Charles Matthews

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/Out of the Shadows wikithon 24 May 2023
/ARU 2023, page for course that took place at Anglia Ruskin University.

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.

Took place on 22 June 2022: Healx rare diseases editathon.

/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 edit

Grammar schools edit

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 edit

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
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Personal edit

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 edit

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 edit

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 edit

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 edit

... 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).^[1]

Awards edit

See User talk:Charles Matthews/Plaudits.

Notes edit

^ K. Theodore Hoppen (1998). The Mid-Victorian Generation, 1846-1886. Oxford University Press. p. 155. ISBN 978-0-19-873199-3.

[1] K. Theodore Hoppen (1998). The Mid-Victorian Generation, 1846-1886. Oxford University Press. p. 155. ISBN 978-0-19-873199-3.

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