UCLA’s Hammer Museum is working to reform Wikipedia’s gender gap. This Sunday, March 10, it is hosting an Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon focused on women’s achievements in film and media. Folks of all gender identities and expressions are invited to attend with their laptops and create and/or update Wikipedia entries about influential women in arts and entertainment. Training sessions will be provided for beginners.
Women artists and filmmakers are also welcome to drop in and have free portraits taken for Wikimedia Commons.
Art+Feminism, a global campaign seeking to boost Wikipedia’s coverage of women, feminism, and the arts, is organizing over 300 similar Edit-a-Thon events at museums all over the world this month. “Though anyone can edit Wikipedia, studies show that only 13% of Wikipedia editors are women,” the org reveals, “and of the 1.5 million biographies it hosts in English, only 17% are about women.”
The Hammer’s Edit-a-Thon will be held 12:00-5:00 p.m. To find out more or to register to attend, go to the museum’s website.
