Wikipedia:Meetup/Vancouver/ArtAndFeminism 2023

Event information

 * Register: [Please Register Here].
 * Event Date: Wednesday, March 8, 2023
 * Time: 11 am - 2 pm
 * Location: This is a hybrid event. In-person editing will take place at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. Virtual editing help facilitated by the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery.
 * Wikipedia How-to get started Workshop: In-person. Wednesday, February 1 from 5 - 7 pm
 * Citation Workshop: Virtual. Thursday, February 16 from 1 - 2 pm.
 * Hosts: User:Asthejayflies, User:BaharMohazabnia, User:Gideon09, User:Dianehywong
 * Participants: No Wikipedia editing experience necessary; tutoring will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers at the Workshops and on the event day.

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.

Vancouver is hosting its tenth annual edit-a-thon at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery on the University of British Columbia campus. We invite people of all gender identities and expressions to participate in a communal updating of Wikipedia’s entries on art and feminism. We are committed to creating a safe space for all participants.


 * No Wikipedia editing experience is necessary.
 * Wikipedia training, reference materials 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.
 * As this is a Vancouver-based event, a Vancouver focus is suggested - but not required.

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.

Suggestions for Iranian artists without articles

 * Parastoo Anoushahpour - Gideon09
 * Faraz Anoushahpour - Bostonboy97
 * Elham Puriya Mehr
 * Aileen Bahmanipour - Pndct
 * Parvin Peivandi - personthatsails
 * Sona Safaei-Sooreh - Dianehywong
 * Nooshin Rostami - personthatsails
 * Azadeh Elmizadeh - personthatsails
 * Ghazaleh Avarzamani - jessmariexox
 * Anahita Akhavan - personthatsails
 * Pardiss Amerian - personthatsails
 * Jamileh Salek
 * Setareh Yasan
 * Mandana Mansouri

Suggestions for Iranian artists with articles for revising

 * Matilda Aslizadeh
 * Abbas Akhavan

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

 * Andrea Actis
 * Gisele Amantea
 * Maya Beaudry - Ccshzhou
 * Scott Benesiinaabandan
 * Kelly Cannell
 * Nelly César Marin
 * Bopha Chhay
 * Barbara Cole
 * Patrick Cruz (artist) - Ccshzhou
 * Darryll Dawson Jr
 * Michele di Menna
 * Julie Favreau
 * Feminist Land Art Retreat
 * Maxine Gadd
 * Camille Georgeson-Usher
 * Kay Higgins
 * Hasan Hujairi
 * Amy Kazymerchyk
 * Eleanor King (artist)
 * Kite (artist)
 * Jaymyn La Valee
 * Maryse Larivière
 * Marilou Lemmens
 * Arvo Leo
 * Salar Mameni
 * Guadalupe Martinez
 * Carol Mayer (curator) - personthatsails
 * Gay Mitchell (artist)
 * Melinda Mollineaux
 * Marion Newman
 * Nicole Britta Ondre
 * Nathalee Paolinelli
 * Ariel Parkinson
 * Sojourner Truth Parsons
 * Cate Rimmer
 * Diane Roberts (artist)
 * Genevieve Robertson
 * Rhoda Rosenfeld
 * Erin Siddall
 * Sara Siestreem
 * Madiha Sikander
 * Juliana Speier
 * Ho Tam (artist)
 * Damla Tamer
 * Kara Uzelman
 * William Wasden Jr
 * Lindsey Mae Willie
 * Sareh Farmand
 * Mike MacDonald (artist)
 * Gabi Dao - personthatsails
 * Dana Qaddah
 * Pia Massie
 * Lee Plested

Suggestions for notable artists / writers / curators / contributors, etc. with articles that need major or moderate editing or updating

 * Derya Akay
 * Heidi Aklaseaq Senungetuk
 * Matilda Aslizadeh
 * Lucie Chan
 * Judith Copithorne
 * Laiwan
 * Patricia Martin Bates
 * Sam Durant
 * Alinka Echeverría
 * Maggie Groat
 * Whess Harman
 * Tari Ito
 * Michelle Jacques (curator)
 * Charmian Johnson
 * Dinh Q. Lê
 * Nadia Lichtig
 * Lani Maestro
 * Louise Noguchi
 * Innukjuakju Pudlat
 * Anne Riley
 * Dylan Robinson
 * Alice Ming Wai Jim
 * Cindy Mochizuki
 * Lani Maestro
 * Jeneen Frei Njootli
 * Haruko Okano
 * Chrystal Sparrow
 * Krista Belle Stewart
 * Karen Tam
 * Takao Tanabe
 * Ron Terada
 * Anna Wong (artist)
 * Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

Suggestions for notable artists / writers / curators / contributors, etc. with articles that need minor editing or updating

 * Audrey Capel Doray
 * Beau Dick
 * Dorothy Iannone
 * Ingrid Baxter
 * Joan Balzar
 * Mieko Shiomi (composer)
 * Tanya Lukin Linklater
 * Cristóbal Martínez
 * Peter Morin
 * Tania Willard
 * Jin-me Yoon
 * Skeena Reece
 * Jamelie Hassan
 * Germaine Koh

For additional suggestions, check out the list of artists from the 2022 Art+Feminism Vancouver Meetup or the 2021 Art+Feminism Vancouver Meetup. Many still need articles created or expanded upon.

New pages completed in 2023

 * Parastoo Anoushahpour
 * Heidi Aklaseaq Senungetuk
 * Ghazaleh Avarzamani
 * Ho Tam (artist)
 * Parvin Peivandi

Pages updated in 2023

 * Abbas Akhavan
 * Takao Tanabe
 * Ethel Wilson
 * Karen Tam
 * Lucie Chan
 * Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
 * Eleeshushe Parr
 * grunt gallery
 * List of Canadian artists
 * Germaine Koh
 * Richard Langer
 * Mieko Shiomi (composer)
 * Matilda Aslizadeh
 * Dorothy Iannone
 * Audrey Capel Doray
 * Ingrid Baxter
 * Beau Dick
 * Azadeh Elmizadeh