03/13/2023
By Sara Marks

Are you interested in raising the profile of Black women who are notable enough to be included on Wikipedia but are missing from the internet encyclopedia?

Join our in-person ‘Edit-a-thon’ on March 16 from 11 to 2 p.m., on the Mezzanine at O’Leary Library. We’ll have lunch and snacks to keep you energized.

Research and write an entry for women we’ve identified as good candidates for an entry on Wikipedia — or come with an idea of your own. If you’re looking for a smaller task, you can improve an active page by fixing grammar, spelling, organizing or adding citations.

Mentors will be on hand to help you find sources and edit content and snacks and prizes will be available to our editors! No experience is required.

Our event works in concert with the WikiProject Art+Feminism, which was founded in 2014. Their mission is to build "a community of activists that is committed to closing information gaps related to gender, feminism, and the arts, beginning with Wikipedia." This year's edit-a-thon is sponsored at UMass Lowell by the Center for Women and Work, the University Library, the Women's Studies Department, and History Department.

Sign up on our dashboard.

See the entries we want to develop and grow on our LibGuide,

Contact Sara Marks with questions.