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Monday, June 18, 2018 Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Categories: Other Local Events Timelines: 1b: Past Events (Unseen Archive)

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Where:
Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center
617 Main St.
Buffalo, NY 14203
Date: June 23, 2018
Time: 2:00-7:00 p.m.

Squeaky Wheel’s Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon is an all-day event is designed to improve coverage of women, gender, feminism, and the arts on Wikipedia.

We provide tutorials for the beginner Wikipedian, ongoing editing support, reference materials, childcare, and refreshments. People of all gender identities and expressions are invited to participate, particularly transgender and cisgender women.

Why we edit? Less than 10% of editors on Wikipedia are women.
Wikipedia is the largest and most popular general reference work on the internet with more than 40 million articles in more than 250 different languages. The fact is when we don’t tell our stories or participate in the ways our history is preserved, it gets erased. Let’s build our local contribution to the movement!

If you require childcare, please email caitcoder@gmail.com with the first names of children requiring care, their ages, and what time you plan on attending.

We encourage attendees to bring a laptop and power cord, and create a Wikipedia account prior to the event.

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In collaboration with the Burchfield Penney Art Center, we are excited to host archivist Heather Gring, who will be speaking about the collection and it’s regional mission.

Toronto artist and Wikipedian extraordinaire Zeesy Powers will join us again to facilitate tutorials and discussion. In partnership with Buffalo State College’s Women & Gender Studies Interdisciplinary Minor, UB Department of Art, and UB Department of Media Study. Sponsored by The Public, Western New York Book Arts Center & Tipico Coffee.