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Date: Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 11:16 AM
Subject: AfroCROWD Wikipedia Opportunities & News (October-November, 2018)
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*AfroCROWD Wikipedia News & Opportunities (October-November, 2018)*
*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!*
*AfroCROWD joins the AfroCine Project to Bridge the Content Gap on
Historical and Contemporary Afro Cinema, Theatre, and Art Do you like
African Cinema? This may be the Wiki Challenge for you! *
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? Get them on the list for the brand new international
Wikipedia project on African artists: the Wikipedia AfroCine Project.
*Led by Nigerian Wikipedian Sam Oye in partnership with Open West Africa,
AfroCROWD and others throughout Africa, and South America, the vision of
the project is:*
* "To bridge the huge content gap and improve on the systemic bias, in
respect of the African continent, by getting real African stories and
viewpoints into the mainstream. This will be achieved by making: articles,
citations, images, videos, and data, about the historical and contemporary
African cinema, theatre and arts, to be readily available and easily
accessible, both online and offline, and in different languages." We are
now in the early stages and are looking for article suggestions. Please add
your article suggestions here
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or via the link below. In the months of October and November, we are
hosting AfroCine Months, because you can't fit all of that great Afro
Cinema in just one month! During this time we will collectively lead
edit-a-thons and encourage you to participate individually at an event or
online on your own to add articles about notable African cinema artists or
the engineers, producers, set designers and other talents behind the
screen. *It will be great, we look forward to this international event.
Sign up for the AfroCine Project
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*Join AfroCROWD at WikiConference North America
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in
Ohio, October 18-21!*
*WikiConference North America is coming to Columbus Ohio and AfroCROWD will
be there! *
*WikiConference North America* is the annual conference of Wikimedia
enthusiasts and volunteers in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
The 2018 conference will take place in * Columbus, Ohio
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on *October 18-21*. Our main host is the Ohio State University Libraries,
and planning is underway by the WikiConference North America User Group
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and
partners.
Click on the information button below for more. Register today!
Learn more about WikiConference North America
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*AfroCROWD in Paris*
*AfroCROWD Wikipedia edit-a-thon in Paris Oct. 19th at Salon du Livre D'Art
Des Afriques*
Do you follow AfroCROWD from France? Organizer Ivonne Gonzalez will hold
an
AfroCROWD edit-a-thon workshop next Saturday, *October 19th from 11 AM to
4:30 PM* at the *Salon du Livre D'art des Afriques in Paris (128 Rue de
LaFayette, 75010 Paris, France). * At the workshop, participants will be
treated to a free training on how to edit Wikipedia. If you will be in the
area, stop by and check it out!
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*Vendredi 19 octobre, 11h - 16h30, Salon du Livre D'art des Afriques in
Paris (128 Rue de LaFayette, 75010 Paris, France)* : Présentation
AfrocCROWD en Paris: « Noircir le Wikipédia » en Europe.
« Ennegrecer » le Wikipédia est un projet qui articule la formation d'un
réseau transatlantique de l'initiative AfroCROWD née aux États Unies .
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Merci!*
*AfroCROWD UK*
*Digitizing the Diaspora w/ Wikipedia *
*From AfroCROWD UK headed by founding organizer Kelly Foster: *
Wikipedia is the 5th most popular website in the world, yet there are more
articles on the Netherlands alone than the whole of the African continent!
Is it time we rebalanced the scales? Open knowledge advocate, award-winning
Wikipedia Kelly Foster of AfroCROWD UK shares her thoughts on why people of
African heritage should consider editing Wikipedia. For more information,
click here:
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*UVA AfroCROWD Partnership*
*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:
* Resurfacing Black Life
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The next big event is *November 30th.* It is called *" Resurfacing Black
Life
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*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.
* WikiProject Newspapers
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Another exciting project in the Charlottesville area is *WikiProject
Newspapers*
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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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*Wiki Education African American Medical Schools Project:*
In the spring the another UVA project will be working on a *Wiki Education*
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program to have each student make an article about a defunct school from
1900-1950 where black nurses, clinicians, etc studied health care. The
records of these places even existing is fading. This project, based in the
UVA Medical School, will focus on African American medical education before
desegregation. For more information on this exciting project, please stay
tuned!
