Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Resources

Art+Feminism Quick Guides for Editing on Wikipedia
Read and download our Quick Guide for Editing on Wikipedia, where you'll learn the basics for making your first successful contributions. This material is currently available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French:

Use the Draft Template
We strongly encourage you to use the Pre-Load Draft Template, you can lift the below Mark Up code and put it on your meet-up or userpage.



You can also put a new draft creation box on a wiki page with the following code—click "edit source" and copy below:

Preload Draft Template
Have a NEW page in mind? We strongly encourage new editors to use the "Start draft article" box below If you do choose to begin a new article, please check with an experienced Wikipedian before starting to ensure that it meets notability requirements. Once you have done that, use the form below to create a Draft article or select a subject below:

Art+Feminism Training videos
You can watch these 8 brief videos to walk you through the basics of Wikipedia editing:

Now that you've gotten started, watch these 3 brief videos to learn more:


 * Advanced Training Video: Wikipedia Notability Guidelines
 * Intermediate Training Video: Adding Images to Wikimedia Commons
 * Intermediate Training Video: Adding Infoboxes to Wikipedia Articles

Core organizing principles
We expect all organizers to read and follow the Art+Feminism Core Organizing Principles included in our Safe and Brave Space Policy (available below), our Community Care Statement and our Anti-Racism Policy.

Art+Feminism Quick Guides for Organizers
Unless otherwise linked, all these materials can be found, in multiple languages, on Wikimedia Commons. Downloadable kit with suggested workflow, event plan, and training and promotional material. Currently available in, , French, and.

Safe Space/Brave Space Policy
All events must display and follow the Art+Feminism Safe Space/Brave Space Policy.

Art+Feminism Beginner and Advanced Training Slides
We have developed a set of 7 slide presentations on editing in Wikipedia. Five of them correspond to the basic level and 2 of them to the advanced level. You can use them to train yourself in Wikipedia editing, as well as to provide training sessions to your event attendees. There are some sections for collaborative work built-in. If you're running a large group session, you may want to modify these slides to cut these sections out. You'll also find some helpful content in the Notes sections.

'''This set of slides is also available in Spanish and Portuguese. Previous Art+Feminism slide presentations are available in Italian and Chinese. '''

Art+Feminism Training Lesson Plan
Organizers may use the Art+Feminism Training Lesson Plan to help lead or structure Beginner Wikipedia training sessions.

Advanced Wikimedia Training curricula
The Advanced Training includes "Adding Images," "Adding Infoboxes," "Notability Guidelines for Artists," "New Page Creation," "What do I do if my article is flagged for deletion?" and "Articles for Deletion."

Promote your event
Watch this 2021 Art + Feminism Community Hours on Promoting your (virtual) event, facilitated by Megan O'Hearn.

Advanced: more resources!
Below you will find more training materials, online research tools, and other related Wikipedia projects to help you dive further into the Wikimedia community.

Search template
A comprehensive search template can be added to the talk page of any article related to Women's topics by pasting the following template code at the top of the article's talk page:, which stands for Friendly search suggestions. This template will also search for free, appropriately-licensed images. It looks like this:

More Wikipedia Editing Tutorials

 * Visual Editor User Guide
 * Wikipedia cheat sheet (Bookshelf), another markup cheatsheet
 * Training for students, a tutorial for beginners
 * Beginners' guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
 * Five pillars of Wikipedia, philosophical guidelines and best practices for editing
 * Tutorial
 * How to edit a page
 * Wiki markup quick reference, PDF version of printed handout
 * Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger (applicable to any biography)
 * Article development
 * Your first article (using the Article Wizard, if you wish)
 * manual of style
 * Citation templates
 * Infobox templates
 * Bookshelf, additional "getting started" resources
 * Writing about women
 * Biographies of Living Persons
 * FAQ on Conflict of Interest Editing
 * FAQ on paid contributions without disclosure

Research Resources

 * WomenArts and
 * List of Directories of Women Artists
 * Support Women Artists Now Day
 * Jstor
 * Project MUSE
 * The Feminist Art Project at Rutgers University
 * Black Feminism
 * Intersectionality
 * Indigenous Feminism
 * Ubu Web
 * Digital Public Library of America
 * Archives of American Art
 * National Museum of Women in the Arts
 * Archives on Women Artists
 * CLARA database
 * NMWA list of online resources
 * National Women's History Museum
 * Women's History Sourcebook
 * MoMA Learning
 * Women Artists in the MoMA Online Collection
 * The Getty Online
 * New Museum Digital Archive
 * Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum and Brooklyn Museum Feminist Art Base
 * National Women's History Project
 * Arts: Search
 * Art and Feminism (book)
 * The Reckoning: Women Artists of the New Millennium (book)
 * After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art (book)
 * Sophia Smith Collection, Women's History Archives at Smith College
 * n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal
 * Getty Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)
 * IAM Intense Art Magazine - Women in the fields of visual arts, fashion, design and architecture in Africa.
 * Contemporary Arab Women's Art: Dialogues of the present, edited by Fran Lloyd (book)
 * Women and Art in South Africa by Marion Arnold (book)
 * Japanese Canadian Artists
 * Asian American Women Artists Association
 * Canadian Women Artists History Initiative
 * Women Writers Project (No subscription required in March)

Journal access

 * You can use Worldcat free to get citations in MLA, Chicago, and other bibliographic formats.
 * The Wikipedia Library Journals Project works to grant Wikipedians access to databases to help with their Wikipedia work, and reference work, and for general knowledge. You can request an account on the project pages but must do so in advance. Some journals, such as JSTOR, require editors to have at least 1 year and 1000 edits worth of experience.

Related Wikipedia projects

 * WikiProject Women in Red
 * WikiProject Women artists
 * WikiProject Women writers
 * WikiProject Women's health
 * WikiProject Women's History
 * WikiProject Feminism
 * Wikipedia and Open Access LibGuide and Directory of GLAM-wiki and editing resources[dead link]
 * Wikipedia for Libraries Archives Museums learning resources, training tools, guide for galleries, libraries, archives, museums
 * GLAM/US GLAM-Wiki (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) U.S. Consortium