Art-Minded Feminists Become Wikipedians for a Weekend

Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 2015

events at the museum of modern art and babycastles

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The Art+Feminism 2015 Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Babycastles

The Art+Feminism 2015 Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Babycastles

http://hyperallergic.com/190185/art-minded-feminists-become-wikipedians-for-a-weekend/

Given that everyone I met was a self-professed feminist, the consciousness-raising at the event had less to do with politics than navigating the site’s rules and regulations, which struck many as unintuitive...Feminism has historically valued the networks and personal, lived experiences that give underprivileged members of society a voice. If objectivity and neutrality are the goals, a feminist initiative will casually undermine that along the way. Many of the participants who attend these events may be viewed on the site as amateurs, but are experts offline in a way as yet unrecognized by Wikipedia guidelines, and by proxy, by the dominant culture.