Wikipedia:GLAM/Coventry University/Coventrypedia

Introduction

In April-May 2021, Coventry University hosted a series of online Wikipedia editing events, marking Coventry's upcoming year as City of Culture.

You can read more on the blog post announcing the events.

Please address any questions to Coventry University's Wikimedian in Residence, Andy Mabbett, User:Pigsonthewing.

Resources

• http://coventrycollections.org/
• https://coventry.digital/
• https://www.coventryatlas.org/
• https://forum.historiccoventry.co.uk/
• https://www.coventrysociety.org.uk/

Things to work on

Coventry University

• Ian Dunn (Provost) Coventry University [1]
• Louise Moody Professor at the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities, Coventry University
• Juliet Simpson Professor at the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities, Coventry University
• Giles Talbot Kelly, FGDC [2]
• Professor John Latham (academic) CBE, Vice-Chancellor of Coventry University, [3], [4] d:Q67147169
• Elena Gaura, researcher, specialising in wireless sensors; Associate Dean for Research - d:Q58334721
• John Linsie, educational psychologist [5], [6], [7], [8]
• Derek Collard, artist [9]
• Judith Mottram, [10]
• Jill Journeaux, [11], [12]
• John Mitchell (artist) [13]
• Guy Daly - d:Q67145810, [14]
• Michael Christopher Hardy, CMG d:Q67377139 [15]
• Alan Richmond (Principal, 1970-1972)
• Matt Qvortrup (editor, European Political Science Review) 15 (talk) 10:03, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
• Keith Legg (Principal, 1972-1975)
• Geoffrey Holroyde (Principal, later Director; 1975-1987)
• Dr Michael Goldstein, CBE, Vice-Chancellor (1992–2004), d:Q67149414, [16], [17], [18], [19], [20]
• Celia Fitzhugh [21], [22] d:Q71010765
• Cathy Hunt, historian and author [23], [24]
• Professor Bruce Baker (academic) [25]
• Robert Patrick Lister, CBE - [26]
• John Devane (painter) - d:Q21461048
• "Women in Red" (but check notability!)

To expand

• David Tindle
• Academic Council of the United Nations System

Coventry, general

• Coventry Corporation Waterworks
• Coventry half penny - see c:Category:Coventry half pennies
• Coventry mint - [27]
• J. Player & Son - watchmakers ("The Most-Complicated-Watch-Ever Made ") [28]
• Coventry Biennial - [29], [30], [31]
• Anthony Francis Hobson, artist, art teacher, art historian and biographer of the artist J.W. Waterhouse (d:Q21457765)`
• Thomas Sharpe (antiquarian) wikisource:en:Sharp, Thomas (1770-1841) (DNB00), [32]
• William George Fretton, antiquarian d:Q106649446
• Thomas Hulston Kirby, after whom Kirby House, Coventry is named
• Keith New, artist involved in the design of the Nave windows of Coventry cathedral
• Architecture and Town Planning department staff, see [33], [34]
  • Fred Roche (later at Milton Keynes; to expand)
  • Frank Henshaw (later at Milton Keynes)
  • Wilf Burns (later Newcastle)
  • Don Fentner (Harlow; chief architect, Telford Development Corporation)
  • Ray Spaxman (Kings Lynn, Norwich, Director of Planning in Vancouver)
  • Bill Pearson (architect) (of BDP)
• CASE: Coventry Art Societies Exhibition (formerly known as the Coventry Arts Consortium) [35], [36], [37]
• Various Lord Mayors
  • William Fitzthomas Wyley
• Various MPs
• Various Coventry City Police Chief Constables
• Subjects of commemorative plaques
• Chenine Bhathena Creative Director for Coventry's year as UK City of Culture 2021 [38]

To expand

• New article creations – see below
• Articles in:
  • Category:Coventry City Councillors
  • Category:Members of Parliament for Coventry
  • List of public art in Coventry
• Colleen Margaret Fletcher MP Coventry North East
• Delia Derbyshire – see Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes
• Drapers' Hall, Coventry - [39], [40]
• Ellen Terry actor
• Geoffrey Clarke, sculptor
• Ira Aldridge [41]
• Pauline Black singer actress author
• Samuel Greatheed
• Taiwo Owatemi MP for Coventry North West
• Walter Ritchie, sculptor
• UK City of Culture#Coventry 2021
• Zarah Sultana MP for Coventry South [Srsval - some edits added]

