Part of the Dialogues in Feminism, Technology & Culture (a DOCC) course co-taught by Lisa Nakamura and Irina Aristarkhova, with support from the Third Century Initiative Grant, U-M.
The Global Women Write In #GWWI is an virtual event is designed to encourage internet users to write entries about women from around the world into Wikipedia and to improve existing entries on these topics. Why “global women”? If you’ve ever tried doing a Wikipedia search for important women theorists around the world, you might be surprised to note how short the entries are, particularly on their work and their ideas (for example: Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Gayatri Spivak, bell hooks, Gloria Anzaldua, Vandana Shiva, and Sara Ahmed). Many important women of color, such as Oyeronke Oyewumi, lack entries or stubs in Wikipedia. Additionally, coverage of international events involving women is brief or nonexistent (for example: the 1929 Aba Women’s Riots in Nigeria; Domitila Barrios de Chúngara; and Angkatan Wanita Sedar or “Force of Awakened Women,” an important feminist group in Malaysian history).
These gaps in Wikipedia’s knowledge base are striking and important, especially since Wikipedia is now the most commonly referenced encyclopedia globally. These gaps–particularly the gender gap–have been subject to study. According to the Wikimedia Wikipedia’s Editor’s Survey of 2011, “If there is a typical Wikipedia editor, he has a college degree, is 30-years-old, is computer savvy but not necessarily a programmer, doesn't actually spend much time playing games, and lives in US or Europe.”
The Global Women Write In aims to encourage new people to become Wikipedia editors, to provide support for new editors, and to develop best practices for rewriting Wikipedia. During our event, we encourage editors to draw on their knowledge and experience to contribute entries and information on women around the world to Wikipedia.
Participants should sign up for a Wikipedia account before the workshop and bring their computers and a research paper they are working on (for the citations) to the workshop. (Wikipedia prevents mass signups from the same IP address a the same time).
Join us for videotaped student-lead dialogue sessions with invited speakers that build on academic and creative resources for feminist studies of technology and culture. Learn from the interactive experience of not just reading and answering questions, or communicating within our class community, but by being directly exposed to wider national scholarly and creative community. Create your own content through Wikipedia editing, online video production, game-making, and vernacular animation practices like BitStrips and Extranormal. Become more engaged with technology and STEM fields through critical feminist lens, and explore the possibilities and limits of interactive distributed pedagogy.
The Global Women Write In #GWWI is an virtual event is designed to encourage internet users to write entries about women from around the world into Wikipedia and to improve existing entries on these topics. Why “global women”? If you’ve ever tried doing a Wikipedia search for important women theorists around the world, you might be surprised to note how short the entries are, particularly on their work and their ideas (for example: Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Gayatri Spivak, bell hooks, Gloria Anzaldua, Vandana Shiva, and Sara Ahmed). Many important women of color, such as Oyeronke Oyewumi, lack entries or stubs in Wikipedia. Additionally, coverage of international events involving women is brief or nonexistent (for example: the 1929 Aba Women’s Riots in Nigeria; Domitila Barrios de Chúngara; and Angkatan Wanita Sedar or “Force of Awakened Women,” an important feminist group in Malaysian history).
These gaps in Wikipedia’s knowledge base are striking and important, especially since Wikipedia is now the most commonly referenced encyclopedia globally. These gaps–particularly the gender gap–have been subject to study. According to the Wikimedia Wikipedia’s Editor’s Survey of 2011, “If there is a typical Wikipedia editor, he has a college degree, is 30-years-old, is computer savvy but not necessarily a programmer, doesn't actually spend much time playing games, and lives in US or Europe.”
The Global Women Write In aims to encourage new people to become Wikipedia editors, to provide support for new editors, and to develop best practices for rewriting Wikipedia. During our event, we encourage editors to draw on their knowledge and experience to contribute entries and information on women around the world to Wikipedia.
Participants should sign up for a Wikipedia account before the workshop and bring their computers and a research paper they are working on (for the citations) to the workshop. (Wikipedia prevents mass signups from the same IP address a the same time).
Join us for videotaped student-lead dialogue sessions with invited speakers that build on academic and creative resources for feminist studies of technology and culture. Learn from the interactive experience of not just reading and answering questions, or communicating within our class community, but by being directly exposed to wider national scholarly and creative community. Create your own content through Wikipedia editing, online video production, game-making, and vernacular animation practices like BitStrips and Extranormal. Become more engaged with technology and STEM fields through critical feminist lens, and explore the possibilities and limits of interactive distributed pedagogy.
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