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In honor of Women's History Month, Art House Productions, along with Hudson County Community College & Seton Hall University, present Art+Feminism Lecture on Wednesday, March 24 at 12:30pm EST via Zoom. Click here to register for the lecture.

On April 7 from 10:00am-1:00pm EST, the Walsh Library and the Walsh Gallery will host Seton Hall's second Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon. All are invited to register to become "Wikipedians" and edit or create a Wikipedia page for an artist. Click here to register for the event.

According to the Art+Feminism website, the non-profit organization "directly addresses the inequality of gender, feminism, and the arts on Wikipedia." This is accomplished through a coordinated campaign of online training materials and volunteer-organized "edit-a-thons" at a variety of cultural and intellectual institutions across the globe.

In the lecture on March 24, Brooke Duffy and Jeanne Brasile will provide an overview of the ways in which women and gender diverse artists have traditionally been and continue to be excluded from the art historical canon and global art markets. They will share background information about the Art+Feminism organization and objectives of their wiki-thons. The lecture culminates with a hands-on activity in which participants can engage with, critically read, and converse about artist Wikipedia pages.

To request closed captions or ASL interpreters, please email info@arthouseproductions.org at least 72 hours before the event.

The mission of the Hudson County Community College Department of Cultural Affairs is to provide supplementary programs to stimulate awareness of the arts and foster creativity. We strive to complement the efforts of HCCC with cultural events, community programs, and educational initiatives. Our goal is to transcend the understanding of visual and performing arts by closing the distance between the experience of art and everyday life in the community we serve.

In 2015, the College established a Cultural Affairs Task Force comprising involved members of the community, as well as HCCC Trustees, Foundation Board Directors, educators and scholars. The result is a full calendar of arts programs and events each semester, most of which are free of cost, and are held on the College's Journal Square and North Hudson campuses. Please CLICK HERE to view this season's offerings.

The Seton Hall University Libraries advance distinction in the Seton Hall communitys teaching, learning, and research through its provision of user-focused services, programs, and robust collections. Seton Hall University Libraries support excellence in academic and individual work, enable inquiry, foster intellectual and ethical integrity and respect for diverse points of view through user-focused services and robust collections as the intellectual and cultural heart of the University. The University Libraries are central to the Universitys intellectual life where students and faculty needs are the top priority. We lead through the provision of innovative services, programs, and resources within the Seton Hall community and beyond. The Walsh Gallery and Archives and Special Collections are the repositories for records, art and artifacts in support of the University Libraries and Seton Hall Universitys missions, goals and visions. In the Catholic intellectual tradition, we encourage the exchange of divergent points of view as we are the intellectual, ethical, cultural, and historical heart of the University. http://www.shu.edu

Art House Productions has long awarded adventurous and diverse performing artists with a stage to expose audiences to their ambitious and challenging projects. Art House Productions is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to the development and presentation of the performing and visual arts in Jersey City, NJ. Art House Productions presents theater, performing and visual arts festivals, arts events, visual art exhibitions, and adult and youth art classes. For more information about our programs, please visit our website at http://www.arthouseproductions.org. Follow us on social media @arthouseproductions @arthouseprods. To sign up for Art House's mailing list, please click here: http://eepurl.com/hd1FCj.

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Art + Feminism Lecture and Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon to Take Place in Honor of Women's History Month - Broadway World

Newswise WASHINGTON, February 18, 2021 -- To highlight and enhance the awareness of Black physicists, the American Institute of Physics is partnering with Black in Physics to host a Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon to address inaccuracies and incomplete information on the popular resource website about African American and Black scientists.

The event will take place during the last week of Black History Month, Feb. 22-26, and bring together volunteers in the physics community to build and edit Wikipedia pages about Black physicists. Wikipedia editors will provide training and information to assist the volunteers with the Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon.

Members of AIPs Center for History of Physics and the Niels Bohr Library & Archives will host information drop-in sessions for Wikithon editors seeking resources and best practices for citing sources on Wikipedia pages. The AIP oral history collection will be utilized as a resource for Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon volunteers to find citable material.

The Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon drop-in sessions will last about an hour but could extend depending on the work being done. Volunteers from Black in Physics will be participating in the weeklong event.

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About American Institute of Physics

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is a 501(c)(3) membership corporation of scientific societies. AIP pursues its missionto advance, promote, and serve the physical sciences for the benefit of humanitywith a unifying voice of strength from diversity. In its role as a federation, AIP advances the success of its Member Societies by providing the means to pool, coordinate, and leverage their diverse expertise and contributions in pursuit of a shared goal of advancing the physical sciences in the research enterprise, in the economy, in education, and in society. In its role as an institute, AIP operates as a center of excellence using policy analysis, social science, and historical research to promote future progress in the physical sciences.

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American Institute of Physics to Host Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon, Raise Awareness of Black Physicists - Newswise

As part of the Israeli entitys advancing levels of fear of Hezbollah, the official Twitter account of the Israeli military posted a call on Tuesday for Wikipedia in English to edit its article on the Lebanese resistance movement to reflect its identification by 26 countries as a terrorist organization.

The diagnosis, in the Zionist case, would better be onomatophobia, which is the fear of names, in our case it is Hezbollah.

The worth-mocking step exposes how the Zionist occupation entitys fear has switched from its main battlefield with the resistance group, in military, to the educational one, where it should be the least among the supposed undefeatable armys concerns.

In this regard, some experts claim that Wikipedia is a battleground for competing viewpoints, and the Hezbollah page is no exception.

The resistance groups English Wikipedia entry, which currently describes it as a Shia Islamist political party and militant group, didnt satisfy the Israeli military Spokespersons Unit, prompting it to to tweet on Tuesday that its time for an update, calling for the organizations definition to reflect its labeling as a terrorist group.

David Gerard is a veteran Wikipedia editor based in the UK. In a conversation with The Media Line, he explained the argumentative phrasing, as well as Wikipedias treatment of controversial subjects in general, saying that the sites political position is basically very centrist about things, and always gives both sides of every issue. Because of this, he said, you end up with these understated, overly polite descriptions that people may consider quite controversial.

With controversial issues, Gerard explains, there are editors pulling in different directions and the final product has to be acceptable for all parties. Therefore, the aim is to create readable entries, but better entries could be written.

The editor also points out that Hezbollahs entry contains all the information you need.

Added to its misfortune, the Israeli military Spokespersons Unit confessed their intrusion in a statement to The Media Line, stating that our office occasionally looks at Wikipedia entries when the subject matter is relevant to the messaging we want to get across. We do this in order to better understand what information is given to the average individual on the internet and to find misinformation that should be dispelled.

Further, the Zionist Spokespersons Unit claimed that, It is our hope that our tweet will inspire some of Wikipedias editors to update Hezbollah Wikipedia entry by highlighting the fact that Hezbollah has been recognized as a terrorist organization by some of the worlds most influential nations, such as the US, UK, Germany, Japan, and Canada.

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Israeli Onomatophobia: Zionist Military's Fear of Hezbollah Shifts to Wikipedia - Ahlul Bayt News Agency: Providing Shia News

Israels occupation of the West Bank may be a fact of life for Palestinians, but it may no longer be a fact on Hebrew Wikipedia. The community of volunteer editors has voted to rename the article on the occupation, dropping the word in favor of Israels rule or control over the contested territory.

Though occupation still appears in the article, the change reflects what can be called a version of Israels creeping annexation of the territory online in Hebrew, where the West Bank has long been called by its biblical name and the term occupation is increasingly perceived as inaccurate due to its temporary and politicized nature.

The Hebrew Wikipedia community, like Wikipedia in all other languages, maintains autonomy from the famous English-language online encyclopedia. Though overseen by the Wikimedia Foundation, each project is independent. Content varies dramatically from language to language, and each Wikipedia tends to reflect its base of volunteer editors and the media sources available to them.

