similar consistency in larger matters, (or, indeed, in attempting to generate policies applicable to a multitude of small things).

Awards

See User talk:Charles Matthews/Plaudits.

Other internal links

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics/Current activity