Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Art + feminism edit-a-thon and WikiClubs at Artexte :Editing Intersectional Care Practices in Contemporary Art (ID: 23759251)

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Applicant Details

Main Wikimedia username. (required)

modicha (talk • accounts • contributions • edit count)

Organization

Centre D'information Artexte Information Centre

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Main Proposal

1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.

Art + feminism edit-a-thon and WikiClubs at Artexte : Editing Intersectional Care Practices in Contemporary Art

2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.

2026-04-03 - 2026-09-30

4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)

Canada

5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)

Art+Feminism

6. What is the change you are trying to bring? What are the main challenges or problems you are trying to solve? Describe this change or challenges, as well as main approaches to achieve it. (required)

Artexte seeks to address the persistent underrepresentation of artists, authors, and cultural workers from marginalized communities within Wikimedia projects. While these communities play a crucial role in shaping contemporary art and cultural discourse, their contributions remain unevenly documented and insufficiently visible in widely consulted digital knowledge platforms such as Wikipedia and Wikidata. This lack of representation reflects broader structural inequities in the production and circulation of art historical knowledge.

The change we aim to bring is twofold: to increase the presence and quality of information about women, non-binary, Indigenous, racialized, and LGBTQ2S+ artists and authors, and to empower members of artistic and research communities to actively participate in shaping how their work and histories are represented online. By strengthening skills and fostering critical awareness around data and authorship, we seek to support a more inclusive and equitable art historical record.

To achieve this change, we combine hands-on editing activities with longer-term community engagement. The Art + Feminism Edit-a-thon serves as an entry point for new and returning contributors, while a series of WikiClubs extends this work beyond a single event. Through these gatherings, participants will engage with researchers and activists to reflect on issues of visibility, authority, and bias in open knowledge systems, and to explore Wikidata as a tool for structuring and connecting information about artistic practices and communities. Together, these approaches create both immediate contributions and sustained critical engagement with digital knowledge production in the arts.

As always with Art+Feminist events, at Artexte, we seek to address the systemic underrepresentation of marginalized communities on Wikimedia platforms, as well as the lack of diversity among contributors. Our goal is to foster more equitable knowledge production by building skills, confidence, and critical awareness among new and existing editors.

Artexte has been participating in the Art + Feminism Edit-a-then for five years, and this year we want to reinforce and expand the three goals we set when we first joined the Wikipedia editing community:

Recruit new editors, with particular attention to individuals who are underrepresented in Wikipedia’s editor base (women, people of colour, Indigenous people, and LGBTQ2S+ identified individuals);
Strengthen skills and confidence among existing editors;
Add to and improve content about artists and authors who are women, non-binary, people of colour, Indigenous, and from LGBTQ2S+ communities.

Beyond the edit-a-then itself, this year we also aim to extend the conversation through a series of Wiki Clubs. These gatherings will allow participants to deepen their understanding of how knowledge is structured on Wikimedia platforms and to engage critically with issues of representation, authority, and visibility in open data. Through presentations and discussions led by researchers and activists, we seek to build capacities both in our team and our wider communities about the importance and potential of contributing to Wikidata as a tool for equity and knowledge justice. In addition to introducing Wikidata editing during the edit-a-then, the Wiki Clubs will create a sustained space for reflection and learning, encouraging long-term engagement rather than one-time participation.

7. What are the planned activities? (required) Please provide a list of main activities. You can also add a link to the public page for your project where details about your project can be found. Alternatively, you can upload a timeline document. When the activities include partnerships, include details about your partners and planned partnerships.

For the years 2025–2026, the Art+Feminism community invites us to reflect on what a truly feminist Internet would look like. We want this year’s Edit-a-thon and Wiki Clubs to have a real impact within the community and to initiate a critical conversation about what it means to build a truly feminist Internet—one that resists extraction, erasure, and technological violence, and instead actively cares for feminist artists, their work, and their art practices. In this spirit, the Edit-a-thon at Artexte will focus on editing and translating Wikipedia articles as well as Wikidata items about artists whose practices mobilize radical, intersectional ethics of care—care understood as a political, collective, and situated practice rather than a neutral or depoliticized value. We will prioritize artists and artworks that center care, repair, maintenance, interdependence, and refusal, particularly those emerging from marginalized, racialized, queer, trans, disabled, displaced and Indigenous communities. By foregrounding these voices, we aim to disrupt dominant, colonial, and patriarchal regimes of knowledge production, and to reclaim Wikipedia as a contested yet vital site for feminist world-building and collective care. All activities are conceived as both a collective editing initiative and a space for feminist reflection on how artistic knowledge is produced, structured, and made visible online. Our activities are designed to combine practical contributions to Wikipedia and Wikidata with critical engagement around care, representation, and power in digital infrastructures.

