Dear Gender gap mailing list members,
We are in the process of organizing the third annual international
Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. The New York event will be held at the
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Education and Research Building at MoMA on
Saturday, March 5, 2016. We are looking for support in the form of
participants and suggestions.
Last year, over 1500 participants at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
and more than 75 node events around the world participated in
Art+Feminism’s second annual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, resulting in the
creation of nearly 400 new pages and significant improvements to 500
articles on Wikipedia. *Together, we can double those numbers in 2016! *
If you’re interested in hosting an edit-a-thon in your city over the
weekend of March 4-6, 2016, please be in touch. There are funds available
to help node events pay for childcare and refreshments. You can reach us
at: info(a)art.plusfeminism.org.
If you want to help out in other ways, we are also gathering research
materials for the March event:
- Suggested Topics
- Articles needing creation
- Articles needing expansion and/or cleanup
- Suggestions for online research materials on women and the arts
- Any existing documentation you might be willing to share on Wikipedia
editing or conflict resolution online
- You can find more information about the project and upcoming events on
our meet-up page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism
- Or on our website: http://art.plusfeminism.org
I encourage you to forward this message on at your discretion.
Thank you, and we look forward to hearing from you!
All best,
Siân Evans + Jacqueline Mabey + Michael Mandiberg
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Hi Keilana, Lennart and J,
Thanks for the feedback. Based on your suggestions, if we try this again,
we might try moving to weekend dates and slowing our cadence to alternate
weeks.
We're hoping that the University of Washington Libraries will identify
someone on their staff who they're already funding and would be interested
in accepting a Wikimedian-in-Residence role. If this happens then perhaps
one of the WiR's roles can be to lead these events. Alternatively, with
Cascadia Wikimeidans slowly but surely growing our number of regular
Wikimedians, perhaps one of our members will want to take on UW editathons
as his or her main project.
Another question that I have is about scaling. We're scaling quite slowly
and incrementally overall, but have had zero growth in the past 12 months
with our number of regular female attendees. I'm told that very slow growth
is normal for affiliates. I'd like to see us grow our numbers, which in
turn would enable us to do more outreach events and generate a positive
feedback loop. Any suggestions about how to make that happen, particularly
with potential female contributors who are very underrepresented among our
population of regular attendees?
Thanks,
Pine
Hi all, I just filled out the survey that was posted in the banner notice -
link is here
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Harassment_consultation_2015
I was surprised at my own reactions, because though I am pretty sure my
Wikipedia account has never been hacked, on my facebook account few years
ago someone tried to impersonate me and of course here we all experienced
that odd episode with a google group that sent us all mail as if it was
from this list.
Anyway, hope many of you get a chance to complete the survey. It is linked
to a page on meta that promises survey feedback later this month.
Dear Risker and Marie,
You both make very valuable points! Under the umbrealla of +Feminism (
www.plusfeminism.org), part of what were are trying to do is create an
organizer's toolkit, with suggested organizing workflow and training
materials, that other feminist, thematic edit-a-thons can use and remix.
Thus, if someone wanted to start Politics+Feminism or Medicine+Feminism,
the barrier to entry would be much lower. We would be very happy to have
this happen.
All best wishes,
Siân Evans + Jacqueline Mabey + Michael Mandiberg
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> Is that you I see volunteering to organize one, Marie? :-)
>
> I suspect that is the reason, to be honest - nobody specifically taking the
> bull by the horns. It requires interest in the subject, and a willingness
> and ability to organize the events. Economics is not a particularly
> popular subject (comparatively speaking) in the Wikipedia world - the
> entire topic area could use a lot of work, not just the aspects relating to
> women or feminism - and like anything else, the smaller the number of
> people participating in a topic area, the less likely there will be
> individuals who take on the challenge of organizing collaborative events.
>
> As to Women in Politics, I think this is probably (at least for women in
> Western countries) one of the better covered areas, simply because most of
> our major language Wikipedias treat all politicians at what they consider
> to be notable levels of government in pretty much the same way, using
> essentially standardized formats.
>
> Risker/Anne
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> On 6 November 2015 at 06:16, Marie Earley <eiryel(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > As much as I like to see an event like this happening, and the Women in
> > Science event, I'm left wondering why there are no similar events for
> Women
> > in Politics or Economics + Feminism.
> >
> > Marie
> >
> > ------------------------------
> > Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 10:47:08 -0500
> > From: info(a)art.plusfeminism.org
> > To: gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> > Subject: [Gendergap] Call for Participation: 2016 Art+Feminism Wikipedia
> > Edit-a-thon
> >
> >
> > Dear Gender gap mailing list members,
> >
> > We are in the process of organizing the third annual international
> > Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. The New York event will be held at
> the
> > Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Education and Research Building at MoMA on
> > Saturday, March 5, 2016. We are looking for support in the form of
> > participants and suggestions.
> >
> > Last year, over 1500 participants at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
> > and more than 75 node events around the world participated in
> > Art+Feminism’s second annual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, resulting in the
> > creation of nearly 400 new pages and significant improvements to 500
> > articles on Wikipedia. *Together, we can double those numbers in 2016! *
> >
> > If you’re interested in hosting an edit-a-thon in your city over the
> > weekend of March 4-6, 2016, please be in touch. There are funds available
> > to help node events pay for childcare and refreshments. You can reach us
> > at: info(a)art.plusfeminism.org.
> >
> > If you want to help out in other ways, we are also gathering research
> > materials for the March event:
> >
> >
> > - Suggested Topics
> > - Articles needing creation
> > - Articles needing expansion and/or cleanup
> > - Suggestions for online research materials on women and the arts
> > - Any existing documentation you might be willing to share on
> > Wikipedia editing or conflict resolution online
> > - You can find more information about the project and upcoming events
> > on our meet-up page:
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism
> > - Or on our website: http://art.plusfeminism.org
> >
> >
> > I encourage you to forward this message on at your discretion.
> >
> > Thank you, and we look forward to hearing from you!
> >
> > All best,
> >
> > Siân Evans + Jacqueline Mabey + Michael Mandiberg
> >
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Hi GG mailing list and Maria from WMF Eval,
Cascadia Wikimedians ran a series of editathons at the University of
Washington with themes like "Women and astronomy" and "Women and Health
Sciences". We did some communications through the University's Facebook
pages and mailing lists. While we had regular attendance from veteran
Wikipedians and from university librarians, we had very little attendance
from current students on campus who we had hoped would attend.
I heard from a female undergraduate that there was buzz and interest on
campus in what we were doing, but few people took the next step of coming
to one of our events.
Another comment I heard at Wikiconference USA is that university editathons
are most successful if there's a current undergraduate on campus who is
interested and recruits their friends. In the absence of that, the
university editathon model tends to have mediocre outcomes.
Any suggestions about how to increase attendance if we decide to try this
again in the future?
Thanks,
Pine
Hello, next week-end Wikimedia Spain, the Servicio de Igualdad of Vitoria-Gasteiz city council, Municipal Department of Participation and Transparency, Saregune, Red Académica i2Basque and Internet & Euskadi Association organize an edit-a-thon and a conference about women and Wikipedia. You can join it also on-line or spread the word.
This is part of our list of activities to reduce the gender gap on Wikimedia projects. At the end of November we have another edit-a-thon in Zaragoza, and at the end of last month we had another one in Valencia as part of Women and architecture.
Spanish Wikipedia page: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Encuentros/Editat%C3%B3n_por_la_vis…
Basque Wikipedia page: https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Topaketak/Gasteizko_emakumeen_ikusg…
Thanks!
Santiago NavarroWikimedia EspañaPresident