Wikipedia:Meetup/SmithCollege/ArtAndFeminism 2020

Event information

 * Register: Please Register Here
 * Event Date: Friday March 5, 2020
 * Time: 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
 * Location: Hillyer 320, Smith College
 * Hosts:, ,
 * Cost: Free
 * Perks: Pizza, drinks, and good company!
 * Participants: No Wikipedia editing experience necessary; tutoring will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers, as needed throughout the event.
 * Twitter Hashtag: #ArtAndFeminism

Details
Wikimedia’s gender trouble is well documented. While the reasons for the gender gap are up for debate, the practical effect of this disparity is not. It demonstrates an alarming absence in an increasingly important repository of shared knowledge.

Each March, art communities around the world converge to correct Wikipedia’s gendered biases and improve the content of under-represented persons on the tenth most visited site in the world. Help balance the gender imbalance by creating and editing Wikipedia articles about women, non-binary, people of colour, and Indigenous artists, as well as feminist and activist art movements.


 * No Wikipedia editing experience is necessary.
 * Wikipedia training, reference materials, and refreshments will be provided.
 * Workshops will be provided: at the Edit-a-thon event & at How-to-edit training workshops before the event (see details above).

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.

Together, let’s change things.

Suggested articles
Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon. Feel free to add suggested pages to the lists below. See also: Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Tasks
 * Please indicate if you are working on a page or updating a topic / artist / heading by putting your name next to it below.

Smith Art Alumnae: Articles to Improve

 * Joellyn Duesberry ('66)
 * Cynthia Elbaum ('89)
 * Thelma Golden ('87)
 * Enid Mark ('54)
 * Cornelia Oberlander ('47)
 * Frances Rich ('31)
 * Sandy Skoglund ('68)
 * Lynn Stern ('64)
 * Alice Morgan Wright ('1904)

Smith Alumnae artists who aren't yet on Wikipedia.

 * Martha Armstrong ('62)
 * Joan Lenold Cohen
 * Rosalind Driscoll ('67)
 * Nancy Goldring ('67)
 * Grace Farrar Knowlton ('54)
 * Katherine Elizabeth McClellan (class of 1882)
 * Margaretta Kuhlthau Mitchell ('57)
 * Barbara Neustadt ('44)
 * Elisabeth Telling (class of 1904)