Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/Women's Art Register
This project page helps with the ongoing collaborative project of creating and editing Wikipedia pages relating to artists with archives in the Women's Art Register, but also to other Australian women artists and the institutions that support them.
This page is organised into three sections according to editing experience:
- Newbies: easy tasks for new Wikipedia editors
- Middies: general editing tasks for editors with some experience
- Oldies: tasks for editors with considerable experience
There is also the option of writing only. This is good for people want to write up Wikipedia pages but don't want to deal with editing the pages. In this case send your writing in a Word document to one of the WAR organisers to upload to Wikipedia.
Hashtags
#artandfeminism #womensartregister #WikiD #knowmyname #imawomanartist #IWD2024 #WomenInCulture #WomenMakingHistory
Helpful links
- Tips for writing your first article
- What Wikipedia is not
- Detailed editing tutorial
- Conflict of Interest guidelines
- Wikipedia: Biographies of living persons
- A simplified guide for contributing to Wikipedia
- Manual of Style: Biography
- Notability policy for people
2024 International Women’s Day Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Richmond Library, 9 March 2024
The Women's Art Register is holding an Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon at Richmond Library on 9 March for International Women's Day. The event dashboard is here. This dashboard is for collecting information on the work done during the edit-a-thon.
Use the contents list to the left of this page to find editing suggests based on your level of experience with Wikipedia editing.
Newbies
Small edits to do
The comments column suggests small improvements to be made to existing articles. Use the 'edit' function on this page to add your username to the table. This will make sure two people aren't working on the same article.
Don't hesitate to move onto the Middies tasks if this becomes too easy or too boring!
| Artist | Comments | Username |
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| Vivienne Binns | Add to the bottom of the page [[Category:Women's Art Register artists]] | |
| Kiffy Rubbo | Add to the bottom of the page [[Category:Women's Art Register artists]] | |
| Lesley Dumbrell | Add to the bottom of the page [[Category:Women's Art Register artists]] | |
| Angela Cavalieri | Add to the bottom of the page [[Category:Women's Art Register artists]] | |
| Sue Ford | Add to the bottom of the page [[Category:Women's Art Register artists]] | |
| Elizabeth Gower | Add to the bottom of the page [[Category:Women's Art Register artists]] | |
| Merris Hillard | Add to the bottom of the page [[Category:Women's Art Register artists]] | |
| Dianne Beevers | Add to the bottom of the page [[Category:Women's Art Register artists]] | |
| Marguerite Mahood | Add to the bottom of the page [[Category:Women's Art Register artists]] | |
| Helen Eager | Add to the bottom of the page [[Category:Women's Art Register artists]] | |
| Barbara Hanrahan | Add to the bottom of the page [[Category:Women's Art Register artists]] | |
| Ponch Hawkes | Add to the bottom of the page [[Category:Women's Art Register artists]] | |
| Dianne Beevers | Add to the bottom of the page [[Category:Women's Art Register artists]] | |
| Margaret Gurney (artist) | Add to the bottom of the page [[Category:Women's Art Register artists]] | |
| Ailsa O'Connor | Add to the bottom of the page [[Category:Women's Art Register artists]] | |
| Norma Redpath | Add to the bottom of the page [[Category:Women's Art Register artists]] |
Could also add other relevant categories if they are not already there:
- [[Category:20th-century Australian women artists]]
- [[Category:21st-century Australian women artists]]
- [[Category:20th-century Australian artists]]
- [[Category:21st-century Australian artists]]
- [[Category:20th-century Australian sculptors]]
- [[Category:21st-century Australian sculptors]]
- [[Category:20th-century sculptors]]
- [[Category:21st-century sculptors]]
- [[Category:20th-century Australian women sculptors]]
- [[Category:21st-century Australian women sculptors]]
- [[Category:20th-century Australian painters]]
- [[Category:21st-century Australian painters]]
- [[Category:20th-century painters]]
- [[Category:21st-century painters]]
- [[Category:20th-century Australian women painters]]
- [[Category:21st-century Australian women painters]]
- [[Category:Artists from Victoria (state)]]
- [[Category:Artists from New South Wales]]
- [[Category:Artists from Sydney]]
- [[Category:Artists from Melbourne]]
- [[Category:Australian women sculptors]]
- [[Category:Australian women painters]]
- [[Category:Australian Aboriginal artists]]
- [[Category:Living people]]
- [[Category:Visual artists in late 20th-century Australia]]
Middies
Add information to existing articles
If you add information to an existing article, always insert a citation to a reference source after each sentence or exhibition title if it is in a list. See: Wikipedia:Citing sources. For examples of citations to references including a reference for each exhibition see: Elizabeth Gower, Polixeni Papapetrou, Marcella Hempel, Rosalie Gascoigne.
| Subject | Comments | Username |
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| Women's Art Register |
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| Australian Feminist Art Timeline | add recent WAR activities, or anything else recent, do some crosslinks of names to WAR wiki page | |
| George Paton Gallery | images needed | sandie |
| Maree Clarke |
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| Aretha Brown | citations needed throughout | |
| Bindi Cole | citations needed throughout; WAR category reference | |
| Kitty Kantilla | citations needed throughout | |
| Jeanna Petyarre | citations needed throughout | |
| Yaritji Young | needs citations and notability | |
Information from This is W.A.R! can be transferred to, or edited in to, Wikipedia.
