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AfroCROWD Wikipedia News & Opportunities (Year End Edition, 2018) |
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It has been a great year for AfroCROWD. In this year-end edition, catch up & connect with AfroCROWD: the initiative to increase awareness of
the Wikimedia and free knowledge, culture, and software movements among
potential editors of African descent! |
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New York, November 17
Join AfroCROWD Partner 500 Women Scientists
for a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Caveat |
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87% of Wikipedia editors are men. So it’s no surprise most of the scientists on Wikipedia are pale, stale, and male.
500 Women Scientists is working to change that — transforming the idea of what a scientist looks like, online and IRL. Join them on November 17th at Caveat to learn more about the contributions of trailblazing women scientists while giving them the Wikipedia pages they deserve
- 11/17, 12-3 PM, Caveat, 21 A Clinton Street, NYC
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All November
AfroCROWD is part of the WikiProject AfroCine Initiative to Bridge the Content Gap on Historical and Contemporary Afro Cinema, Theatre, and Art |
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Do you have a favorite African or Afro-descended actor or actress who doesn't have a Wikipedia article, is missing a photo or whose Wikipedia article is too short?
Join the AfroCine project to add more notable African cinematographers to Wikipedia.
The international contest is on until November 30th. The goal: add 500 new names to the wikiverse of people of African Descent in film.
More information at
The Months of African Cinema Contest or the link below!
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Congratulations to AfroCROWD
Organizer Rachel Cuba in Washington, DC on her recent Wiki AfroCine Project focused edit-a-thon at Georgetown Library! Look out for more events in the Georgetown area by Rachel in coming updates. |
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Photo: AfroCROWDer Rachel Cuba (right) poses with Wikipedia editors at her resent AfroCine Wikipedia edit-a-thon she organized at Georgetown Library in Washinton, DC. |
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New York, December 6, 4:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Join us at Fordham University for the New York Heritage and Women of the African Diaspora Wikipedia Edit-a-thon |
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Wikipedia for Educators at Fordham in partnership with AfroCROWD and the Department of Records’ WomensActivism.NYC digital storytelling platform will be hosting a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Thursday, December 6 from 4:30 to 7:30 at Fordham’s Lincoln Center.
This event is designed to improve coverage of women of the African Diaspora on Wikipedia. It’s also a chance to learn more about WomensActivism.NYC a crowd-sourced archive of women-identified change-makers cataloging the stories of women activists big and small.
- 12/6, 4:30-7:30 PM Fordham University at Lincoln Center, 113 West 60th Street, NYC
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Los Angeles, Thursday, November 15,
9:30-11:30 am
LA Librarians! Learn to Organize a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon with AfroCROWD at the Los Angeles Public Library
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Join
AfroCROWD LA at the Los Angeles Public Library for a Local History
Wikipedia Edit-a-thon lead by
AfroCROWD organizer
Kai Alexis Smith. Focus: Learn how to organize a local history Wikipedia edit-a-thon. All are welcome.
Click the button below for more information. |
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Barcelona, Spain
November 28th, 5 PM-8 PM
AfroCROWD Debuts in Spain at Wikipedia
Edit-a-thon at Barcelona University |
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AfroCROWD organizer Ivonne Gonzalez with host a Wikipedia edit-a-thon at Barcelona University in the city of Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, November 28th from 5-8PM. At the free workshop, participants will learn how to edit Wikipedia.
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Charlottesville, VA
University of Virginia AfroCROWD Partnership |
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AfroCROWD has partnered in solidarity with Wikimedians at the University of Virginia who are working to improve knowledge about people of African Descent on Wikipedia and in Charlottesville, VA.
University of Virginia Librarians and our friend, fellow Wikimedian, Lane Rasberry, have been working to organize Wiki events centered on the African American community: |
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November 30
Resurfacing Black Life
Resurfacing Black Life is a public Wikipedia event for students and faculty to have fun while also sharing information from the library's special collections. Wikipedia has been a popular source of information for a generation and continues to influence thought in all fields. By sharing information in Wikipedia we make information accessible to others and track its popularity. Come to socialize, share snacks, and to publish information that people will read. Feel free to ask any questions you have ever had about the encyclopedia.
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December 15
WikiProject Newspapers
Another exciting project in the Charlottesville area is
WikiProject Newspapers!
