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Siân Evans (librarian)
Siân Evans is an American librarian, activist, and Wikimedian. She is co-founder of the Art+Feminism, a global edit-a-thon to challenge gender bias on Wikipedia. Evans is a librarian at Johns Hopkins University. Career Evans is co-founder of Art+Feminism, a global campaign that challenges gender bias on Wikipedia. Evans notes that as part of Art+Feminism, "we do concrete work – adding citations to pages, expanding coverage of women in the arts – but, we also understand these events as platforms for consciousness raising and hopefully strategies for change emerge from that." Evans is the Online Programs Librarian at Sheridan Libraries and Museums at Johns Hopkins University. In 2014, Evans was named one of ''Foreign Policy'' 100 Leading Global Thinkers. Evans' research and writing on digitally focused gender equity has been published in ''Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America'' and in the book ''Informed Agitation: Library and Informa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wikimedian
According to the Wikimedia Foundation, the Wikimedia movement is the global community of contributors to the Wikimedia projects. This community directly builds and administers the projects. It is committed to using open standards and software. First created around and by Wikipedia's community of volunteer editors, it has since expanded to other projects, including Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata, and volunteer software engineers and developers contributing to MediaWiki. Projects Content projects As of 2021, Wikimedia's content projects include: * Wikipedia, a web-based encyclopedia * Meta-Wiki, a place to discuss and coordinate projects and ideas across wikis * Wikibooks, educational textbooks * Wikidata, a shared repository of structured data, accessible by the other projects * Wikifunctions, a catalog of functions and source code. It is designed to support Abstract Wikipedia, a language-independent version of Wikipedia using structured data. * Wikimedia Commons, a shared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
