SFMOMA is delighted to host another edition of Art + Feminism’s ever-essential Wikipedia edit-a-thon series, this time as a virtual gathering. Join us online for an evening of collaborative Wikipedia updating, focusing on entries related to gender, art, and feminism.
To help us get this research party started, SFMOMA staff will provide a sampling of suggested topics and artists whose entries you might like create, augment, or update — including various artists from the upcoming SFMOMA exhibition, Nobody’s Darling. We will also be joined by an experienced Wikipedia editor, who will begin our program with a platform tutorial. We will then break out in to groups depending on the type of edits we wish to work on. The editor will remain available throughout the 4-hour session to answer questions. Drop-in attendance is welcome.
Schedule:
Wikipedia’s gender trouble is well documented. In a 2011 survey, the Wikimedia Foundation found that less than 10% of its contributors identify as female. Further, data analysis tools and computational linguistics studies have concluded that Wikipedia has fewer and less extensive articles on women; those same tools have shown gender biases in biographical articles. This is a problem.
When cis and trans women, non-binary people, people of color, and Indigenous communities are not represented in the writing and editing on the tenth-most-visited site in the world, information about people like us gets skewed and misrepresented. The stories get mistold. We lose out on real history. That’s why we’re here: to change it.
Since 2014, over 18,000 people at more than 1,260 Art+ Feminism events around the world have participated in our edit-a-thons, resulting in the creation and improvement of more than 84,000 articles on Wikipedia and its sister projects.
We invite people of all gender identities and expressions to participate. Please create a Wikipedia account before the event. You can learn how to do that here. We will be honoring Art + Feminism’s Safe Space/Brave Space policy. Please review the policy before attending.
RSVP here to get the Zoom link.
Optional: Add yourself to the event dashboard to help us and the Art+Feminism program track edits and other contributions from this event.
Optional: If you have a Wikipedia account, you can also sign your name by editing this section and typing four tildes ("~~~~") in the list below. If you don't have an account, just write your name below (though it is recommended that you create a user account in advance of the event - create one here!).
Add references to unreferenced statements + reframe any opinions/interpretations as fact-based statements (such as attributing an interpretation to a reviewer who wrote it):
Expand content:
Evaluate whether there are enough references available to create an article:
Add images of art work (and artist, if possible):
New editors: if you'd like to practice some getting-started steps on your own, check out the Interactive Editing Tutorial or Beginners' Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing).
To start on this track:
To add new content, the easiest process is similar:
To get started:
Do you have any photos that you have taken that you would like to add to Wikipedia, such as a photo of an artist at an event you were at? Or a photo of a building relevant to a Wikipedia article? And are you willing to license your photo for reuse, modification, and even commercial use by other people?
If your photo is of a piece of artwork: usually, even if you took the photo yourself, the artwork itself is copyrighted, so your photo is a "derivative work", which means you can't simply upload a photo of it and license your photo for reuse.
If you don't have any of your own photos to upload:
If you can't find any freely-reusable photos and you'd like to add a photo of a copyrighted piece of artwork:
Summary:
Guides:
The goal here is to help weave the web of Wikipedia: link to articles from other relevant articles!
To get started:
Wikipedia has a style guide including punctuation and formatting standards ( Wikipedia:Manual of Style) and content guidelines for voice and tone ( Wikipedia:Neutral point of view), and you can help fix articles to match them.
SFMOMA is delighted to host another edition of Art + Feminism’s ever-essential Wikipedia edit-a-thon series, this time as a virtual gathering. Join us online for an evening of collaborative Wikipedia updating, focusing on entries related to gender, art, and feminism.
To help us get this research party started, SFMOMA staff will provide a sampling of suggested topics and artists whose entries you might like create, augment, or update — including various artists from the upcoming SFMOMA exhibition, Nobody’s Darling. We will also be joined by an experienced Wikipedia editor, who will begin our program with a platform tutorial. We will then break out in to groups depending on the type of edits we wish to work on. The editor will remain available throughout the 4-hour session to answer questions. Drop-in attendance is welcome.
Schedule:
Wikipedia’s gender trouble is well documented. In a 2011 survey, the Wikimedia Foundation found that less than 10% of its contributors identify as female. Further, data analysis tools and computational linguistics studies have concluded that Wikipedia has fewer and less extensive articles on women; those same tools have shown gender biases in biographical articles. This is a problem.
When cis and trans women, non-binary people, people of color, and Indigenous communities are not represented in the writing and editing on the tenth-most-visited site in the world, information about people like us gets skewed and misrepresented. The stories get mistold. We lose out on real history. That’s why we’re here: to change it.
Since 2014, over 18,000 people at more than 1,260 Art+ Feminism events around the world have participated in our edit-a-thons, resulting in the creation and improvement of more than 84,000 articles on Wikipedia and its sister projects.
We invite people of all gender identities and expressions to participate. Please create a Wikipedia account before the event. You can learn how to do that here. We will be honoring Art + Feminism’s Safe Space/Brave Space policy. Please review the policy before attending.
RSVP here to get the Zoom link.
Optional: Add yourself to the event dashboard to help us and the Art+Feminism program track edits and other contributions from this event.
Optional: If you have a Wikipedia account, you can also sign your name by editing this section and typing four tildes ("~~~~") in the list below. If you don't have an account, just write your name below (though it is recommended that you create a user account in advance of the event - create one here!).
Add references to unreferenced statements + reframe any opinions/interpretations as fact-based statements (such as attributing an interpretation to a reviewer who wrote it):
Expand content:
Evaluate whether there are enough references available to create an article:
Add images of art work (and artist, if possible):
New editors: if you'd like to practice some getting-started steps on your own, check out the Interactive Editing Tutorial or Beginners' Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing).
To start on this track:
To add new content, the easiest process is similar:
To get started:
Do you have any photos that you have taken that you would like to add to Wikipedia, such as a photo of an artist at an event you were at? Or a photo of a building relevant to a Wikipedia article? And are you willing to license your photo for reuse, modification, and even commercial use by other people?
If your photo is of a piece of artwork: usually, even if you took the photo yourself, the artwork itself is copyrighted, so your photo is a "derivative work", which means you can't simply upload a photo of it and license your photo for reuse.
If you don't have any of your own photos to upload:
If you can't find any freely-reusable photos and you'd like to add a photo of a copyrighted piece of artwork:
Summary:
Guides:
The goal here is to help weave the web of Wikipedia: link to articles from other relevant articles!
To get started:
Wikipedia has a style guide including punctuation and formatting standards ( Wikipedia:Manual of Style) and content guidelines for voice and tone ( Wikipedia:Neutral point of view), and you can help fix articles to match them.