Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/African Women Artists Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
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African Women Artists Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Presented by Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
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In 2015, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art conducted an assessment of its collection and ascertained that only 11% of the named artists in its collection self-identified as women. As part of its Women’s Initiative, this number has been increased to 22%. But did you know that only 18% of articles on English-language Wikipedia are about women? Help to change that by joining us for the National Museum of African Art’s African Women Artists Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. We will work together to increase the presence of African women artists on Wikipedia by improving existing articles and creating new ones. This event includes a curator-led tour of the exhibition, I Am… Contemporary Women Artists of Africa.
No Wikipedia editing experience is necessary. Editing training will be provided by Wikimedia DC. Museum curators and librarians will be on-hand to provide expertise and source material.
Laptops are required. Please bring your own. Wikimedia DC has two laptops to loan. Please send your laptop request to [email protected].
Lunch will be provided.
This free event is presented as part of the Art+Feminism DC2020 campaign.
Schedule:
- Tour: 10:30am-11:30am – Curator Led Tour of I Am… Contemporary Women Artists of Africa
- Wikipedia training: 11:30am-12:30pm
- Lunch: 12:30pm
- Wikipedia editing: 12:30pm-4pm
When
- Friday, March 20, 2020 10:30am-4:00pm
Where
- National Museum of African Art
- 950 Independence Ave SW,
- Washington, DC 20560
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Safe Space Policy
editCoordination
edit- Please use the Etherpad link below to share what you are currently editing. Remember to type 'Done' or 'Finished' when you are through making changes.
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edit- This is for use on the day of the event.
- 1) Select 'Sign in'
- 2) Scroll down on the page that follows and click 'Publish changes' or 'Save changes'.
- Your username will automatically be added to the list of attendees.
Presentation
editSlides will be added after the edit-a-thon.
Wikimedia
edit- Wikimedia movement
- Wikipedia, a web-based encyclopedia
- Wikimedia Commons, a data repository of media (images, videos and sounds). (See * Wikiproject Wikimedia Commons:GLAM Wikiproject)
- Wikidata, a common source of data, also accessible by the other projects
- Wiktionary, a dictionary
- Wikibooks, educational textbooks
- Wikinews, news articles
- Wikiquote, a collection of quotations
- Wikisource, a library of source texts and documents
- Wikiversity, educational material
- Wikivoyage, a travel guide
- Wikispecies, a taxonomic catalogue of species
Wikipedia Policies
edit- Wikipedia:Five pillars
- Wikipedia:Core content policies
- Wikipedia:General notability guideline
- Wikipedia:Verifiability
- Wikipedia:Conflict of interest
- Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources
- Wikipedia:No original research (Examples of Original Research)
- Wikipedia:Citing sources
- Wikipedia:Identifying and using primary sources