What to bring: Your laptop, power adapter, and any reference materials you'd like to work from or share
Background: This meetup is one of more than 125 Art and Feminism events happening around the world on International Women's Day Weekend (March 4–6) to address the gender gap on Wikipedia—where only about 13% of contributors identify as female—and to improve coverage of women and the arts. Training is available and beginners are encouraged to attend!
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Here are a few suggested articles (artists, architects, designers, filmmakers, performers, curators, critics, historians, gallerists, patrons, and more) that you might create or improve at this edit-a-thon. Please note: This is a crowdsourced list. You can help us by adding to it!
To improve: You may consider improving articles like these. Helpful updates could be as simple as: Making sure reference links are still appropriate and functional; Adding new inline citations/references; Adding a photo; Adding an infobox; Adding data to more fields in an existing infobox; Creating headings; Adding categories; etc.
Wikipedia's
gender trouble is well documented. In a 2010 survey, Wikimedia found that less than 13% of its contributors are female.[1] The reasons for the gender gap are up for debate: suggestions include leisure inequality, how gender socialization shapes public comportment, and the contentious nature of Wikipedia's talk pages. The practical effect of this disparity, however, is not. Content is skewed by the lack of female participation.
Last year, over the weekend of International Women's Day, March 6-8, 2015, approximately 1500 participants from around the world created almost 400 new articles and significantly improved over 500. Following up on the success of last the last two years, Art + Feminism edit-a-thons will again take place around the world on International Women's Day weekend, March 4-6, 2016.
LACMA will host the official Los Angeles event, co-organized by the online magazine
East of Borneo, on Sunday, March 6.