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SFMOMA is delighted to host another edition of Art + Feminism’s ever-essential Wikipedia edit-a-thon series, this time as a virtual gathering. Join us online for an evening of collaborative Wikipedia updating, focusing on entries related to gender, art, and feminism.

Event Information

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  • Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2021
  • Time: 4 - 8 pm PT
  • Location: Online on Zoom, hosted by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  • Registration: FREE! RSVP here. All are welcome.

What to expect

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To help us get this research party started, SFMOMA staff will provide a sampling of suggested topics and artists whose entries you might like create, augment, or update — including various artists from the upcoming SFMOMA exhibition, Nobody’s Darling. We will also be joined by an experienced Wikipedia editor, who will begin our program with a platform tutorial. We will then break out in to groups depending on the type of edits we wish to work on. The editor will remain available throughout the 4-hour session to answer questions. Drop-in attendance is welcome.

Schedule:

  • 4 - 4:15 pm - Welcome + introductions
  • 4:15 - 5 pm - Guided explanation of how to edit Wikipedia for newcomers, with examples (experienced editors can hang out and edit during this time - we can make a breakout room for you)
  • 5 - 8 pm - Open editing time, with breakout rooms for working together on activities of interest (such as adding images, adding references, etc)

About Art+Feminism

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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. Further, data analysis tools and computational linguistics studies have concluded that Wikipedia has fewer and less extensive articles on women; those same tools have shown gender biases in biographical articles. This is a problem.

When cis and trans women, non-binary people, people of color, and Indigenous communities are not represented in the writing and editing on the tenth-most-visited site in the world, information about people like us gets skewed and misrepresented. The stories get mistold. We lose out on real history. That’s why we’re here: to change it.

Since 2014, over 18,000 people at more than 1,260 Art+ Feminism events around the world have participated in our edit-a-thons, resulting in the creation and improvement of more than 84,000 articles on Wikipedia and its sister projects.

Ground Rules

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We invite people of all gender identities and expressions to participate. Please create a Wikipedia account before the event. You can learn how to do that here. We will be honoring Art + Feminism’s Safe Space/Brave Space policy. Please review the policy before attending.

Participants

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RSVP here to get the Zoom link.

Optional: Add yourself to the event dashboard to help us and the Art+Feminism program track edits and other contributions from this event.

Optional: If you have a Wikipedia account, you can also sign your name by editing this section and typing four tildes ("~~~~") in the list below. If you don't have an account, just write your name below (though it is recommended that you create a user account in advance of the event - create one here!).

Suggestions of articles/projects to work on

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Artists in upcoming "Nobody's Darling" exhibition

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Add references to unreferenced statements + reframe any opinions/interpretations as fact-based statements (such as attributing an interpretation to a reviewer who wrote it):

Expand content:

Evaluate whether there are enough references available to create an article:

Add images of art work (and artist, if possible):

Artists in past "Designed in California" exhibition

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  • Tatiana Bilbao - add references
  • Amy Franceschini - add references, including converting suitable links at the end into references in the article
  • Edith Heath - expand content (review whether cited details removed in this edit may be helpful to restore)
  • Lisa Krohn - improve references by converting list of links at the end into references in the article + reframe opinions/interpretations as fact-based statements (cited to sources)
  • Jennifer Morla - adjust for "neutral point of view" (can remove warning tag after reviewing and adjusting)
  • Barbara Stauffacher Solomon - add references and images of work
  • Jane Fulton Suri - evaluate whether there are enough available references to create a new article
  • Sha Yao - evaluate whether there are enough available references to create a new article

Art movements and more

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Galleries and collectives in the SF Bay Area

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Galleries and collectives outside the SF Bay Area

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Additional lists of articles to edit

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Resources for editing

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New editors: if you'd like to practice some getting-started steps on your own, check out the Interactive Editing Tutorial or Beginners' Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing).