Therefore, the articles on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are very different in English, Hebrew and Arabic. For example, while almost all Wikipedias use the term the West Bank, Hebrew Wikipedia has for years opted for Judea and Samaria.

Moreover, while all content on all Wikipedias must be neutral and based on respected sources, the editorial practices of each language community is different, enforcing certain views of what is considered neutral at the expense of other outlooks.

For example, while the English community doesnt hold formal votes but strives to reach a consensus among different factions of editors, in Hebrew decisions are voted on and editors receive a number of different options to rank in preferential order many times.

In a vote this week, the community had to decide between a number of options for the title of an article on the occupation. The title Israels occupation of Judea and Samaria reflected the lack of harmony in both the local community and Israeli society as it mixed the word occupation with the biblical name for the territory.

Ten different names were debated, four of which still included occupation, while others offered different options for Israels control or rule over the Palestinian territory. Interestingly, only two of those using occupation included West Bank, while another used Palestinian territory.

Control is better than occupation, its more neutral, the editor backing the winning option said during the debate. The former is better while occupation seems to describe a cruel active action.

Another editor countered: Israel may not be a conqueror of the Land of Israel, but Palestinians are living under a military occupation. The question of whether this is an oppressive occupation or an enlightened one well leave to the readers, but the word occupation is more accurate than Israeli control.

Others argued for using the West Bank and not the biblical terminology in the articles headline, but because West Bank had been dropped from the main article years earlier, this line of argumentation failed to win support.

Hebrew or Israeli Wikipedia?

Hebrew Wikipedia is edited largely by Jewish-Israeli editors; only a handful of editors whose native language is Arabic have been known to take part. My own reporting has suggested that more than being a Hebrew Wikipedia, the local version has become the Israeli Wikipedia, reflecting the political biases and divides in Israeli society. Though the local community is very Jewish-Israeli in its bias and tone, it is as divided as Jewish-Israeli society is on politics.

Its telling that while Hebrew-language debates on the conflict tend to divide the community along left and right-wing lines, the debate and vote this time actually remained on topic and focused on clarifying terminology. Thus it possibly reflects shifts in the Jewish-Israeli consensus on both the word occupation and the status of the West Bank.

Youre making a mistake in Hebrew. The word occupation in Hebrew doesnt just connote a specific instance in time but an ongoing situation and some of us know that occupation is indeed an ongoing action, one editor said.

It seems that the word control or authority is misleading regarding this content because it creates the false sense that the same control or authority that exists within Israels borders also exists in the territory in question, he added. Others suggested that use of such terminology required explaining how Israels rule over Arab communities in Israel proper differs from the situation in the West Bank.

They added that the communitys decision in the past to use Judea and Samaria should not constitute a binding editorial decision. Interestingly, though the community is divided based on Israeli political fault lines, the decision to use the biblical term is over a decade old.

In fact, very little change has taken place on this topic on Hebrew Wikipedia. In English, much as in Hebrew, the conflict is among the most contentious topics in the encyclopedia. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is actually one of the three most regulated arenas on English Wikipedia, with especially strict restrictions imposed on its editing to prevent political brawls. The other contentious topics are articles on India and Pakistan, and on antisemitism in Poland, highlighting just how fraught the topic is.

In Hebrew, the Israel-related topic is just as contentious, and a kind of stalemate set in during Wikipedias early days. However, changes to Israels occupation have eroded this consensus, and though the Judea and Samaria article contains information on the occupation, a specific article on military rule over the Palestinians was opened only a few months ago, launching a debate in Hebrew on the need for this specialized entry. After it was decided that the article could remain, the debate shifted to the title.

'A balance to be struck'

The editor tasked with enforcing the decision told Haaretz that though he disagreed with some aspects of it, he thought the community process yielded a factually accurate result.

The vote didnt happen according to political lines. Theres a problem with the word occupation. It has two meanings: The first is an action happening now and the second is the ongoing situation that in Hebrew can also be called an occupation, he said.

