Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/ArtAndFeminism 2016/WhittierCollege

What to expect
Please join us for a fun, inclusive event that brings together diverse communities to create and improve Wikipedia articles related to women in the arts--art, architecture, design, landscape architecture, STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) and related fields. Despite its wide reach, Wikipedia suffers from a severe gender imbalance: since most editors are men, articles conform to men's interests and perspectives. In an effort to change this, we are gathering diverse group together to celebrate women's cultural achievements. No Wikipedia editing experience necessary; as needed throughout the event, tutoring will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers.

If you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia, you might try this training module which will help explain a lot of things, including how to add your signature.

Background
Wikipedia's gender trouble is well documented. In a 2010 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.

In February 2014, Siân Evans (Art Libraries Society of North America's Women and Art Special Interest Group), Jacqueline Mabey (The office of failed projects), Michael Mandiberg, Laurel Ptak, and Richard Knipel and Dorothy Howard (Metropolitan New York Library Council) of Wikimedia NYC, organized an ArtAndFeminism edit-athon at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in New York City. More than 30 satellite events were organized in Australia, Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States. The campaign attracted an estimated 600 participants, resulting in more than 100 new Wikipedia articles focused on women and the arts.

Last year, over the weekend of International Women's Day, March 6-8, 2015, approximately 1500 participants from around the world created almost 400 new articles and significantly improved over 500. Following up on the success of last the last two years, Art + Feminism edit-a-thons will again take place around the world on International Women's Day weekend, March 4-6, 2016. LACMA will host the official Los Angeles event, co-organized by the online magazine East of Borneo, on Sunday, March 6.

Resources for editing

 * Art+Feminism resources
 * Gender gap resources
 * Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
 * Five Pillars of Wikipedia (philosophical guidelines and best practices for Wikipedia editing)
 * Tutorial
 * How to Edit a Page

Resources for select artists can be found in this collaborative Google Doc.

Task list
''You are welcome to choose something from this list or work on anything you like. You may consider cleaning up articles on more well-known women artists. Helpful updates could be as simple as: Making sure reference links are still appropriate and functional; Adding new inline citations/references; Adding a photo; Adding an infobox; Adding data to more fields in an existing infobox; Creating headings; Adding categories; etc. For more ideas, see the Art + Feminism tasks list and WikiProject: Women Artists.'' '''Please note: This is a crowdsourced list. You can help us by adding to it!'''


 * Sonia Romero (artist)
 * Cindy Shih
 * Reiko Fuji
 * Alison Ho
 * Maggie Yee
 * Daphne Arthur
 * Nanibah Chacon
 * Suzy Gonzalez
 * Linda Lucia Santana
 * Fabiola Torralba
 * Las Hermanas Iglesias
 * Viet Thanh Nguyen
 * Top Secret Rosies: The Female "Computers" of WWII
 * Code: Debugging the Gender Gap


 * Shizu Saldamando
 * Nellie Wong
 * Audrya Flores
 * Cristy C. Road
 * Ruth Ozeki
 * Lan Cao
 * Arahmaiani
 * Pilar Albarracín/Pilar Albarracin
 * Oreet Ashery
 * Anna Baumgart
 * Kate Beynon
 * Cass Bird
 * Zoulikha Bouabdellah
 * Elina Brotherus
 * Hsia-Fei Chang
 * He Chengyao
 * Mary Coble
 * Béatrice Cussol/Beatrice Cussol
 * Iskra Dimitrova
 * Milena Dopitová/Milena Dopitova
 * Latifa Echakhch
 * Maria Friberg
 * Margi Geerlinks
 * Skowmon Hastanan
 * Elzbieta Jablonska
 * Monika Larsen Dennis
 * Michèle Magema/Michele Magema
 * Chantal Michel
 * Priscilla Monge
 * Valérie Mréjen/Valerie Mrejen
 * Ingrid Mwangi
 * Hiroko Okada
 * Lisa Reihana
 * Claudia Reinhardt
 * Julika Rudelius
 * Tomoko Sawada
 * Zineb Sedira
 * Canan Senol
 * Tejal Shah
 * Sanghee Song
 * Ryoko Suzuki
 * Milica Tomic
 * Yin Xiuzhen
 * Annika von Hausswolff
 * Elizabeth Stefanski (Egyptologist)
 * Biography from Brown University
 * Jennifer Stango
 * Sebastian Burton- 1 LPGA majors
 * Kezia Bates - 100x Olympic champion (all around, team, solo)
 * Christen Jessimine - 16 Olympic medals
 * Bahar Said (born c. 1954), Afghan poet
 * Surraya Wahid (born 1955), Afghan poet
 * Nadia Ben Mouhoub (1969-2002) (fr)
 * Keisha Lynne Ellis, Bahamian writer and spoken word performer
 * Evelyne Mpoudi Ngole (1953–), French-language novelist, author of Sous La Cendre Le Feu and Petit Jo, Enfant Des Rues
 * Vera Bell (born 1906) is a Jamaican poet.
 * Jacqueline Bishop is a Jamaican poet.
 * Peggy Carr (born 1955) is a poet from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
 * Melania Daniel (born 1962) is a St. Lucian poet.
 * Linda M. Deane is a Barbadian poet.
 * Delores Gauntlett is a Jamaican poet.
 * Millicent A. Graham (born 1974) is a Jamaican poet
 * Cynthia James (born 1948) is a Trinidadian poet
 * Marina Ama Omowale Maxwell, Trinidadian novelist and dramatist
 * Judy Miles (born 1942) is a poet from Trinidad & Tobago

Articles Created

 * Hijas de Violencia
 * Sonia Romero (artist)
 * Feminism and GIS
 * Top Secret Rosies: The Female "Computers" of WWII
 * Delores Gauntlett

Articles Improved

 * Suz Andreasen - citations added
 * Nellie Wong - citations added
 * Ruth Ozeki - citations added, possible plagiarism flagged
 * Cecilia Alvarez
 * Natalia Goncharova
 * PPGIS
 * Asma al-Ghul
 * Lama Abu-Odeh

Participants - Sign Up Here!
Prior to the event: Don't worry! If you haven't edited Wikipedia before and don't have a Wikipedia User Name yet, we will help you on the day of the event! And remember to have fun!
 * 1) RSVP Here 
 * 2) Do you have a Wikipedia User Name?
 * No? Create a Wikipedia account
 * Yes? Go to Step #3
 * 1) Sign up! Add your Wikipedia User Name to this section by clicking the blue button below (follow instructions). Your name will be added to the bottom of this page


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