Ruth E. Carter
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Wikipedia has a policy titled "No Angry Mastodons"
“‘No Angry Mastodons’ deals with posting under the influence of anger and offers recommendations on how to avoid other people stampeding.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_angry_mastodons
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Ryka Aoki
Wikipedia’s Five Pillars
“Access to resources and expertise carries with it a responsibility to the broader information ecology”
-Char Booth
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https://wikiedu.org/blog/2015/02/02/char-booth-wikipedia-1/
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Organizers
Undergraduate Mason Peer Coaches
Background Research and Music
Rebekah D’Amato
David Candelas
Priscilla Gutierrez
Kameron Joyner
Bibi Lopez
Edi Martinez-Flores
Jason Meza
Planning team
Patricia Baley
Brittany Fiedler
Chelsea Heinbach
Rosan Mitola
Matthew Murray
Kate Wintrol
Leonor Fini
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“Wikipedia has been criticized for having a systemic racial bias in its coverage, due to an under-representation of people of color within its editor base.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Wikipedia#cite_note-philly-88
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Tang Shu-shuen
“A community organized event that aims to teach folks how to edit, update, and add articles on Wikipedia. These events take place year-round at museums, coffee shops, colleges, and community centers.”
http://www.artandfeminism.org/find-an-event/
What is an Edit-a-thon?
By Wikimedia Taiwan (Adapt from) [CC BY-SA 4.0]
“When we don’t tell our stories or participate in the ways our history is preserved, it gets erased. Gaps in the coverage of knowledge about women, gender, feminism, and the arts on one of the most visited websites in the world is a big problem and we need your help to fix it.”
http://www.artandfeminism.org/
<10% of editors on Wikipedia are women
Pablita Velarde
CongressEdits (or @congressedits) is an automated Twitter account created in May 2014 that tweets changes to Wikipedia articles that originate from IP addresses within the ranges assigned to the United States Congress.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CongressEdits
By Lëa-Kim Châteauneuf (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
“Roughly 80–90% of the volunteers writing Wikipedia are men. It’s perhaps no coincidence that Wikipedia’s biographies of women are often lacking in quality – or don’t exist at all.”
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Georgette Seabrooke Powell
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A+F Peru
By Yhhue91 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0]
Art+Feminism is a campaign improving coverage of cis and transgender women, feminism and the arts on Wikipedia. From coffee shops and community centers to the largest museums and universities in the world, Art+Feminism is a do-it-yourself and do-it-with-others campaign teaching people of all gender identities and expressions to edit Wikipedia.
http://www.artandfeminism.org/
Assia Dagher
Ways to contribute to Wikipedia
Add citations
Create diagrams
Translate
Add information
Copyedit
Add images
“I believe that helping Wikipedia grow, as well as fostering its development, is a moral duty of all those privileged enough to attend college. Sharing knowledge with those who do not have easy access to it is the least we can do.”
-Dariusz Jemielniak
“Both academics and researchers working with the foundation agree that the online encyclopedia suffers from a dearth of information about black history, too often petering out when the topics extend past the well-known names and events of slavery and the civil rights movement.”
-NYTimes
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/20/us/at-howard-a-historically-black-university-filling-in-wikipedias-gaps-in-color.html
Oluchi
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“Studies have shown that content on Wikipedia suffers from the bias of its editors — mainly technically inclined, English-speaking, white-collar men living in majority-Christian, developed countries in the Northern hemisphere.
Those are the guys who decided it was a good idea to remove female American novelists to a special “American Female Novelists” page.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/15/wikipedia-gender-racial-bias_n_7054550.html
Spanish Wikipedia:
75% articles about men
<25% articles about women