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

[Romy Ilano]

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/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/ArtAndFeminismNYC-FrontRoom_600.jpg>

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>,
a massive multinational effort to correct apersistent
bias<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/business/media/31link.html?_r=0>
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-museums/>,
to upload content to Wikipedia in a proactive manner
read more..

http://www.artnews.com/2014/02/06/art-and-feminism-wikipedia-editathon-creates-pages-for-women-artists/



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Romy Ilano
romy at snowyla.com
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