User:Grouninja/sandbox

= NELLYVERSE = The NELLYVERSE is a project designed by wikipedian Grouninja to communicate certain findings, ideas and perceived urgencies gathered from partially reading the Nelly van Doesburg biography, listening to a podcast about wikipedia and several other sources. A physical manifestation of this project was displayed at the Studio Technogeographies endterm exhibition of the first semester of year 2021/2022.

Motivation
What started as a school project broadly inspired by an intention to research the only surviving architectural model by Theo van Doesburg, it did not take long for the project to pivot towards a focus centered around Nelly van Doesburg.

Nelly van Doesburg
Already through reading only the first few pages of the Nelly van Doesburg biography and parts of the book documenting the relationship between her and Peggy Guggenheim it became clear that a lot of Nelly's mainstream presence is documented through (and limited by) the lens of her relation to Theo van Doesburg. This paradigm tends to lack considerable consideration of the richness and complexity of her life which lent itself to a new interpretation, untethered from being defined as "the partner of" and perhaps being celebrated for her intrinsic authenticity.

Women in Red
Looking for small and achievable steps to place Nelly in a more [placeholder] online Grouninja decided to explore expanding her wikipedia page as a quick way to make more information available about her life. While researching the appropriate ways to do this, he came across a podcast about wikipedia named Dot Com: The Wikipedia Story. In episode 3 of this series they discuss the gender bias on wikipedia and introduced Grouninja to the wikiproject Women in Red. This added to his sense of urgency of expanding the Nelly wikipedia.

Physicalisation
To make his results tangible he created an installation showcasing the edits he performed on the wikipedia page, combined with his source material. He also includes some pieces of information that could be added in future edits, as a way of demonstrating what he perceives as possibly relevant information.

Along with this he provides a short manual on how to start editing a wikipedia page.