Page expansion and adding references

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To start on this track:

  1. Check out the articles in the "Suggestions" list above, especially the articles noted as needing content expansion or additional references. Skim a few, and pick one that sounds interesting to you! Or pick a totally different article - up to you.
  2. Read the article carefully. Note down any areas that seem like they need improvement, such as awkward sentences or gaps in the story.
  3. Pick a sentence that doesn't have a citation. Look up the information to see if you can find an article in a reliable secondary source (newspaper, magazine, book, scholarly journal, etc) that contains the information in the sentence. If you can't, pick another sentence.
  4. Once you've found a reference you can add, edit the article and use the "cite" button to add it.

To add new content, the easiest process is similar:

  1. Find a good secondary source that contains information about the subject that is missing from the Wikipedia article.
  2. Edit the article. Write a sentence that puts the information in your own words or quotes the source. Add the source as a reference.
  3. Repeat! That's the whole process of adding content to Wikipedia. :D

Photo 101

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To get started:

Do you have any photos that you have taken that you would like to add to Wikipedia, such as a photo of an artist at an event you were at? Or a photo of a building relevant to a Wikipedia article? And are you willing to license your photo for reuse, modification, and even commercial use by other people?

  1. If yes: Upload to Wikimedia Commons
  2. Then edit the article and use the editing toolbar to add the photo.

If your photo is of a piece of artwork: usually, even if you took the photo yourself, the artwork itself is copyrighted, so your photo is a "derivative work", which means you can't simply upload a photo of it and license your photo for reuse.

If you don't have any of your own photos to upload:

  1. Check out the articles in the "Suggestions" list above, especially the articles noted as needing images, or find another article that you're interested in.
  2. See if there are any freely usable photos of the subject available on Wikimedia Commons - if you're lucky and you find one, you can add it to the article by editing the article and inserting the photo.
  3. If not, see if there are any freely usable photos available on Flickr (filter search by "Commercial use & mods allowed"). You can upload it to Wikimedia Commons using the Flickr upload tool, then insert it into the article.

If you can't find any freely-reusable photos and you'd like to add a photo of a copyrighted piece of artwork:

  1. Find an article that would benefit from a photo of the artist's work.
  2. Make sure that the article describes a specific piece of work in some detail, such as describing the work, explaining why that piece is important to the artist's story, noting that it gathered press, it won an award, it was discussed by a critic, etc.
  3. Find a photo of the work, ideally from the artist's website or their gallery's website or similar.
  4. Reduce the size of the photo to about 200px maximum.
  5. Upload it to Wikipedia and write a fair use justification.
  6. Edit the article and add the photo.

Summary:

  • Upload to Wikimedia Commons if it's freely reusable (such as in the public domain)
  • Upload to Wikipedia if it's copyrighted and you can write a strong fair use justification (also make the image 200px or 300px before uploading, and immediately add it to an article that describes or comments on the image)

Guides:

Inbound linking

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The goal here is to help weave the web of Wikipedia: link to articles from other relevant articles!

To get started:

  1. Check out the articles in the "Suggestions" list above and pick one that you find interesting, or find another article that you're interested in.
  2. Read your chosen article and look at the articles it links to. Should any of those articles link back to this one? For example, should this person be linked as a "notable alumnus" from a university article? Or noted in the article of a fellow artist they collaborated with?
  3. Search for the subject within Wikipedia. Do any of the articles in the search results mention the subject by name but don't link to it?
  4. Edit those articles to link to the article!

Copy editing

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Wikipedia has a style guide including punctuation and formatting standards (Wikipedia:Manual of Style) and content guidelines for voice and tone (Wikipedia:Neutral point of view), and you can help fix articles to match them.

  1. Check out the articles in the "Suggestions" list above and pick one that you find interesting, or find another article that you're interested in.
  2. Read it carefully. Are there any issues with it? Are the sentences too long? Do the paragraphs need consolidating or splitting? Does it need fixing to match the style guide? Does it have a promotional tone that could be adjusted?
  3. Edit the article to improve it! Refer to the Manual of Style and Neutral Point of View documents to use Wikipedia best practices.

Citations and style guidelines

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