Wikipedia:Meetup/justfortherecord/Events/wivesanddaughters

06.05.2017Wives and daughters of: changing the narrative on Wikipedia

Wives and daughters of: changing the narrative on Wikipedia
Just for the Record is happy to organize an edit-a-thon in the context of Ladyfest Maastricht. We will give a two hour workshop during the first day of this 2 day not for profit, community-based music and art festival which aims to create a platform for expression, creation, discussion, collaboration, and celebration of feminists, women, trans and gender-non-conforming people. Ladyfest aims to give space for deconstructing, exploring and critically reflecting upon what it means to be a ‘lady’ in today’s world and to open up a dialogue about the diversity of experiences through a range of artistic expressions, workshops, performances, lectures, and discussions Free event, open to all, with food and drinks provided! Send us an email at info[at]justfortherecord.space to book a place + get more info! Bring your laptop.

Practical Information

 * Venue: Mandril Cultural and Political Centre, Cabergerweg 45, 6219 PE Maastricht, Nederland
 * Date: Saturday 6.05.2017
 * Time: 13:00-15:00
 * Language: Presentations in English
 * 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?

First steps on wikipedia

 * Add your name to the participant list of this event at the bottom of this page
 * Write some informations on your own wiki page by clicking on your user name at the top of the page (so that your name doesn't appear in red when you start editing articles)
 * Write some informations on your Sandbox, also at the top of the page
 * Improve an existing article
 * Create a new article

Articles that need your help!
Here are lists identifying articles that could benefit from edits and expansion:
 * The Art+Feminism list of articles 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

Translations

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

Look for problematic language
The page Writing about women offers great insights. Look for the following problems in existing pages and try to fix them: <!--
 * Man as false generic: Ban the use of the words man, men and mankind to refer to a person or persons of unspecified sex or to persons of both sexes.
 * Male is not the default: Avoid labelling a woman as a female (ex: author, politician etc.), unless her gender is explicitly relevant to the article. An opposite example is saying male nurse.
 * Use surnames: Look for articles using surnames for men, while calling women by their first name. See example
 * Infoboxes are an important source of metadata (see DBpedia) and a source of discrimination against women. For example, the word spouse is more likely to appear in a woman's infobox than in a man's.
 * This is a good and terrifying exercise, try to find a page (that is not) defining women by their relationships in the first paragraph.
 * One study found that women on Wikipedia are more linked to men than men are linked to women.
 * Use gender-neutral nouns when describing professions and positions
 * Try changing the order in which groups are introduced – man and woman, male and female, Mr. and Mrs., husband and wife, brother and sister
 * The use of the generic he (masculine pronouns such as he, him, his) is increasingly avoided in sentences that might refer to men and women.
 * Avoid problematic phrasing when talking about married people. See examples
 * Do not refer to adult women as girls or ladies!
 * Avoid images that objectify women!

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

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Ideas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilma_af_Klint - find out more about "The Five"-are they concerned with womens issues or just an artist collective? change definition then

possible bot idea: allow search for specific things, e.g. articles refering to women by first name instead of surname

Articles edited

 * First ladies of the United States

Participants

 * Seriouspersonontheinternets (talk) 12:25, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Justfortheladyfest (talk) 12:28, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Léonie Butler
 * kittibarf
 * Sarah magnan
 * Lfurter
 * MMelvaer
 * GudlDC
 * SophieStein