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The Edit-a-Thon Will take place March 18th, 2014, in Columbia University Butler Library's new Studio@Butler space, which opened in September, 2013.

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WWI Edit-a-thon in Stockholm, 29 June 2013 05
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Butler Library
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Documenting the edit-a-thon (8580183002)
Documenting the edit-a-thon (8580183002)
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What is the #GWWI Global Women Write-In?

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The Global Women's Wikipedia Write-In is one of several annual, national campaigns to close the inequality of male-to-female editors on Wikipedia, and the site's reported tendency to feature more male historical figures than female. As the recent international Art + Feminism Edit-a-Thons have argued:

...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. Many articles on notable women in history and art are absent on Wikipedia. This represents an alarming aporia in an increasingly important repository of shared knowledge...

See also: Blog post: "Spring Wikipedia Activities in New York.

Details

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Confirmed NYC attendees

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Virtual Participants

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Suggested Topics to Edit

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The following are pulled from the Wikipedia:Meetup/globalwomen page:

Articles Needing Creation and Editing

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The following are pulled from the Wikipedia:Meetup/globalwomen page:

  • Oyeronke Oyewumi
  • Judith Lowry, Native American painter (not to be confused with the actress)
  • Ziba Mir-Hosseini, an Iranian anthropologist and advocate of Islamic feminism.

Categories

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Articles Needing Expansion/Clean-Up

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Taken from 'Women of the Beat Generation list

The following are pulled from the Wikipedia:Meetup/globalwomen page:

Editing Wikipedia Resources

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Other #GWWI Projects

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Results

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How will the event be quantified?
New articles created


Articles expanded, improved, cleaned up


Wiki-Metrics used to trace User participation

References

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  1. ^ Glott, Ruediger; et al. "Wikipedia Survey – Overview of Results" (PDF). United Nations University. Retrieved 6 December 2013.