- Sunday, March 8, 2015
- 1:00pm – 4:00pm
- Mentoring Artists for Women's Art, 611 Main Street
On March 8, MAWA will join an international effort called Art+Feminism to improve coverage of women in the arts on Wikipedia and address gender inequality on the site, a well-documented problem. As the organizers note: “The reasons for the gender gap are up for debate: suggestions include leisure inequality, how gender socialization shapes public comportment, and the contentious nature of Wikipedia’s talk pages. The practical effect of this disparity, however, is not. Content is skewed by the lack of female participation. Many articles on notable women in history and art are absent on Wikipedia. This represents an alarming aporia in an increasingly important repository of shared knowledge.”
Last year, a total of 600 people met at 31 international sites, creating 101 new articles, and improving 90 articles on women and art. Join us at MAWA on International Women’s Day and take part in a hands-on effort to continue to narrow the online gender gap. Bring your laptop and we will provide a tutorial on how to post on Wikipedia to help get you started – no experience required! For more information, check out: wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism