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Wikipedia Launches “Wiki Unseen,” Commissioning Artists To Paint Portraits of BIPOC Figures
The new initiative aims to increase visual representation by adding images of individuals who are not currently portrayed on their Wikipedia pages.
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Wikipedia Auctions Off Some Of its History
The auction offered a 2000 strawberry iMac that Wales used to develop Wikipedia, and an NFT of the first Wikipedia edit, made in 2001.
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A Wiki Edit-a-Thon Dedicated to Women Artists of Color
Here's a complete lists of the Wikipedia articles updated during this year's Edit-a-Thon, Black Artists Matter, focused on artists of the African diaspora in the National Museum of Women in the Arts’s collection.
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Help Write the History of Radio in Grassroots Organizing
The Interference Archive is organizing a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon to widely disseminate the history explored in its exhibition Resistance Radio: The People’s Airwaves.
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An Annual Feminist Editing Session Takes on Wikipedia’s Gender Problem
For the past five years, a room full of laptop-lugging feminists has staged an “Edit-a-thon" to broaden the Free Encyclopedia.
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A 1980s-Style Game Takes You Through a Wikipedia Rabbit Hole
Wikipedia: The Text Adventure by Kevan Davis turns Wikipedia's data into a pixelated game that you navigate through typed directions.
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Wikipedia Art and Feminism Editing Sessions Around NYC
Art+Feminism takes over New York City with six Wikipedia edit-a-thons over the next week and a half, including the biggest one at MoMA on March 11.
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Exploring the Art Galaxy in the WikiVerse, a 3-D Visualization of Wikipedia
After the singularity, how will we explain the internet pastime of going down a Wikihole to our cyborg children?
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An Interactive Timeline of Human History According to Wikipedia
A new data visualization tool called Histography transforms Wikipedia's entries on historic events into an interactive timeline
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From Emoticon to Ellen Degeneres, an Index of the Most Popular Wikipedia Articles
CHICAGO — According to Jason Salavon’s “The Master Index (Semaphore),” we are all a little more interested in Kanye West than masturbation.
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Light up a Lithophane, Reveal a Hidden 19th-Century Image
Imperceptible in the light, only when illuminated by flame in the dark is a 19th-century lithophane image revealed.
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Art-Minded Feminists Become Wikipedians for a Weekend
When Shulamith Firestone wrote in 1970, “Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society,” she couldn’t have predicted she was referring to Wikipedia.