<div dir="ltr">Just when you think the world is closing in, all the cool hackerspace in San Francisco are falling into shambles, and nobody understand...<div><br></div><div>Here's a feel good news item for the day!</div>
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101 Women Artists Who Got Wikipedia Pages This Week</h1><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21.599998474121094px">
Last Saturday, about 600 volunteers in 31 venues around the globe engaged in a collective effort to change the world, one Wikipedia entry at a time.</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21.599998474121094px">
In the United States, Canada, Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, in nonprofits and art schools, in museums and universities, these people—mostly women—set out to write entries, uncredited and unpaid, for the fast-growing crowd-sourced online encyclopedia.</p>
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<a href="http://1vze7o2h8a2b2tyahl3i0t6812c3.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/ArtAndFeminismNYC-FrontRoom_600.jpg" style="background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(85,85,85)"><img src="http://1vze7o2h8a2b2tyahl3i0t6812c3.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/ArtAndFeminismNYC-FrontRoom_600-300x200.jpg" alt="Editors working around the resource table, Wikipedia Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon, at Eyebeam in New York City. PHOTO: MICHAEL MANDIBERG" width="300" height="200" class="" style="background-color: transparent; border: none; margin: 5px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 620px; height: 200px; width: 300px;"></a><p class="" style="background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:5px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif!important;font-size:12px!important">
Editors at the resource table during the Wikipedia Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon at Eyebeam in Chelsea.</p><p style="background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:5px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(119,119,119);font-size:12px!important;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif!important">
<small style="background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">CC BY-SA MICHAEL MANDIBERG</small></p></div><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21.599998474121094px">
</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21.599998474121094px">They had answered a call for the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism" target="_blank" style="background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(85,85,85)">Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon</a>, a massive multinational effort to correct a<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/business/media/31link.html?_r=0" target="_blank" style="background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(85,85,85)">persistent bias</a> in Wikipedia, which is disproportionally written by and about men.</p>
<p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21.599998474121094px">The event, whose epicenter was the New York art and technology center <a href="https://eyebeam.org/" target="_blank" style="background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(85,85,85)">Eyebeam</a>, is part of a larger movement, <a href="http://hyperallergic.com/102206/is-wikipedia-the-next-frontier-for-museums/" target="_blank" style="background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(85,85,85)">only now reaching the art world</a>, to upload content to Wikipedia in a proactive manner</p>
</div><div>read more..</div><div><br></div><div><div><a href="http://www.artnews.com/2014/02/06/art-and-feminism-wikipedia-editathon-creates-pages-for-women-artists/">http://www.artnews.com/2014/02/06/art-and-feminism-wikipedia-editathon-creates-pages-for-women-artists/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><br><div><br></div><div>=============================</div><div><br></div><div>Romy Ilano</div><div><a href="mailto:romy@snowyla.com" target="_blank">romy@snowyla.com</a></div><div><br></div>
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