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Less than 20% of entries on Wikipedia are about women and less than 10% of editors are women.
The 1000 Women in Religion Project is a major initiative of the Women’s Caucus of the American Academy of Religion, aiming to address the gender imbalance one article and one edit at a time.
Australian Women in Religion Project
Wikimedia Australia has partnered with the University of Divinity on the Australian Women in Religion Project being spearheaded by Kerrie Burn. She has been tirelessly collecting, sorting and uploading data, as well as editing and creating articles about Australian women.
Events
- Australian Women in Religion — Saturday 13 March 2021
No description - Australian Women in Religion Online Edit-a-thon — Wednesday 9 June 2021
Online edit-a-thon open to all - Women in Religion Wiki Wednesday — Wednesday 24 November 2021
Get involved in the Women in Religion project. - Wiki-Week Editing Extravaganza Edit-a-thon at Mannix Library — Saturday 5 March 2022
Join the Women in Religion crew as they kick of their wiki-week editing extravaganza for International Women's Day.
Articles Created
The project so far has developed 39 articles, with an average of four extra now being created every week. The goal is to create 100 new articles this year, from the current list of approximately 450 historical and contemporary women. This includes an article listing the first women ordained as priests in the Anglican Church of Australia in 1992.
Partners
Kerrie Burn
Project Coordinator since its inception in 2029, Kerrie initiated the Australian Women in Religion WikiProject and has continued to lead this initiative.
Linda Pascal
Wikimedia Australia supported University of Divinity to host, Linda Pascal as Wikipedian in Residence to add content to Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikisource, as part of our Partner Projects in 2023.
As a result of this partner project, the names of several organisations and publications associated with early Christian feminism in Australia have also been added to the Australian Women in Religion List.
Australian Wikimedia Community
The Australian Women in Religion project has greatly benefited from members of the Australian Wikimedia community. Thank you to Pru Mitchell, a librarian and researcher at the Australian Council for Educational Research for her expert guidance. Other members of Wikimedia Australia have provided expertise, promoted the project and events, and assisted at several edit-a-thons.
Project Dashboards
Blog Posts:
- Adding Australian Women in Religion to more Wikimedia projects, announcing Linda Pascal Wikipedian in Residence for the Australian Women in Religion Project
- Growing the representation of Australian Women in Religion through Wikidata, Wikidata Fellow Kerrie Burn on her project investigating Wikidata and data visualisation
Further reading/Press
- Celebrating the Australian Women in Religion Wikipedia Project in Theological Libraries month - 28 October 2021, Vox
- Atla (American Theological Library Association) Annual Conference – Kerrie Burn (2021) How Theological Librarians Can Help Change the World: Addressing Knowledge and Gender Gaps in the World’s Largest Encyclopedia
- Burn, K. (2021). Australian women in religion Wikipedia project. Footprints, 36(2), 28–34.
- PWikimania 2021 – Documenting for Diversity: The Case of 1000 Women in Religion. Panel members: Clifford B Anderson, Kerrie Burn, Collen Hartung, Polly Hamlen and Christine Meyer. An video excerpt about the Australian project from this panel presentation is available.
- Women and the Australian Church (WATAC) – Kerrie Burn and Michelle Eastwood were guests at a recent WATAC Presents and invited to speak about the project. An article titled WATAC explores feminist activism in action appeared in Catholic Outlook on 12 October 2021.
Contact
Project Coordinator: Kerrie Burn
Related Links:
- Article: More Wikipedia Women
- Library Hub Guide: Australian Women in Religion Project
- Article: Australian Women in Religion Edit-a-thon
- Read more on the Wikimedia Resident and Scholar Program
- Video: Women in Religion and Wikimedian in Residence Project Report
- See all Wikimedia Australia partnerships
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