Friday, May 31, 2019
10am – 4pm
Communications 139
Join the Feminist Media Histories Initiative at UC Santa Cruz for a campus-wide Edit-a-Thon, focused on expanding Wikipedia’s coverage of women, nonbinary folks and LGBTQ communities in media history.
Is there a vintage girls’ game that ought to have a Wikipedia entry? A feminist radio pioneer? A tech leader? A filmmaker? A TV show runner? A landmark event, exhibition, or artwork? Now’s your chance to help build a more inclusive Wikipedia. We especially welcome entries on media makers, media consumers and media theorists from underrepresented communities and diverse global contexts.
Dorothy Santos (see bio below) will lead an info session on Wikipedia’s Visual Editor to start us off at 10am and will be available all day for one-on-one consultations.
Drop in any time — just bring a laptop, ideas and research materials. All are welcome — faculty, grad students and undergrads, experienced Wikipedians and novices. Anyone with an interest in histories of media worldwide.
Food and drink will be provided to keep Wikipedians energized throughout the day.
How to Edit: Wikicode vs. Visual Editor
https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/training/students/how-to-edit
Wikipedia Training Libraries
https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/training
Wikipedia Community Portal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_portal
Dorothy R. Santos 
is a Filipina American writer, curator, and researcher whose academic interests include digital art, computational media, and biotechnology. Born and raised in San Francisco, California, she holds Bachelor’s degrees in Philosophy and Psychology from the University of San Francisco and received her Master’s degree in Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts. She is currently a Ph.D. student in Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her work appears in art21, Art Practical, Rhizome, Hyperallergic, Ars Technica, Vice Motherboard, and SF MOMA’s Open Space. She serves as a co-curator for REFRESH, a politically-engaged art and curatorial collective, the program manager for the Processing Foundation, and host for the podcast PRNT SCRN produced by Art Practical.
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