The project “Visitising comic book illustrators and artists on Wikipedia”, financed by the Women's Institute, attached to Ministry of Equality of Government of Spain, part of a simple but necessary idea: If women have been present in comic book history since its origins, why are they still so unknown and hard to find in knowledge spaces like Wikipedia? The answer has to do with a historical invisibilization that is also repeated in digital spaces. From Wikiesfera we have been working for years to correct these gaps and, this time, we do it focusing on the authors and feminist memory of the comic.

The starting point of the project is Vineyard: universal story of comic book authors, the book of Elisa McCausland (@reinohueco.bsky.social) and Diego Salgado (@diegosalgado.bsky.social), edited by chair, which covers more than One hundred and thirty years of comic book history through the women who have created, transformed and expanded it.. Vineyard not only does it show that the authors have been there since the beginning, but it allows us to trace a Feminist genealogy of comics, taking into account historical, cultural and social contexts that rarely appear in official accounts. From this reference work, the project transfers that knowledge to Wikipedia and other spaces of free knowledge, expanding and improving articles so that these creators are also present in the most consulted encyclopedia in the world.

To this end, the initiative combines different activities. On the one hand, a cycle of Outreach sessions open to the public in which Elisa McCausland and Diego Salgado will travel through the twelve great stages of the history of comics from a feminist perspective, sharing keys, contexts and fundamental authors. On the other hand, face-to-face editing workshops on Wikipedia coordinated by Wikiesfera, designed especially for women interested in comics, illustration or digital culture, where they learn to edit, document and improve content collectively and accompanied.