Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Considering Feminisms in Aotearoa New Zealand

Considering Feminisms in Aotearoa New Zealand
This is a draft proposal to Enjoy Public Art Gallery's open call for proposal Considering Feminisms in Aotearoa New Zealand http://www.enjoy.org.nz/files/CalloutConsideringFeminisms.pdf

tl;dr: a wikipedia-editing participatory work to counter systematic bias on wikipedia.

Activities
Potentially a whole lot of activities could be run, but we'd need people to step up and volunteer to lead them:
 * Creating new articles on New Zealand feminists and feminist-aligned activists and activities (people associated with Māori Women's Welfare League, Women's Refuge New Zealand, Marriage- and gender-related NZ legislation, etc)
 * Expanding existing articles (categories such as Category:New Zealand feminists, Category:New_Zealand_women_in_politics, etc)
 * Training sessions for groups under-represented on wikipedia (which is basically everyone but recently-active able-bodied male sports-people and politicians)
 * Attempting to measure some of the dimensions of systematic bias in wikipedias coverage of New Zealand
 * Write audience-specific materials to enable and encourage currently under-represented groups to engage with wikipedia and write their own coverage in their own terms.

Issues

 * Do we need to recast this in more explicitly feminist terms (third wave DIY social constructivism seems like a good place to start)
 * If some of the activities (such as creating/ expanding articles) are purely virtual, are there any barriers to those outside wellington participating?

Potential Participants
Note that Wikimedia (the legal entity behind wikipedia) has no NZ representation, so this would not be an official Wikipedia project, but a project by an ad-hoc group of activists / editors using wikipedia
 * User:Stuartyeates long-term wikipedia editor who has led things such as New Zealand academic biographies (which more than doubled the number of New Zealand female academics on wikipedia), GLAM/National Digital Forum and the DNZB import (which created wikipedia biographies for everyone with an article in the DNZB).
 * User:Ballofstring — interested in helping Wikipedia to become a more inclusive place. (Hopefully able-bodied cis straight men can help address/correct systematic biases!)
 * User:Auchmill recently engaged Wikipedia editor who led a project to increase and improve information about New Zealand craft artists on Wikipedia through the Dowse Art Museum and co-organised an Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon at The Dowse this year.
 * User:Tanifa (Brenda) keen to be involved.

Organising
,, , due to family commitments, it works out that I'm not going to be able to do the organisation for this. I'm happy to do editing as required, particular if it's my usual kinds of editing. Stuartyeates (talk) 20:45, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi ! Sorry for my slow reply. I'm starting a new job and have quite a lot on my plate too at the moment, so I also don't feel like I can lead this. Still happy to help though! Cheers Ballofstring (talk) 09:12, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Oh, I see it's already closed. Sorry! Ballofstring (talk) 09:13, 18 May 2015 (UTC)