Wikipedia:Meetup/Brussels/ArtAndFeminism 2015




 * Language: English, French, Dutch
 * Cost: Free
 * Date: Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th of March, 13:00-18:00
 * Co-organized by: Loraine Furter and F/LAT
 * Venue: Vaartstraat 45 Rue du Canal, Brussels
 * Participants: Open to anyone interested in this experience: beginners welcome! débutant(e)s bienvenu(e)s! beginners welkom! Experienced Wikipedia editors will be present and will share their knowledge in editing Wikipedia.
 * What to Bring: Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords. Light lunch and drinks will be provided, as well as childcare.
 * A temporary Art+Feminism Library will be set up by the participants who are invited to bring their books and digital documents to feed the edit-a-thon!



Program
Saturday 07.03

13:00 14:00 17:00
 * presentation of F/LAT and Free/Libre and Open Source
 * presentation of Wikimedia & Wikipedia (project, structure, ...)
 * the gender gap on wikipedia
 * intro on editing Wikipedia (creation of a user account and first steps)
 * discussion on and around Wikipedia as a specific object: the notion of Encyclopedia, the notion of community (and the power and hierarchy issues that can arise), a feminist approach to wikipedia editing.

Sunday 08.03

13:00 15:00
 * summary of Saturday's presentations for newcomers
 * presentation on the wiki system

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Register
Please add your Wikipedia username to the appropriate section below (signatures are created by saving four tildes [~] in a row). If you haven't edited Wikipedia before, we will help you register for a new Wikipedia editing account on the day-of. (→log in)
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 * Dogs with power (talk)
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 * Emilie2410 (talk) 15:11, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
 * add your name here!

TO DO
Here are a few suggested articles to create or improve during this edit-a-thon, but you are welcome to work on anything you like. '''Please note: This is a crowdsourced list. You can help us by adding to it!'''

Brussels-related

Exhibited at Wiels in Body Talk (14.02-03.05) Curated by Koyo Kouoh
 * Billie Zangewa
 * Marcia Kure
 * Valérie Oka
 * Tracey Rose
 * Miriam Syowia Kyambi

Lecture at PointCulture ULB (24.02 12:30–13:30)
 * Muriel Andrin

To create:
 * project Ariadne
 * Lip magazine
 * Revue Pétunia
 * List of feminist art critics
 * Eileen Abdul-Rashid
 * Lynn Aldrich
 * Tina Allen
 * Kathryn Andrews
 * Phoebe Beasley
 * Julie Becker
 * Cindy Bernard
 * Ginny Bishton
 * Karen Boccalero
 * Gloria Bohanon
 * Jennifer Bornstein
 * Linda Frye Burnham
 * Connie Butler
 * Eugenia P. Butler
 * Carp (art organization)
 * Karen Carson
 * Yvonne Cole Meo
 * Claire Copley
 * Liz Craft
 * Lecia Dole-Recio
 * Mari Eastman
 * June Edmonds
 * Kirsten Everberg
 * Christina Fernandez (artist)
 * Lauri Firstenberg
 * Eve Fowler
 * Victoria Franklin
 * Jacqueline Frazier
 * Magdalena Suarez Frimkess and Michael Frimkess
 * Francesca Gabbiani
 * Jill Giegerich
 * Samara Golden
 * Hannah Greely
 * Katie Grinnan
 * Micol Hebron
 * Virginia Holt
 * Margaret Honda
 * Josine Ianco-Starrels
 * Suzanne Jackson
 * Kellie Jones
 * Mary Hunt Kahlenberg
 * Bettina Korek
 * Julie Lazar
 * Margo Leavin
 * Jane Livingston
 * Karen Lofgren
 * Elsa Longhauser
 * Bronwyn Lundberg
 * Shana Lutker
 * Manitoba Museum of Finds Art
 * Emily Mast
 * Kristine Mays
 * Barbara McCoullough
 * Rosaline Myles
 * Margaret Nielsen
 * Taisha Paggett
 * Jennifer Pastor
 * Ann Philbin
 * Sheila Pinkel
 * Patti Podesta
 * Shaun Regen
 * Lili Renaud Dewar
 * Beverly Robinson (1945-2002)
 * Lezley Saar
 * Kim Schoenstadt
 * Toni Scott
 * Maureen Selwood, hand-drawn animation
 * Susan Silton
 * Carol Stakenas
 * Coleen Sterritt
 * Martine Syms
 * Eleanor Tufts
 * Megan Williams (artist)

To improve:
 * Feminist art criticism/Feminism in art criticism (Art criticism could use a mention of feminism)
 * Feminist theory
 * List of feminist art magazines
 * Born In Flames film by Lizzie Borden
 * Double X (feminist art collective)
 * Andrea Bowers
 * Jo Ann Callis
 * Forough Farrokhzad
 * Liz Glynn
 * Shifra Goldman
 * Paula Harper
 * Leslie Labowitz
 * Elana Mann
 * Helen Molesworth
 * Jennifer Moon
 * Ruby Neri--is this Reminisce?
 * Tezer Özlü
 * Rozsika Parker
 * Monique Prieto
 * Allegra Fuller Snyder
 * Barbara T. Smith
 * Pae White
 * Nancy Youdelman

More lists here:
 * Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Tasks
 * To do lists of wanted articles in NL

Resources for Editing

 * Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Resources
 * Sophia: Belgian genderstudies network feminism+performance & resources
 * Rosadoc Brussels, catalogue

Gender Gap

 * Gender gap
 * Mind_the_Gap
 * Charting Diversity PDF

List of Articles Worked On
List or Wikipedia articles attendees have worked to improve.
 * Valérie Mréjen on Wikipedia FR
 * Inez Nathaniel Walker on Wikipedia FR
 * Marie-Éléonore Godefroid
 * Lucy R. Lippard on Wikipedia FR
 * Susie Silook
 * Wendy Orlean Williams
 * Double X (feminist art collective)
 * Sally-Jean Shackleton
 * Lip magazine
 * Tezer Özlü
 * Allegra Fuller Snyder
 * Wikipédia Le Bistro/7 mars 2015 on Wikipedia FR

Inspiring wikipedia projects

 * The Ada Lovelace edit-a-thon organised by Catherine Lenoble in Variable Brussels
 * Wikipedia Illustrated, an initiative by artist illustrator Galia Offri and designer educator Mushon Zer-Aviv.

Special childcare
In order to allow participants with children to join, we are preparing a playground with activities parallel to those proposed to the adults: collaborative creations, use of materials from the public domain, etc!

Please contact us at info[at]lorainefurter.net to inscribe your child(ren).