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Art+Feminism
StatusActive
FrequencyAnnually
Location(s)70 venues in 17 countries (2015)
Years active10
InauguratedFebruary 1, 2014 (2014-02-01)
Most recentMarch 4, 2016 (2016-03-04)
Attendance1,300 (2015)
Organized bySiân Evans
Jacqueline Mabey
Michael Mandiberg
Laurel Ptak
Websiteart.plusfeminism.org

Art and Feminism (stylized as Art+Feminism) is an annual worldwide edit-a-thon to add content to Wikipedia about female artists. The project, founded by Siân Evans, Jacqueline Mabey, Michael Mandiberg, and Laurel Ptak,[1] has been described as "a massive multinational effort to correct a persistent bias in Wikipedia, which is disproportionally written by and about men".[2]

In 2014, Art+Feminism's inaugural campaign attracted 600 volunteers at 30 separate events.[1][2] The following year, 1,300 volunteers attended 70 events in 17 countries, on four continents.[1]

Establishment

Art+Feminism started when Artstor librarian Siân Evans was designing a project for women and art at for the Art Libraries Society of North America.[3] Evans talked with fellow curator Jacqueline Mabey, who had been impressed by Wikipedia contributors' organization of edit-a-thon events to commemorate Ada Lovelace.[3] Mabey spoke with Michael Mandiberg, a professor at the City University of New York who had been incorporating Wikipedia into classroom learning. Mandiberg in turn talked with Laurel Ptak, a fellow at the art and technology non-profit Eyebeam, who agreed to help plan the event.[3] The team then recruited local Wikipedians Dorothy Howard, then Wikipedian in residence at Metropolitan New York Library Council; and Richard Knipel, then representing the local chapter of Wikipedia contributors through Wikimedia New York City.[3]

One reason for establishing the Art+Feminism project included responding to negative media coverage about Wikipedia's cataloging system.[4] The project continues to fill content gaps in Wikipedia and increase the number of female contributors.[5][6]

Events

Video from an Art+Feminism edit-a-thon at the Museum of Modern Art, 2015

Outside the United States, the 2015 event received media coverage at locations including Australia,[7] Canada,[8] Cambodia,[9] India,[10] New Zealand,[11] and Scotland.[12] Inside the United States the event received media coverage at the flagship location in New York,[13] and also in California,[14][15] Kansas,[16] Pennsylvania,[17] Texas,[18] and West Viriginia.[19]

Reception

Content contributed by participants in the editing events is tracked in a coordinating forum on Wikipedia.[20]

In November 2014 Foreign Policy magazine named Evans, Mabey, Michael, Richard Knipel, Dorothy Howard, and Ptak as "global thinkers" for addressing gender bias on Wikipedia.[21]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Art+Feminism's 2015 Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Adds 334 Articles on Female Artists". ARTnews. 2015-03-11. Retrieved 2016-03-11.
  2. ^ a b "101 Women Artists Who Got Wikipedia Pages This Week". ARTnews. Retrieved 2016-03-11.
  3. ^ a b c d Feinstein, Laura (2 March 2015). "Mass Wikipedia Edit To Make The Internet Less Sexist". magazine.good.is. Good Worldwide. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  4. ^ Lapowsky, Issie (5 March 2015). "Meet the Editors Fighting Racism and Sexism on Wikipedia". Wired. Retrieved 17 October 2015., citing
  5. ^ McGurran, Brianna (18 February 2015). "MoMA to Host Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon to Tackle Gender Imbalance". The New York Observer. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  6. ^ Krasny, Michael (13 March 2015). "Wikipedia's Gender and Race Gaps: Forum". Forum. KQED-FM. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  7. ^ Ford, Clementine (March 6, 2015). "Where are all the Australian feminist writers on Wiki?". dailylife.com.au. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  8. ^ Botelho-Urbanski, Jessica (9 March 2015). "Celebrating women's success? There's a wiki for that". Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  9. ^ Murray, Bennett (7 March 2015). "Wiki activists help to write Cambodian women's history, Post Weekend, Phnom Penh Post". The Phnom Penh Post. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  10. ^ Shruthi, H M (7 March 2015). "Edit-a-thon for women to bridge Wikimedia gender gap". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  11. ^ O'Neil, Andrea (6 March 2015). "Blessed are the 'geeks' shaping history | Stuff.co.nz". stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  12. ^ Malcolm, Bob (5 March 2015). "Dundee to join in global feminism arts campaign". deadlinenews.co.uk. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  13. ^ Schuessler, Jennifer (6 March 2015). "MoMA to Host Wikipedia Editing Marathon, to Improve Coverage of Women in the Arts". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  14. ^ Bos, Sascha (4 March 2015). "East Bay Schools to Host Art and Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-Thons". eastbayexpress.com. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  15. ^ Morlan, Kinsee (2 March 2015). "Wikipedia's women problem". sdcitybeat.com. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  16. ^ Rodriguez, Lisa (27 March 2015). "Kansas City Edit-A-Thon Aims To Close Gender Gap On Wikipedia". kcur.org. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  17. ^ Marshall, Amy Milgrub (23 February 2015). "College of Arts and Architecture to host 'Edit-a-Thon' to improve Wikipedia Cove". news.psu.edu. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  18. ^ Kallus, Megan (4 March 2015). "UT School of Information to host feminist Wikipedia Edit-a-thon". The Daily Texan. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  19. ^ Board, Glynis (3 March 2015). "Wiki Gender Gap to Be Discussed in Morgantown | West Virginia Public Broadcasting". wvpublic.org. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  20. ^ Ghorashi, Hannah (10 March 2015). "Art+Feminism's 2015 Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Adds 334 Articles on Female Artists". ARTnews. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  21. ^ staff (November 2014). "A World Disrupted: The Leading Global Thinkers of 2014 | Siân Evans, Jacqueline Mabey, Michael Mandiberg, Richard Knipel, Dorothy Howard, Laurel Ptak". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 17 October 2015.

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