Wikipedia’s gender trouble is well documented: in a 2010 survey, Wikimedia found that less than 13% of its contributors are female. The reasons for the gender gap are up for debate: suggestions include leisure inequality, how gender socialization shapes public comportment, and the contentious nature of Wikipedia’s talk pages. The practical effect of this disparity, however, is not. Content is skewed by the lack of female participation. Many articles on notable women in history and art are absent on Wikipedia. This represents an alarming aporia in an increasingly important repository of shared knowledge.

We invite you to help address this absence at a Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Tuesday, February 11, 2014 from 1:30-3:30 p.m. at THATCamp. Below is a list of helpful links.

• Meet Up Page: Please sign in to the meet up and save your results here.
• Training: If you have time before the event, please review Training for Students. During the event, keep this cheat sheet handy.
• Suggested Topics: Don’t know what to edit or create? Please refer to our preliminary lists and links to Wikipedia Women Artist Worklist, WikiProject Feminism, and WikiProject Art.
• Resources: Review our lists of Art + Feminism Resources, Editing Wikipedia Resources, and more.

Resources discussed:

Leonardo Reviews

www.leonardo.info/ldr.php

“Leonardo Reviews is the work of an international panel of scholars and professionals invited from a wide range of disciplines to review books, exhibitions, CD-ROMs, Web sites, and conferences. Collectively they represent an intellectual commitment to engaging with the emergent debates and manifestations that are the consequences of the convergence of the arts, science and technology.”

Anvil Acadmic

anvilacademic.org/

“Welcome to Anvil Academic, a pioneering, exclusively digital scholarly publisher. We bring the analog publishing world’s traditional editorial rigor to the emerging world of digitally mediated humanities scholarship.”

Ariah Online Publishing Prize

ariah.info/onlineprize.html

“This award, which carries a $1,000 prize, seeks to encourage and promote high scholarly standards in online publishing in all fields of art history.”

Scalar

scalar.usc.edu/

“The Alliance for Networking Visual Culture seeks to enrich the intellectual potential of our fields to inform understandings of an expanding array of visual practices as they are reshaped within digital culture, while also creating scholarly contexts for the use of digital media in film, media and visual studies. By working with humanities centers, scholarly societies, and key library, archive, and university press partners, we are investigating and developing sustainable platforms for publishing interactive and rich media scholarship.”

Update:

Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage

www.journals.elsevier.com/digital-applications-in-archaeology-and-cultural-heritage/

“Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (DAACH) is an on-line, peer-reviewed journal in which scholars can publish 3D digital models of the world’s cultural heritage sites, monuments, and palaeoanthropological remains accompanied by associated academic articles.”

Issues discussed:

Rethinking peer review

Rethinking publication as goal

Rethinking of presenting scholarship in final, absolute form

Preserving and sharing research materials in enduring digital formats

Importance of DIY attitude

Potential of, but also what culturally discourages collaborative or crowdsourced research activities

Upcycling: Building a Professional Online Presence Through Digital Publishing
Meredith Brown (@redbrown81) and I (@ByzCapp) have created a Google doc for our lightening talk this afternoon (2/11/14).

We’re both early career researchers want to open up the discussion toward some of the pressing questions that we address regularly.

Since the talk is only fifteen minutes, we’d love it to be a starting point for further discussions over coffee and online. Please add to the discussion by contributing to the doc (be sure to use a name or initial to denote your thoughts), adding comments, or contributing helpful links. 

docs.google.com/document/d/1UdYXeiq7TQuQQM_SJuh1sQkAep5PvavuRaJjGM2C04Q/edit