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Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco/Art+Feminism@SFMOMA 2018

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SFMOMA / Art+Feminism Edit-A-Thon 2018
Dangerous Women (Blaze of Glory) by Divya Mehra // This artwork was produced for the inaugural Art+Feminism Call to Action Art Commission (2017)
When and Where
DateThursday March 8th, 2018
Time5 - 9 pm PST
AddressKoret Education Center, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 151 Third Street, 2nd Floor
City, StateSan Francisco, CA

Event details edit

Wikipedia’s gender trouble is well-documented. In a 2011 survey, the Wikimedia Foundation found that less than 10% of its contributors were women. While the reasons for the gender gap are up for debate, the practical effect of this disparity is not: content is skewed by the lack of representation from women.

Let’s change that.

Join us in SFMOMA's Koret Education Center on Floor 2 to participate in an evening of communal updating of Wikipedia entries on subjects related to gender, art, and feminism. We will provide tutorials for the beginner Wikipedian, as well as reference materials and refreshments. Bring your laptop, power cord, and ideas for entries that need updating or creation. For the editing-averse, we urge you to stop by to show your support.

We invite people of all gender identities and expressions to participate, particularly transgender and cisgender women. This event is free and does not require museum admission.

Schedule edit

5pm: Event kicks off with opening remarks from Associate Curator of Public Dialogue Deena Chalabi and Assistant Curator of Media Arts Tanya Zimbardo, followed by an editing demo by Wikipedian Britta Gustafson

5:30-7pm: Independent editing with floating mentors

7pm: Welcome late arrivals; repeat of editing demo with Britta

7:10-8:45pm: Independent editing with floating mentors until museum closes!

Who should attend edit

People of all gender identities and expressions. Please ask your fellow attendees for their pronouns of choice, and be aware of our Safe Space Policy. Children are welcome and SFMOMA and the organizers will support children, parents, and caregivers to the best of our ability. We ask all participants to be supportive of kids, parents, and caregivers wherever they are, as we do not discourage them from attending the event.

Koret Education Center is accessible to wheelchair users. An elevator is located at the main entrance on Third Street.

What to bring edit

Please bring your laptop, power cord, and ideas for articles that need updating or creation. For the editing-averse, we urge you to stop by to show your support and learn about Wikipedia. If you do not already have a Wikipedia user account, please create one before you arrive (you can do so here). Please also take a moment to familiarize yourself with the Safe Space Policy.

Participants – Sign Up Here! edit

If you have a Wikipedia account, sign your name by editing this section and typing four tildes ("~~~~") in the list below. If you don't have an account, just write your name below (though it is recommended that you create a user account in advance of the event - create one here!).

You can also mark yourself as "interested" or "going" on the Facebook event, to help you share the event with your friends.

Suggested articles to create and/or improve edit

Do you have lots of time? Here is a list of women artists who do not yet have pages or need a pretty major overhaul:

Do you have two to three hours? These woman artists have Wikipedia pages already but there are some problems with them – some need a shift in tone, others can be greatly improved with the addition of citations, biographical information and images.

Do you only have about an hour? Or do you just want to start out slow? Help these pages by adding an image of the artist or their work to improve the page. (If it's a copyrighted image (such as an image of an artist's work taken from the artist's website): Upload on Wikipedia and follow the non-free content instructions. If it's a free-to-reuse image (such as a Creative Commons "BY" or "BY-SA" licensed photo of the artist): Upload on Wikimedia Commons.)

Are you interested in art institutions, groups, and movements? You can create or expand the following articles.

Links, portals, categories and templates edit

Add and improve links to new and existing articles.

Outcomes edit

 
Janet Delaney
 
By Flaming Lotus Girls
 
By Hema Upadhyay

We created the following new articles:

We expanded many articles, including the following:

See also edit

Resources for Editing edit

General Wikipedia, how to edit resources edit

Art and Feminism, Gender Gap resources edit

GLAM resources edit

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