Wikipedia:Meetup/Brussels/ArtAndFeminism 2015

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• Language: English, French, Dutch
• Cost: Free
• Date: Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th of March, 13:00-18:00
• Co-organized by: Loraine Furter and F/LAT
• Venue: Vaartstraat 45 Rue du Canal, Brussels
• Participants: Open to anyone interested in this experience: beginners welcome! débutant(e)s bienvenu(e)s! beginners welkom! Experienced Wikipedia editors will be present and will share their knowledge in editing Wikipedia.
• What to Bring: Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords. Light lunch and drinks will be provided, as well as childcare.
• A temporary Art+Feminism Library will be set up by the participants who are invited to bring their books and digital documents to feed the edit-a-thon!

Saturday 07.03

13:00

• presentation of F/LAT and Free/Libre and Open Source
• presentation of Wikimedia & Wikipedia (project, structure, ...)
• the gender gap on wikipedia

14:00

• intro on editing Wikipedia (creation of a user account and first steps)

17:00

• discussion on and around Wikipedia as a specific object: the notion of Encyclopedia, the notion of community (and the power and hierarchy issues that can arise), a feminist approach to wikipedia editing.

Sunday 08.03

13:00

• summary of Saturday's presentations for newcomers

15:00

• presentation on the wiki system

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Please add your Wikipedia username to the appropriate section below (signatures are created by saving four tildes [~] in a row). If you haven't edited Wikipedia before, we will help you register for a new Wikipedia editing account on the day-of. (→log in)

• Lfurter (talk) 10:48, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
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• Betekenis (talk) 21:39, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
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• Iffy Virgo Supercluster (talk) 18:43, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
• Virginia Lovelace (talk)
• Léonie Butler (talk)
• Beatriz Hooks (talk)
• Valvoline Rox (talk)
• Laura Barbare (talk)
• Netachepas (talk)
• Dogs with power (talk)
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• Emilie2410 (talk) 15:11, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
• add your name here!

Here are a few suggested articles to create or improve during this edit-a-thon, but you are welcome to work on anything you like.
Please note: This is a crowdsourced list. You can help us by adding to it!

• Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Resources
• Sophia: Belgian genderstudies network feminism+performance & resources
• Rosadoc Brussels, catalogue

• Gender gap
• m:Mind_the_Gap
• Charting Diversity PDF

List or Wikipedia articles attendees have worked to improve.

• Valérie Mréjen on Wikipedia FR
• Inez Nathaniel Walker on Wikipedia FR
• Marie-Éléonore Godefroid
• Lucy R. Lippard on Wikipedia FR
• Susie Silook
• Wendy Orlean Williams
• Double X (feminist art collective)
• Sally-Jean Shackleton
• Lip magazine
• Tezer Özlü
• Allegra Fuller Snyder
• Wikipédia Le Bistro/7 mars 2015 on Wikipedia FR

• The Ada Lovelace edit-a-thon organised by Catherine Lenoble in Variable Brussels
• Wikipedia Illustrated, an initiative by artist illustrator Galia Offri and designer educator Mushon Zer-Aviv.

In order to allow participants with children to join, we are preparing a playground with activities parallel to those proposed to the adults: collaborative creations, use of materials from the public domain, etc!

Please contact us at info[at]lorainefurter.net to inscribe your child(ren).