Smithsonian American Art Museum viewed from G St. NW, Washington DC
In cooperation with Art + Feminism 2017 Wikipedia Editathon in the museum's MacMillan Education Center Art and Feminism 2019 Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon!
Participants can earn the SAAM Barnstar! Join us and take part in the annual international campaign to improve coverage of women, art, and feminism on Wikipedia. Beginners are welcome! Wikipedia training will be provided. Connect with the museum and the movement on Twitter: #atSAAM #ArtandFeminism #NowEditingAF
Hosted at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), and organized by SAAM and Wikimedia DC .
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Smithsonian American Art Museum - Art and Feminism 2017 Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon Sunday, March 10, 2019 at SAAM
10:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. EDT NOTE: the museum does not open to the public until 11:30 a.m. Those wishing to gain access for the 10:30 a.m. behind-the-scenes tour MUST RSVP in advance (below), and arrive promptly at 10:30 a.m. If the tour has already departed, latecomers may have to wait until 11:30 a.m. to enter.
A laptop (tablets can work, but the editing experience is much easier with a keyboard)
Any research resources you would like to refer to.
You're welcome to bring your camera and take pictures! Please use the Etherpad link below to share what you are currently editing. Remember to type 'Done' or 'Finished' when you are through making changes. Etherpad for this event
Time
Activity
Location
10:30 a.m.
Check-in at the 8th & G Streets NW entrance
Entrance, SAAM
10:30 - 11:00 a.m.
Exclusive, behind-the-scenes tour of American art
11:00 a.m.
Introduction to Editing Wikipedia
MacMillan Education Center, SAAM
1:00 p.m.
Lunch, provided in MacMillan Education Center, SAAM
MacMillan Education Center, SAAM
3:00 p.m.
End
MacMillan Education Center in the Smithsonian American Art Museum , located at 8th and G Streets NW, Washington, DC 20004 (the building that is shared with the National Portrait Gallery).
WMATA Metrorail stops:
Gallery Place/Chinatown (green/yellow/red lines): from the 9th & G entrance, the Museum is right outside
Metro Center (red/orange/blue/silver lines): use 11th & G exit, walk two blocks east on G, and the Museum will be on your right.
Bus: Take the DC Circulator or any of the following WMATA bus lines to the Museum: 42, 64, 70, 74, 80, D6, P6, S2, S4, X2
See also: WMATA trip planner (mobile version )
If arriving after the museum opens at 11:30 a.m., ask information desk or the security officers to direct you to the MacMillan Education Center. It is at the west end of the building, closer to the F Street entrance, near the hallway with the "Experience America" and Folk Art galleries. This event is open to up to 45 in-person participants, and an unlimited number of remote participants, of all Wikipedia experience levels, from beginner to expert.
Due to tour and room capacity, prior registration is required. if you plan to attend the 10:30 a.m. tour, please also email LinthicumR@si.edu .
I'll be attending virtually![ edit ] Can't make it to the event? You can participate online ! Here's how it works:
1 On the day of the event, check in with your Wikipedia username .
Don't have a username yet? It's easy to
create one .
2 Choose an article to edit from the list on this page .
Want to work on an article that's not on the list? You're welcome to choose any topic you like!
3 Have questions during the event? Chat with us ! Some events also include a video or audio conference. You can find more details on this page.
If you're planning to join us online, you can sign up below:
(Add your name here.) If you can't make it in person or even remotely, you can still help by sharing the info with your friends and colleagues, and/or helping flesh out the To-do list !
Please use the Etherpad link below to share what you are currently editing. Remember to type 'Done' or 'Finished' when you are through making changes. Etherpad for this event
See Art + Feminism Tasks List
Women Artists in SAAM's Collections[ edit ] RED links have no entries! Links to reliable sources for citations have been provided, when possible.
The following list was generated from the print book "Female Gazes: Seventy-Five Women Artists," which had a list of women artists. One goal in the edit-a-thon was to check how many of these 75 had articles in Wikipedia, and what state they were in.
The method used for generating this from the printed book index might be useful for others to know about, utilizing a feature of Google Docs that does optical character recognition on PDF files:
Take photos of the printed page with the list (index or table of contents) using a fairly high resolution camera (8 megapixesl), such as with your cell phone
Make a PDF file
On computer: Turn the JPG files into a raster PDF file (On Mac, use the Preview app). There are also sources online [32] .
On mobile: There are apps that can create PDFs directly from your mobile phone camera, such as Genius Scan or Scanner Pro.
Upload the PDF file to a Google Drive account
In Google Drive, right click on the PDF file, and choose "Open in Google Docs..."
Google Docs will do optical character recognition on the raster file, converting it into text
Clean up text as necessary
Use Google Spreadsheets or some other method to convert "Smith, Jane" into [[Jane Smtih]] style wiki markup. The 75 women artists pages generated from this method. The following list contains the artist pages that are incomplete:
General Wikipedia resources:
WP:CREATIVE our requirements for articles on artists and other creative people. Add your contribution here!
