Wikipedia:Meetup/justfortherecord/Events/International Women’s Day

08.03.2016Just For The RecordInternational Women’s Day

Just For The Record presents a new installation!
At the occasion of the International Women’s Day and the worldwide annual Art+Feminism events, join our discussion table, with books from the Muntpunt’s library about great women from all over the world!

People passing by will be invited to join the table, have an intro on the gender gap on Wikipedia and an editing demonstration. You will be able to create an account, and then if you want you can stay at the table, browse through the books, edit an article about an inspiring figure you would like to write about, talk with the people already around the table!

International Women’s Day

Learn and write about great women from all over the world!

Bring more diversity on Wikipedia



Event details

 * Venue: Muntpunt, Place de la Monnaie 6, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium
 * Date: Tuesday, March 8, 2016
 * Time: 12:00 – 18:00
 * Language: Dutch, English, French
 * Cost: Free
 * Participants: Open to anyone interested in this experience: beginners welcome! débutant(e)s bienvenu(e)s! beginners welkom! Experienced Wikipedia editors will be present and will share their knowledge in editing Wikipedia.
 * What to Bring: Attendees can bring their own laptops and power cords.
 * A temporary library will be set up by the participants who are invited to bring their books and digital documents to share with the others!

What can you do?
During the event, we invite you to contribute to Wikipedia and to the discussions around the gender gap on Wikipedia. You can edit an existing article to improve it, create a new one about a subject that doesn’t exist, but we also highly value the sharing of editing experiences, and ideas about what could make Wikipedia a more welcoming and colorful place!

Open questions:
Here are interrogations we would like to share with you:
 * if Wikipedia can be considered as a tool to re·write history, how would you like it to be written?
 * what is the influence the way we write on the representation of history and its main figures?
 * can writing ever be neutral?

Threads started during previous Just For The Record events:

 * start a discussion about the fact that the heroine page redirects automatically to a supposed neutral “hero” page, which is (was) in fact mainly masculine.
 * question the principles behind the gender redirects on Wikipedia: pages that are automatically redirected to a “neutral” term (or one of the other sex): which ones go from a feminine or maculine term to a neutral term, which go from feminine to masculine and which from masculine to feminine?
 * create a banner to highlight the lack of (gender) diversity on a page in French
 * systematically verify how women are mentioned on Wikipedia pages: not starting with whose sister they were, how many children they had, etc.
 * based on a book about African women film makers, improve the articles of the women concerned.
 * many more to come!

Articles that need your help!
Here is a list of lists identifying articles that could benefit from edits and expansion.


 * The Art+Feminism list of article to be improved
 * Women Artists, by the Women in Red
 * A list by the project Women in Red
 * Women Artists from all over the world, a list by the Project Women Artists
 * Women scientists, a list by the Project Women Scientists
 * Women writers, a list by the Project Women Writers

These lists mostly link to English Wikipedia, don’t forget your own language’s Wikipedia!

Who are your heroines? (please complete!)
Feminists heroines and activists (but also artists and poets in their own way):


 * Adrienne Rich: NL FR
 * Aliaa Elmahdy: NL FR
 * Audre Lorde: NL FR
 * bell hooks: NL FR
 * Elizabeth Kaahumanu: NL FR
 * Fatima Mernissi: NL FR
 * Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
 * Harriet Powers: NL FR
 * Harriet Tubman: NL FR
 * Josefa Camejo: NL FR
 * Malala Yousafzai: NL FR
 * María Luisa Cáceres Díaz: NL FR
 * Rosa parks: NL FR
 * Rosario Ibarra de Piedra: NL FR
 * Shirin Ebadi: NL FR
 * Tomoe Gozen: NL FR
 * Tsuda Ume: NL FR
 * Zahra Eshraghi: NL FR

Artists, writers, poets (but also often feminists heroines and activists):


 * Adrian Piper: NL FR
 * Alma Woodsey Thomas: NL FR
 * Assia Djebar: NL FR
 * Ayn Rand: NL FR
 * Betye Saar: NL FR
 * Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: NL FR
 * Dorothee Wong Loi Sing: NL FR
 * Jie Zhang: NL FR
 * Kara Walker: NL FR
 * Lorna Simpson: NL FR
 * Mary Edmonia Lewis: NL FR
 * María Teresa Carreño: NL FR
 * Marína Ivánovna Tsvetájeva: NL FR
 * Maya Angelou: NL FR
 * Nina Simone: NL FR
 * Odetta: NL FR
 * Renee Cox: NL FR
 * Sofía Ímber: NL FR
 * Zora Neale Hurston: NL FR

Resources for editing

 * Art+Feminism resources
 * Gender gap resources

Articles improved
Alphabetical by first letter
 * 1) Kristien Hemmerechts --
 * 2) bell hooks

Articles created
Alphabetical by first letter
 * 1) She's Beautiful When She's Angry --

Participants - Sign Up Here!
Sign here to help us learn more about how users interact with Wikipedia! If you sign up, we can observe how your username uses the Wikimedia projects during and after this event. This will help us to better measure the effectiveness of this event and similar programs. This means that your publicly available activity and the information you share with us during this event may be processed by the Wikimedia Foundation, Art+Feminism, and the organizers of the local event, and may be transferred to or from the US and other countries that may not have the same level of privacy regulation that your country does. However, we will not share your information with third parties or publicly unless it's in aggregated or anonymized form. 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) Do you have a Wikipedia User Name?
 * No? Create a Wikipedia account
 * Yes? Go to Step #2
 * 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


 * 1) Romaine (talk) 10:56, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 2) Loraine Lfurter (talk) 11:43, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 3) Bibboy16 (talk) 11:59, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 4) Inge Taha (talk) 12:25, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 5) Joan Blondell (talk) 13:18, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 6) SvenDK