Join us at the gallery on Tuesday, 12 March 2024 from 11 am to 2:30 pm for the 2024 Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. Each spring, art communities around the world come together to help correct Wikipedia’s gender biases and improve the content of under-represented persons on the tenth-most-visited site on the Internet.

In seven years of Vancouver Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thons, 222 editors have contributed to new and existing articles and drawn over 1,300,000 views! Together, we can continue to make a change. Help balance the imbalance by creating and editing Wikipedia articles about artists and curators who are women, 2SLGBTQ+, gender non-binary, people of colour, Black and Indigenous, as well as related activist art movements and organizations.

The Belkin invites participants of all genders and expressions. 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.

Thursday, 1 February 2024 from 5:30 to 7 pm

How to Get Started Workshop with Bel Chen and Tara Al-Shawwa (Hatch Art Gallery) and Brenna Hanlon (Belkin Gallery). In-person at the Audain Art Centre, Room 1002, 6398 University Boulevard.

Pizza and snacks will be provided; RSVP to naomi.sawada@ubc.ca

Thursday, 15 February 2024 from 5:30 to 7 pm

Citations How-to Workshop with Sara Ellis (UBC Art and Visual Literacy Librarian) and Brenna Hanlon (Belkin Gallery). In-person at the Audain Art Centre, Room 1002, 6398 University Boulevard.

Pizza and snacks will be provided; RSVP to naomi.sawada@ubc.ca

Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the Belkin

Tuesday, 12 March 2024 from 11 am to 2:30 pm

Tea and snacks will be provided. Please bring your computer and power cord. RSVP to naomi.sawada@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.

This year’s Edit-a-thon is a collaboration between the Belkin, Art History Students’ Association (AHSA), Visual Art Students’ Association (VASA), Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, UBC Music, Art & Architecture Library, Centre A and Hatch Gallery.