[sudo-discuss] Feel good clipping of the day: 101 women artists added to WikiPedia

Just when you think the world is closing in, all the cool hackerspace in San Francisco are falling into shambles, and nobody understand... Here's a feel good news item for the day! 101 Women Artists Who Got Wikipedia Pages This Week 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. 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. [image: Editors working around the resource table, Wikipedia Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon, at Eyebeam in New York City. PHOTO: MICHAEL MANDIBERG]<http://1vze7o2h8a2b2tyahl3i0t6812c3.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/w… Editors at the resource table during the Wikipedia Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon at Eyebeam in Chelsea. CC BY-SA MICHAEL MANDIBERG They had answered a call for theArt+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism…sm>, a massive multinational effort to correct apersistent bias<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/business/media/31link.html?_r=0&g… in Wikipedia, which is disproportionally written by and about men. The event, whose epicenter was the New York art and technology center Eyebeam <https://eyebeam.org/>, is part of a larger movement, only now reaching the art world<http://hyperallergic.com/102206/is-wikipedia-the-next-frontier-for…s/>, to upload content to Wikipedia in a proactive manner read more.. http://www.artnews.com/2014/02/06/art-and-feminism-wikipedia-editathon-crea… ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com