PeteAwesome Romy! I actually was on the "GLAMout" Google Hangout this afternoon, and this was the first item discussed (maybe the first 10 or 15 minutes): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8szdHJkF928GLAMout is a monthly online event where people give updates about their work connecting Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAMs) with Wikipedia, helping their staff to improve Wikipedia articles, or upload their photo collections to Wikimedia Commons, etc. It's a fun event, and it's always First Friday, so easy to remember -- get your GLAM on in the afternoon, then get your art on at night :)
More info about the GLAMout series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/GLAMout/2013/February
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Romy Ilano <romy@snowyla.com> wrote:_______________________________________________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.
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, a massive multinational effort to correct apersistent bias in Wikipedia, which is disproportionally written by and about men.
The event, whose epicenter was the New York art and technology center Eyebeam, is part of a larger movement, only now reaching the art world, to upload content to Wikipedia in a proactive manner
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