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Feminism & Tech: Art & Music
The Feminism & Tech programme at the Feminist Library invites you to our first Editathon focusing on contributors and works of Art & Music.

We'll be talking about feminist art & music in the digital age with artists, academics and activists, and creating new feminist pages on Wiki!

Schedule of the day:

12-2 Panel with Rhiannon Williams of Feminist Internet, Her Noise Archive's Louise Marshall, and Hannah Evans from Wikimedia UK. Chaired by Clara from Feminist Internet.

2-3 Break & tour of the Feminist Library

3-4 Workshop with Wikimedia UK - Edit-a-thon!

4-5 Coming back together - brainstorming and discussion

Editathon Participants
Hannah Evans (WMUK) (talk)
 * Hannah Evans (WMUK) (talk)

Pages being worked on

 * e.g The Feminist Library
 * Second Wave Feminism

Event Context: The Gender Gap
With 47 million articles in 229 languages, Wikipedia is a well-established force for the democratisation of knowledge, and a key outreach tool, with one recent study showing that the encyclopedia shapes, as well as reflects, scientific thought.

However, Wikipedia has a gender problem: the encyclopedia's editors and its content is weighted towards men.

In a, the Foundation found that only around 9% of contributors identified as female, and less than 1% as trans*. This imbalance in demographic leads to a content gap - as of 1 January 2018, just 17.37% of biographies on English Wikipedia were about women. It’s a form of systemic bias that both the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikipedia community are working to fix, with projects like Wikiproject Women in Red and the Gender Gap Task Force. But we need more people to help.



Existing Feminist Content on Wikipedia

 * The Wikipedia Feminism Portal
 * Feminist History
 * Timeline of Second Wave Feminism

What can I do to prepare?
1) Most importantly please create a Wikipedia account before you arrive, so that you can get on editing those pages right away!

2) Learn a little about Wikipedia editing if you can before you arrive Tutorial, or Getting started on Wikipedia for more information

3) Learn about creating women's biographies: Primer for creating women’s biographies

4 Learn more about good practice for writing about women on Wikipedia: Writing about women

Other Helpful Resources

 * Wikipedia's guidance on writing about books


 * For more guidance on the use of sources, see this guide here.


 * Shareable Images can be found through a Creative Commons search(which includes Google, Flickr & Wikicommons in its search).


 * Art and Feminism's 'How to Edit' Resources