A 2011 survey by the Wikimedia Foundation found that fewer than 10% of Wikipedia contributors identified as women. In 2014, Art + Feminism was launched by librarians, artists, curators, and educators to correct the gender imbalance in Wikipedia contributors and content. Since then, the project has grown worldwide.
This year, the UBC Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery – in collaboration with the Art History Students’ Association (AHSA); the Art History, Visual Art & Theory Department (AHVA); Centre A; Hatch Gallery; the Music, Art & Architecture Library; and the Visual Art Students’ Association (VASA) – will host an Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon event.
This in-person event will be held at the Belkin from 11 am-2:30 pm on Tuesday March 12, 2024.
We invite participants of all genders and expressions to join us and help balance representational imbalances at this year’s event.
More details on how to participate can be found here:
https://belkin.ubc.ca/events/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-2024/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Vancouver/ArtAndFeminism_202
Image attribution: Ilotaha13, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
