This September, our Projects manager, Sophie, was delighted to be present at the Women’s History Network’s Annual Conference. She presented a paper on Alternative Routes for Digital Activism with a case study on Art+Feminism and WikiWomen Erasmus+. The audience was also invited to get involved in an editathon as part Read more
In April, Wikimedia Community Ireland collaborated with the National Gallery of Ireland to hold an Art+Feminism Editing Event. Participants received a Wikipedia editing crash course and were introduced to the archives at the Gallery. We were lucky enough to have access to a wealth of information, including the Galleries’ digital Read more
We are delighted to collaborate with the National Gallery’s Library & Archive department for an Art + Feminism Edit-a-thon on April 30th from 10 a.m. This collaboration is aimed at creating an increased presence online for womxn artists whose stories are currently underrepresented on the Wikimedia platforms. We are inviting Read more
When preparing to co-host our Art+Feminism edit-a-thon ahead of International Women’s Day 2025 at Trinity College Library, Una Watters’s painting “Girl Going by Trinity in the Rain” (1959) came to mind. Una Watters was a painter, illustrator and designer born in 1918 in north county Dublin. Watters attended the National Read more
January may have felt like the longest month ever but we are finally nearing which means it’s time to catch up with our January 2025 newsletter. Intentions for the new year have been set and resolutions made and maybe it is just me being optimistic but can anyone else smell Read more
We are delighted to be kicking off the new year with Pauline Cummins for Art+Feminism. Art+Feminism is an International Wikimedia Campaign that dares us to imagine and initiate a more equal world, starting with the internet. The vision of the Art+Feminism Project is to actively create an internet that reflects Read more
The internet is not a neutral space—it reflects the structures, biases, and inequalities of our world. But what if it didn’t? Art+Feminism is an International Wikimedia Campaign that dares us to imagine and initiate a more equal world, starting with the internet. What if we held the power to create Read more
Happy New Year Fellow Wikipedians! I hope you all had a lovely, restful Christmas and the January blues aren’t fitting you too hard. We celebrated Wikipedia’s birthday this month, which was a nice reminder of our vision, open and accessible knowledge for all created by a community of humans. Here’s Read more