Wikipedia:Meetup/justfortherecord/Events/DiVersions

Logo for the project Just For The Record – addressing how gender is represented in new media and writing/publishing tools like Wikipedia, and what influence this has on the way history is recorded.

4.12.2016 - 10.12.2016
DiVersions

Just For The Record presents a new event![edit]

Just For The Record is very happy to be part of the program of DiVersions organised by Constant vzw: “DiVersions is inspired by the way versions are inscribed in daily software-practice, and explores how parallel to their conventional narrative of collaboration and consensus they can produce divergent histories through supporting difference.” http://constantvzw.org/site/Call-for-participants-DiVersions.html

Pictures of the event[edit]

Event details[edit]

Venue: Musée du Cinquantenaire, Brussels and WTC II, Brussels
Date: 4.12.2016 - 10.12.2016
Language: Dutch, English, French
Cost: Free
Participants: Open to anyone interested in this experience: beginners welcome! débutant(e)s bienvenu(e)s! beginners welkom! Experienced Wikipedia editors will be present and will share their knowledge in editing Wikipedia.
What to Bring: Attendees can bring their own laptops and power cords.

What can you do?[edit]

During the event, we invite you to contribute to Wikipedia and to the discussions around the gender gap on Wikipedia. You can edit an existing article to improve it, create a new one about a subject that doesn’t exist, but we also highly value the sharing of editing experiences, and ideas about what could make Wikipedia a more welcoming and colorful place!

Open questions:[edit]

Here are interrogations we would like to share with you:

if Wikipedia can be considered as a tool to re·write history, how would you like it to be written?
what is the influence the way we write on the representation of history and its main figures?
can writing ever be neutral?

First steps on wikipedia[edit]

Add your name to the participant list of this event at the bottom of this page
Write some informations on your own wiki page by clicking on your user name at the top of the page (so that your name doesn't appear in red when you start editing articles)
Write some informations on your Sandbox, also at the top of the page
Improve an existing article
Create a new article

Ideas to start editing[edit]

Articles that need your help![edit]

Here are lists identifying articles that could benefit from edits and expansion:

The Art+Feminism list of article to be improved
Women Artists, by the Women in Red
A list by the project Women in Red
Women Artists from all over the world, a list by the Project Women Artists
Women scientists, a list by the Project Women Scientists
Women writers, a list by the Project Women Writers

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Thoughts in progress[edit]

Worksession on gender representations[edit]

Worksession on template banners[edit]

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