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| Gippsland Art Gallery | Existing page, needs more women artists. Suggestions Erica McGilchrist, Gillian Kline, The f Word - Contemporary feminist art in Australia (group show including Kate Just, Jill Orr, Clare Rae, Penny Byrne and others), Susan Purdy, Elsie Struss, | |
| Ararat Gallery TAMA | Existing page, needs more women artists. Textile focus. Suggested artists Inga Hunter, Hannah Gartside, The f Word - Contemporary feminist art in Australia (group show including Destiny Deacon, Kate Beynon, Lyndal Walker and others), Sarah crowEST, Sera Waters, Jemima Wyman, Jenny Watson. First nations artists in the collection include Lorraine Connelly-Northey, Yvonne Koolmatrie, Georgia MacGuire and Letty Nicholls. | |
| Australian Centre for Contemporary Art | Existing page, needs more women artists; mention of Unfinished Business | |
| Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) | Existing page, needs more women artists. Significant ceramics collection. Suggested artists Penny Byrne, eX de Medici, Janet Fieldhouse, Sally Smart, Elizabeth Gower, Lynda Draper, Margaret Dodd, Pat Brassington, Tracey Moffat | |
| Tin Sheds | Section could be added to discuss extensive history of feminist posters from the 1970s to 1990s. NLA, RDA, TMC |
Oldies
Pages to create
In the table below:
Artist: The names with red links do not have a Wikipedia page yet. Users can click on the red link and go straight to creating a page. Once a page for that artist has been created, the link will become a blue hyperlink to the artist’s Wikipedia page.
WD: The WD column gives the wikidata item number for the artist. Wikidata is a database providing information and data about a person or a subject. Click on the Wikidata number to find starter reference sources about the artist. If you are a new editor you don't have to add to the wikidata item, you can just use it as source of information.
Resources: This column provides links to some open access sites where users can find information about the artist to include in her article. If the artist has an article, you can also refer to the list of references at the bottom of the page. Sources of online information about artists can be found on the Know My Name project page.
Comments: The comments suggest either improvements to be made to existing articles or an article which could be created for an artist. Editors who are new to Wikipedia may want to practice making edits first on the "Add more information" articles. Confident editors may like to start a new article. If you want to write a new article for an artist not on the list, please talk to one of the facilitators first.
Username: Please add your username to the table to show which article you are working so there are no double-ups on work.
If you add information to an existing article, always insert a citation to a reference source after each sentence or exhibition title if it is in a list. See: Wikipedia:Citing sources. For examples of citations to references including a reference for each exhibition see: Elizabeth Gower, Polixeni Papapetrou, Marcella Hempel, Rosalie Gascoigne.
If you start a new article for an artist it is important that you add in enough information in the first paragraphs to show they are notable. See:Wikipedia:Notability (people), Wikipedia:Notability (people)#Creative professionals, Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Biography#Opening paragraph. For examples of notability shown in lead paragraphs see: Dorrit Black, Vivienne Binns, Grace Cossington Smith.
Wikipedia policy on Notability/Creative professionals
This guideline applies to authors, editors, journalists, filmmakers, photographers, artists, architects, and other creative professionals. Such a person is notable if:
- The person is regarded as an important figure or is widely cited by peers or successors; or
- The person is known for originating a significant new concept, theory, or technique; or
- The person has created or played a major role in co-creating a significant or well-known work or collective body of work. In addition, such work must have been the primary subject of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews, or of an independent and notable work (for example, a book, film, or television series, but usually not a single episode of a television series); or
- The person's work (or works) has: (a) become a significant monument, (b) been a substantial part of a significant exhibition, (c) won significant critical attention, or (d) been represented within the permanent collections of several notable galleries or museums.
WAR life members to add to Wikipedia
| Artist | WD | Resources | Comments | Username |
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| Meredith Rogers | d:Q110274745 | Kiffy Rubbo, WAR, LaTrobe | Start a new article | |
| Isabel Davies | d:Q98174533 | NGV | Start a new article | |
| Anna Sande | d:Q124739440 | NPG | Start a new article | |
| Juliette Peers | d:Q95756859 | Start a new article | ||
| Rosemary Mangiamele | d:Q124739493 | DAAO | Start a new article | |
| Liz McAloon | Start a new article | |||
| Merren Ricketson | Start a new article |
WAR and other Australian women artists to add to Wikipedia
Other lists of Australian women artists
Artists
- General list of Australian Women Artists - look for the red links
- List of Australian women artists
- Australian Feminist Art Timeline