Wikipedia And The Library: Righting The Imbalance Of Creators And Content Through Community Edit-a-thons
Date
2016-05-29
Authors
Doi, Carolyn
Rackover, Suzanne
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Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians
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Conference Presentation
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Abstract
This paper discusses edit-a-thons held in Saskatoon and Banff during 2015–16 as part of
International Women’s Day celebrations, to collectively and purposefully improve the quality
and quantity of Wikipedia entries on women in the arts. The speakers will address three points:
1) to inform attendees on how to plan and run a public Wikipedia edit-a-thon, including how to
engage communities/artists in the process, 2) to provide background information on the
Art+Feminism movement and how it relates to academic libraries, and 3) to discuss the evolving
role that libraries can play in the curation of Wikipedia content using the Art+Feminism
Wikipedia edit-a-thon as a model.
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information activism, wikipedia editing