Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism 2014
Wikipedia’s gender trouble is well documented: in a 2010 survey, Wikimedia found that less than 13% of its contributors are female.[1] The reasons for the gender gap are up for debate: suggestions include leisure inequality, how gender socialization shapes public comportment, and the contentious nature of Wikipedia’s talk pages. The practical effect of this disparity, however, is not. Content is skewed by the lack of female participation, with more articles on notable women absent on Wikipedia in comparison to Encyclopaedia Britannica.[2] This represents an alarming aporia in an increasingly important repository of shared knowledge.
We invite you to help address this absence at a Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Saturday, February 1, 2014 from noon to 6 p.m. at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, 540 West 21st Street, New York City. We will provide tutorials for the beginner Wikipedian, reference materials, and light refreshments. For the editing-averse, we urge you to stop by to show your support. A closing reception for Eyebeam Art and Technology Center Annual Showcase will follow the edit sprint.
We also encourage remote participation; you can share your thoughts on the editing process in real-time here or on our tumblr. Satellite events will take place at: the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC; the Paul D. Fleck Library and Archives at Banff Centre in Banff, Canada; Studio XX at Eastern Block in Montreal, Canada; Luke Lindoe Library at the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary, Canada; NSCAD University Library in Halifax, Canada; University of the Arts Greenfield Library in Philadelphia, PA; Art Metropole in Toronto, Canada; University of Texas at Austin School of Information; CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco; and more locations to be announced.
Organized by Siân Evans/Art Libraries Society of North America’s Women and Art Special Interest Group, Jacqueline Mabey/The office of failed projects, Michael Mandiberg, and Laurel Ptak/Eyebeam Fellow.
New York City Meetup at Eyebeam
- Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014 from noon to 6 p.m. Can’t be there the whole time? No problem. Join us for as little or as long as you like.
- Venue: Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, 540 West 21st Street, NYC, 10011 (the event is the closing event for Eyebeam's Annual Showcase 2014)
- Cost: Free
- Participants: The event is open to anyone who wishes to attend. No Wikipedia editing experience necessary; as needed throughout the event, tutoring will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers. Female editors are particularly encouraged to attend.
- RSVP by signing your username here!
- What to Bring: Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords. Light snacks and drinks will be provided.
- Twitter Hashtag: #ArtAndFeminism
- Etherpad:
Austin Meetup at UT Austin iSchool
- Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014
- Venue: University of Texas at Austin School of Information
- Cost: Free
- Participants: No Wikipedia editing experience necessary; as needed throughout the event, tutoring will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers. Female editors are particularly encouraged to attend.
- RSVP by signing your username here!
- What to Bring: Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords.
- Twitter Hashtag: #ArtAndFeminism
Calgary Meetup at ACAD
- Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014. Time to be determined.
- Venue: Luke Lindoe Library, Alberta College of Art and Design, 1407-14 Ave NW
- Cost: Free
- Participants: No Wikipedia editing experience necessary; as needed throughout the event, tutoring will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers. Female editors are particularly encouraged to attend.
- RSVP by signing your username here!
- What to Bring: Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords.
- Twitter Hashtag: #ArtAndFeminism
Chicago Meetup at School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014 time to be determined. Can’t be there the whole time? No problem. Join us for as little or as long as you like.
- Venue: Flaxman Library, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 37 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL
- Cost: Free
- Participants: The event is open to anyone who wishes to attend. No Wikipedia editing experience necessary; as needed throughout the event, tutoring will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers. Female editors are particularly encouraged to attend.
- RSVP by signing your username here!
- What to Bring: Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords.
- Twitter Hashtag: #ArtAndFeminism
Halifax Meetup at NSCAD
- Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014. Time to be determined.
- Venue: NSCAD University Library, 5163 Duke Street
- Cost: Free
- Participants: No Wikipedia editing experience necessary; as needed throughout the event, tutoring will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers. Female editors are particularly encouraged to attend.
- RSVP by signing your username here!
- What to Bring: Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords.
- Twitter Hashtag: #ArtAndFeminism
Montreal Meetup at Eastern Bloc
- Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014. Time to be determined.
- Venue: Organized by STUDIO XX at Eastern Bloc, 7240 Clark, 2nd Floor
- Cost: Free
- Participants: The event is open to anyone who wishes to attend. No Wikipedia editing experience necessary; as needed throughout the event, tutoring will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers. Female editors are particularly encouraged to attend.
- RSVP by signing your username here!
- What to Bring: Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords.
- Twitter Hashtag: #ArtAndFeminism
Philadelphia Meetup at University of the Arts
- Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014 from noon to 5 p.m.
- Venue: University of the Arts, Albert M. Greenfield Library, Anderson Hall, 333 South Broad Street
- Cost: Free
- Participants: No Wikipedia editing experience necessary; as needed throughout the event, tutoring will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers. Female editors are particularly encouraged to attend.
