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