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Atlanta
Auckland
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Champaign, Illinois
Chicago
College Park, Maryland
Columbus, Ohio
Gainesville, Florida
Ithaca, New York
Kitchener-Waterloo
London
Madison, Wisconsin
Minneapolis
Montreal
New Haven, Connecticut
New York City
Philadelphia
Pomona, California
Portland, Oregon (March)
Portland, Oregon (April)
Purchase, New York
San Francisco (March 10)
San Francisco (March 25)
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Saskatoon
St. Louis
Toronto
Vancouver
Washington, D.C. (March 11)
Washington, D.C. (March 25)
Online
Aberystwyth
Amherst, Massachusetts
Athens, Georgia
Atlanta (February)
Atlanta (March)
Atlanta (April)
Auckland
Austin, Texas
Banff
Bangkok
Bennington, Vermont
Berlin
Bloomington, Indiana
Boston (March 5)
Boston (March 6)
Boulder, Colorado
Bozeman, Montana
Brooklyn (March 4)
Brooklyn (March 5)
Brooklyn (March 6)
Brussels (Just for the Record)
Cairo
Canton, New York
Cape Town
Carbondale, Illinois
Champaign, Illinois
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Charlotte, North Carolina
Charlottesville, Virginia
Chicago
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Columbia, South Carolina
Columbus, Ohio
Darien, Connecticut
Detroit
Edinburgh (March 5)
Edinburgh (March 8)
Eindhoven
El Paso
Eugene, Oregon
Gainesville, Florida
Ghana
Glasgow
Hong Kong
Houston
Irvine, California
Ithaca, New York
Las Vegas
Lawrence, Kansas
Leeds
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
London (March 5, Institute of Contemporary Arts)
London (March 5, Tate Gallery)
London (March 8)
London (March 12)
Los Angeles (March 4)
Los Angeles (March 5)
Los Angeles (March 6)
Louisville
Machynlleth
Madison, Wisconsin
Merced, California
Mexico City
Minneapolis
Montreal (March 5)
Montreal (March 8)
Montreal (March 12)
Montreal (September)
Narrowsburg, New York
Nashville, Tennessee
New Haven, Connecticut
New Orleans
New Paltz, New York
New York City (February 1, Train the Trainers)
New York City (February 16, Train the Trainers)
New York City (March)
Newcastle upon Tyne (February)
Training Session
Newcastle upon Tyne (March)
Northampton, Massachusetts
Ottawa
Oxford
Oxford, Georgia
Peterborough, Ontario
Philadelphia (February)
Philadelphia (March 4, Temple University)
Philadelphia (March 4, University of the Arts)
Philadelphia (March 5)
Pittsburgh (February)
Pittsburgh (March)
Portland, Oregon
Providence, Rhode Island
Pune
Purchase, New York
Regina, Saskatchewan
Rochester, Minnesota
Rockland, Maine
San Diego
San Francisco (March 4)
San Francisco (March 5)
San Luis Obispo, California
Santa Barbara, California
Santa Fe
Saskatoon
Savannah, Georgia
Scranton, Pennsylvania
St. Louis
Storrs, Connecticut
St. Petersburg, Florida
Tempe, Arizona
Toronto (January)
Toronto (March)
Toronto (May)
Tunis
Tucson
University Park, Pennsylvania
Waltham, Massachusetts
Washington, D.C.
Whittier, California
Winnipeg
Vancouver
Online
Amsterdam
Amsterdam (Lloyd Hotel)
Athens, Georgia
Austin, Texas
Banff, Alberta
Berkeley, California
Berlin
Bern
Bloomington, Indiana
Boston
Brooklyn
Brussels
Chicago
Cleveland
Copenhagen
Denver
Dundee
Durham, North Carolina
Ellensburg, Washington
Florence
Fresno, California
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Houston
Irvine, California
Kansas City, Missouri
Lausanne
Lawrence, Kansas
Lexington, Kentucky
Los Angeles
Lower Hutt
Lugano
Madison, Wisconsin
Melbourne
Minneapolis (March 8)
Minneapolis (March 22)
Minneapolis (May 9)
Minneapolis (September 12)
Minneapolis (October 24)
Montreal
Morgantown, West Virginia
Moscow
New Orleans
New Paltz, New York
New York City (February)
New York City (March 7)
New York City (March 8)
New York City (June 13)
Newcastle upon Tyne
Notre Dame, Indiana
Oakland, California
Oberlin, Ohio
Paris
Peterborough, Ontario
Philadelphia
Pomona, California
Portland, Oregon
Providence, Rhode Island
Rochester, New York
San Diego
San Francisco (March 6)
San Francisco (March 7)
Santa Barbara
Saskatoon
Seattle
State College, Pennsylvania
Sweet Briar, Virginia
Sydney
Toronto (March)
Toronto (May)
Toronto (September 16)
Toronto (September 23)
Vancouver
Wakefield
Washington, D.C.
Westchester County, New York
Whittier, California
Williamsburg, Virginia
Winnipeg
Winter Park, Florida
Worcester, Massachusetts
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