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DiVersions
Just For The Record presents a new event!
[edit]Just For The Record is very happy to be part of the program of DiVersions organised by Constant vzw: “DiVersions is inspired by the way versions are inscribed in daily software-practice, and explores how parallel to their conventional narrative of collaboration and consensus they can produce divergent histories through supporting difference.” http://constantvzw.org/site/Call-for-participants-DiVersions.html
Pictures of the event
[edit]Event details
[edit]- Venue: Musée du Cinquantenaire, Brussels and WTC II, Brussels
- Date: 4.12.2016 - 10.12.2016
- Language: Dutch, English, French
- Cost: Free
- Participants: Open to anyone interested in this experience: beginners welcome! débutant(e)s bienvenu(e)s! beginners welkom! Experienced Wikipedia editors will be present and will share their knowledge in editing Wikipedia.
- What to Bring: Attendees can bring their own laptops and power cords.
What can you do?
[edit]During the event, we invite you to contribute to Wikipedia and to the discussions around the gender gap on Wikipedia. You can edit an existing article to improve it, create a new one about a subject that doesn’t exist, but we also highly value the sharing of editing experiences, and ideas about what could make Wikipedia a more welcoming and colorful place!
Open questions:
[edit]Here are interrogations we would like to share with you:
- if Wikipedia can be considered as a tool to re·write history, how would you like it to be written?
- what is the influence the way we write on the representation of history and its main figures?
- can writing ever be neutral?
First steps on wikipedia
[edit]- Add your name to the participant list of this event at the bottom of this page
- Write some informations on your own wiki page by clicking on your user name at the top of the page (so that your name doesn't appear in red when you start editing articles)
- Write some informations on your Sandbox, also at the top of the page
- Improve an existing article
- Create a new article
Ideas to start editing
[edit]Articles that need your help!
[edit]Here are lists identifying articles that could benefit from edits and expansion:
- The Art+Feminism list of article to be improved
- Women Artists, by the Women in Red
- A list by the project Women in Red
- Women Artists from all over the world, a list by the Project Women Artists
- Women scientists, a list by the Project Women Scientists
- Women writers, a list by the Project Women Writers
Resources for editing
[edit]- Art+Feminism resources
- Gender gap resources
- Writing about women
- Gender neutrality in English
- Avoiding Heterosexual Bias in Language
- the he-she package
Thoughts in progress
[edit]Worksession on gender representations
[edit]- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Visual_representation_of_women
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Visual_representation_of_women#/media/File:Female_figurines_found_in_Mexico_in_Guanajuato,_identified_as_pre-classic_clay_figures_from_the_Chupicuaro_culture,_400-100_BC,_called_%E2%80%9CPretty_Ladies%E2%80%9D_by_some_archaelogists.jpg
Worksession on template banners
[edit]Banner template adaptations:
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| This article's Criticism section accentuates the article's neutral point of view of the subject, only due to its Single point of view or Reductive and simplified relation to the subject. |
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 | This article's tone or style may be patronizing as a reflect of the general encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia. |
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Occult and post-human stuff going on Wiki:
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