Special-topic discussion: Wikipedia and bias

A conversation unpacking the bias inherent within Wikipedia and how to affect change in that context. This talk focuses on how how librarians and archivists can be working to combat bias in their collections to help alleviate bias on Wikimedia platforms as well how current classification systems add to or alleviate issues of bias. Featuring Jack Solar (independent scholar), Hélène Brosseau (Artexte) and Susie Breier (Concordia).

Open to the general public.

Image: Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 2016 10 by Valérie Tremblay Blouin, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Art%2BFeminism_Wikipedia_Edit-a-thon_2016_10.JPG