This project is designed to fill an important gap on Wikipedia: Several thousand local newspapers have no Wikipedia entry or have a very minimal stub. This project's current major initiative is to create useful stub articles, with infoboxes, for 1,000 U.S.-based newspapers, by December 15, 2018.
The organizers of are especially interested in African American regional, especially Charlottesville area newspapers before and just after desegregation. These newspapers are all amazing reads. That newspaper project is big and seeks to index all these newspapers so that more people can access them. It is a data science-oriented project. For more information please
check out this link! |
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Other Wikimedia Community Happenings |
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New Report by Whoseknowledge
AfroCROWD Partner Whoseknowledge? releases
Report from Decolonizing the Internet Conference, held in Cape Town South Africa 2018 |
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AfroCROWD enjoyed participating in the groundbreaking Decolonizing the Internet Conference ahead of this year's Wikimania Conference in Cape Town, South Africa. The conference, made up of social good influencers in open technology was organized by Whose Knowledge?, a global campaign to center the knowledge of marginalized communities (the majority of the world) on the internet.
Check out this eye-opening reportWhosenowledge? released which includes some findings from the conference. |
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Coming Events from Wikimedia New York City |
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There are some great
events happening soon out of our home chapter, Wikimedia New York City. Take a look:
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We look forward to seeing you soon at a coming Wikipedia event! Here are some highlights from recent AfroCROWD gatherings and other events. |
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Félicitations to organizer Ivonne Gonzalez (pictured at right) who held an AfroCROWD Wikipedia edit-a-thon in Paris, France at Salon du Livre D'Art Des Afriques.
The workshop treated participants to a free training on how to edit Wikipedia and marks the first AfroCROWD edit-a-thon in the country. Wooot! Stay tuned for more from this talented organizer.
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Congratulations to AfroCROWD LA o rganizer Kai Alexis Smith (pictured at right in AfroCROWD T-Shirt) on her recent
Wiki Salon at Loyola Marymount University.
where she was joined by a group of librarians of color.
The AfroCROWD LA branch is also growing. Interested in joining? We would love to hear from you.
Click here or below to join us with the subject line "LA!" |
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Check out some of these photos from WikiConference North America, 2018 held at Ohio States University, Columbus Ohio
Thank you to everyone who came out to support our events which included presentations on AfroCROWD efforts in oral knowledge and history, translate-a-thons and partnerships, a new HBCU initiative headed by Darold Cuba and his efforts in mapping Freedom Towns and more. A special shout out to distinguished AfroCROWDer Wynnie Lamour who also spoke and to all the friends, partners and new acquaintances made during this fantastic conference.
More at WikiConference North America 218.
The next conference will be held in Mexico! Can't wait. |
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AfroCROWD's home chapter is
Wikimedia New York City The chapter is made up of a large group of dedicated individuals who are working hard to provide great Wikipedia community-related programs throughout the New York City area and beyond. Thank you for all you do! |
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Join the Global Wikipedia Community today with AfroCROWD! |
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You made it all the way over here! Thanks for reading.
Here is your Wikimedia tip of the day courtesy of the Wikimedia community:
We think you should know about:
Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines.
Wikidata acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikisource, and others.
Wikidata also provides support to many other sites and services beyond just Wikimedia projects! The content of Wikidata is
available under a free license,
exported using standard formats, and
can be interlinked to other open datasets on the linked data web.
Wikidata also recently celebrated 6 years since being introduced to the worldwide community.
Happy Birthday, Wikidata!
More at:
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If you have editing ideas or are looking to
partner with AfroCROWD for a coming event,
please contact us today:
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AfroCROWD i.e. Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia (AfroCROWD) is an outreach initiative which seeks to increase awareness of the Wikimedia and free knowledge, culture and software movements among potential editors of African descent. Since its launch during Black Wiki History Month in 2015, AfroCROWD has sensitized thousands in its target audience about free culture crowdsourcing and the need to close the multicultural and gender gaps in Wikipedia. AfroCROWD has also held monthly multilingual edit-a-thons in partnership with cultural institutions, galleries, libraries, archives, museums (GLAM) and many others. AfroCROWD has also worked with professors at educational institutions like New York University, The New School, Icahn Medical School and Columbia University among others. AfroCROWD also organizes events to train future trainers in its target community.
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