Look Closely. Second Feminist Editathon by Women Creators

The Museo Reina Sofía presents the second edition of Look Closely. Feminist Editathon by Women Creators, a Wikipedia publishing workshop which looks to minimise the gender gap that exists on the platform in Spanish, contributing to creating and improving new entries by women artists. The activity is framed inside a project to view data entitled Data Speak, which was presented in the previous edition and is developed by the Museo Reina Sofía’s Library and Documentation Centre, in collaboration with the University of Salamanca’s Social Sciences Department.

The starting point of the workshop is a still photograph of different women artists, art critics, curators, writers and authors who are part of the Museo Reina Sofía Library’s catalogue in order to compile available information on these figures in other databases and to grant access to the results. To achieve these goals, a work group has drawn from data mining, statistics, artificial intelligence and information offered by different open sources, for instance those provided by Spain’s National Library, the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF), Wikidata and Wikipedia. Once again, the workshop features the presence of the Cuarto Propio en Wikipedia collective, an open, collaborative and independent group which seeks to diminish the male-centred focus and gender inequality on Wikipedia.

Featuring the participation and support of the Cuarto Propio en Wikipedia group.

Look Closely. Second Feminist Editathon by Women Creators is carried out within the framework of the agreement signed between the Museo Reina Sofía and Wikimedia España to incorporate Wikipedia’s philosophy of shared knowledge into different ways of making and rethinking the Museo.