Wikipedia:Meetup/Wakefield/ArtandFeminism/HepworthWakefield

The tools of change are in your hands! Come learn the skills needed to edit and create wiki-pages and do your bit to readdress the balance and increase the online representation of women in art. Wikipedia is a wonderful resource tool that many of us refer to on a daily basis. However, it is not without its problems. In particular, Wikipedia’s gender trouble is well-documented. In a 2011 survey, the Wikimedia Foundation found that less than 10% of its contributors identify as female. The effect of this disparity means that content is skewed by the lack of female participation. As Art+Feminism rightly points out, ‘This represents an alarming absence in an increasingly important repository of shared knowledge.’ Moreover, there is a comparative shortage of articles about female artists on Wikipedia in comparison to their male counterparts. But all this can change! On International Women’s Day, The Hepworth Wakefield will be offering free tutorials to train up a new wave of wiki-editors who will be encouraged to expand on pre-existing articles about women artists and to create new records where previously there were none. Women and allies of all genders, including non-binary gender identities, are welcome. Please bring your laptop, power cable and ideas for entries that need updating or creating. If you do not know where to start, do not fear, as we will also provide some suggestions of women in the arts that are, as yet, currently under-represented on Wikipedia. Wiki training will be provided, as will refreshments and reference material. If you do not have a laptop or are unable to bring one for whatever reason please email and one can be provided. This is an event in association with Art+Feminism.

Event information
Please bring a laptop with you!
 * Date: Sunday March 8th, 2015.
 * Time: 11am - 4.30pm
 * Location: The auditorium at The Hepworth Wakefield. - Getting here.
 * Hosts: The Hepworth Wakefield - Event PageContacts: Elspeth Mitchell, Holly Grange.
 * Facebook: International Women's Day: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Event Page

Provisional Schedule

 * 11:00 - Intros
 * 14:30 - Lightning talks by Art specialists and Wikipedians on various topics
 * 15:00 - Talk by Amy Tobin on Lynda Benglis
 * 16:00 - Wash up and feedback

The session will be fluid all day with Wikipedia teaching and support available and resources/experts on hand to help identify and improve target articles.

Registration
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Please add your Wikipedia username to the appropriate section below (signatures are created by saving four tildes [~] in a row). If you haven't edited Wikipedia before, we will help you register for a new Wikipedia editing account on the day.
 * PatHadley (talk) 12:28, 6 February 2015 (UTC) - Running some training and learning about art!
 * OR drohowa (talk) 20:41, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
 * FionaArt1986 (talk) 16:54, 12 February 2015 (UTC) - Bringing some resources from York Art Gallery
 * Sam Walton (talk) 18:44, 20 February 2015 (UTC) - Always up for an editathon. Happy to help with training etc.
 * I would have liked to come, as I am a patron of the Hepworth; but I can't make that day. Hope it goes well. ColinFine (talk) 16:00, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Mrsmartfellow (talk) 09:25, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Elspethrose (talk) 08:34, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Cvatkinson (talk) 23:02, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
 * AnnisStead (talk) 11:59, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Aleecestar (talk) 12:04, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Kitcandy (talk) 12:09, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Hannalucie (talk) 12:10, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Queenjaffaceke (talk) 12:12, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
 * MaddieSpink (talk) 12:16, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Epow96 (talk) 14:20, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Bellevintage (talk) 14:21, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Hoshidee (talk) 14:43, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Rubyredfox2 (talk) 15:18, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Other users that attended

 * Kay Sidebottom
 * LouMycroft
 * Eleanorclayton
 * Holly Grange
 * MadelineBoden

List of articles to edit
Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon.

Other art galleries/museums around Yorkshire are hoping to contribute resources and expertise.

The Hepworth Wakefield

 * Barbara Hepworth
 * Lynda Benglis
 * Helen Phillips (artist)
 * Louisa Fennell
 * Emily Fennell
 * Gertrude Hermes
 * Alice Gostick
 * Kim Lim (artist)
 * Alexandra Bircken
 * Kate Barnard (artist) - Gallery on Art.com

York Art Gallery

 * Lucie Rie - C20th studio potter
 * Elizabeth Fritsch - C20th studio potter
 * Rosemary Denise Wren - C20th studio potter
 * Joanna Constantinidis - C20th studio potter
 * Eleanor Whittal - C20th studio potter
 * Mary White (ceramicist and calligrapher) - C20th studio potter
 * Magdalene Odundo - C20th studio potter
 * Barbara Cass - C20th studio potter
 * Katherine Pleydell-Bouverie - C20th studio potter
 * Jane Hamlyn - C20th studio potter
 * Joan Hotchin - C20th studio potter
 * Images of work by all of the above have been provided by York Museums Trust from the William Alfred Ismay collection. See them here: W.A. Ismay Studio Ceramic Collection
 * Ethel Walker - C20th painter
 * Mary Ellen Best - Victorian painter

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

 * Ursula von Rydingsvard

Miscellaneous

 * Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - proto-feminist and writer. Lived at Middlethorpe Hall
 * Women's International Art Club
 * Rebecca Solomon - Commons Category

See also: A general tasklist and useful online resources

Resources for Editing

 * Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Resources
 * Gender gap resources.

New articles

 * Elisabeth Vellacott
 * Druie Bowett
 * Margaret Gere
 * Esther Blaikie MacKinnon
 * Margaret Firth
 * Ada Louise Powell
 * Winifred Turner
 * Geta Brătescu
 * Laura Herford
 * Rosalind Forster
 * Birgit Skiöld
 * Cynthia Kenny
 * Sabina Aufenwerth

Improved articles

 * Florence Henri
 * Katherine Pleydell-Bouverie
 * Magdalene Odundo
 * Feminist art movement
 * Feminist art movement in the United States
 * Gillian Ayres
 * List of 20th-century women artists
 * Emily Murray Paterson
 * Mary Ellen Best
 * Catharina van Hemessen
 * Maggi Hambling
 * Yayoi Kusama
 * Allana Beltran
 * List of women in the Heritage Floor

Articles in progress

 * User:AnnisStead/sandbox Estella Campavias
 * User:Hoshidee/sandbox
 * Draft:Lynne_McIlvride