Art+Feminism:
Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 2023
Today’s schedule
2:00–2:10pm Introduction / Warm-up
2:10–2:40pm Tutorial
2:40–4:40pm Wikipedia editing & Your questions
4:40–5:00pm Sharing
Tutorial: bit.ly/tutorial-slidesMar11
What is an edit-a-thon?
An edit-a-thon is an event that aims to teach and bring together participants to improve and add articles on Wikipedia.
We welcome anyone and everyone interested in learning more about editing Wikipedia to attend, regardless of experience, gender, age, or background.
Gender bias on Wikipedia
Only 19% of ~1.5 million biographical articles on the English Wikipedia are about women (2021).
Only 9% of Wikipedia editors identify as cis or trans women (2021).
Source: EGalvez (WMF), Visualization of data from “Community Insights/2018 Report,” https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Insights/2018_Report.
Guerrilla Girls, You’re seeing less than half the picture… (from the series “Guerrilla Girls Talk Back:
The First Five Years, 1985–1990”), 1989. Courtesy of the artists.
This is where you come in
By becoming an editor on Wikipedia, you can help close the gap.
Art+Feminism: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 2020, Asia Art Archive, 7 March 2020. Photo: Winnie Yeung@iMAGE28. Courtesy of M+.
Why Art+Feminism?
Art+Feminism builds an international community that is committed to closing information gaps related to gender, feminism, and the arts, beginning with Wikipedia.
Since 2014, 20,000+ people have participated in A+F edit-a-thons, creating and improving 100,000+ Wikipedia articles.
artandfeminism.org
Results sharing
Since 2018, we have organised eight workshops and have hosted more than 200 participants, who created and improved more than 150 articles.
bit.ly/aaa-edit-a-thons
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars
Wikipedia guidelines
Four editorial principles
A beginner’s guide to Wikipedia
1. Create an account
2. Join the dashboard
3. Anatomy of a Wiki page
4. Edit/Create/Translate an article
5. Sandbox
6. Reliable sources
7. Article suggestions and
online resources
How to create an account?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Username tips:
Sign into the Dashboard
“Join Program” + Passcode: artandfeminism
Sign up on the online dashboard to track your changes and see the collective effort of the participants
Don’t worry if you can’t finish editing today Dashboard tracking continues until 19 March
Anatomy of a Wikipedia page�
Source:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anatomy_of_a_Wikipedia_article.jpg
How to edit an existing article?
If you want to edit an existing article, go to the article in question and click the “Edit” tab at the top right.
Exploring the sandbox
The sandbox page is where you can draft articles before publishing them to make sure they’re at their best. You can find it by clicking on ‘Sandbox’ in the top-right corner of your screen.
How to create an article?
If you want to create an article, use the Wikipedia Article Wizard to get going: bit.ly/wiki-article-wizard
Article Wizard for TC Wikipedia: bit.ly/wiki-article-wizard-tc
How to translate an article?
To translate an existing English article into another language, use Wikipedia’s content translation tool. To enable this tool, please reach out to online or onsite Wikimedians for help, or visit the following page:
bit.ly/content-translation
Reliable sources
You can use academic and peer-reviewed publications, university-level textbooks, books published by respected publishing houses, magazines, journals, and newspapers (online or hard copy).
Unpublished materials, interviews, blogs, gallery websites, and artists’ websites are not considered reliable.
If you’re creating a new article, it’s best to gather at least 4 or 5 reliable sources.
Reliable sources
Adding citations
Use this button to add citations,
either manually or with the automatic citations creator.
Making sure that articles are well-cited helps prevent them from getting deleted.
Linking to other Wikipedia articles
Use this button to add hyperlinks to other Wikipedia articles. This will help readers understand the context.
If you’re creating a new article, try to link to at least 3 or 4 other Wikipedia articles.
Adding images
If you want to upload an image to Wikipedia, the image needs to be part of public domain (expired copyright or public from inception) or under a free license, which means it can be used and shared by anyone, for free. Most images you might find on the internet are copyrighted and not appropriate for uploading to Wikipedia.
Article suggestions & Resources
If you need inspiration or ideas on what you want to work on today, we prepared a suggested shortlist and related resources for you.
Check out the link here: bit.ly/suggestedarticlesMar11�
Tell us your name and the article you’re working on—please avoid working on the same article
Edited articles:
New articles:
Translated articles:
Tell us your name and the article you’re working on—please avoid working on the same article
Dashboard: bit.ly/dashboardMar11
Resources: bit.ly/suggestedarticlesMar11
Frequently asked questions
I joined in late and missed parts of the tutorial. Where do I start?
Have you already registered an account? If not, go to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page and click ‘Create account’ at the top right corner. You can contribute by editing, creating or translating an article today.
I don’t know what article to work on. Any suggestions?
Yes! Check out bit.ly/suggestedarticlesMar11 for online resources and a suggested shortlist of articles to work on.
I have an account and I have an article in mind. How do I start?
Search on Wikipedia to see if there’s already an article created for your subject.
Check out more instructions in the presentation slides here: https://bit.ly/tutorial-slidesMar11 or our English booklet/Chinese booklet.
Article examples