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then be given a crash course in Knowledge editing, followed by an editing session. An artistic intervention relevant to the topic will open up to new perspectives and close the day. The session will last one day and will be held in a different location each time, as a way to highlight the rich network of organizations already active in gender, feminism and media issues in and around Brussels.
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redirected to the article “hero”, and its emblematic figures are mostly male. Next to the issues of authorship and subject matters, the writing style and structure can often be problematic. A classic example of this is the amount of articles about women that starts with “this woman was the sister/wife of this famous man” in their first or second sentence.
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Each event will start with a lecture given by a guest speaker or organization about a topic related to the gender gap. This presentation will be used as a starting point to question the topic’s representation on Knowledge and to identify articles that need to be created or modified. Participants will
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With the importance that such platforms as Knowledge have gained in our society, and the new writing and publishing tools they propose, it is becoming clear that history is being written down once again. Therefore it is of great concern when studies reveal that only of Knowledge’s contributors are
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Despite their efforts to come up with solutions to live up to their motto “the 💕 that anyone can edit”, Knowledge’s contributors are still predominantly male. Moreover, the contents published also show partial gender representations. As a symbolic example, the article “Heroines” is automatically
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As a symbolic first action, the problematic page “Hero (redirected from Heroines)” has been discussed and edited to add more female figures to a supposedly gender-neutral page that was in fact almost only masculine.
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Logo for the project Just For The Record – addressing how gender is represented in new media and writing/publishing tools like Knowledge, and what influence this has on the way history is recorded.
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Just For The Record is a project addressing how gender is represented in new media and writing/publishing tools like Knowledge, and what influence this has on the way history is recorded.
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that took place in Brussels March 2015, which called attention to the need for more gatherings that investigate how to create diversified contributions to online knowledge platforms.
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To address these issues Just for the record will propose a series of events in Brussels starting in January 2016.
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It looks as though history is being rewritten with the same biases once again.
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women. This problem was identified by the community itself as .
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Logo for the project Just For The Record – addressing how gender is represented in new media and writing/publishing tools like Knowledge, and what influence this has on the way history is recorded.
Just For The Record logo
Just For The Record perspective
Morning presentations
Just For The Record introduction
Welcome
Just For The Record temporary library
Just For The Record editing session
More diversity on the Hero(ine) page
More diversity on the Hero(ine) page
lunch in Pianofabriek’s café
Brussels-Just For The Record Bots, robots, cyborgs
here
Heroine-catwoman
Art+Feminism Knowledge Edit-a-thon
Inspire Grant
LĂ©onie Butler
Just For The Record
Lfurter
Just For The Record
MMelvaer
Just For The Record
Sarah magnan

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