WIKIPEDIA Arte e Feminismo | Edit-a-Thon Porto 2017 | March 11 and 12 from 14h - 17h |

Application submissions until March 5: artfeminism.wikipedia.pt@gmail.com

In March a first meeting of collective edition Arte e Feminismo Edit-a-Thon Porto 2017 takes place in Maus Hábitos, Porto, joining 280 cities in a global effort to minimize the absence of women editing Wikipedia content with special emphasis in Art and Feminism themes. In 2011 a Wikipedia Foundation survey revealed that less than 10% of its editors were women, which has a practical and objective effect on our lives. The absence of women sharing information causes a reality distorted content and means a big flaw in global sharing knowledge.

This event is produced by a community of artists, teachers, researchers and readers that is trying to change this situation; the program starts with a workshop that teaches how to edit Wikipedia content - headed by a Wikipedia Portugal representative - and also counts with a collective editing session. This is a free entrance event upon application submission (until 5.03) and participants only have to bring their laptop and ideas of information and content to edit ou create in Wikipedia.