Not really into writing?

That's okay! There are plenty of other ways to contribute that support folks who want to write articles.

Wikidata is the structured database behind Wikipedia. It records data about Wikipedia articles in a machine-readable way, simplifying information access across its various language versions. This helps Art+Feminism editors find artists from countries or eras they care about that are not yet represented on Wikipedia. Wikidata also powers data visualization tools like OpenArtBrowser. By filling in missing information in Wikidata, you can help improve how computers understand Wikipedia articles

Wikimedia Commons stores all of the photos used in Wikipedia articles, as well as a lot of free photos that aren't used in articles yet! If you have an eye for photography, contributing a photo is a great way to make articles easier to understand. After all, a picture is worth a thousand words!

Things to edit

Wikiproject Sum of all paintings has an excellent list of work that needs to be done in Wikidata to improve their coverage of paintings. Some tasks that are especially newbie-friendly include:

Mix&Match makes it easy to tell if an artist or painting in an organization's database matches something that already exists in Wikidata. All you have to do is pick a catalog and determine if the person described in the data is the same as the person in Wikidata. Here's a few fun catalogs to try:

You'll find a full list of art-related Mix&Match catalogs here.

Learn to contribute to Wikimedia Commons

Contributing a photograph to Wikimedia Commons is easiest when it is your own work and you release it under a CC0 license. That means you have to be the one who took the photograph, and you have to be okay with other people reusing your photo anywhere on the internet! If both of those terms are acceptable for you, take a look at the resources below to learn more about adding your photos to commons.

How to take pictures for Wikimedia Commons

Contributing your own work

Adding images to Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia: Dos and Donts

Improving photograph metadata

It's tough to search for a photograph if there isn't good metadata describing what the photograph is of. Help make photographs more easily searchable by filling in the "depicts" property or writing captions for these photos!

Buildings to photograph

Here are some buildings that can be photographed under the Freedom of Panorama law in the United States:

Near Tompkins County Public Library:

  • Kitchen Theatre (417 W. State St.)
  • Sciencenter (601 1st St)
  • Lehman Alternative Community School (111 Chestnut St)
  • Hangar Theatre (801 Taughannock Blvd)

Near Olin Library:

  • Catherwood Library (521 Ives Hall)
  • Charles F. Berman Field (411 Tower Rd)

You can also use this tool to find other places in Ithaca that don't have photographs in Wikimedia Commons yet.