Women's Art Register
The Women’s Art Register (W.A.R.) is Australia's living archive of women's art practice (cis, non-binary and trans inclusive), and a national artist-run, not-for-profit community and resource in Melbourne, Australia.
In 2019 Wikimedia Australia and the Women’s Art Register partnered to run two edit-a-thon's. The editors added several new articles and almost 20,000 words about creative women to Wikipedia in their first edit-a-thon, and for the second, held at Richmond Library, 74,000 words and 7 new articles were added.
In 2021 our partnership has continued and we look forward to collaborating with the Women's Art Register on future events to help encourage more women to contribute to Wikipedia, and improve the coverage of under-represented subjects on Wikimedia sites.
Dashboards
Events
- Art Architecture and Feminism Brisbane — Saturday 9 March 2019
No description - Art and Feminism Edit-a-thon — Saturday 9 March 2019
No description - Winter Wiki Edit-a-thon — Saturday 20 July 2019
No description - Art and Feminism Edit-a-thon Melbourne — Sunday 8 March 2020
No description - Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Brisbane — Sunday 8 March 2020
No description - Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon — Saturday 6 March 2021
No description - WMAU Community Meeting (March 2021) — Wednesday 10 March 2021
No description - Wiki Wednesday 1 — Wednesday 16 June 2021
Session to highlight Australian art galleries and museums and their collections of women artists. - Art+Feminism at Richmond Library — Saturday 12 March 2022
Join us to amplify the voices of Australian women artists and designers and #breakthebias - Brisbane Art+Feminism 2022 — Saturday 19 March 2022
Help address the under-representation of articles on women/non-binary and trans folk on Wikipedia - Art and Feminism 2023 — Saturday 4 March 2023
Join us for International Women's Day 2023 and Art+Feminism Year Ten - Art + Feminism Wiki Edit-a-thon — Saturday 9 March 2024
Head over to Richmond Library and help close the gender gap in Wikipedia articles at the Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon.
Media
- 24 February 2019 Women's Art Register Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon