After re-reading Despina Stratigakos's Places essay, "Unforgetting Women Architects: From the Pritzker to Wikipedia," and a friend's experience
this past summer linguistically wrestling with Wikipedia editing trolls who were doing their utmost to un-write women out of a certain section of activism, we realized it is time to take action.
ArchiteXX would like to invite as many people as possible to help write into wikipedia women designers, architects and all those involved in the creation of our
built environment on International Women's Day, March 8. We are seeking to create a global effort in order to have the most diverse and wide ranging of women written in on this day. Because there are so many women to write about, we see this as the inaugural
of what we hope will become an annual event.
We have created a help sheet including wiki entry protocol and citing criteria that is attached. You can begin to develop a list of women you would like to write in, their information and references you will be citing as well as any images you would like to
include. We have a sign up list so we can know who and how many women will be written about:http://goo.gl/forms/xIf4cUOPaH.
Please let us know if you are interested in hosting a wiki writing party!
We hope you will participate and please encourage everyone you know to join us. We want this to be a truly global event!
Please do not hesitate to get in touch with me if you have any questions.
best
lori
