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Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

Date: Mar 18, 2020 at 9:30am to 4:30pm
Sponsored by Ohio University Libraries and the Women’s Center. Want to see greater representation of women and to help uncover women throughout history that we don’t talk enough about? Join the wonderful folk at Alden Library who will provide materials and training for you to successfully join the Art + Feminism international Wikipedia Edit-a-thon! No prior Wikipedia editing experience is required, and Alden Library staff will be available to assist. According to Art+Feminism: “Wikipedia’s gender trouble is well documented. In a 2011 survey, the Wikimedia Foundation found that less than 10% of its contributors identify as female; more recent research points to 16% globally and 23% in the United States. Further, data analysis tools and computational linguistics studies have concluded that Wikipedia has fewer and less extensive articles on women and the existence of gender biases in biographical articles. This is a problem. Because when women, non-binary, people of color, and Indigenous communities are not represented in the writing and editing on the tenth most visited site in the world, information of people like us, gets skewed and misrepresented. The stories get mistold. We lose out on the real history. That’s why we’re here: to change it.” Learn more at: http://www.artandfeminism.org/