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

[Romy Ilano]

Johanna,

I'm thinking of getting serious and starting a SudoArts gruop that bounces
back and forth between SudoRoom and Noisebridge.

Would you be into that?

Probably starting a male figure drawing session too (just can't find any in
the Bay Area) as soon as I'm mobile with my broken ankle...



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Romy Ilano
romy at snowyla.com




On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 11:32 AM, johanna faust <female.faust at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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