The very first Digital Humanities disciplinary-focus community of practice, <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic">Digital Medievalist</hi> sought to meet the increasingly sophisticated demands faced by creators of digital projects working with medieval content. Among its initial community-building activities, <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic">Digital Medievalist</hi> started an homonymous open access scholarly journal, which is still active today, and commissioned the publication of short tutorials on its website to guide interested scholars through the basics of text encoding, web development and manuscript digitisation, to mention but a few. The benefits brought by <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic">Digital Medievalist</hi> became so evident that other, similar web communities began to emerge, such as the <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic">Digital Classicist</hi> <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" target="ftn3" n="3" /> (Mahony, 2017) and <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic">Digital Victorianist</hi>.