*AfroCROWD Los Angeles*
*Wiki Salon at Loyola Marymount University Saturday, Oct. 13th!*
A group of librarians of color and *AfroCROWD LA, *headed by founding
organizer* Kai Alexis Smith, *are hosting a wiki salon on *October 13th at
Loyola Marymount University (1 Loyola Marymount University Dr, Los
Angeles) from 4-6pm. *If you are in the LA area, please join them!
The AfroCROWD LA branch is also growing. Interested in joining? We would
love to hear from you. Do you live in the Los Angeles area and have an
interest in Wikipedia or want to connect with other people with similar
interests? Connect with the Los Angeles branch at this and at
future events.
Click here to join us <Sherry(a)AfroCROWD.org>with the *subject line "LA!"*
*Other Wikimedia Community Happenings*
*Coming Events from Wikimedia New York City*
*There are some great events happening soon out of our home chapter,
Wikimedia New York City. Take a look:*
- * Open House New York Weekend "Upload Party" @ NYU ITP
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Sunday,
October 14th, 2 - 6PM
- * WikiConference North America
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18-21 October, in Columbus, Ohio.
- *Archtober Wikipedia Edit-a-thon @ Bard Graduate Center*(Details
coming soon!), Saturday, October 27th, 12 - 4PM
*Recent Events*
*We look forward to seeing you soon at a coming Wikipedia event! Here are
some highlights from recent AfroCROWD gatherings and other events.*
*AfroCROWD joins the New York African Community as Guests of the Mayor at
Gracie Mansion*
African Heritage Reception 2018
*September 26, 2018, *the first-ever African Heritage Reception held at
Gracie Mansion welcomed New York City's African community, one of the
largest African communities in the country.
AfroCROWD founder Alice Backer and AfroCROWD program director, Sherry
Antoine, were on-hand for the event, which boasted some of New York's key
African community organizers and influencers. This includes our own, artist
and AfroCROWDer, Tetteh Tawiah, who was another guest at the event.
Singer, actress, composer, and philanthropist Tsidii Le Loka was honored at
the event and received a proclamation naming September 26, 2018 'Tsidii Le
Loka Day.'
AfroCROWD looks forward to continued partnerships with the African
community in the New York City area and beyond.
*Photos clockwise:* AfroCROWD's Sherry and Alice were guests at the first
ever African Heritage reception at New York's Gracie Mansion where Mayor
Bill De Blasio spoke to leaders of the city's African community.
AfroCROWDer Tetteh Tawiah was also in attendance seen in the next photo
at center. *Next row:* Photo of Mayor De Blasio as he honors legendary
singer Tsidii Le Loka (right) [pic courtesy of the office of the Mayor].
African Heritage Reception Invitation.
*Digitizing Africa In The Dancehall: A Wikipedia Intervention *
In September our *Kelly Foster,* founding organizer of AfroCROWD UK, joined
with Decolonising the Archive to explore how Jamaican Dancehall music and
dance is represented on Wikipedia. The day investigated the role of
language and movement in knowledge production. With contributions from
celebrated choreographer and dance scholar H. Patten, curator Lisa
Anderson, Fresh Az Ice crew and, public historian
and organizer for AfroCROWD UK - this is part of a long-term project to
improve content about Jamaican dance traditions and knowledge.
Check it out!
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Photo: Dancers from Ignition Dance Company and Fresh Az Ice crew
demonstrating the Gully Creepa
AfroCROWD's home chapter is * Wikimedia New York City
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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!
Join the Global Wikipedia Community today with AfroCROWD!
Click here to get a Wikipedia Account!
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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:*
Wikisource
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*Wikisource* is a *Free Library* of source texts
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which
are in the public domain
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or
legally available for free
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redistribution.
Wikisource is an official project of the Wikimedia Foundation
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and
a sister project of Wikipedia
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, *The Free Encyclopedia*.
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:*
Founder, Executive Director - Alice Backer- *Alice(a)AfroCROWD.org*
<Alice.Backer(a)gmail.com>
Program Director and Public Outreach - Sherry Antoine, MPA: *
Sherry(a)AfroCROWD.org <sherryantoine(a)gmail.com>*
*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.