Dear all
Over the next month I'll be writing a piece for a new MuseumsEtc. publication, *Feminism and Museums: Intervention, Disruption and Change.* The title of my chapter will be 'Closing the Gender Gap on Wikimedia' and the focus will be on the work of Wikimedia UK and the wider global movement to develop responses to the exclusion or misrepresentation of women and their creative works. I hope to be able to draw on case studies of good practice across the movement, showcasing partnership projects with museums or the wider cultural sector including galleries, archives and libraries, including those where the gender gap is compounded by geographic, linguistic and racial bias.
I'd love to hear about any projects you've been involved with or are aware of, however big or small, that might fit within the broad remit of feminism, culture and open knowledge. I would like the piece to be as inclusive and intersectional as possible so if you have examples of work with or about particularly marginalised groups, such as (but not confined to) transgender women, do let me know. I have contacted Art+Feminism, Women in Red, the Executive Directors mailing list and UK-based Wikimedians in Residence about this separately but again, feel free to suggest people I should be talking to.
With thanks in advance, and all best wishes Lucy
Thanks for this Fabian. Whilst individual responses would be great I'm also happy to draft/co-ordinate a response from Wikimedia UK. John Lubbock gave an interview on fake news recently and I agree that we are very well positioned to respond to this. I note the deadline is 3rd March so will follow this up in February.
All best Lucy
On 31 January 2017 at 13:54, leutha@fabiant.eu wrote:
Hi all,
I have just emailed Damian Collins MP http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/damian-collins/3986, chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, who are conducting an inquiry into Fake News as regards releasing under an Open Government license Gill Bennett's *A Most Extraordinary and Mysterious Business: The Zinoviev Letter of 1924* published by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, General Services Command in 1999. Please see the Wikipedia article on the Zinoviev letter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinoviev_letter for more details.
Aside from encouraging others to lobby Damian Collins for the release of this piece of scholarship, I would also be interested if there is an interest amongst Wikimedia UK to give a written submission to the Fake News Inquiry. I can't help feeling that over the last 8 years or so we have gained significant experience in dealing with "Fake News" and other manifestations of misinformation and that we have achieved a certain amount of success. In fact I believe if we hadn't done this Wikipedia would not have gained its current reputation.
I would welcome other peoples views on this. For more information please see the Call for Written submissions http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/culture-media-and-sport-committee/news-parliament-2015/fake-news-launch-16-17/ .
all the best
Fabian
(aka Leutha)
Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
I'd be more than happy to help draft this.
On 31 January 2017 at 14:07, Lucy Crompton-Reid < lucy.crompton-reid@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
Thanks for this Fabian. Whilst individual responses would be great I'm also happy to draft/co-ordinate a response from Wikimedia UK. John Lubbock gave an interview on fake news recently and I agree that we are very well positioned to respond to this. I note the deadline is 3rd March so will follow this up in February.
All best Lucy
On 31 January 2017 at 13:54, leutha@fabiant.eu wrote:
Hi all,
I have just emailed Damian Collins MP http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/damian-collins/3986, chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, who are conducting an inquiry into Fake News as regards releasing under an Open Government license Gill Bennett's *A Most Extraordinary and Mysterious Business: The Zinoviev Letter of 1924* published by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, General Services Command in 1999. Please see the Wikipedia article on the Zinoviev letter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinoviev_letter for more details.
Aside from encouraging others to lobby Damian Collins for the release of this piece of scholarship, I would also be interested if there is an interest amongst Wikimedia UK to give a written submission to the Fake News Inquiry. I can't help feeling that over the last 8 years or so we have gained significant experience in dealing with "Fake News" and other manifestations of misinformation and that we have achieved a certain amount of success. In fact I believe if we hadn't done this Wikipedia would not have gained its current reputation.
I would welcome other peoples views on this. For more information please see the Call for Written submissions http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/culture-media-and-sport-committee/news-parliament-2015/fake-news-launch-16-17/ .
all the best
Fabian
(aka Leutha)
Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
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