| Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the Guggenheim: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa | |
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| On Saturday April 30, 2016, launching the global campaign for May 2016 MENA Artists Month, the Guggenheim will host its fourth Wikipedia edit-a-thon — or, #guggathon — to enhance Wikipedia's coverage of modern and contemporary artists from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, and to counter geocultural systemic bias on Wikipedia.
The Guggenheim aims to further the goals of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, and build on the model of campaigns like the Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the Guggenheim: Women in Architecture, Wikipedia Asian Month, and Art+Feminism. | |
MENA Artists Month is an online edit-a-thon for Middle East and North Africa (MENA) artists during May 2016. This edit-a-thon aims to work on the artist articles relevant to these countries, namely artists that either don't have Wikipedia articles, or have poor articles, or are missing articles in some languages. This edit-a-thon would be held in collaboration with the Guggenheim
The core online campaign will develop articles on MENA artists, architects and designers (and related non-biographical topics) that have been active in the 20th and 21st centuries, broadly defined by an inclusive geography:
