<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333015441895px">Hello Library Community,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333015441895px">I am glad to announce that my library will be joining Portland State University this Saturday for their Wikipedia Meetup, addressing art and feminism. I hope some of your libraries can join as well.</div>
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"Wikipedia’s <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap" title="meta:Gender gap" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(102,51,102);text-decoration:none;background-image:none">gender trouble</a> is well documented: in a 2010 survey, Wikimedia found that less than 13% of its contributors are female.<sup style="line-height:1em"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism#cite_note-1" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);text-decoration:none;background-image:none;white-space:nowrap">[1]</a></sup> The reasons for the gender gap are up for debate: suggestions include leisure inequality..." -Wikipedia</p>
<p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;font-size:13px;font-family:sans-serif;margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em">"We invite you to help address this absence at a Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Saturday, February 1, 2014 from noon to 6 p.m. at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyebeam_Art_and_Technology_Center" title="Eyebeam Art and Technology Center" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);text-decoration:none;background-image:none">Eyebeam Art and Technology Center</a>, 540 West 21st Street, New York City. We will provide tutorials for the beginner Wikipedian, reference materials, and light refreshments." -Wikipedia</p>
<p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;font-size:13px;font-family:sans-serif;margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em"><br></p><p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;font-size:13px;font-family:sans-serif;margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em">If you have the pleasure of being in New York this weekend, please go attend their event. For those of us in Portland area, you can still participate by joining your fellow Portlanders THIS Saturday (Feb. 1st) at PSU. <b>The event will be held from 9am to 3pm so that it takes place in conjunction with the New York event. It will be held in Neuberger Hall room 293 (second floor).</b> Bring your laptop.</p>
<p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;font-size:13px;font-family:sans-serif;margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em">If you are not within travelling distance of Portland, you can still log on and edit Wikipedia entries from home (or at your local library). A<span style="font-size:13px">ny participation is helpful. Links below for more information. :)</span></p>
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