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Wednesday, 8 Mar 2023 and February prep sessions

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Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 2023

Join us on Wednesday, 8 March from 11 am to 2 pm for the 2023 Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on-site at the gallery. Each spring, art communities around the world converge to help correct Wikipedia’s gender biases and improve the content of under-represented persons on the tenth-most-visited site on the Internet. Participants write and edit articles about artists and curators who are women, LGBTQ2S+, gender non-binary, people of colour, Black and Indigenous, as well as related activist art moments and organizations. This year we are focusing on Iranian women artists based in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. You can find a list of artists on the Belkin’s Dashboard.

A collaboration between the Belkin, the Art History Students’ Association (AHSA), the Visual Art Students’ Association (VASA), the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, the UBC Music, Art & Architecture Library, and Centre A, this year’s Edit-a-thon at the Belkin invites participants of all genders and expressions to join us and help address representational imbalances in Wikipedia content. We’ll provide help for beginner Wikipedians, reference materials and technical support for making your edits.

Lead-up Events

Get started by joining the Belkin’s Wikipedia Dashboard.

Wednesday, 1 February 2023 from 5:30 to 7 pm
How to Get Started Workshop with Caitlin Lindsay and Jay Pahre. In-person at the Audain Art Centre, Room 1002, 6398 University Boulevard. Pizza and snacks will be provided; RSVP to belkin.rsvp@ubc.ca.

Thursday, 16 February 2023 from 1 to 2 pm
Citations How-to Workshop with Caitlin Lindsay. Online; RSVP to belkin.rsvp@ubc.ca.

Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the Belkin

Wednesday, 8 March 2023 from 11 am to 2 pm 
Tea and snacks will be provided; RSVP to belkin.rsvp@ubc.ca.

 

Can’t make it to the events? Check out these online guides and videos or visit Art+Feminism’s website.

Together, let’s change things.

IMAGE (ABOVE): 2023 WIKIPEDIA EDIT-A-THON graphics by karen lin

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