I was an organizing team member for Pittsburgh's first Art + Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon featuring introductory tutorials for the beginner Wikipedian. At Carnegie Mellon University, our specific focus was to add and enhance articles on women and femme-identifying artists working at the intersection of art + technology.
Art+Feminism is a rhizomatic campaign dedicated to introducing more women in the arts into Wikipedia, and to empower women to edit the internet’s largest encyclopedia. Wikipedia’s gender trouble is well-documented. Wikimedia’s 2013 study The Wikipedia Gender Gap Revisited revealed that 84% of Wikipedia’s editors were male. The Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon seeks to encourage more women to contribute and correct the bias inherent in the lack of female participation.
