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Books on Women's History from UArk Libraries
An Edit-a-thon is a community organized event that aims to teach folks how to edit, update, and add articles on Wikipedia. These events take place year-round at museums, coffee shops, colleges, and community centers.
Wikimedia’s gender trouble is well-documented. While the reasons for the gender gap are up for debate, the practical effect of this disparity, however, is not. Content is skewed by the lack of female participation. This represents an alarming absence in an increasingly important repository of shared knowledge.
Let’s change that. Join us for a communal updating of Wikipedia entries on subjects related to art and feminism. We will provide tutorials for the beginner Wikipedians. Bring your laptop, power cord and ideas for entries that need updating or creation. People of all gender identities and expressions are invited to participate.
Art and Feminism (stylized as Art+Feminism) is an annual worldwide edit-a-thon to add content to Wikipedia about female artists and designers. The project has been described as "a massive multinational effort to correct a persistent bias in Wikipedia, which is disproportionately written by and about men".
Art+Feminism's annual campaign attract thousands of volunteers at hundreds of separate events internationally.
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RSVP here!Click on this link to RSVP.
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Enroll in the NW A+F Wikipedia Edit-a-thonIf you already have a Wiki account, sign up here!
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Art+Feminism Wiki TasksThis is a list of articles that Art+Feminism tracks from previous edit-a-thon's output, which also have key article improvement alert templates. These articles will give you different options for the type of editing you might want to do, from adding wiki-links to orphan articles to adding citations, and more.