According to event organizer Lori A. Brown, one of the event organizers and an associate professor of the Syracuse University School of Architecture, the project was a timely response to online trolls in the Wikipedia community who would seek to diminish the contribution of women to the architecture profession.

“We realized it is time to take action,” said Brown, pointing to “a friend’s experience this summer linguistically wrestling with Wikipedia editing trolls who were doing their utmost to un-write women out of a certain section of activism.”
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