Wikipedia:Know my name/International Women's Day 2020 edit-a-thons

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IWD edit-a-thon 2020
Just 18 per cent of biographies on Wikipedia are about women. When it comes to female artists and creators, that number is even lower.

Wikimedia Australia partnered with the National Gallery of Australia on its Know My Name project, to enhance the understanding and appreciation of work by Australian artists who identify as women.

In March 2020, we co-hosted a series of edit-a-thons with galleries and libraries around Australia on the weekend of International Women's day. Our goal was to create 100 new pages about female creators, also as part of Art+Feminism.

The campaign dashboard for the project is here.

Meet your Wikipedians
This program of events is been supported by an incredibly skilled group of female Wikipedians around Australia. You can read more about them here!

What should I work on during the editathon?
There are many different ways for you to contribute today. Wikipedia is the product of millions of individual contributions and every change that is made, no matter how small, makes a difference!

We’ve prepared a list of suggested subjects and assembled some preliminary sources to get you started. Keep in mind Wikipedia’s Conflict of Interest guidelines when selecting your subject to make sure it is appropriate for you to make the edits.

We suggest you chose to work on a female creator from the same state as you. Once you’ve decided which task you’d like to tackle, add your username to the table.

Lists of artists for each city's edit-a-thon
From the lists below, a list of the Australian women artists whose biographies were not created at the IWD edit-a-thons in March 2020 was curated.

Helpful links

 * A simplified guide for contributing to Wikipedia
 * Tips for writing your first article
 * Detailed editing tutorial
 * List of Wiki markups
 * Adding pictures to an article
 * Manual of style
 * WikiProject Women in Red - Wikipedians who create and edit articles about women, a good place to get help and inspiration.
 * Trove Find Australian and online resources: books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives etc. See the people and organisations search option.
 * Australian Women's Register

Get help!
We so hope you keep editing!

If you're a Facebook user, we have created a Facebook group that you can join to get help and post your work. Just post any questions there and we'll help you through them.

If you're having any other issues, feel free to contact Wikipedian Caddie Brain at caddie.brain@wikimedia.org.au or Kerry Raymond [mailto:kerry.raymond@wikimedia.org.au kerry.raymond@wikimedia.org.au]

You can also access her cheat sheets here!

WikiProject help Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women artists.