- RSVP by signing your username here!
- What to Bring: Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords.
- Twitter Hashtag: #ArtAndFeminism
- PLEASE NOTE: Non-UArts participants must contact the library in advance to arrange entry.
San Francisco Meetup at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
- Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014 from 12-4 pm
- Venue: CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, 360 Kansas Street (between 16th and 17th streets)
- Cost: Free
- Participants: No Wikipedia editing experience necessary; as needed throughout the event, tutoring will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers. Female editors are particularly encouraged to attend.
- RSVP by signing your username here!
- What to Bring: Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords. We will not have extra laptops available, sadly. But we will have sources!
- Twitter Hashtag: #ArtAndFeminism
Toronto Meetup at Art Metropole
- Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014
- Venue: Art Metropole, 1490 Dundas Street West
- Cost: Free
- Participants: No Wikipedia editing experience necessary; as needed throughout the event, tutoring will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers. Female editors are particularly encouraged to attend.
- RSVP by signing your username here!
- What to Bring: Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords.
- Twitter Hashtag: #ArtAndFeminism
Washington DC Meetup at National Museum of Women in the Arts
- Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014 noon-5pm.
- Venue: National Museum of Women in the Arts Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center (4th Floor), 1250 New York Ave NW, Washington, D.C. 20005
- Cost: Free
- Participants: The event is open to anyone who wishes to attend. No Wikipedia editing experience necessary; as needed throughout the event, tutoring will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers. Female editors are particularly encouraged to attend.
- RSVP by signing your username here!
- What to Bring: Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords. We have one computer for use by a partcipant.
- Twitter Hashtag: #ArtAndFeminism
Guest List
Confirmed NYC attendees
- Theredproject (talk) 02:02, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
- Pharos (talk) 14:06, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
- OR drohowa (talk) GLAM/Metropolitan New York Library Council
- Mozucat (talk) 22:24, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
- Liz (talk) 22:01, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
- Failedprojects (talk) 00:40, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
- Rcamilled (talk) 22:24, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
- BrillLyle (talk) 11:43, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
- Lange.lea (talk) 10:31, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
- Siankevans
- Mwacha
Confirmed Austin attendees
Weatherby551 (talk) 05:03, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
Confirmed Calgary attendees
Confirmed Chicago attendees
- Keilana|Parlez ici 05:06, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
Confirmed Halifax attendees
Confirmed Montreal attendees
Confirmed Philadelphia attendees
- Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 22:21, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
- Preston stone (talk) 17:01, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
Confirmed San Francisco attendees
- grupaok (talk)
- SarahStierch (talk) 06:59, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
- Atavel (talk)
- Kaldari (talk)
- SSmith
- Anna Koval (WMF) (talk)
- Kevin Gorman (talk) 19:49, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
- Hrabben (talk) 19:51, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
- Dreamyshade (talk) 21:27, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
- Lisacarolinamartinez (talk) 22:58, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
- Rosiestep (talk) 03:25, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
- Barte (talk) 15:14, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
- SPat talk 15:20, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
- Maximilianklein (talk) 17:45, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
- Hgrosser (talk) 06:00, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
- YuanLi88 (talk) 03:39, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
Confirmed Toronto attendees
Confirmed Washington DC attendees
- Heatherslania (talk) 21:16, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
- Geraldshields11 (talk) 15:29, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
- econterms (talk) 09:43, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
- danamuses(talk)
Online participants
If you cannot make it to any of the meetups in person but would still like to participate, you are more than welcome to do so remotely. So that we can count you as having taken part, please add your name to the participant list below and also add any and all contributions under the #Results section. (Note: There will not be a webinar aspect for online participants; simply log in and log your contributions below to have them recorded.) And be sure to use the Twitter hashtag #ArtAndFeminism if you tweet about the event!
- Gobōnobō + c
- czar ♔ 14:39, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
- Penny Richards (talk) 20:03, 20 December 2013 (UTC)Penny Richards
- I like edit-a-thons. I've got two GAs from Ada Lovelace day edit-a-thons. That's 28.6% of my GAs. Someone will have to leave me a reminder that it's happening though (please), otherwise I'm likely to forget about it. Sven Manguard Wha? 07:48, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
- Sadads (talk) 18:44, 21 December 2013 (UTC) - Going to try and remember, on my calendar.
- --Giaccai (talk) 17:24, 22 December 2013 (UTC) I'll follow from Firenze (Italy).
I want to host my own event
Please sign your name here (type: ~~~~) if you would like to organize your own event and we can contact you to help you out.
- Madison, WI, working with library school, sent an email to the gmail address czar ♔ 19:08, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
- Your name here
Suggested Topics
The following is a sampling of suggested articles to create or add upon. However, feel free to come up with your own ideas! In addition to the suggestions below, editors may consider cleaning up articles on more well-known women artists. Helpful updates could be as simple as: Making sure reference links are still appropriate and functional; Adding new inline citations/references; Adding a photo; Adding an infobox; Adding data to more fields in an existing infobox; Creating headings; Adding categories; etc. Editors may also choose to focus on women in design, performing arts, music, architecture, philosophy, politics, etc.
