User:Charles Matthews

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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.

/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.

/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

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
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Personal

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

/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 three 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

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

Recently I have been attending the monthly London meetups in Holborn, fairly regularly.

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

To paraphrase Fran Lebowitz, "pretend it's a community".
... 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

See User talk:Charles Matthews/Plaudits.

Notes

^ 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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