1. Preparation and outreach (April to May) In the weeks leading up to the edit-a-thon, Artexte will lay the groundwork for a feminist and care-centered editing environment. This phase will include: Development and updating of bilingual (English and French) training resources that frame Wikipedia and Wikidata not only as technical tools, but as political and cultural spaces shaped by systems of inclusion and exclusion;

Identification of artists whose practices mobilize radical, intersectional ethics of care and whose work remains underrepresented or misrepresented on Wikimedia platforms;
Preparation of research materials drawn from Artexte’s specialized library collection (over 36,000 publications on contemporary Canadian art), in order to counter gaps and biases in dominant art historical narratives;
Compilation of lists of articles and Wikidata items to be created, expanded, or translated, shared in advance on the public project page and Wikimedia Dashboard;
Public communication of the project through the Art + Feminism network, Wikimedia Canada’s events calendar, and Artexte’s institutional platforms, as well as targeted outreach to artist-run centres, cultural workers, and academic communities;
Collaboration with partner organisations and networks to connect with participants and communities whose artistic and research practices engage with care, feminism, and anti-oppressive knowledge practices.e.

2. Edit-a-thon event (May 2nd or 9th) The Edit-a-thon will take place at the Artexte Information Centre, with the possibility of participating both in person and remotely. The day will begin with a beginner training workshop introducing Wikipedia and Wikidata editing, led by experienced editors from Artexte. Artexte staff—including a librarian, documentation technician, and collections assistant—will be on site throughout the day to provide research and technical support. Participants will engage in collective editing of Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items, focusing on artists whose practices foreground care, repair, maintenance, interdependence, and refusal, particularly from marginalized, racialized, queer, trans, disabled, displaced, and Indigenous communities. Selected archival materials will be available throughout the day to support research, and reference services will ensure that all new and revised entries are grounded in reliable and situated sources. The event will be held in a welcoming and accessible environment, incorporating concrete care practices such as wheelchair access, childcare, and a shared meal prepared in collaboration with local food providers.

3. Wiki-Clubs (June-July-August) Rather than treating the Edit-a-thon as a one-time intervention, Artexte understands it as the starting point of an ongoing process. In the months following the event, we will continue the work in the form of two to three Wiki Clubs hosted at Artexte. These sessions will serve as sustained spaces for collaborative learning, critical discussion, and hands-on engagement with Wikipedia and Wikidata. Each Wiki Club will feature an invited feminist artist, researcher, or activist whose work critically engages with digital archives, data, and the politics of visibility. Through these gatherings, participants will explore the intersections of art, online knowledge production, and social justice, reflecting on how archival and digital infrastructures can both reproduce and challenge inequalities. The Wiki Clubs will be organized in collaboration with artists, activists, and researchers working at the intersections of art, justice, and digital archiving, ensuring that participants encounter diverse perspectives and practices. These events will deepen participants’ understanding of Wikidata as a tool for structuring artistic knowledge, while fostering ongoing engagement with the ethical, political, and care-based dimensions of contributing to open knowledge systems.

8. Describe your team. Please provide their roles, Wikimedia Usernames and other details. (required) Include more details of the team, including their roles, usernames, Wikimedia group, and whether they are salaried, volunteers, consultants/contractors, etc. Team members involved in the grant application need to be aware of their involvement in the project.

Léa Chénier Boisvert : Librarian (salaried)

Thaylini Luz: Project Manager, Engagement, Artexte (contractor)

Marie-Noëlle Pelletier : collection assistant, archives, Artexte, Marchi Bien (salaried)

Amber Berson : Art Historian, curator, writer (consultant, volonteer)

Jonathan Lachance : Documentation Technician (salaried)

Manon Tourigny : Artexte General and Artistic Director (salaried)

Maude Levasseur, Administrative Director, Artexte, modicha collections@artexte.ca (salaried)

9. Who are the target participants and from which community? How will you engage participants before and during the activities? How will you follow up with participants after the activities? (required)

