08-07, 13:30–14:55 (Poland), Ohrid (9)(interpretation)
Language: English
This session intends to be a collaborative workshop in which participants will learn how to better use Wiki-related tools to make images of women (fictional and real) more visible on Wikimedia projects. Attendees will explore how museums and their media collections are particularly useful in uplifting women's stories, contributions, and perspectives while employing structured data on Commons.
This workshop will be conducted by Michaela Blanc (Wikimedian in Residence at Pérez Art Museum Miami; Regional Ambassador, Art+Feminism), Lucy Moore (Wikimedian and researcher), and Giovanna Fontenelle (Program Officer, Culture and Heritage, Wikimedia Foundation).
For this year’s Wikimania we are expanding on the themes of Collaboration of the Open through a GLAM and knowledge equity lens. We aim to establish a cross-community pathway to increase visual reference of women actors (fictional and real) on Wikimedia projects. In this workshop, attendees will learn how to improve their usage of Wiki tools to uplift the representation of women on the Wikimedia projects, and consequently on the internet, and we will do it by utilizing museum and wider cultural collections as valuable points of visual reference.
In this context, this workshop will (1) discuss the lack of visual references of women on Wikimedia projects, (2) demonstrate how museum collections and image-based archives can further advance the work of Wikimedians and vice-versa; (3) present the pathways in which participants can improve data and make images of women more findable on the Wikimedia projects, and (4) ensure participants how images can help the Open Access movement to tell more diverse and complete stories. This presentation can be particularly helpful to GLAM professionals and Wikimedians interested in knowledge equity through Commons and related tools.
The session will include a range of case studies, drawing on the practitioner's experiences, including: LEEDS 2023 (a ‘year of culture’ in Leeds, UK), National Trust (the largest heritage and conservation charity in Europe), NaPupila Wikimedia edit-a-thons, and many other experiences.
Session recording: https://youtu.be/0r2AQ8VnH_o?t=14096
Session recording available on today’s YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/live/UNMNjKSIGc8?si=s6JkO4qqo9fcKrVz
Museums and cultural organizations are key players in the Open Access and Open GLAM movements. These institutions, therefore, hold important social and cultural values within the GLAM-Wiki environment. In this session, we are using museum collections to address the gender gap as well as examples of how to make the Open Movement – via its images and data – more diverse and equitable while making it more collaborative. This also includes how working with Wikimedia can aid GLAMs in meeting and surpassing strategic goals.
What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?* –Some experience will be needed
How do you plan to deliver this session?* –Hybrid with some participants in Katowice and others dialing in remotely
What other themes or topics does your session fit into? Please choose from the list of tags below. –Campaigns, Capacity building, Events
Michaela Blanc is a Brazilian art researcher based in the United States. She is a Wikimedian in Residence at the Perez Art Museum in Miami and a Regional Ambassador for Art+Feminism. In 2024, she served on the WikiWomenCamp 2023 scholarship committee; she was a presenter at Wiki GLAM Conference 2023; a speaker at Celtic Knot Conference 2022; and a guest panelist in 2021 in the 20 years of Lusophone Wikipedia. She holds an MA in Museum Education and a BA in Art History. She is the co-founder of NaPupila, a curatorial collective in Brazil.
Lucy Moore is an archaeologist, curator and Wikimedian. In 2024 she completed a quest to write an article on English Wikipedia for a woman from every country in the world.
Giovanna Fontenelle is a Journalist and Historian. She works as a Program Officer for the Culture and Heritage team at the Wikimedia Foundation. In 2022 and 2023, she was the General Coordinator of Creative Commons Brasil and still is a member of the Global Network. Her current work is related to GLAM-Wiki, Open GLAM, and Linked Open Data initiatives, especially with museums, in addition to projects on diversity, mainly gender, and knowledge equity. As a volunteer, she has organized edit-a-thons and training for women addressing the gender gap.