Wikipedia:Meetup/justfortherecord/Events/heroines

= 15.01.2016 Heroines (disambiguation) =

A day dedicated to presentations, discussions and Wikipedia editing, addressing gender issues around the theme of heroines, with guests Catherine Lenoble and Clara Thomine.

Despite Wikipedia's efforts to come up with solutions to live up to their motto “the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit”, not only do the contributors predominantly identify as men, but the contents published also show partial gender representations. With platforms as Wikipedia becoming more important in our society these issues require attention. As a symbolic example, the article ‘heroine’ is automatically redirected to the article ‘hero’, and its emblematic figures are mostly male. Next to the issues of authorship and subject matter, the writing style and article structure that have become idiomatic on Wikipedia cause their own issues. A classic example of this is the amount of articles about women that starts with “this woman was the sister/wife of this famous man” in their first or second sentence. During Heroines, we will take these observations as the point of departure for lectures and discussions, and intervention—the day includes a crash course in Wikipedia editing.


 * Venue: Pianofabriek, Brussels
 * Date: 15.01.2016, 10:00-18:00
 * Language: English, French, Dutch
 * 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 should bring their own laptops and power cords. Light lunch and drinks will be provided, as well as childcare.
 * A temporary library will be set up by the participants who are invited to bring their books and digital documents to feed the edit-a-thon!

Program

 * 10:00 – welcome at PianoFabriek with tea and coffee
 * 10:30 – presentation of Just For The Record
 * 11:00 – presentation by Catherine Lenoble on ‘Heroines (disambiguation)’
 * 12:00 – open discussion on the representation of heroines on Wikipedia: what can be added or modified?
 * 13:00 – lunch break
 * 14:00 – crash course on Wikipedia editing and start of the editing session
 * 17:00 – intervention by Clara Thomine
 * 18:00 – end of the day with the finissage of Catherine Lenoble’s exhibition Anna K at Constant vzw

Guests
Catherine Lenoble is a Brussels-based writer who explores ways of reading and writing in present time, experimenting with cross-genre narratives and hybrid fictional objects (print, online). She is engaged with writing in different collaborative environments and co-initiated the research group Algo-lit (algorithms & literature) in 2012. Her project Anna K, is currently shown at Constant vzw and online, and a fiction, Anna K, is to be published by HYX editions in 2016.

Clara Thomine a Brussels-based performance, video and installation artist. She studied at École nationale supérieure d’art de Nancy until 2011, after which she obtained an MFA in installation, performance and video from ERG, Brussels in 2014. She recently won the Prix de la SOFAM Médiatines Bruxelles (2014), and the Prix de l’Institut français at the Mulhouse Biennale (2015) and is currently having a solo show at c-o-m-p-o-s-i-t-e gallery in Brussels.

Participants
Register here!! (24 people present, with a few extra after 17:00)


 * Cathsign
 * Marielec
 * ScarletBrapae
 * Lfurter
 * Romaine
 * Mimirecord
 * Glinte
 * GudlDC
 * Louisettmitraillette
 * AstridGB
 * Jessthelez
 * Blanche goldberg
 * Rossil123
 * jacksonplouc
 * OonaVC
 * Betekenis
 * Differently confused user
 * Sarah magnan
 * RipleyKAM
 * Léonie Butler
 * Lionel Scheepmans ✉ Contact (French native speaker)
 * MMelvaer
 * Stezsazsa

Contributions

 * Hero article edition (history)
 * Heroine (disambiguation) page
 * Even and project notification on various talk pages with redirection to this talk:hero section
 * Liste des voies de Bruxelles se référant à un nom de femme, et entre autre Rue Edith Cavell

List of heroines
Heroine or Hera

SUPERHEROINES https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_superheroines The following is a list of superheroines (female superheroes) in comic books, television, film, and other media. Each character's name is followed by the publisher's name in parentheses; those from television or movies have their program listed in square brackets, and those in both comic books and other media appear in parentheses.

SPORTS

 * Diana Nyad
 * Martina Navratilova
 * Billie Jean King

ANIMAL WELFARE & NATURE

 * Jane Goodall
 * Sylvia Earle (Marine biologist)
 * Edith Widder (Ocean scientist)

ADVENTURERS
Markham’s autobiography, West with the Night (1942), is more than just a story of being the first person to fly non-stop from England to North America.
 * Beryl Markham
 * Jo Carstairs (Island owner/car racer)
 * Amelia Earhart (aviator)

RACIAL ISSUES
Ms. Parks stood up for her rights by remaining seated, and in doing so, sparked a movement that led to long-overdue equal rights for African Americans.
 * Rosa Parks

