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

[Pete Forsyth]

Awesome 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=8szdHJkF928

GLAMout 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

Pete


On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Romy Ilano <romy at 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.
>  [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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