Help us improve the representation of art schools in Asia by joining our Wikipedia Edit-a-thon onsite at AAA.


AAA presents Wikipedia Asian Month: Edit-a-thon on Art Schools, which gathers participants to discuss, create, share, and improve Wikipedia articles about art academies and alternative art schools in Asia. This workshop draws on AAA’s ongoing research initiative and growing body of resources about the role of academic and alternative pedagogy in the development of modern and contemporary art in Asia.

Organised with the assistance of Wikimedia Community User Group Hong Kong and aligned with Wikipedia Asian Month 2021, which addresses the underrepresentation of articles about Asia on Wikipedia, this event is part of an ongoing effort to contribute to discussions about the representation of art and visual culture in Asia on open-source knowledge platforms.

Participants will have access to a wide range of materials—books, magazines, and archival materials—available at AAA Library, which will assist content creation when online resources are scarce.

This workshop is part of an ongoing, long-term partnership between AAA and M+. Over the last three years, we held seven workshops with over 200 participants, who have added or improved over 160 Wikipedia articles on artists and exhibitions in Asia. Click here to browse all the articles that were added, edited, or translated by our participants in previous edit-a-thons from 2018 to 2021.  


The event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.

Asia Art Archive and Asia Art Archive in America will join forces for the Wikipedia Asian Month this year. Click here for more info.

Image: Photograph of students at the Department of Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.
Image: Photograph of students at the Department of Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.

Before the Edit-a-thon

  1. Create a Wikipedia account.
  2. Enroll as an editor on the event dashboard. (Passcode: artschools) 
  3. Prepare ideas for creating or improving articles on Wikipedia. We will be providing research materials in the form of books, articles, and more on the day, but please feel free to research beforehand.
  4. Click here to view the online tutorial, “Editing Wikipedia: A guide to improving content on the online encyclopedia.”


On the Day of the Edit-a-thon

There will be a forty-five-minute tutorial at the beginning of the session, led by the AAA team. Wikimedia Community User Group Hong Kong will be there to assist us with technical questions. Please remember to bring your laptop, power cord, and, if you want to prepare beforehand, sources for your chosen article(s). If you are a new participant in our edit-a-thon events, please arrive on time to attend the tutorial session.


Enquiries

editathon@aaa.org.hk


Special thanks to Wikimedia Community User Group Hong Kong, WikiWomen Taiwan, and Wikimedia Taiwan for their support and advice.


Results

New articles

Edited articles

Relevant content

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Gudskul Art Collective: Learning while Nongkrong, Nongkrong while Learning
LIKE A FEVER | Essays

Gudskul Art Collective: Learning while Nongkrong, Nongkrong while Learning

Angga Wijaya reflects on the Jakarta-based art collective’s belief in togetherness and experience-based pedagogy

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Shantiniketan: A World University
LIKE A FEVER | Conversations

Shantiniketan: A World University

R. Siva Kumar in Conversation with Regina Bittner and Kathrin Rhomberg

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Learning What Can’t Be Taught
Programmes

Learning What Can’t Be Taught

17 December 2020–26 June 2021

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Iftikhar Dadi | Artistic Pedagogy in South Asia
Programmes

Iftikhar Dadi | Artistic Pedagogy in South Asia

Mon, 14 Jul 2014

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Shimada Yoshiko | Gendaishicho-sha Bigakko: Alternative Art Education in Post-1968 Japan
Programmes

Shimada Yoshiko | Gendaishicho-sha Bigakko: Alternative Art Education in Post-1968 Japan

Wed, 30 May 2018, 7 – 8 PM

Santiniketan: The Making of a Contextual Modernism
Santiniketan: The Making of a Contextual Modernism
Exhibition Catalogue

Santiniketan: The Making of a Contextual Modernism

1997

Department of Fine Arts at 50: The Chinese University of Hong Kong (1)
Department of Fine Arts at 50: The Chinese University of Hong Kong (1)
Reference

Department of Fine Arts at 50: The Chinese University of Hong Kong (1)

與藝同行五十年: 香港中文大學 (1)
2007

China Academy of Art
China Academy of Art
Reference

China Academy of Art

中國美術學院
2003