Wikipedia:Meetup/Las Vegas/ArtAndFeminism 2016

Nevada celebrates Women's History Month

ArtAndFeminism Edit-a-thon
at Lied Library
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Event information
Date	Saturday, March 5, 2016
Time	11:00 am – 5:00pm PST
Location	Amargosa Room Lied Library @ University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Address	4505 S Maryland Pkwy Las Vegas, NV 89154
Organizers	UNLV Libraries, and the UNLV Department of Art
Facilitator	Rosiestep (talk)
Fees	None! This event is free of charge.
What to bring	laptop computer
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Pre-event preparation	Create a Wikipedia account Read a quick editing tutorial Look at a biography template ... and Biographies of living people ... and Infobox template – person Wikipedia markup cheatsheet The "Sandbox"
Training videos	1. The Gender Gap 2. Basic Rules of Wikipedia editing 3. Anatomy of a Page 4. Your First Edits: Userpages and the Sandbox 5. Meet-Up Pages 6. Adding Citations 7. Adding Images to Articles 8. Creating New Articles

In honor of Women's History Month, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas is organizing and hosting a workshop and edit-a-thon on Saturday, March 5th, 2016. UNLV's event is the first Art+Feminism event to take place in Nevada! Refreshments will be available.

Art+Feminism is a campaign to improve coverage of women and the arts on Wikipedia and to encourage female editorship. Last year, over 1,500 participants at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and more than 75 node events around the world participated in the second annual Wikipedia edit-a-thon, resulting in the creation of nearly 400 new pages and significant improvements to 500 articles on Wikipedia. Organizers are hoping to double these results in 2016, and this is where you come in! The edit-a-thon is an event where you can use your own particular skills and subject knowledge to help build the world’s most popular online research tool. It's a great way to do your part to help close the gender gap, begin to acquire new skills, and improve this facet of Wikipedia.

Goals

• To encourage inexperienced editors (especially women) and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia
• To improve a selection of Wikipedia articles related to women artists, critics, dealers, and other women in the visual arts, as well as feminists and feminism
• To increase awareness of the research resources freely available through libraries, archives, and museums

Questions

• Do I need to have any Wikipedia experience to participate? No experience is necessary, and training will be provided along with online access to the resources of Lied Library. However, please register a user account on Wikipedia in advance of the event.
• Do I need to have extensive knowledge on visual arts? Nope! You will be finding information about the artists through our resources. The important thing is knowing how to choose a good source.
• Do I have to be affiliated with the university? Nope again! This event is free and open to the public. We strongly encourage members of the Las Vegas community to participate.
• Do I need to bring anything with me? Please bring your personal laptop computer or tablet and the necessary charging cables. WiFi is available in the library, as are additional computers.
• How do I get there? Please follow these driving directions to get to Lied Library. Amargosa Room is located on the first floor of the library (please see this floor map for an exact location).
• Will there be parking available? Metered and permit parking around the library is free on the weekends.

Suggested articles to work on

Volunteers should feel free to add the names of notable women in the arts who need a better Wikipedia presence, especially ones whose articles could be improved by the inclusion of research resources from UNLV. These lists are not intended to be comprehensive, but rather to provide a starting point for work by edit-a-thon participants. If you are not sure where to start, don't hesitate to ask for help!

• Possible articles to create:

• Art+Feminism list of redlinks
• WikiProject Women artists' list of redlinks
• WikiProject Women in Red's list of redlinks

• Possible articles to improve:

• Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Stubs
• Stub-class women artists articles

Art+Feminism research resources

• WomenArts and
• WomenArts Network Artist Directory
• List of Directories of Women Artists
• Support Women Artists Now Day
• Jstor (subscription required)
• Project MUSE (subscription required)
• The Feminist Art Project at Rutgers University
• Ubu Web
• Digital Public Library of America
• Archives of American Art
• National Museum of Women in the Arts
• National Women's History Museum
• Women's History Sourcebook
• MoMA Learning
• Women Artists in the MoMA Online Collection
• Tate Learning
• The Getty Online
• New Museum Digital Archive
• Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum and Brooklyn Museum Feminist Art Base
• National Women's History Project
• Arts: Search
• Art and Feminism (book)
• The Reckoning: Women Artists of the New Millennium (book)
• After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art (book)
• Canadian Art Database
• Sophia Smith Collection, Women's History Archives at Smith College
• n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal
• Indiana University Bloomington, List of Open Access Art History Resources
• Getty Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)
• IAM Intense Art Magazine - Women in the fields of visual arts, fashion, design and architecture in Africa.
• Contemporary Arab Women's Art: Dialogues of the present, edited by Fran Lloyd (book)
• Women and Art in South Africa by Marion Arnold (book)
• Canadian Women Artists History Initiative
• Artists in Canada

Useful templates for artists

• Template:Infobox artist
• Template:US-artist-stub
• American artist stub templates
• Article under construction template: {{under construction | placedby = | comment = Article in progress, [[Wikipedia:Meetup/Las Vegas/ArtAndFeminism 2016]] }}

Outcomes

Articles improved

Alphabetical by first letter

1. American Museum of Ceramic Art -- DigitDiva (talk)
2. Cat Mazza -- MaddyVannity (talk)
3. Ellen Altfest -- Lambsong (talk)
4. Emily Mast -- Lambsong (talk)

New articles

Alphabetical by first letter

1. Bronwyn Lundberg -- Eragonsaphire (talk)
2. Celia Álvarez Muñoz -- Babelitocs (talk)
3. Lucy Fradkin -- Alinarae (talk), Eragonsaphire (talk)
4. María Teresa Torras -- Rosiestep (talk)
5. Mary Antonia Wood -- Lambsong (talk)
6. Reem al Faisal -- DigitDiva (talk)
7. Sarah Zucker -- Eragonsaphire (talk)
8. Skowmon Hastanan -- MJPC14 (talk)
9. Susan Grabel -- Eragonsaphire (talk)

Redlink

1. Nava Atlas

Help after the event

• The Wikipedia Teahouse, a friendly place to ask questions and help new editors get started
• WikiProject Women Artists, an ongoing WikiProject dedicated to ensuring quality and coverage of biographies of women artists
• WikiProject Women in Red, an ongoing WikiProject dedicated to women's biographies and women's works broadly construed
• N.B. There is an IRC channel!

Wikipedia:IRC/wikipedia-en-help

• #wikipedia-en-help ^connect

Invite

• {{ArtAndFeminism Las Vegas invite}}

External links

• UNLV

• UNLV Libraries
• Lied Library
• Amargosa Room at Lied Library

• Art+Feminism

Participants - Sign Up Here!

Prior to the event:

1. Do you have a Wikipedia User Name?

   No? Create a Wikipedia account

   Yes? Go to Step #2

2. Sign up! Add your Wikipedia User Name to this section by clicking the blue button below (follow instructions). Your name will be added to the bottom of this page
   

Don't worry! If you haven't edited Wikipedia before and don't have a Wikipedia User Name yet, we will help you on the day of the event! And remember to have fun!

To sign up for this event: Log in or create an account.

1. Alinarae (talk) 19:18, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
2. Babelitocs (talk) 20:58, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
3. catrina herbert
4. DigitDiva (talk)
5. Eragonsaphire (talk) 19:18, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
6. Lambsong (talk)
7. MaddyVannity (talk) 23:39, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
8. MJPC14 (talk) 19:15, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
9. Rosiestep (talk)
10. Stormyeh (talk) 00:08, 6 March 2016 (UTC)