Wikistorming

Quick meaning: Wikistorming is a noun meaning (Internet) A collaborative effort to inject a certain viewpoint (such as a feminist perspective) into a wiki website.

Meaning

(Internet) A collaborative effort to inject a certain viewpoint (such as a feminist perspective) into a wiki website.

Example Sentences

Wikistorming brings knowledge from campus libraries and translates it to the Web.

Feb 2016 Wikistorming to raise women artists’ Wikipedia presence with public's help

Working collaboratively and creatively in wikistorming sessions, many writers involved with technology, science and feminism have designed a "shared pedagogical activity" to help contribute to Wikipedia.

Two notable assignments were a maker project, in which the students had to build something, and “Wikistorming” in which participants created and revised Wikipedia articles on and about women as well as interrogating the processes and gender bias of Wikipedia editing ("feminist wiki-storming," 2016).

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