We stumbled upon an initiative that we feel has many echoes with our own: Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thons.
What is it ?
An active campaign to fill the gender gaps of Wikipedia. Indeed, both the contributors and the entries are still mostly male.
In their own words:
"Art+Feminism is a rhizomatic campaign to improve coverage of women & the arts on Wikipedia, & to encourage female editorship.Wikimedia Foundation found that less than 10% of its contributors identify as female. 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 female participation. This represents an alarming absence in an increasingly important repository of shared knowledge.
We invite people of all gender identities and expressions, particularly transgender, cisgender, and gender nonconforming women, to address this absence by organizing in-person, communal updating of Wikipedia’s entries on art and feminism. All our materials have Creative Commons licensing, so we encourage you to reference and remix our workflows and training materials to suit the needs of your community."
Go and check their initiative (and toolkits as you will find everything you may need to organize such an event on their website).
More here on the following website
Soon: an interview with the founders !
An active campaign to fill the gender gaps of Wikipedia. Indeed, both the contributors and the entries are still mostly male.
In their own words:
"Art+Feminism is a rhizomatic campaign to improve coverage of women & the arts on Wikipedia, & to encourage female editorship.Wikimedia Foundation found that less than 10% of its contributors identify as female. 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 female participation. This represents an alarming absence in an increasingly important repository of shared knowledge.
We invite people of all gender identities and expressions, particularly transgender, cisgender, and gender nonconforming women, to address this absence by organizing in-person, communal updating of Wikipedia’s entries on art and feminism. All our materials have Creative Commons licensing, so we encourage you to reference and remix our workflows and training materials to suit the needs of your community."
Go and check their initiative (and toolkits as you will find everything you may need to organize such an event on their website).
More here on the following website
Soon: an interview with the founders !