Editatona Art i Feminisme

The gender gap on Wikipedia is clear for all to see: under 11% of its editors are women (as highlighted by a survey the Wikimedia Foundation conducted in 2015). We want to turn things around: alongside various activities happening on 8 March, we’re teaming with Liquen Data Lab, Visual404, Mujeres Y Música (MYM) and Sala Apolo to organize an edit-a-thon on art and feminism, with collaboration from Amical Wikimedia and Wikimujeres.

What is the Art+Feminism edit-a-thon?

Our Art+Feminism edit-a-thon is a marathon session to create, update and improve Wikipedia pages on women, feminism and art. It’s an activity framed within the global Art+Feminism campaign, which every month of March for the last five years has brought together organizers and new editors to explain how to edit and improve Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia.

A lack of representation and gender diversity on Wikipedia, where only 17% of the biographies are of women, has caused knowledge gaps and systematic bias. In part this is due to the low number of women editors. The idea behind the edit-a-thon is to highlight this lack of content relating to women and art and to do something about changing it. The event focuses on creating, translating and improving pages on subjects related to gender, art, femenism and technology.

Want to get involved? Read on to find out how.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE 2018 ART+FEMINISM EDIT-A-THON

How can you participate in the 2018 ART+FEMINISM edit-a-thon?

1)    By creating new Wikipedia pages in whichever language you’re comfortable with

2)    By editing existing pages

3)    By translating pages

How do you sign up?

1)    Create a Wikipedia account. Learn how here.

2)    Sign up on the official 2018 ART+FEMINISM edit-a-thon page.

3) Learn about the Art+Feminism Safe Space Policy.

4) If you have children to take care of, please get in touch with info@liquendatalab.com to tell us how many children need looking after, their names and ages, and the time you plan to take part.

What do you need to bring to the 2018 ART+FEMINISM edit-a-thon?

1. Laptop
2. Power cable
3. You can also bring any reading matter (in digital or hard copy formats) relating to pages you plan to work on. You can look at a list of pages needing creation/improvement here.