Wikiproject Witches

All through the 15th, 16th, 17th and 19th century there were multiple witch trails, mainly in Europe and America.

Presentation on witch hunts in the Lower lands, what later on would become the Netherlands and Flanders

This project aims to document the information there is on those trails, and on the accused. About 85% of the persons accused where woman, because of the roles they fulfilled in daily life (midwifes, healers), and how vulnerable their position was in those specific times.

This involves different projects:

Commons - categorisation and structured data
Wikidata - d:Wikidata:WikiProject_Witches: creation of statements (for instance: accuser) to illustrate how people accused each other just to get redemption, translation of labels, adding names and information about the known witches (some are on Wikipedia, but those of who we do not have an article on the encyclopedia, may as well be relevant for Wikidata)
Dutch Wikipedia - nl:Europese_heksenvervolging#Heksenvervolging_in_de_Nederlanden
French Wikipedia - fr:Projet:Les_sans_pagEs/Sorcières
English Wikipedia - ...

(*your project too?)

What can I do?Edit

We would like to map and categorize the information we have on the different projects. Translating the articles into your own language, and add information and sources from your country.

Local ProjectsEdit

Edinburgh UniversityEdit

The Edinburgh University created a really cool project around the 3100 accused witches in Scotland and visualized their history by adding their data into Wikidata.

Check it out! (How did she go forward in this project? Read Emma's blog!)

French WikipediaEdit

On the French Wikipedia, a list was created, with an associated map from a Sparql query listing victims of the witch hunts: fr:Liste des victimes de chasses aux sorcières. There is an associated project ː https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Les_sans_pagEs/Sorci%C3%A8res#Projet_sur_Wikidata

What do we need?Edit

WikidataEdit

Do inventory on the different statements we use, and the additional we need
- d:User:Ciell/Witches
...

CommonsEdit

Mapping the category tree:
- commons:Category:Witch trials
- commons:Category:People executed for heresy
...

MapsEdit

WikipediɑEdit

Translation list


wikidata	Description	enwiki	frwiki	arwiki	ruwiki	dewiki
insert new ideas of article here
	witch hunt					Hexenverfolgung im Herzogtum Westfalen
	witch hunt	Doruchów witch trial				Doruchów witch trial
Q7161327	witchcraft	Pelesit

Q7229521	witchcraft	Poppet
Q7225934	witchcraft	Polong			Полон (фольклор)
Q60791499	witchcraft	Frog coffin
Q1616764	witchcraft	Witch bottle	Bouteille de sorcière			Hexenflasche
Q30765203	witchcraft	witch ball	boule de sorcière
Q20982945	witchcraft	en:Hōko (doll)
Q6418017	witchcraft	Kitchen witch		مداوي شعبي
Q23020850	quiltmaker	en:Wini McQueen

MembersEdit

Ciell (talk) 19:53, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
Nattes à chat (talk) 20:23, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
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