There is something mistaken about using the first sense of the word because no one is actively entering and occupying now, he said, adding that in the military sense Israel had already taken over the West Bank and there was no ongoing military campaign to seize control of the territory.

The other issue is that the word occupation now also has political connotations. The left tends to call [Israels presence in the West Bank an] occupation while the right calls it a liberation. Obviously neither are accurate and theres a balance to be struck.

The fact that the vote didnt take place along political lines, and the fact that it focused on the different meanings of the term, indicates a possible shift in Hebrew regarding the significance of occupation from the first meaning to the second. In other words, the consensus around the factual basis of the occupation is shifting in Hebrew, less due to politics and more because Israels control of the territory is less and less perceived as temporary.

At the end of last year I reported on a similar yet inverted process taking place on English Wikipedia. There, after years of consensus that Israel is not an apartheid state, the apartheid comparison made a comeback and was allowed to appear in an article because of statements by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump administration officials on Israels long-term plans for the West Bank and desire to annex the territory if peace talks failed.

In English, Israels creeping annexation has undermined its claim against the apartheid analogy. In Hebrew, the same process takes on a different tone and indicates that for Israelis too the occupation is an immutable fact, so they may as well call it by its name.

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Israeli rule, not occupation: In a sign of the times, Hebrew Wikipedia renames a key article - Haaretz

Disinformation, information intoxication or fake news has always existed. Information has always been a weapon, a tool of power that has raised and destroyed empires, countries and civilizations. And in the age of the internet, misinformation goes viral at high speed.

One of those responsible for bring light to darkness of ignorance in these times is Wikipedia, the digital encyclopedia to which we all resort constantly to resolve doubts and to settle disputes about a data, a date or a name.

In its quest to improve the way it generates and improves its content, it has launched a code of conduct. As a style guide focused on the moderation and rigor of what contributors or Wikipedians contribute, Wikipedia launches its own Universal Code of Conduct o Universal Code of Conduct.

A first draft was submitted in September 2020. Then it was corrected. And on February 2 of this year, its version ratified by the Council that directs the Wikipedia and all the projects in its environment. Now it is being translated into all the languages in which there is a Wikipedia version. At the time of this writing, the translation to Spanish goes for 30%.

Another fact that exemplifies the importance of this code of conduct is that they have participated in it more than 1,500 volunteers of 19 versions or languages other than Wikipedia. And why is this document so important? In the words of those responsible, its purpose is to combat misinformation. And, especially, negative behaviors derived from the polarization that exists in the current internet.

In the words of Mara Sefidari, President of the Council of the Wikimedia Foundation, this code of conduct should serve to create a welcoming, safe and inclusive environment for our collaborators, and a movement more open and powerful for free knowledge .

The text, of about 1,600 words, covers several aspects: it defines what is the acceptable behavior in the Wikipedia community, wants to prevent abuse of power and harassment of project participants and combat misinformation or the introduction of false or inaccurate information deliberately or intentionally.

Todays internet is a reflection of the society in which we live. With the good and with the bad. On the good, projects like Wikipedia they have brought culture and information to the whole world and it has become another tool for educators. In the bad, hate speech has proliferated thanks to the intoxication and misinformation that is viralized in social networks and, lets not forget, also in traditional media.

The Universal Code of Conduct Wikipedia is one more contribution to the many that arise every day to combat misinformation. On this occasion, this code serves to give some guidelines that can be extrapolated to other areas of the internet.

Some of the elements that we find in this code seem very obvious. But it is convenient to list and remember them to avoid what we later find on social networks. For starters, what is the acceptable behavior in Wikipedia: mutual respect, empathy, civility Words that forget those who are dedicated to intoxicating or insulting everyone does not think the same.

Precisely, the Wikipedia code highlights the toxic behaviors, so common in forums and social networks: harassment, insults, abuse of power, manipulation, incitement to violence or suicide A list of behaviors to avoid on Wikipedia but also in other areas of online communication.

You will find more information about the Universal Code of Conduct on its official page. You can also consult the discussion related to the document or collaborate in the translation of the text.

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