Hi all,
I'm forwarding this editathon announcement on behalf of Amanda Rust and the
group at Northeastern. This is a really interesting topic with lots of
specialized library sources. Members of the public are welcome, see below &
the meetup page for details. Leave a note on the talk page if you have
questions.
Happy Thanksgiving!
best,
Phoebe
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Behalf Of *Elizabeth Polcha
*Sent:* Tuesday, November 21, 2017 2:02 PM
*To:* BOSTONDH(a)LISTSERV.NEU.EDU
*Subject:* Decolonizing Wikipedia 12/1/17
Hi all,
Please see below details for an upcoming Wikipedia editing event sponsored
by Northeastern's Digital Scholarship Group and the Early Caribbean Digital
Archive. Apologies for cross-posting!
De-colonizing Wikipedia: Editing Romantic Depictions of Colonial History
and Literature
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/Northeastern_OA17>
When? Friday, December 1st, 2017, 11:00am - 3:00pm
Where? Snell Library, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue,
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
<https://maps.google.com/?q=360+Huntington+Avenue,+Boston,+Massachusetts+02115&entry=gmail&source=g>
.
Who? Open to the public as well as Northeastern University students,
faculty, and staff.
Inspired by two recuperative digital archives at Northeastern, the Early
Caribbean Digital Archive <https://ecda.northeastern.edu/> and the Women
Writers Project <http://www.wwp.northeastern.edu/>, this event seeks to
revise Wikipedia articles which extend romantic and orientalist
representations of colonial history and literature. Our goal is to
neutralize the heightened romantic and sentimental language used on
Wikipedia to represent historical figures, paying special attention to
representations of marginalized persons such as women, free and enslaved
people of color, and indigenous persons. We will focus on Wikipedia
articles on historical persons, travel narratives, natural histories,
captivity narratives, and slave narratives.
This hack-a-thon style session will focus on editing and updating Wikipedia
pages in a group setting. You do not need any prior experience with
Wikipedia to participate, just bring a laptop and a power supply. Attendees
from outside Northeastern will need a photo ID to sign into the
library—Just let the front desk staff know you are here for the
edit-a-thon. Bring your suggestions for articles that need to be improved
or authored, or help edit articles from the "Suggested Topics
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/Northeastern_OA17>"
list. Pizza will be served.
Best,
Liz
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Elizabeth Polcha
Project Manager, Early Caribbean Digital Archive
Northeastern University