Hi NYC Wiki-interested folks,
You're invited to help us improve Wikipedia articles on Black history and
culture- new contributors and voices are especially encouraged to join!
Event: 'Black Life Matters' Wikipedia Edit-a-thon @ NYPL Schomburg Center
for Research in Black Culture
Date: Saturday February 7th, 2015
Address: 515 Malcolm X Boulevard (Lenox Avenue) between West 135th and
136th Streets, Harlem, New York
Time: 12 noon-4:30/5:00pm
The Wikipedia training and Edit-a-thon will take place in the Aaron Douglas
Reading Room of the Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division,
with a following reception in the Langston Hughes lobby on the first floor
of the building.
In addition to new people, we also need some volunteers to help with
hands-on training during the event!
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For details, see our edit-a-thon page on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Black_Life_Matters_Edita…
And please sign up on eventbrite as well:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-life-matters-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-ticke…
***
And for those around Brooklyn, check out sister event AfroCROWD @ Brooklyn
Public Library on Saturday and Sunday, part of our shared "Black
WikiHistory Month Weekend".
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
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*Announcing AfroCROWD Intro to Wikimedia and How to Edit Wikipedia
workshops at the Brooklyn Public Library. Please let me know if Wikimedia
NYC would like to be added to the list of outreach partners below. As
Afrocrowd is kicking off in NYC, we welcome Wikimedia NYC's
invaluable assistance. Against the backdrop of Black History Month, the
workshops seek to further the International Decade for People of African
Descent’s development and education goals and Wikimedia’s goal of
increasing its reach. Technology companies Facebook, LinkedIn, Yahoo and
Twitter have recently reported that their workforce is 2% Black, a figure
non-proportionate to the 13% of Blacks living in the United States. The
Black Twitter phenomenon shows that Afrodescendants have successfully taken
to social media as an organizing tool. Exposing more Afrodescendants to
Wikimedia has the potential to take this foray a step further and transfer
skills that might deepen Afrodescendant exploration of online technology.
But beyond it all, editing Wikipedia alone or as a group is a constructive
and rewarding way to spend time online.The workshops will be the first in a
series of activities by Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia
(AfroCROWD), a new initiative which seeks to increase the number of people
of African Descent who actively partake in the Wikimedia and free
knowledge, culture and software movements. The workshops are open to all
Afrodescendants including but not limited to individuals who self-identify
as African, African-American, Afro-Latino, Biracial, Black, Black-American,
Caribbean, Garifuna, Haitian or West Indian. (See the Afrocrowd MetaWiki
grant proposal:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/AFROcroWd_and_Interglider.ORG/Ou…
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/AFROcroWd_and_Interglider.ORG/Ou…>)Although
the February workshops will be held in English, they will take into account
that many Afrodescendant groups in the United States might find that access
to Wikipedia’s multilingual crowdsourcing platform can help them transfer
free knowledge to populations of African descent outside of the United
States that they are connected to through origin or direct familial bonds.
Multilingual Afrodescendants may also want to use such platforms to develop
and maintain online bodies of relevant knowledge in native languages such
as Garifuna, Haitian Kreyòl, Igbo, Spanish, Twi or Yoruba, thereby
contributing to the survival of and increasing their proficiency in those
languages while also feeling more culturally grounded. When:Saturday,
February 7th 12:30 -3PMSunday February 8th 1-3:30PM Where:Brooklyn Public
LibraryMain Branch10 Grand Army PlazaBrooklyn.
