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An Artist’s Guide for Editing Wikipedia, by Rob Myers
An Artist’s Guide for Editing Wikipedia.
A no nonsense guide to help improve the representation of artists using Wikipedia by Rob Myers.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=350
The collaboratively produced on-line encyclopaedia Wikipedia is becoming an important reference resource for art as well as for its traditional strengths in the sciences and popular culture. To help improve the representation of new media art on Wikipedia, more people who are involved in the field should learn about how Wikipedia works and get involved with editing it. This article is a brief introduction to doing so.
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June 1st, 2009 - 01:16
Thanks for this, too, Chris!
June 3rd, 2009 - 14:19
You’re welcome! This is a very useful guide. Hopefully it will start to address the general lack of new media art entries on Wikipedia…