Blitz is organising and hosting an Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon over two days as part of a global event coinciding with International Women’s Day.

This international project is aimed at improving content on women and the arts on Wikipedia, and encouraging women’s participation in the online encyclopaedia.

The main event is an editing workshop to teach participants how to edit Wikipedia to create new articles and improve existing content on women and the arts.

This year marks the fifth year of the Art+Feminism project. The edit-a-thon is led by an organising committee of experts and enthusiasts from across the cultural and education sectors.

In a 2011 survey, the Wikimedia Foundation found that less than 10 per cent of its contributors identify as female. Art+Feminism’s Edit-a-thons aim to reduce this gender bias. Since 2014, over 280 Art+Feminism Edit-a-thons have taken place across the world, creating and improving an estimated 4,600 articles.

The hands-on event will take place tomorrow at Blitz in St Lucy Street, Valletta, from 3.30 to 6.30pm and on Saturday from 10am to 4pm. It will be facilitated by Wikimedia Community Malta and the M3P Foundation, in collaboration with Spazju Kreattiv. Participants are requested to bring a laptop computer or tablet device. For more information, visit the event’s Facebook page.

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