Wikipedia:Meetup/Kansas City/ArtandFeminism 2015
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Event information
- Date: Saturday, March 28, 2015 from 12:00 PM to 4:30 PM
- Location: Central Library, 3rd Floor Computer Lab of the Kansas City Public Library, 14 W 10 St, Kansas City, MO 64109
- Parking: Free weekend parking in the Baltimore Street library parking garage, located at 10th & Baltimore.
- What to bring: Computers will be available in the classroom but attendees may want to bring their own laptops and power cords.
- Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/333094533555782
- Contact: artfemkc[at]gmail[dot]com
About
Art+Feminism is an international campaign that addresses problems with Wikipedia’s representation of women. Less than 13% of Wikipedia contributors are female and articles on notable women’s history in the arts are missing. In an effort to start addressing the gender gap and representation challenge, the Art+Feminism campaign calls for people to participate in international edit-a-thons to create better coverage of women. Anyone can stop by an edit-a-thon to get training and resource to start improving Wikipedia.
Registration
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Safe-space policy
The organizers of this event are dedicated to providing a harassment-free event experience for everyone, regardless of race, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, age, religion, or marital status.
Harassment includes offensive comments related to any protected personal characteristic, sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, harassing photography or recording, sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention. Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately. This applies to everyone, including event staff and sponsors.
If a participant engages in harassing behavior, the event organizers may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning the offender or expulsion from the event.
If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact a member of event staff immediately. Event staff will be happy to help participants contact venue security or local law enforcement, provide escorts, or otherwise assist those experiencing harassment to feel safe for the duration of the event. We value your attendance.
Register here
- Steviemi (talk)
- Ameredith05 (talk)
- Sadads (talk)
- voidxor (talk | contrib) – I'm a desktop user so I won't have a laptop to bring.
- Prosekc (talk)
- Smuckola(talk) – Remotely, and also in the Lawrence group
Social media
The official hashtag for the international Art+Feminism edit-a-thon is #artandfeminism. We encourage you to tag any social posts made about this event. Art+Feminism will be pulling in documentation from tagged social media to the art.plusfeminsm.org website. You can see the beginning of it here: http://art.plusfeminism.org/social/
- Hashtag: #artandfeminism
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/artfemkc
- Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/333094533555782
Articles to edit
Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon, but you are welcome to work on anything you like.
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Articles to create
- Rita Blitt - [1], [2] [3] [4]
- Maria Elena Buszek - (a friend Jwsedit is working on this) art historian, scholar of pin-up art, feminist
- Karen Guthrie - steviemi wants to work on this one!
- Shinique Smith - prosekc wants to work on this!
- Susana Solano - Spanish sculptor
- Helen M. Turner - American Impressionist
From the book Viewfinders: Black Women Photographers:
- Fern Logan
- Cary Beth Cryor
- Salimah Ali
- Michelle Agins
- Phillda Ragland-Njau
- Louise Martin - steviemi wants to work on this one
- Billie Barbour
From the book - Inuit Women Artists:
From the book - The Amazing Decade: Women and Performance Art in America: 1970-1980:
Articles to improve
- Wanda Ewing
- Françoise Duparc (stub)
- Remedios Varo (needs more sources)
- Liz Magor - prosekc wants to work on this
- Josefa de Óbidos (needs inline citations)
- Margaretta Angelica Peale (stub)
- Anita Pollitzer (stub)
- Lucy Qinnuayuak (see Inuit Women Artists book)
- Alison Saar (needs more citations in "Work" section)
- Kay Sage (needs better lead section)
- Pitaloosie Saila (see Inuit Women Artists book)
- Shahzia Sikander
- Peggy Noland
- Whoop Dee Doo (variety show)
- Category:Kansas City Art Institute alumni
- Doris Lee - Kansas City Art School alum
- Angela Dufresne
- Ellen Fullman
- Margot Peet
- Maria Ogedengbe
- Suzanne Klotz
- Patricia DuBose Duncan - [5]
- Janice Urnstein Weissman
Editing tools and resources
Article creation and editing tools
- Writing your first article – Info on creating your first article
- Editing Cheatsheet – A reference to the syntax used on Wikipedia
- Using the Sandbox – Use the sandbox to test and create a draft article before publishing it.
- Beginner's Guide to Wikipedia – Goes over a lot of basics from account creation to adding an image and more
- Video Tutorials from Art and Feminism – A lot of quick how-to videos are posted here
- Five Pillars of Wikipedia – The fundamental principles of Wikipedia may be summarized in five "pillars".
Resources for creating biographies
- Biographies of living Persons – Refer to this guide for policies on creating Wikipedia biographies.
- Template:Infobox person – How to create the infobox about a person on a biography page
- Talk:Camille Henrot – See this common example of WikiProject metadata to add to the Talk page of an artist.
- Art and Feminism Research Resources – Research resources for biographies on women artists
Evaluation tools
- Rater, for automatically creating and configuring WikiProjects metadata on Talk pages
- reFill, for automatically creating formatted citations from bare URLs
Train the trainer resources
Attendees
In person
- Ameredith05 (talk · contribs)
- Holiver2 (talk · contribs)
- Jenpixel (talk · contribs)
- Lottsm89 (talk · contribs)
- Mjfoxy1234 (talk · contribs)
- Prosekc (talk · contribs)
- Sadads (talk · contribs)
- Shelbycd (talk · contribs)
- steviemi (talk · contribs)
- voidxor (talk · contribs)
- Yourheatherness (talk · contribs)
- Zen2gray (talk · contribs)
Remotely
Outcomes
List of articles edited and improved
Articles created
Articles moved
Articles improved
- Anita Pollitzer
- Claude Cahun
- Lucy Qinnuayuak
- Marcel Moore
- Peggy Noland
- Pitaloosie Saila
- Remedios Varo
- Wanda Ewing
Media coverage
- Rodriguez, Lisa (2015-03-27). "Kansas City Editathon Aims to Close Gender Gap on Wikipedia". KCUR.org. KCUR-FM. Retrieved 2015-03-29.
- Vickers, Nathan (2015-03-29). "Editathon Aims to Fix Wikipedia Gender Gap". KCTV 5 News. Meredith Corporation. Retrieved 2015-03-29.
- Kraske, Steve; Rodriguez, Lisa (2015-03-25). "Wikipedia's Gender Gap". KCUR.org (Podcast). KCUR-FM. Retrieved 2015-04-06.