NYhttp://www.bklynlibrary.org/ <http://www.bklynlibrary.org/>(Subway: 2,3,
4 to Grand Army Plaza)Sessions will be livestreamed to facilitate access to
Afrodescendants in cities other than NY who wish to attend.Please RSVP if
you plan to attend in
person:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/afrocrowd-intro-to-wikimedia-how-to-edi…
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/afrocrowd-intro-to-wikimedia-how-to-edit-wikip…>
If
you plan to view via Livestream from a different city, please let me know
of your interest at alice.backer(a)gmail.com
<alice.backer(a)gmail.com>.AfroCROWD founders are Alice Backer, founder of
www.kiskeacity.com <http://www.kiskeacity.com/>, www.haitianbloggers.com
<http://www.haitianbloggers.com/>, and Global Voices Lingua, a
Brooklyn-based lawyer, blogger and free knowledge and culture enthusiast
who has been aggregating and disseminating Haitian online expression since
2005 and has launched citizen media campaigns in Haiti, the Caribbean,
Africa and the United States and Milos Rancic, founder of Anarchopedia,
veteran Wikimedian with over 10 years in the movement, Wikimedia Language
Committee member and chair of Interglider.ORG. Milica Gudovic,
Interglider.ORG's CEO, participant to the process of localization of
Creative Commons Licenses for Serbia and experienced feminist activist of
20 years, has lended considerable time and expertise to our grant proposal
and will help us with training in the coming months. Outreach partners
(evolving list):Afrolatin@ ProjectBrooklyn Public LibraryHaiti Cultural
Exchange Haitian Creole Language Institute of New York Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/afroCROWD
<https://www.facebook.com/afroCROWD>(Apologies in advance for cross-posts
to various lists as we try to network with interested wikipedians in
various cities.) Best,Alice *
A L I C E B A C K E R
Haitian Blog Aggregator: http://haitianbloggers.com
LOF1804 Podcast: http://www.kiskeacity.com
Blog: http://www.kiskeacity.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/kiskeacity
Newsletter: Kiskeácity Daily
<http://paper.li/kiskeacity/1310337365?utm_source=subscription&utm_medium=em…>
skype: alicebacker
Dear New York Wikimedians,
I am writing to propose your comments for a plan for collaboration in
addressing the harassment issues faced by the Wikimedia community and the
Tor community, and with potential collaboration with the organizations
Civilination <http://www.civilination.org/> and the Cyber Civil Rights
Initiative, Inc. <http://www.cybercivilrights.org/>
Lane Raspberry and I have been discussing this proposal for quite some, and
have drafted a proposal addressing the issue of harassment of community
members, and the lack of formal procedure for mediating complaints about
Wikipedia both online and offline at Wikipedia Edit-a-thons and other
events.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Fund_a_community_human_resou…
In summary, this is the proposal:
1. Any online community can participate in this harassment response
program. Perhaps in the beginning the Tor and Wikimedia communities can
pilot this.
2. The online communities partner with a third-party organization which
can be trusted to receive confidential complaints about harassment
3. In the beginning, the third-party organization only collects
complaints about harassment and is not necessarily equipped to provide
relief in response to complaints. At least this organization can be trusted
to receive the complaints, de-identify them, and somehow make data about
complaints available for research
4. In the longer term depending on community demand, funding, perceived
need, and the nature of complaints received, this third-party organization
can manage some response to complaints. Initial responses would be modeled
after responses provided by brick-and-mortar organizations in comparable
situations.
5. The goal of all of this is preventing loss of human resource assets
and increasingcommunity health.
6. A premise behind this model is that online community health concerns
are common in various kinds of online communities, and that online
communities can find value in combining their responses to online
harassment.
Many things are currently being discussed including how a collaboration
between Tor, Cybercivil Rights, and Civilination might look in terms of
supervising this grant, hiring an appropriate, trained person, and creating
the necessary procedures for this role.
If this were a viable model for increasing satisfaction among people who
complain of harassment and reducing incidence of harassment complaints,
then other online communitiesmay wish to join this project and make support
services available to their own communities. Potential partners could
include any online community which has developed a "code of conduct" for
online behavior among its community members.
At this time, we are seeking community feedback and initial support of this
project, and so I wanted to share the proposal with you. Please let us
know, on or off Wiki, if you have any questions or comments related to this
proposal.
Thanks so much for taking a look,
All the best,
Dorothy Howard
Might be of interest to the NYC free and open internet community!
Dorothy
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From: JENNIFER.POGGIALI <JENNIFER.POGGIALI(a)lehman.cuny.edu>
Date: Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 1:56 PM
Subject: [METRO-all] Deadline Extended: CFP for Conference on Privacy and
Surveillance
To: "metro-all(a)metrolists.org" <metro-all(a)metrolists.org>
The deadline for proposals to this conference has been extended.
