Wikipedia:Meetup/Artexte

Wikipedia’s gender trouble is well documented. In a 2011 survey, the Wikimedia Foundation found that less than 10% of its contributors were women. While the reasons for the gender gap are up for debate, the practical effect of this disparity is not: content is skewed by the lack of representation from women.



Artexte Information Centre is working to highlight the work of artists and authors from groups that are underrepresented in Wikipedia, including women, people of colour and people from the LGBTQ+ community, with a Wikipedia Art+Feminism edit-a-thon!

Join us on-site or online, on March 18th from 12 PM to 4 PM for a communal updating of Wikipedia entries on subjects related to gender, art and feminism.

This event takes place in collaboration with the artist-run centre Articule on the occasion of the exhibition Practice as Ritual / Ritual as Practice. This collective exhibition features the works of 10 Black women artists who participated in the historical 1989 exhibition, Black Wimmin: When and Where We Enter, by the collective DAWA (Diasporac African Women’s Art Collective). Following the edit-a-thon at 5pm, we will host a public discussion with curator Andrea Fatona and artists from the DAWA collective.

This edit-a-thon will engage with this history to improve the representation on Wikipedia of members of the DAWA collective and other underrepresented artists in Wikipedia.

We will provide tutorials for beginner Wikipedians, reference materials, and artist files to help create and improve articles. See dashboard to join on zoom.

We invite people of all gender identities and expressions to participate. Please create a Wikipedia account before the event. You can learn how to do that here.

History of partnerships and events
In 2018 and 2019, Artexte co-organized three edit-a-thons days to Wikipedia with the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal.

In 2020, in partnership with the Regroupement des centers d'artistes autogérés du Québec, the Quebec Media Arts Council and the Regroupement des artistes indépendants du Québec, Artexte co-founded a monthly contribution campaign Ateliers Wiki X arts actuels.

In March 2021, an Art + feminism virtual edit-a-thon is organized in collaboration with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

In December 2021 Artexte hosted a hybrid edit-a-thon on-site and online.

In May, 2022 Artexte hosted a virtual edit-a-thon in the context of the Blackity Symposium.

Practical information

 * The dates :
 * March 18th 2023 - 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
 * The location: Online and On site


 * Register as editor for the event : https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Artexte/Artexte_X_Art_et_F%C3%A9minisme_2023_(March_18th_2023)?enroll=
 * Hashtags: #noweditingAF #artandfeminism

Accessibility Information

 * The event is free and open to everyone. Our spaces, located on the 3rd floor, are accessible by elevator and have wheelchair-accessible bathrooms, though the door is not automatic and some people may require assistance.  Artexte's public spaces include a reading room with a mobile shelf collection and an exhibition room. Service animals are welcome in our spaces.
 * It is also recommended to read the Safe Space Policy
 * Wikipedia training and support will be available in both English and French.

List of online and print resources to "source" your articles
It is essential to “source” created or edited articles and the following resources can be used for this purpose.



Art History

 * , the catalog of the Artexte collection and the digital repository for contemporary Canadian art
 * Artists in Canada (National Gallery of Canada Library database)
 * Dictionary of Quebec sculpture in the 20th century
 * Érudit (Quebec database of scholarly and cultural journal articles)
 * Women Artists of Canada
 * Museum of Canada
 * Network for the Study of the History of Canadian Artists, Concordia University (Artists born before 1925)
 * Inuit Art Quarterly Profiles, Inuit Art Foundation (Profiles of historical and contemporary Inuit artists)
 * Vtape Critical Writing Index (collection of writings, books, articles on video art)
 * CCCA Canadian Art Database Project, The Center for Contemporary Canadian Art, Concordia University (Canadian Art Database)

Dictionaries and general encyclopedias

 * Canadian Encyclopedia (national encyclopedia)
 * Dictionary of Canadian Biography

Newspaper and magazine articles

 * Quebec magazines and newspapers digitized by BAnQ
 * La Presse (1928-2013)
 * Le Devoir (1920-2011)
 * Tumivut (1990-2000)
 * Parachute (1975-2007)

Collections

 * Artefact Canada (contains more than 4 million descriptive sheets of objects and more than 1 million images from Canadian museums)
 * Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
 * Aboriginal Art Centre, Government of Canada (collection of more than 4300 works)
 * Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (sample of a collection of more than 8000 works)
 * Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (catalogue of the collection of works)
 * National Gallery of Canada
 * Vtape (catalogue of collection of video works from the early 1970s)
 * It is also possible to consult the annual reports of the institutions

Prizes

 * Governor General's Prize in Visual and Media Arts, Government of Canada (Archives of winners since 2000)
 * Prix Sobey, National Gallery of Canada (Archives since 2002)
 * Prize for artistic creation, Council of Arts and Letters of Quebec
 * Powerhouse Prize, La Centrale

Resources on Wikipedia

 * Wikipedia Article Wizard
 * Referencing for beginners

Suggestions for March 18th

 * DAWA : Diasporic African Women’s Art Collective Please note that a draft will be published during the event.
 * Black Wimmin: When and Where We Enter
 * Andrea Fatona
 * Claire Carew
 * Chloe Onari
 * Grace Channer
 * Dzian Lacharite
 * Mosa McNeilly
 * Sulih Williams
 * Foluke Olubayo
 * Barbara Prézeau Stephenson
 * Winsom Winsom
 * Marie Woodward
 * Khadejha McCall
 * Lillian Allen
 * Firelei Báez
 * Buseje Bailey
 * Deanna Bowen
 * Sandra Brewster
 * Joan Butterfield
 * Martine Chartrand
 * Michèle Pearson Clarke
 * Pamela Edmonds
 * Andrea Fatona
 * Dominique Fontaine
 * Coco Fusco
 * Sylvia D. Hamilton
 * Liz Ikiriko
 * Michelle Jacques (curator)
 * Bushra Junaid
 * Charmaine Lurch
 * Esmaa Mohamoud
 * Zanele Muholi
 * Charmaine Nelson
 * Camille Turner
 * Gaetane Verna
 * Syrus Marcus Ware
 * La Tanya S. Autry
 * Zina Saro-Wiwa
 * Christina Sharpe
 * Shanna Strauss
 * Dana Michel
 * Anique Jordan
 * Dana Inkster
 * Denyse Thomasos
 * Mickalene Thomas
 * Cauleen Smith
 * Stacey Tyrell