Yes, the idea is to be extra inclusionary by reaching out to all these groups explicitly, and in particular to representing different cultural identities in rather non-monolithic African American / African Diasporic communities.
Thanks, Pharos
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Jeremy Baron jeremy@tuxmachine.com wrote:
On Mar 23, 2015 11:25 AM, "Neotarf" neotarf@gmail.com wrote:
I've never seen editithons that exclude people before. I've been to a
couple of black history events, and all were welcomed, although of course there was a very high proportion of African descent.
I think the point was actually to be extra inclusionary: to cover all of the above not just a subset when recruiting new editors. So potential recruits don't think but I'm not really {{label}} and exclude themselves.
I'm pretty sure others won't be excluded but these events will be *focused* on topics related to those groups and editors with some sort of a connection to Africa. To address biases similarly to women focused outreach but with a twist thrown in: adding a new language to Wikipedia too, they started already Garifuna Wikipedia on incubator.
https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/cab
-Jeremy
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