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An average of 800 Wikipedia articles are being created per day, but theres always more work to be done in making sure theres information correct information on the people, places and events that have shaped our history.

Hence the many edit-a-thons being held where people gather to edit and create entries together, as well as learn how to do it themselves. Philadelphians have been pretty good at organizing these events, such aswhen Bryn Mawr College hosted an edit-a-thon for women in STEM or when WHYYs Terry Gross wanted more entries on the guests shes interviewed on air.

March is dedicated to the annual Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, started in 2014, in whichpeoplearound the world gather to enhance the information available on women inthe arts.

Temple University just hosted its edit-a-thon this past Friday and got some pretty good work done 17 editors edited a total of 19 articles, with 137 total edits made.

With the Moore College of Art and Design set to host its event next on March 17, plus one at University of the Arts on March 18 and one at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on March 26, you still have plenty of time to get prepared and get involved.

The PMA even has a crowdsourced list of suggestions for entries to create and improve upon and as you can see, its pretty extensive. The list includes a bunchof historical figures such as paintersSusan H. Bradley andBlanche Dillaye,who both studied at PAFA.

But there are plenty of people and organizations around today that we at Generocity feel could always use some fine-tuning with their entries maybe someone like Michelle Taylor, a.k.a. Feminista Jones, program manager for Witnesses to Hunger.

Register for any of the above events here.

Albert Hong is Generocity's contributing reporter. He started hanging around the Technically Media office as a summer intern for Technical.ly and eventually made his way to freelancing for both news sites. While technology and video games are two of his main interests, he's grown to love Philadelphia as a city and is always excited to hear someone else's story.

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Help expand Wikipedia's entries on women in the arts at these local edit-a-thons - Generocity