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

[johanna faust]

wow.

(.....and i know at least for me how onerous and serious and exact is the
wikipedia edit....)

((one day i too will have a page....))


On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Pete Forsyth <peteforsyth at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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/
>>
>>
>>
>> =============================
>>
>> Romy Ilano
>> romy at snowyla.com
>>
>>
>>
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