Art + Feminism: Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon

Join us for an Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Burchfield Penney Art Center!

What is an Art + Feminism Edit-a-thon?

Art + Feminism edit-a-thons are organized in March for the community to learn how to edit Wikipedia and address the gender gap in its representation of women. We edit Wikipedia to counter the historical absences of cis and trans women stories in the record.

In 2011, the Wikimedia Foundation found that less than 10% of editors on the platform were women. Participants in Art + Feminism events learn how to edit Wikipedia, create new articles and improve existing content concerning women-identifying women. We welcome people of all gender expressions and identities to participate.

March 25th at the Burchfield Penney Art Center: 

The Burchfield Penney Art Center is hosting a community edit-a-thon focused on Western New York women artists. Participants may choose to write on internationally regarded women artists in our Artpark collection, documenting their time at this historic, publicly-funded WNY public art residency program (1974-1990) in the Wikipedia record.  

The Burchfield will provide visual tutorials and technical assistance, hands-on archive research materials and citation practices, and a community space at the museum with light refreshments. You will learn how to responsibly document community events on Twitter (keyword: consent). You will learn how to produce archive-based histories and publish them on Wikipedia!

How to participate:

Attendees bring a laptop with power cord to the event. If available, please bring a hotspot or Buffalo State login information with you. We suggest attendees register for a Wikipedia account and a Twitter account before attending.

Participants must register by e-mailing gringha@buffalostate.edu to ensure your place. Please just e-mail us your name, age, and let us know you plan to attend. Registration will close when we reach legal capacity for our space, and we will let you know if your registration has been accepted or if we are at capacity.

We welcome people of all gender expressions and identities to participate. Content produced will concern women-identifying women on Wikipedia.

Moderator:

Jennifer Seaman Cook is a published American Studies scholar, writer, and documentary media maker specializing in cultural and social movements, media studies, spatial digital humanities, and archival documentary for exhibition, TV, web, and mobile app. Jennifer’s essays can be found in 3am Magazine, PopMatters, Salon, and Heide Hatry’s bioethical photography book “Not A Rose”. She has consulted on documentaries shown with The Science Museum of London, The Royal Academy of Arts, and PBS. Her interactive mobile documentaries investigating cultural politics and poetic interventions of the archive in public space have exhibited at the Burchfield Penney Art Center and the World Infringement Congress in Montreal. She is also a project archivist for the Artpark archive on a historic, publicly-funded emergent media public arts program, in collection at the Burchfield Penney Art Center.