Wikipedia:Meetup/Calgary/

Event information
Please bring a laptop with you!
 * Register: Please sign in here
 * Event Date: Saturday, March 25, 2017 @ Stride Gallery
 * Time: 1 - 6pm
 * Location: Stride Gallery
 * Hosts:
 * Cost: Free
 * Childcare: Please email info at stride dot ab dot ca to confirm need
 * Participants: No Wikipedia editing experience necessary; as needed throughout the event, tutoring will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers. Female editors are particularly encouraged to attend.
 * Twitter Hashtag: #ArtAndFeminism

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Wikimedia’s gender trouble is well documented. While the reasons for the gender gap are up for debate, the practical effect of this disparity, however, is not. Content is skewed by the lack of female participation. This represents an alarming absence in an increasingly important repository of shared knowledge.

No Wikipedia editing experience necessary. Workshops will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers. Female-identified editors are particularly encouraged to attend. This is a feminist event.

Art+Feminism is a rhizomatic campaign to improve coverage of women and the arts on Wikipedia and to encourage female editorship. Wikipedia's gender trouble is well documented. In a 2011 survey, Wikimedia found that less than 13% of its contributors are female. The reasons for the gender gap are up for debate: suggestions include leisure inequality, how gender socialization shapes public comportment, and the contentious nature of Wikipedia's talk pages. The practical effect of this disparity, however, is not. Content is skewed by the lack of female participation. Many articles on notable women in history and art are absent on Wikipedia. We invite people of all gender identities and expressions, particularly trans- and cis-gendered women, to address this absence by organizing in-person, communal updating of Wikipedia’s entries on art and feminism.

Calgary will be hosting a third annual edit-a-thon at Stride Gallery. Childcare will be provided free of charge by reservation. We are committed to creating a safe space for all participants.

This event is organized by Stride Gallery, with support through the Art+Feminism platform.

Suggested articles
Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon.
 * As this is a Calgary event, a focus in Alberta is suggested - but not required.

Feel free to add suggested pages to the lists below. See also: Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Tasks
 * Please sign your name next to an topic/artist/heading you are interested in updating or writing about.

Suggestions for artists/writers/curators/contributors, etc. without articles

 * Sophia Bartholomew
 * Ashleigh Bartlett
 * Alana Bartol
 * Leslie Bell
 * Caitlind r.c Brown
 * Natasha Chaykowski
 * Hannah Doerksen
 * Miruna Dragan
 * Brenda Draney
 * Svea Ferguson
 * Candice Hopkins
 * (Tigerwing) Sarah Kelly
 * Megan Kerluke
 * Gwenessa Lam
 * Lisa Lipton
 * Amy Malbeuf
 * Sondra Meszaros
 * Yvonne Mullock
 * Shannon Norberg
 * Shelley Ouellet
 * Cassandra Paul
 * Naomi Potter
 * Peta Rake
 * Marigold Santos
 * Diana Sherlock
 * Jessie Short
 * Joan Cardinal-Schubert
 * Mandy Stobo
 * Su Ying Strang
 * Shauna Thompson
 * Nancy Tousley
 * Kristy Trinier

Non-Biographies without articles

 * Contemporary Calgary
 * Esker Foundation
 * TRUCK Contemporary Art
 * Untitled Art Society

Short articles in need of expansion and/or referencing

 * Alberta College of Art and Design
 * Laurel Johannesson
 * Katie Ohe
 * Rita McKeough

New Pages Completed 2017

 * Emefie (talk) 21:06, 10 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Wtraas (talk) 03:37, 9 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Simranpreet.A (talk) 23:37, 18 March 2017 (UTC)


 * wheelerdealer 21:20, 19 March 2017 (UTC)