Welcome to the Sarah Lawrence Library's Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon Page!
Join us for an Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
Wednesday, March 8 from 4 pm to 7 pm in the Library Reading Room
to try to close the gender gap on Wikipedia.
Sign in on our PROGRAM DASHBOARD
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As part of the Art+Feminism movement, we will focus on women in the arts, but you are welcome to work on articles on women in other fields.
"Wikipedia hosts 1.7 million biographies. Not even 20% of those are about women. If Wikipedia wants to become the sum of human knowledge, this needs to change. With such a large gender gap, we are far from reaching this goal." (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celebrate_Women)
In this research guide, you will find the tools you need to become an editor on Wikipedia and you will learn about the different types of changes you can make to help improve the site's representation of women and close the Wikipedia gender gap.
This Research Guide is broken into several pages:
How to Edit in Wikipedia: This page will lead you to many resources that will teach you how to edit on Wikipedia. If possible, we suggest you look over these resources before the Edit-a-Thon. If you don't get a chance, you are still very welcome to attend--someone will be on hand to help you get started. Even as an absolute beginner, you will still be able to complete tasks at the event.
The Gender Gap on Wikipedia and Gender Inequity in the Arts: Information on gender inequity in the arts and on Wikipedia.
Tasks: This page lists and explains the different types of activities you can do during the edit-a-thon to make a difference in the representation of cis and trans women on Wikipedia. Different tasks will take different amounts of time and will require different levels of experience.
What to Work On: Links to several lists of articles on women in the arts that need attention as well as lists of entries that need to be created. These are the articles (or lack of articles) where you will actually carry out the task types highlighted on the previous page.
Where to Find Sources: Check out this page for links out to resources on women artists that you may be able to use to inform your edits, as well as thoughts on where to search
Art+Feminism Safe Space/Brave Space Policy: This page includes the full text of the Art+Feminism policy on keeping the Wikipedia Edit-a-Thons safe spaces for everyone involved in the event. We expect that all attendees will adhere to this policy.
This Wikipedia edit--a-thon is being organized as part of the larger Art+Feminism movement. Many training materials in this guide as well as the Brave Space/Safe Space policy are form Art _Feminism. You can learn more about the organization here: https://artandfeminism.org/
If you have any questions about the event, about getting up to speed on editing Wikipedia, or about the movement to improve representation on the site, reach out to us at reference@sarahlawrence.edu.
