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[[File: | [[File:WMUK-Women%27s_Arts_Practices_editathon_2014-03-08_17.jpg|right|220px|thumb|Some attendees enjoying the event]] | ||
''This post was written by | ''This post was written by Althea Greenan of the Women’s Art Library at Goldsmiths College'' | ||
How did the [https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Women%27s_Arts_Practices_editing_event_at_Women%27s_Art_Library,_Goldsmiths Wikipedia editathon] come about with regards to women artists? There have been a number of editathons that led to the session I held here recently. | |||
I organized a modest follow up (8th March) of a much bigger event (1 Feb 2014) organised with Wikimedia NYC. This major event in the US inspired satellite events elsewhere including an event that took place at Middlesex University. The event I organised for the Women’s Art Library to celebrate [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Women%27s_Day International Women’s Day], was not only a follow up to this initiative from the librarians in the US, but is something I’ve been wanting to do ever since I became aware of the Wikimedian community and the GLAM projects that connect with collections in Galleries, Libraries and Museums. I have also been in discussions with artists groups such as conversation to be had from which emerged the awareness that women artists are not represented adequately in Wikipedia. It demonstrates the bias of content resulting from a lack of women writers, scholars and content creators. | |||
I am the curator of the [http://www.gold.ac.uk/make/ Women’s Art Library] which was originally set up in the late 1970s as a slide registry building a centre of documentation and arts activities that raised awareness of women’s art practice. This organisation operated over several decades and the collection, now in Goldsmiths, continues to act as a centre for research and new art projects, and a space for interventions promoting the work of women, such as the Wikipedia workshop. The charity Wikimedia UK provides trainers, volunteers, who demystify, but also set standards on how to contribute good quality articles to Wikipedia, and it seemed like a very obvious thing to set up and see if it flies. | |||
It was a very successful, exciting debate regarding the feminist strategy, born of necessity, that we need to write our own histories, set in the context of a rapidly expanding global resource that is seeking to be inclusive and yet maintain high, impartial standards of knowledge sharing. It is absolutely necessary to take up the challenge this opportunity brings and the important result from my first workshop is that everyone would like to follow it up with more to build on the knowledge and confidence to create records. | |||
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