Articles needing creation
Biographies
- Linda Lee Alter - Painter, art collector[1][2][3][4]
- Liza Béar - video artist[5], writer[6][7][8][9][10]
- Karen Bernard - Performance artist[11][12][13][14][15][16][17]
- Barbara Dilley, American dancer, member of Grand Union [18]
- Mary Beth Edelson - artist[19][20][21][22]
- Tina Girouard - Mixed media artist[23][24][25][26][27]
- Carol Goodden, Co-founder of the artist run restaurant Food, photographer [28][29][30][31][32][33]
- Dara Greenwald - Video artist[34][35][36][37][38][39]
- Lizzie Fitch - video, sculpture, collaborates with Ryan Trecartin
- Ulrike Müller[40][41][42][43][44][45][46]
- Senga Nengudi - Sculpture/Peformance
- Carole Roussopoulos - Experimental/art film artist[47][48][49][50][51]
- Frances Stark
- A.L. Steiner - Video, installation & performance artist[52][53][54][55][56][57][58]
- Denise Uyehara - Performance artist[59][60][61][62][63]
- Patti Warashina - Ceramist[64][65][66][67]
- Adrian Piper
- This was deleted per Piper's request (the discussion: Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Adrian_Piper). Obviously an important article and we should create a new one, but people should be aware of what the issue was. freshacconci talk to me 18:09, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
- FYI, whomever takes this on should take a look at the last snapshot from the Wayback Machine which may help figure out what not to do?--Theredproject (talk) 22:19, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
- Artists from the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art's Feminist Art Base
- Not necessarily artists... everyone from the "GBE and DBE AWARDS" section of this list that doesn't already have a Wikipedia article; I'm assuming GBE and DBE, as higher-ranking awards than both CBE and OBE, are pretty much sufficient in themselves to confer notability. The list implies images of all are available from the IWM. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 22:48, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
Non-biographies
- Feminist aesthetics[68][69][70][71]
- LTTR - Feminist genderqueer art collective[72][73][74][75][76][77][78]
- Women and Work/Women and Work: A Document on the Division of Labour in Industry 1973-1975 (Mary Kelly, Margaret Harrison, Kay Hunt)
- Womens Action Coalition (W.A.C.)
- Women's Interart Center[79]
Articles needing expansion and/or cleanup
- Ghada Amer
- Yael Bartana
- Michèle Bernstein
- Cecily Brown
- Feminist art movement
- Kate Gilmore (artist)
- Margaret Harrison
- Sharon Hayes
- The Heresies
- Shirley Kaneda
- Lucy Lippard
- Babette Mangolte
- VNS Matrix
- Gina Pane
- Mika Rottenberg
- Betye Saar
- Mira Schor
- Jo Spence
- Anita Steckel
- Deborah Sussman
- Mierle Laderman Ukeles
- Faith Wilding
- Womanhouse
Lists needing expansion and/or cleanup
- List of women in the Heritage Floor - needs descriptions and other information
- List of paintings by Frida Kahlo - needs medium and location of each painting
Resources
Art + Feminism Resources
- WikiProject Women Artists
- Jstor (subscription required)
- Project MUSE (subscription required)
- The Feminist Art Project at Rutgers University
- Ubu Web
- Aaaarg
- Digital Public Library of America
- Archives of American Art
- National Museum of Women in the Arts
- National Women’s History Museum
- Women’s History Sourcebook
- MoMA Learning
- Tate Learning
- The Getty Online
- New Museum Digital Archive
- Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum
- National Women’s History Project
- Arts: Search
- Art and Feminism (book)
- The Reckoning: Women Artists of the New Millennium (book)
- After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art (book)
- Canadian Art Database
- Sophia Smith Collection, Women's History Archives at Smith College
Editing Wikipedia Resources
- Training for Students (A very good beginner's tutorial)
- Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
- Five Pillars of Wikipedia (philosophical guidelines and best practices for Wikipedia editing)
- Tutorial
- How to Edit a Page
- Wiki Markup Quick Reference (PDF version of printed handout)
- Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger (applicable to any biography)
- Article Development
- Your First Article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
- Manual of Style
- Citation templates
- Infobox templates
- Bookshelf (additional "getting started" resources)
Results
Articles created or expanded (includes remote contributions):
New articles created
- Adrian Piper (a bit early, but I couldn't help myself when I saw it didn't exist) czar ♔ 23:07, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
Articles expanded, improved, or cleaned up
References
- ^ Glott, Ruediger; et al. "Wikipedia Survey – Overview of Results" (PDF). United Nations University. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
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(help) - ^ Reagle, Joseph. "Gender Bias in Wikipedia Coverage?". Open Codex. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
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