Nuneaton

• Peter Colquitt, sculptor
• E Helliwell, sculptor, Head of Nuneaton School of Art
• Edward Melly, mayor, philanthropist [42]
• Alisha Miller, artist

Wikisource

• s:Index:Aerial Flight - Volume 2 - Aerodonetics - Frederick Lanchester - 1908.djvu
• s:Index:The Monumental Inscriptions in the Parish Church of S. Michael, Coventry.pdf

Participants

Session 1

• User:Pigsonthewing (host)
• User:Arcsvlib (also guest speaker)
• User:Emnesbitt
• User:Ad5685
• User:Srsval
• User:KHVIIIArchivist
• User:Andrew Davidson

Session 2

• User:Pigsonthewing (host)
• User:Andrew Davidson
• User:Hawthorne44
• User:Lyrasx
• User:BhusalAyush

Session 3

• User:Pigsonthewing (host)
• User:Andrew Davidson
• User:CovSoc John
• User:Warwickshire Warrener
• User:KHVIIIArchivist
• User:Markgoodwin81
• User:Ashpanda
• User:The wandering elephant

Session 4

• User:Pigsonthewing (host)
• User:Andrew Davidson
• User:Ashpanda
• User:KHVIIIArchivist
• User:Lyrasx

Session 5

• User:Pigsonthewing (host)
• User:Andrew Davidson
• User:KHVIIIArchivist
• User:BhusalAyush
• User:The wandering elephant
• User:Lyrasx
• User:EmaPG
• User:Mercian1903

Session 6

• User:Pigsonthewing (host)
• User:Andrew Davidson
• User:Ashpanda
• User:BhusalAyush
• User:Cloudmiri
• User:EmaPG
• User:KHVIIIArchivist
• User:Lyrasx
• User:ParkerWooding
• User:Ursonate

What we did

Session 1 results

• improvements to Zarah Sultana
• uploaded image of Pearl Hyde
• worked on s:Index:Aerial Flight - Volume 2 - Aerodonetics - Frederick Lanchester - 1908.djvu

Session 2 results

• Katherine Bayley's School
• Mary Ball (poisoner) and related disambiguation for Mary Ball
• Vibert Cornwall
• added to History of Coventry
• added to List of mayors of Coventry
• added image to Coventry City Police
• Transcribed s:Account of the Boys' Charity School founded, in 1733, by Mrs. Katherine Bayley, in the city of Coventry

Session 3 results

• Primrose Hill Park
• Coventry Labourers' and Artizans' Co-operative
• Thomas Fyler
• William Chattaway
• Coventry Society
• Michael Tooby

Session 4 results

• Coventry blue
• The Old Windmill
• Nick Shingler
• Gosford Street
• Civic Voice
• translated Helmut Heinze from the German Wikipedia
• added newly-uploaded images to Michael Tooby, Coventry Society, Civic Voice
• added the sculpture Choir of Survivors to Wikidata (d:Q106823357), OpenStreetMap, and collated images into c:Category:Choir of Survivors, Coventry
• created and populated Category:Civic societies in the United Kingdom

Session 5 results

• Alice Arnold (mayor)
• List of commemorative plaques in Coventry
• Coventry and Warwickshire Society of Artists
• George Wagstaffe
• Uploaded pictures of (Far) Gosford Street; added Commons category link to article
• Added references to David Murray

Session 6 results

• Audrey Lees (architect)
• Lisa Bayliss-Pratt
• Coventry Music Museum
• Cook Street Gate
• Emily Smith (mayor)
• Alison Dougall
• added Coventrypedia section to Coventry UK City of Culture 2021
• linked Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 to UK City of Culture
• improved George Wagstaffe
• improved and added image to Ira Aldridge
• improved Sister city with further details on the role of Coventry in establishing the modern concept of town twnning.
• corrected the list of twin towns linked to Coventry