Please excuse the cross-posting:
*Call for Proposals for the LACUNY Institute*
*Privacy and Surveillance: Library Advocacy for the 21st Century*
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
May 8, 2015
*Deadline Extended: January 23, 2015*
Keynote Speaker: Rainey Reitman (Activism Director, Electronic Frontier
Foundation; Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder, Freedom of the Press
Foundation)
Historically, librarians have defended patron privacy on the grounds that
it is crucial to free speech, freedom of thought, and equal access to
information. These core values, which occasionally have led librarians to
confrontation with law enforcement, are embedded in our professional
ethics. The American Library Association’s Privacy Toolkit demarcates a
broad territory for the profession to safeguard: “In libraries, the right
to privacy is the right to open inquiry without having the subject of one’s
interest examined or scrutinized by others” (Privacy and Confidentiality:
Library Core Values
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.ala.org_advocacy_pr…>
).
Nevertheless, patron data can now be scrutinized not just by FBI agents
with secret warrants, but also by database and e-book vendors, social media
companies, and Internet marketers. The digital nature of today’s
information sources has allowed for mass collection of patron data--as
demonstrated by the NSA’s covert collection of telephone and Internet
records. Our profession has been slow to respond. In this new technological
and political landscape, which privacy violations pose a threat to our
mission of promoting free speech and free thought? How can librarians
convince those in power that patron privacy is crucial to our institutions
and our communities? Can we negotiate contracts with vendors that protect
reader privacy? How should we talk to our students about these issues, and
what can we learn from them about the future of privacy?
The LACUNY Institute seeks proposals that explore all aspects of privacy in
libraries, with a special emphasis on academic settings. We welcome
proposals from those inside and outside the profession. This year, we will
feature two kinds of presentations:
*Paper Presentations* (20 minutes)
The Institute will include several moderated panel presentations, which may
be historical, theoretical, legal, or practical in nature. Please include
time for questions and discussion.
A few examples include:
· Library Code of Ethics and its relevance today
· Current laws and precedents relating to privacy
· The information economy and user data
· Predictive analytics
· Assessment and student privacy
· The Dark Web
*Lightning Presentations* (10 minutes)
At the close of the Institute, attendees will disperse to a number of
simultaneous lightning presentations. These should be highly practical in
nature and focused on a single, specific issue. The goal is to provide
attendees with concrete steps for action. Please build in substantial time
for questions and discussion, and plan to bring handouts or other takeaways.
A few examples include:
· Lesson plans for teaching students about privacy
· How to read vendor contract*s* and negotiate for privacy rights
· Privacy-protecting alternatives to common tools and websites
(e.g., ownCloud, DuckDuckGo)
· Setting up a Tor relay
· Proven steps for promoting privacy initiatives among faculty and
administrators
Please submit proposals for paper and lightning presentations, including a
300-500 word abstract, to http://lacuny.org/institute-call-for-proposals/
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__lacuny.org_institute-2D…>
by January 23, 2015.
Questions may be directed to Jennifer.Poggiali(a)lehman.cuny.edu. For more
information, visit the Institute website:
http://2015lacunyinst.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
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212.228.2320 x127
Hello,
Happy New Year everyone! :)
We are planning Indic Language Wikipedia workshops in U.S.
Please go through Project Link :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Indic_Language_Wikipedia_Out…
Project idea What is the problem you're trying to solve?
Indic languages represent a large portion of languages used worldwide. The
number of contributors for Indic languages has been lagging other language
families for a variety of reasons. Internet connectivity in India being
limited/expensive is a major reason among them. Indic wikiprojects have
beens working to encourage more contributors for Indic Languages.
There are a number of areas on Indic wikipedias where content is either
lacking or is of poor quality. Health-related content is a prime example of
this.
