Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2019 Nominee

Art+Feminism


Description

Art+Feminism is a campaign improving coverage of cis and transgender women, feminism and the arts on Wikipedia. From coffee shops and community centers to the largest museums and universities in the world, Art+Feminism is a do-it-yourself and do-it-with-others campaign teaching people of all gender identities and expressions to edit Wikipedia.
Since its inception in 2014, Art + Feminism has invited people of all gender expressions to increase the coverage of cis and trans women on Wikipedia; contributing and amending meaningful content to Wikipedia every year for the past four years. Art + Feminism is about making Wikipedia better, as a tool for open access to reliable information. It is also about building skills -- training new editors (the majority of whom are non cisgendered men) how to contribute their knowledge to Wikipedia and how to engage in online communities.     Art+Feminism has developed online workshops, which provide training in English and Spanish and introduce potential partners to Art+Feminism, event hosting, and editing on Wikipedia. They have created brave spaces for cis and trans women learning to edit on the platform.    

Project website

http://www.artandfeminism.org/


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C4. Capacity building 2019
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 4: Quality education
  • Goal 5: Gender equality

Coverage
  • Western Europe and North America

Status

Ongoing

Start date

2013

End date

Not set


Target beneficiary group(s)
  • Youth
  • Women

Replicability

When Art+Feminism launched in 2014, they supported events/trainings in 31 locations with 600 participants who were mostly located in North America and Europe. As they developed their model, they created toolkits and online trainings so anyone interested in hosting an Art+Feminism event could do so. By 2018, the annual event took place in 275 locations with over 4,000 participants. There has been a substantial increase in the geographic diversity of the events, with events taking place on all inhabited continents. This includes countries such as Chile, Mexico, Ghana, Taiwan, India, Cote d'Ivore, Uganda, Venezuela, El Salvador, and Brazil.    


WSIS values promotion

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Entity name

Wikimedia Foundation

Entity country—type

United States of America Civil Society

Entity website

http://www.artandfeminism.org/

Partners

Wikimedia Foundation ,Wikimedia Chile, Wikimedia South Africa, Wikimedia Mexico, Wikimedia Argentina, Wikimedia Taiwan,