This online event is for beginners to Wikipedia who want to learn the basics of how to edit, and for intermediate and advanced users who want to spend time editing with a community of users.
Join us for an international collective updating of Wikipedia entries related to women in the arts, gender and feminism, especially biographies and topics that intersect with Japan which is where we are based.
With the support of Art+Feminism and the Wikimedia Foundation we hope this will be our best event yet (and worth the wait!)
EVERYONE is welcome! People of all gender identities and expressions are invited to participate. No previous experience necessary. Come and learn to edit and make a difference.
Event information
edit- Date: Saturday February 19, 2022
- Time: Editing - 10am-4pm
- Access to Online URL: Via Eventbrite
- Hosts: Louise Rouse, Deanna MacDonald (Temple University)
- Costs: Free
- Participants: This event is open to Temple University, Japan community and the public.
Before the event
editPlease try to do this at least 4 days before the event. After 4 days you will get extra editing privileges (autoconfirmed status) on Wikipedia.
Our List of Artists
editPlease find our project page here:
Wikipedia:WikiProject Art+Feminism Japan
Please work on artists from this list or any editing topics you want to work on!
Check in
editPlease sign your name below to register in to this event.
editThis let's us find out what impact our event has had which will help us get funding to do future events:
How do I sign in?
edit—Log in to Wikipedia as a registered user.
—Click the [Edit source] button and type * ~ ~ ~ ~ (without spaces) underneath the last name.
—Click [Publish changes]
- Louise000 (talk) 05:59, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
- DM180 (talk) 16:56, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
- Thepoptart (talk) 01:44, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
- Atmostflannel (talk) 01:45, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
- Bogmyrtle (talk) 01:50, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
- Mottled Light (talk) 01:54, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
- Estimafour (talk) 02:12, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
- Eizohata33 (talk) 03:54, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
- Kokutetsuiro (talk) 08:38, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
- Banofi (talk) 12:44, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
- Geraldshields11 (talk) 20:45, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
Training Resources
editUltimate Quick Start Videos by Us
editWhy are we here? The Gender Gap on Wikipedia (1 video)
Beginner's Wikipedia (technical guide) (7 Videos)
Basic Rules of Editing (1 video)
Intermediate Wikipedia (technical guide) (4 videos)
Other great guides in PDF format
edit- Basic editing guide — via Wiki Education
- 翻訳ガイドライン
- Basic evaluating guide — via Wiki Education
- Basic Images Guide — via Wiki Commons
- Visit Wikipedia's helpful notice board and leave a message. Sometimes you will get help straight away, sometimes it may take a few hours for someone to respond
Safe Space Policy
editPlease read and familiarize yourself with the safe space policy for this event
Related Events
editArchival Glitch - Online Artist Talks on Friday Evenings, February 25–March 25
editWe are inviting a a series of speakers throughout Women's History Month who will consider the interconnectedness of issues or representation, access, and harassment faced by women and artists both in offline life and as replicated and institutionalised on Wikipedia and in the digital sphere.
Yoshiko Shimada
edit"Art and Feminism in Post War Japan"
February 25 (Friday), 2022, 7pm on Zoom
Does feminism exist in Japan? With the international gender equality survey putting Japan at 120th in the world, you may think it has always been like that here. But NO, there have been a variety of feminisms in Japan. My talk focuses on my seminar class “Art and Feminism in Post War Japan” at the University of Tokyo, in which we discuss the Women’s Liberation (Uuman lib) movement and other feminisms from the1970s to the present, and review some important feminist art practices, theories, and exhibitions. We will discuss the importance of learning the recent history of feminism and art. Tickets available on Eventbrite
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Yoshiko Shimada (1959, Tokyo, Japan) is a visual artist and art historian. She spent 4 years in the USA, graduating from Scripps College in 1982. She received a Ph.D from Kingston University, London in 2015. She explores the themes of cu ltural memory and the role of women in the Asia-Pacific War, as both aggressors and victims. She uses printmaking, video, performance, research and archiving for her expression. Her art was on display recently at The Aichi Triennale (2019), “Beyond Hiroshima” at Tel Aviv University Art Gallery (2015). She currently lectures on feminism and art at the University of Tokyo. She lives in Chiba, Japan. [1]
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Ram Botero
edit"Of Myths and Goddesses: The Trans Voice in the Intersections of Art and Feminist Spaces."
March 4 (Friday), 2022, 7pm on Zoom
RAM Botero, an emerging trans artist from the Philippines, uses a mythological framework to unpack the gender struggle and the colonial project in her art.
RAM Botero is a self-taught visual artist and feminist from Davao City. She has conducted and participated in community-based art projects that endeavour empowerment and intersectional social justice. She has apprenticed and assisted international artists for Rm. 74 and the Unifiedfield Nomadic Artist In Residence program. Currently, she is immersing in filmmaking behind and in front of the camera. She is also a member of RESBAK, Respond and Break the Silence Against the Killings, an art collective that helps document and give justice to the victims of extrajudicial killings in the Philippines.
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Yurie Nagashima
editMarch 12 (Saturday), 2022, 1pm on Zoom
Yurie Nagasima (1973, Tokyo, Japan) is an interdisciplinary artist and author. In 1993 while studying at Musashino Art University, she won the PARCO Prize in URBANART #2. In 1999 she completed an MFA in photography at California Institute of the Arts, California. In 2001, she won The 26th Kimura Ihei Photography Award, Tokyo. In 2010, she won the 26th Kodansha Essay Award, Tokyo. In 2015, she completed a Masters degree in arts and science at Musashi University, Tokyo. Currently while teaching photography at Waseda University, Tokyo University, she maintains a contemporary interdisciplinary practice. Her book "Bokura no Onanoko Shashin kara Watashitachi no Girly Photo e" was recently published by Daifuku Shorin.
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Hikaru Toda
editOn seeing in the age of the hyper-visible and the invisible
March 18 (Friday), 2022, 7pm on Zoom
Hikaru Toda is a director/producer based in Osaka, Japan. Raised in the Netherlands, she holds Master’s Degrees in Visual Anthropology and Performance Making from Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Her debut feature documentary Of Love & Law (2017) has won top awards at Tokyo International Film Festival (2017), Hong Kong International Film Festival (2018) and was nominated for an Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Documentary (2018). She most recently directed an episode of Netflix's Original Documentary Series 'My Love: 6 Stories of True Love' (2021) which has been nominated for an International Documentary Association award.
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The aim of both the editing and talk events is to cast a light on gender inequities in the arts and media and consider how discourse and engagement can empower us towards equity.
In keeping with the goal of adding to published information about women and the arts, we will be documenting our work on Art + Feminism from the past few years in both a print and virtual publication that will serve as a memory of these event.