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Women make up an estimated 16% of Wikipedia editors worldwide. While the reasons for the gender gap are up for debate, the practical effect of this disparity, however, is not. Content seems to be skewed by the lack of female participation. That means that while Wikipedia is essentially the most radically open encyclopaedia the world has ever seen, voices and perspectives are still being left out.
On Sunday March 8, we will be writing historical figures marginalized because of their gender into Wikipedia. Not only will we be contributing to the world of free knowledge and ensuring the existence of a gender inclusive history of everything, we will be training people how to make effective and engaging entries– ensuring the digital legacy of women, trans, and/or gender non-conforming people in multiple discipline, fields, and periods of history.
On Monday March 9, we will discuss the wider theoretical and practical implications of archival bias in relation to crowdsourced archives. This symposium seeks to engage with, and respond to, the wide range of questions that the Wikipedia gender gap example provokes, from archival literacy and labour issues to archival power distribution and critical potential.
All welcome. PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN DEVICE
The event is organised by Renegade Runners, Nanna Thylstrup and Maibritt Borgen
12-12.30 | Velkomst |
1-2.00 | Workshop: Wikipedia for dummies |
2-3.00 | Workshop: Sådan skriver du en god artikel |
3.30-4.30 | Workshop: Wikipedia for dummies |
4.30-5.30 | Workshop: Sådan skriver du en god artikel |
5.30-8.00 | Artikelskrivning |
The systemic bias in Wikipedia is both a practical and theoretical problem. The practical problem requires targeted efforts such as the March 8 feminist edit-a-thon. The theoretical problem, however, requires contextualizing the problem in its broader cultural context. This symposium seeks to engage with, and respond to, the wide range of questions that the Wikipedia gender gap example provokes, from archival literacies and labour forces to archival powers and emancipatory potentials. How are digital archives constructed and what constrictions do they place on us? Who polices the archives and what kind of politics do they (re)produce? Should archival crowdsourcing be considered as playful and emancipatory practice or internalization of immaterial labour-production? How may we conceive of crowdsourced archives as gendered infrastructures?
9.00-9.15 | Welcome |
9.15-10.00 | Keynote speech
Jonathan D. Katz, Visual Studies, Buffalo University
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10.15-11.00 | Panel session 1: Neutral archives is an oxymoron Marianne Ping Huang, Arts, Aarhus University |
11.15-12.15 | Panel session 2: Codes, collaborative practices and means of regulations in crowdsourced digital archives Jens-Erik Mai, Department of Information Science, University of Copenhagen |
12.15-13.00 | Keynote speech Joanna Zylinska and Sarah Kember, Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths University of London |
2pm-5pm | We Can Edit-a-thon continued |
5pm-6pm | Results and new goals |
![]() | This page is an archive. Do not edit the contents of this page. Please direct any additional comments to the current main page. |
Women make up an estimated 16% of Wikipedia editors worldwide. While the reasons for the gender gap are up for debate, the practical effect of this disparity, however, is not. Content seems to be skewed by the lack of female participation. That means that while Wikipedia is essentially the most radically open encyclopaedia the world has ever seen, voices and perspectives are still being left out.
On Sunday March 8, we will be writing historical figures marginalized because of their gender into Wikipedia. Not only will we be contributing to the world of free knowledge and ensuring the existence of a gender inclusive history of everything, we will be training people how to make effective and engaging entries– ensuring the digital legacy of women, trans, and/or gender non-conforming people in multiple discipline, fields, and periods of history.
On Monday March 9, we will discuss the wider theoretical and practical implications of archival bias in relation to crowdsourced archives. This symposium seeks to engage with, and respond to, the wide range of questions that the Wikipedia gender gap example provokes, from archival literacy and labour issues to archival power distribution and critical potential.
All welcome. PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN DEVICE
The event is organised by Renegade Runners, Nanna Thylstrup and Maibritt Borgen
12-12.30 | Velkomst |
1-2.00 | Workshop: Wikipedia for dummies |
2-3.00 | Workshop: Sådan skriver du en god artikel |
3.30-4.30 | Workshop: Wikipedia for dummies |
4.30-5.30 | Workshop: Sådan skriver du en god artikel |
5.30-8.00 | Artikelskrivning |
The systemic bias in Wikipedia is both a practical and theoretical problem. The practical problem requires targeted efforts such as the March 8 feminist edit-a-thon. The theoretical problem, however, requires contextualizing the problem in its broader cultural context. This symposium seeks to engage with, and respond to, the wide range of questions that the Wikipedia gender gap example provokes, from archival literacies and labour forces to archival powers and emancipatory potentials. How are digital archives constructed and what constrictions do they place on us? Who polices the archives and what kind of politics do they (re)produce? Should archival crowdsourcing be considered as playful and emancipatory practice or internalization of immaterial labour-production? How may we conceive of crowdsourced archives as gendered infrastructures?
9.00-9.15 | Welcome |
9.15-10.00 | Keynote speech
Jonathan D. Katz, Visual Studies, Buffalo University
|
10.15-11.00 | Panel session 1: Neutral archives is an oxymoron Marianne Ping Huang, Arts, Aarhus University |
11.15-12.15 | Panel session 2: Codes, collaborative practices and means of regulations in crowdsourced digital archives Jens-Erik Mai, Department of Information Science, University of Copenhagen |
12.15-13.00 | Keynote speech Joanna Zylinska and Sarah Kember, Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths University of London |
2pm-5pm | We Can Edit-a-thon continued |
5pm-6pm | Results and new goals |