SAINTS, NURSES & WAR HEROES / SMUGGLERS / RESISTANCE
When this 17-year-old WWII nurse was mistaken for a man on the field, she didn’t protest. Instead, she fought in several battles and was appointed as the leader of a reconnaissance squad. Even after being wounded four times and her gender was discovered, her platoon continued to fight. She received more than 40 medals of Honor for her act of valor. This heroic abolitionist escaped from slavery herself at the age of 29 and helped others obtain their freedom by leading 13 Underground Railroad missions. She was later employed by the Union Army, becoming the first woman to lead an armed expedition in the war and liberating more than 700 slaves in South Carolina. Helen Adams Keller was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree.
 * Mother Teresa?
 * Florence Nightingale
 * Jeanne d’Arc
 * Queen Elizabeth I (last of the Tudors)
 * Yevdokiya Nikolayevna Zavaliy
 * Harriet Tubman
 * Helen Keller

SEMI FICTIONAL

 * Anne Frank

FICTIONAL

 * Hermione Granger
 * Neither Harry nor Ron would’ve survived their first year at Hogwarts without clever, resourceful Hermione. Even the most frightening situations, she always had a solution.
 * Lisbeth Salander

HEROINE AS A RADICAL CONCEPT

We also learn about history on the micro level, with Cecelia as the representative peasant. She owned land, attended church, served as head of her household, and bought and sold goods and land. Cecelia’s history turns into a woman’s history only when we realize she never married. Because of her spinster status, Cecelia was the sole owner of her land, could will it to whomever she wanted, and made business decisions regarding her property and her farm without having to consult anyone or worrying about heirs—all radical but historically accurate concepts. And all about girl power, however unintentional. Other radical but historically accurate concepts include girls receiving education, women earning the right to vote and own property, women playing sports, women serving as heads of state, women making important scientific discoveries, women taking to the skies, and eventually, women outnumbering men in college. Radical concepts inspired by radical women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Benazir Bhutto, Madame Curie, and Beryl Markham should be celebrated because they were firsts or were important to society or both. They should be recognized not just within the sub-category of women’s history but as part of all of history, threads that altered the pattern of history for everyone.

In those headlines we do find extraordinary people who just happen to be women, and these models of the extraordinary serve as inspiration for current and future generations—for both women and men. A few notables: Lady of the House Congresswoman Jeanette Rankin, who was elected to Congress in 1916, four years before the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote; the African-American contralto Marian Anderson, whose fans included Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower even though she was often not allowed to sing for white audiences; Corazon Aquino, the president of the Philippines who survived six coup attempts and almost made us forget Imelda Marcos’ shoe addiction; and Coco Chanel, the once-impoverished child of France, whose little black dress endures and whose legacy is bottled in pretty, one-ounce containers.

Announce on the Village pump
The working session and its goals were announced on the Village Pump (used to discuss the technical issues, policies, and operations of Wikipedia).

Work on the hero-heroines page

 * more diversity was brought in the first paragraph which was giving only male examples of heroes
 * pictures have been added
 * Washington name has been removed
 * modern fictional hero has been changes + picture of Catwoman
 * ethymology of the word hero arguing on the non neutral hero word proving that a proper heroine page is needed

On the heroines page in french

 * Claude Cahun work called heroine
 * pdf archive of the last publication
 * makes links on several wiki pages which links to

Heroines disambiguation

 * link to Claude Cahun
 * filling more this page with more pictures

Creating a heroine page on discussion

 * create an heroism page that link to hero and heroine page
 * intersectionality
 * creating a gender gap page or link on the heroism
 * fictional heroins
 * using the word era instead of heroine
 * heroines discussion and hesitation and reflection might need a proper page to explain the problematique
 * advise : usually you start to create a new page if it is needed in terms of space, if the first page start to be too long

Talk page of the hero
Explaining all the today changes why and propose them to contribute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Hero

Resources

 * Feminist heroines
 * Quite a few heroines on the Women's_suffrage page
 * Judy Chicago's artwork,The Dinner Party, features 39 mythical and historical famous women in the place settings and 999 more in the List of women in the Heritage Floor, see also the research panels
 * Damsels and Heroines: The Conundrum of the Post-Feminist Disney Princess
 * The development in Hollywood's gender roles : heroes and heroines in re-interpretations of women's films, 1930-2000
 * The Empowering (Super) Heroine? The Effects of Sexualized Female Characters in Superhero Films on Women
 * The Problem with Female Superheroes
 * Gender and the Popular Heroines (and Heroes) of the Young Adult Dystopia
 * HEROINES, MONSTERS, VICTIMS
 * Fight the power: how the female superhero is finally taking flight
 * Clio magazine, femmes, genres, histoire : Héroïnes