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[[File:WMUK-Women%27s_Arts_Practices_editathon_2014-03-08_17.jpg|right|220px|thumb|Some attendees enjoying the event]]
[[File:Group Photo, WikiSym+OpenSym2013, Hong Kong.jpg|thumb|250px|Group photo of participants of WikiSym+OpenSym 2013 in Hong Kong]]


''This post was written by Althea Greenan of the Women’s Art Library at Goldsmiths College''
As a part of Wikimedia UK's continued efforts to support the Wikimedia community the the UK, we regularly offer scholarships to enable attendance at international conferences and meetings. Past scholarships have enabled members to attend previous years' [[:en:Wikimania|Wikimania]], [[:WikiSym|WikiSym]] and Wikimedia Hackathon events, such as the [[:mw:Amsterdam Hackathon 2013|2013 Hackathon event]] in Amsterdam. This year, as a result of our support, Wikimedians in the UK have been able to attend the [[:commons:Commons:Wikipedians in European Parliament|European Parliament in Strasbourg]] to take photos and videos of European Parliament members and attend the [http://edu.wikimedia.rs/index.php?title=EduWiki_Conference_2014 EduWiki conference] in Belgrade, Serbia to share Wikimedia UK's experiences from our education-related outreach activities.


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.
Two further scholarship opportunities are now available, the first for Open Knowledge Festival and the second to OpenSym. OKFestival, run by the [[:en:Open Knowledge Foundation|Open Knowledge Foundation]] is an open data and open knowledge conference that will bring together over 1,000 people from more than 60 countries in a bid to encourage innovation in the open sector through sharing experiences and skills. Furthermore, the event is a celebration of the open movement itself and what it has already achieved. OpenSym, previously known as WikiSym, is the International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration where researchers from all over the world gather to present their latest research and practice on "open access, open data, open education resources, IT-driven open innovation, open source, wikis and related social media, and Wikipedia". Both of these conferences are being held in Berlin, Germany with OKFestival on 15th-17th July and OpenSym on 27th-29th August.


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.
To qualify for either scholarship, you must be based in the UK, be able to travel to Berlin and attend all days of the event, and agree to produce a public report (which may be published on the Wikimedia UK blog and in our newsletters) summarising the key things that you have taken from the event. Applicants for OpenSym must also be engaging in research about Wikimedia or other free content projects. The scholarship will cover conference registration fee, travel, accommodation, along with a per diem allowance to cover local expenses.


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.
Complete [https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/civicrm/grant/transact?reset=1&id=1 this online form] by Sunday 20th April to apply for a scholarship to OKFestival. The deadline for OpenSym scholarship is Sunday 30th April, and you can apply [https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/civicrm/grant/transact?reset=1&id=2 here].
 
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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