Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/ArtAndFeminism/LACMA 2015
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Join us for the 2015 Art + Feminism Edit-a-Thon at LACMA on Sunday, March 8! |
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This meetup is open to anyone interested in improving Wikipedia's coverage of women and the arts. Beginners welcome! We'll be offering training for new editors every hour on the hour. |
Background
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.
In February 2014, Siân Evans (Art Libraries Society of North America's Women and Art Special Interest Group), Jacqueline Mabey (The office of failed projects), Michael Mandiberg, Laurel Ptak, and Richard Knipel and Dorothy Howard (Metropolitan New York Library Council) of Wikimedia NYC, organized an ArtAndFeminism edit-athon at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in New York City. More than 30 satellite events were organized in Australia, Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States. The campaign attracted an estimated 600 participants, resulting in more than 100 new Wikipedia articles focused on women and the arts.
Following up on the success of last year's initiative, a constellation of Art + Feminism edit-a-thons will take place around the world on International Women's Day weekend, March 7-8, 2015. LACMA will host the official Los Angeles event, co-organized by the online magazine East of Borneo and the Women's Center for Creative Work, on Sunday, March 8.
RSVP
If you are new to Wikipedia and don't yet have an account, you can RSVP here instead!
- Stacey Allan (organizer) (talk) 18:25, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
- Penny Richards (talk)
- Marilyn Nix (talk) 05:35, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
- AnitaConchita (talk) 20:09, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
- JSFarman (talk) 03:10, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
- DrMel (talk) 08:54, 9 February 2015 (UTC) - happy to help facilitate
To-Do
Here are a few suggested articles to create or improve during this edit-a-thon, but you are welcome to work on anything you like.
Please note: This is a crowdsourced list. You can help us by adding to it!
To create:
- Eileen Abdul-Rashid
- Lynn Aldrich[1]
- Tina Allen[2][3][4][5]
- Kathryn Andrews[6]
- Sara Kathryn Arledge [7]
- Phoebe Beasley[8][9][10][11]
- Julie Becker[12]
- Cindy Bernard[13]
- Ginny Bishton[14]
- Sister Karen Boccalero[15]
- Gloria Bohanon
- Jennifer Bornstein[16]
- Linda Frye Burnham[17][18][19]
- Connie Butler[20]
- Eugenia P. Butler[21][22]
- Jo Ann Callis[23]
- Carp (art organization)[24][25]
- Karen Carson[26]
- Yvonne Cole Meo
- Claire Copley[27]
- Liz Craft[28]
- Lecia Dole-Recio[29]
- Double X (feminist art collective)
- Mari Eastman
- June Edmonds
- Kirsten Everberg[30]
- Christina Fernandez (artist)
- Lauri Firstenberg[31]
- Eve Fowler
- Victoria Franklin
- Jacqueline Frazier
- Magdalena Suarez Frimkess and Michael Frimkess
- Francesca Gabbiani[32]
- Jill Giegerich
- Samara Golden[33]
- Hannah Greely
- Katie Grinnan[34]
- Micol Hebron[35]
- Virginia Holt
- Margaret Honda[36]
- Josine Ianco-Starrels[37]
- Suzanne Jackson
- Kellie Jones
- Mary Hunt Kahlenberg[38]
- Bettina Korek[39]
- Leslie Labowitz[40]
- Julie Lazar
- Margo Leavin[41]
- Jane Livingston[42]
- Karen Lofgren
- Elsa Longhauser[43][44][45]
- Bronwyn Lundberg [46] [47]
- Shana Lutker
- Manitoba Museum of Finds Art
- Elana Mann[48]
- Emily Mast[49]
- Kristine Mays
- Barbara McCoullough[50][51][52]
- Jennifer Moon
- Rosaline Myles
- Margaret Nielsen[53]
- Taisha Paggett[54]
- Jennifer Pastor[55]
- Ann Philbin[56]
- Sheila Pinkel
- Patti Podesta
- Shaun Regen[57]
- Beverly Robinson (1945-2002)[58]
- Lezley Saar[59]
- Kim Schoenstadt
- Toni Scott
- Maureen Selwood, hand-drawn animation
- Susan Silton
- Allegra Fuller Snyder
- Carol Stakenas
- Coleen Sterritt[60]
- Martine Syms
- Eleanor Tufts[61]
- Megan Williams (artist)
- Nancy Youdelman
To improve:
Resources
Please start here:
Create a New Article / Templates:
- Unforgetting L.A.: New article template: Artist (copy and paste!)
- Unforgetting L.A.: New article template: Gallery/Organization (copy and paste!)
- Unforgetting L.A.: Infobox templates
When in doubt:
- Notability Guidelines for Artists & Creative Professionals
- Notability Guidelines for Organizations
- Conflict of Interest policy
- Image Use Policy
- Article Naming & Disambiguation
References
- ^ Glott, Ruediger; et al. "Wikipedia Survey – Overview of Results" (PDF). United Nations University. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
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