22,000 PAGES CREATED OR IMPROVED
BY OVER 4,000 PARTICIPANTS
AT MORE THAN 275 EVENTS
AROUND THE WORLD
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Give yourself a round of applause!
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Over the course of February, March and April, over 4,000 people at more than 275 events around the world participated in Art+Feminism’s fifth annual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. Together, we created or improved nearly 22,000 articles on Wikipedia, almost four times the output of the 2017 events.
Highlights of the 2018 Edit-a-thon include content added to and pages created for notable figures including Christina Battle, Alexandra Bell, Torkwase Dyson, Silvia Federici, Dara Friedman, Juliana Huxtable, Gertrude Jekyll, Chō Kōran, Griselda Pollock, Annie Pootoogook, Collier Schorr, Tschabalala Self, Roberta Smith, Nobuko Tsuchiura, and Sam Vernon. You can learn more by reading our press release.
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The impetus for Art+Feminism was absence. That first year, you rose to the challenge, creating pages for artists like Simone Leigh, Senga Nengudi, Lisa Oppenheim, Joan Semmel, Zarina, and so many more. Over the last four years, we've steadily improved many of these pages, and we’ve seen articles that began as short paragraphs expanded into substantive texts.
As we have addressed many of these glaring omissions, our task is to take what we’ve made to the next level.
To that end, Art+Feminism’s Michael Mandiberg and Danara Sarıoğlu have developed Wikidata QuickSheets, a tool that helps us identify, track, sort and improve articles created and expanded at Art+Feminism events. We'll be letting you know more about this in the coming months. But if you are a data nerd or write Python and want to help out send us an email!
Stay tuned and keep editing!
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In Toronto? Co-lead organizer Jacqueline Mabey is participating in the IMAGINEPEACE Forum at the Gardiner Museum on May 23rd. Mabey will be talkin' all things Art+Feminism with Farhaan Ladhani and Janice Gross Stein. Click here to learn more.
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