Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wiki Art + Activism

Event Details
Wikipedia edit-a-thons have emerged as a powerful tool for communities that are underserved by the lack of diversity among Wikipedia content editors. This “Wiki Art + Feminism Art and Activism” event - hosted by NYU Libraries with support from Wikimedia NYC - will train you to create and edit Wikipedia entries. Laptops will be available, but you are encouraged to bring your own, as well an idea for a non-existent or underdeveloped Wikipedia entry. Refreshments will be served. All experience levels welcome!

To come prepared, you can create an account ahead of time here: Create a Wikipedia Editor Account. (Pseudonyms are encouraged, as is an email for password recovery.) Volunteers will also be available onsite and happy to help you create an account.

Children are welcome. Snacks and activities will be available, but no formal supervision will be provided.

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct and NYU Libraries' Code of Conduct.

Art Exhibitions

 * Spy Mission -- Guerrilla Girls
 * People's Flag Show
 * Times Square Show

Artists, Artists Coalitions/Groups, or Artists Cooperatives

 * Blackout Arts Collective
 * Chloe Dzubilo
 * Lucretia Tye Jasmine
 * Mona Jimenez (video artist) //
 * The Majority Report (publication)

Galleries & Activist Spaces

 * Group Material

Articles to Edit
Below are some examples of articles flagged for editing. The full list will be available on the event's Wiki Art + Feminism Art and Activism Dashboard.

Artists, Artists Coalitions/Groups, or Artists Cooperatives

 * Becca Albee
 * Andrea Callard
 * Shu Lea Cheang
 * Coca Crystal
 * Guerrilla Girls
 * Chris Kraus (American writer)
 * Linda Mary Montano
 * Jesusa Rodríguez
 * Alva Rogers
 * Women's Health Action and Mobilization (WHAM)

Galleries & Activist Spaces

 * Artists Space
 * Interference Archive

Publications

 * n.paradoxa

Catalogs

 * NYU Libraries - Bobcat
 * NYU Libraries - Articles and Databases List
 * Worldcat

Research Guides

 * Downtown Collection

Reference Works & Databases Online

 * Artstor
 * Actipedia
 * Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Online / Artists of the World Online
 * Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library
 * International Bibliography of Art (IBA)
 * Metropolitan Museum of Art Open Access Artworks
 * Museum of Modern Art Exhibition History
 * Museum of Modern Art Image Database
 * Museum of Modern Art Press Release Archive
 * New Museum Digital Archive
 * The Studio Museum Collection
 * The Studio Museum Magazine

Books & Periodicals Online
These are a small selection; check out the NYU Guide to Ebooks for more ideas!


 * ArtForum
 * ArtNews
 * Victoria Horne and Lara Perry, Feminism and Art History Now: Radical Critiques of Theory and Practice, 2017
 * The Feminist Art Journal
 * Grant H. Kester, Art, Activism, and Oppositionality: Essays from Afterimage, 1998
 * N. Paradoxa: The Only International Feminist Art Journal
 * Uri McMillan, Embodied Avatars Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance, 2015
 * Lucy Reynolds, Women Artists, Feminism and the Moving Image: Contexts and Practices, 2019
 * Laura Mulvey and Anna Backman Rogers, Feminisms: Diversity, Difference and Multiplicity in Contemporary Film Cultures, 2015
 * Paula Serafini, Performance Action: The Politics of Art Activism, 2018
 * Cheryl Suzack, Indigenous Women and Feminism Politics, Activism, Culture, 2010
 * Margaret Walters, Feminism: A Very Short Introduction, 2013
 * Women & Art
 * Women's Art Magazine

Wikipedia Resources & Tutorials

 * Art + Feminism training slides and videos (available in English and Spanish)
 * Biographies of Living Persons
 * Dashboard training modules
 * Five Pillars
 * Notability
 * Notability (Academics)
 * Wiki Markup Cheatsheet

Participants
Please RSVP here to let us know you plan to attend.