Potential for solution
There is a strong and diverse Indian diaspora in the United States. Eastern
Seaboard has a large number of Indian expats that have either settled there
or live there for work/business. This was evidenced by the 20,000+ people
attending a speech in Hindi by the Prime Minister of India at Madison
Square Garden, New York.
In general, the Indian origin community in the United States has very high
literacy rates. They are also well-versed in English as well as at least
one of Indic languages. Access to Internet is not an issue for this
demographic. Enthusiasm for advancement of Indic languages is also evident
by the many initiatives being pursued by this group.
What is your solution?
1. Dedicated workshops for Indian Languages in United States of America.
2. Informal User Group to conduct periodic meetings/offline events.
3. Collaboration with local chapters and editors to improve Offline
Wikipedia in Indian Languages.
4. Special content (health related articles/essential medicines info
etc) on Indic Wikipedia can be improved by specialized dedicated group of
Indian medical students in U.S.
5. Collaboration with (U.S based) like minded individuals and
organizations dedicated to improve Open Knowledge movement in India.
Pilot Project
Outreach events in
- New York,
- Washington D.C,
- Boston
- Colorado Springs
- A session here will serve as an aide to developing and/or fine-tuning
presentations and sequence of activities.
- San Diego.
Goals
- Reach out to more Indians to increase their understanding of how Indic
Language Wikimedia projects work, and enable them to pass this knowledge on
to others.
- Improving and building upon contributions to Wikimedia projects in
English, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Commons etc.
- Increasing visibility, reach and access to Wikimedia projects amongst
Indian Americans, especially in students.
- Sign up students interested in our various activities & any other
training workshops planned.
- Conduct outreach sessions in universities, student fests, fairs etc.
Other benefits
- A strong, diverse and engaged students community.
- Growth in editorship and readership from U.S.
We look forward to hear from you. Kindly share your views here -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Indic_Language_Wikipedia_Out…
Keep Supporting, Keep Inspiring :-)
--
Warm Regards,
Abhishek Suryawanshi
User:AbhiSuryawanshi
Hi everyone!
The 4th annual WikiWomen's History Month is in March, coinciding with
Women's History Month. This event is cross-cultural, international, and
multi-lingual.
Please start planning your events (offline and online) to contribute
content to Wikipedia and related Wikimedia websites about women's history!
You can post your events and find resources on how to implement
edit-a-thons and workshops here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWomen's_History_Month
Any questions just let me know!
I look forward to your participation!
Sarah
--
www.sarahstierch.com
Hi All,
Just wanted to loop everyone in about an upcoming Edit-a-thon that Richard
Knipel, Michael Lewis, and staff at NYPL and the Schomburg Center have been
discussing and beginning to plan with us.
This email is not an official announcement, but rather, an alert to those
interested that this will be put on the calendar very soon. If you are
interested in helping out on the day-of the event, please do RSVP asap on
the Wikipedia event page, so we can get a sense of how many experienced
editors will be in the house.
That said, if you are an experienced editor, I encourage you to come and
plan to edit. I know often experienced editors come to Edit-a-thons and
spend all their time helping newcomers, which is highly important, but I
think it would be great if we could have some editing sprinting among
experienced editors at these events as well.
Let me know if you have further questions. More info will be coming soon!
Cheers, and Happy New Year,
Dorothy
*Black Lives Matter Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the NYPL Schomburg Center for
Research in Black Culture *
Date: Saturday February 7th, 2015
Address: 515 Malcolm X Boulevard (Lenox Avenue) between West 135th and
136th Streets, Harlem, New York
Nearest Subway Lines:
Time: 12noon-4:30/5:00pm
Wikipedia Training: Dorothy Howard, Wikipedian-in-Residence at the
Metropolitan New York Library Council, will conduct a Wikipedia editing
training at 12:30pm.
Organizers: Maira Liriano (Schomburg Center for Research of Black Culture),
Shana Kimball (NYPL), Dorothy Howard (Metropolitan New York Library
Council), Richard Knipel (Wikimedia NYC), Michael Lewis (Free Harlem WiFi).
*Event page:* Event page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Black_Lives_Matter_Edita…
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Dorothy Howard
Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)
212.228.2320 x127