Inviting Communities to Gather We hope that the primary participants for Art + Feminism Edit-a-thon at Artexte will be artists, cultural workers, researchers, students, and activists whose work engages with care, feminism, and anti-oppressive knowledge practices. In order to reach individuals from communities underrepresented on Wikimedia platforms—including women, non-binary people, Indigenous people, racialised communities, LGBTQ2S+ individuals, and people with disabilities—we will strat by building on the relationships that Artexte already have with artist-run centres, research groups and longtine collaborators. Leading up to the Art + Feminism Edit-a-thon, Artexte will actively reach out to artists, researchers, students, and activists whose work engages with care, feminism, and anti-oppressive knowledge practices. We aim to create a gathering of communities often underrepresented on Wikimedia platforms, including women, non-binary people, Indigenous people, racialised communities, LGBTQ2S+ individuals, and people with disabilities. We will build this gathering through strategic partnerships with feminist and queer art collectives, artist-run centres, associations serving racialised and LGBTQ2S+ communities, and university departments in the arts, feminist studies, Indigenous studies, and queer studies. We will also collaborate with feminist technology initiatives, such as Girl Who Code – Glitch Feminist Group, to connect with contributors passionate about Wikidata, digital culture, and collaborative knowledge-making. Through targeted, inclusive communication, we will invite participants via social media, newsletters, and specialised networks, emphasising the accessibility and care-based approach of the event: bilingual materials, physical accessibility, childcare, and shared meals. Preparatory resources, including manuals and suggested articles or Wikidata items to work on, will be shared to encourage confidence and readiness to participate. Finally, we will reach out directly to community leaders, mentors, and inspiring voices within these networks, inviting them to help spread the call to gather and support the creation of a collaborative space for anti-oppressive, decolonial knowledge production. Participants will also be encouraged to create Wikipedia accounts in advance, removing technical barriers and ensuring that everyone can fully join this collective effort.

During the event, we will make participants’ experience a space for conversation, exchange, and enjoyment, welcoming all voices and levels of expertise. Our team will be open, supportive, and attentive, ensuring that everyone feels included and valued. After the event, we will continue the conversation as one would with any friendship—through posts, newsletters, and, most importantly, the follow-up Wiki Clubs. Guests for these sessions will be chosen based on the discussions and interests that emerge from the community itself, allowing participants to shape the next steps of collective learning and anti-oppressive knowledge-making.

10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)

No

10.1. Please provide a link to your Youth Safety Policy. (required) If the proposal indicates direct contact with children or youth, you are required to outline compliance with international and local laws for working with children and youth, and provide a youth safety policy aligned with these laws. Read more here.

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11. How did you discuss the idea of your project with your community members and/or any relevant groups? Please describe steps taken and provide links to any on-wiki community discussion(s) about the proposal. (required) You need to inform the community and/or group, discuss the project with them, and involve them in planning this proposal. You also need to align the activities with other projects happening in the planned area of implementation to ensure collaboration within the community.

From the very beginning, Artexte has approached this project as a collaborative effort with our communities rather than a top-down initiative. The idea for the 2025–2026 Art + Feminism Edit-a-thon was shared and discussed with multiple relevant groups, including the Canadian Art + Feminism representative, local artist-run centres and technology-focused feminist initiatives (Parallel). Within our local community, we have held planning discussions with researchers, artists, and activists to understand their needs, priorities, and interests. These consultations have directly informed decisions about the themes, participant outreach, accessibility measures, and the selection of invited guests for WikiClubs, ensuring that the project reflects the collective expertise and concerns of the community.

12. Does your proposal aim to work to bridge any of the content knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)

Content Gender gap

13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)

Gender and diversity

14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)

Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background

15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)

Provide for Safety and Inclusion

Learning and metrics

17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)

Through this project, we hope to learn a bit more about how we could build and sustain collaborative, anti-oppressive knowledge spaces within both Wikipedia and Wikidata. We also hope to learn how ongoing dialogue and follow-up activities, such as WikiClubs, can foster longer-term engagement, strengthen networks between artists, researchers, and activists, and generate collective strategies for knowledge production that are ethical, feminist, and participatory. We also hope to see the seed of change by reading and monitoring the articles that will be edited, translated and see if we need to add things to our collections in order to document better. We anticipate participation from both returning and new researchers. Through expanded outreach to collaborators, we aim to engage between 20 and 30 participants actively contributing to the creation, editing and translating of articles. The event is expected to generate approximately 40–70 meaningful edits, while fostering skill development, knowledge sharing, and longer-term research collaborations beyond the event itself.

18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)

Number of participants, editors, and organizers
Other Metrics	Target	Optional description
Number of participants	75	30 returning contributors at the Edit-a-thon 20 new contributors at the Edit-a-thon 25 participants in the WikiClubs that were not at the Edit-a-thon
Number of editors	50	20 new 30 returning
Number of organizers	4	Artexte Parallel research group Concordia University Art Gallery (artist-run centre) UdM University research group

Number of content contributions to Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia project	Number of content created or improved
Wikipedia
Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata
Wiktionary
Wikisource
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki
MediaWiki
Wikiquote
Wikivoyage
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
Wikinews
Wikispecies
Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia

Optional description for content contributions.

N/A

19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)

Yes

Main Open Metrics Data
Main Open Metrics	Description	Target
number of edit made	40-70	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A

20. What tools would you use to measure each metrics? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support. (required)

We will need support

Financial proposal

21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)

2026Budget_Wiki_Artexte - Feuille 1.pdf

22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)

3050 CAD

22.2. Convert the amount requested into USD using the Oanda converter. This is done only to help you assess the USD equivalent of the requested amount. Your request should be between 500 - 5,000 USD.

2251.22 USD

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Yes

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