Dear all:
AfroCROWD's next event will be HaitiCROWD on March 14th at the
Brooklyn Public Library's Info Commons from 12:30 to 3:30PM. The event
will showcase and invite engagement by attendees with the Haitian
Kreyòl, French and English Wikipedias and with our Haiti and its
diaspora suggested articles list.
It would be great to have interested NY Wikipedians there to help
onboard and generally guide both new people and returnees from our
February kickoff.
Here is the wikipage for the event:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/AfroCrowd/Events#HaitiCR…
If you plan to attend, please also sign up on the eventbrite to
facilitate communication leading up to the event:
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/afrocrowd-presents-haiticrowd-tickets-157195074…
Also, those who are curious about what was discussed at our kickoff
events can check out our AfroCROWD Kickoff Storify page:
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/afrocrowd-presents-haiticrowd-tickets-157195074…
(Cross-posting all East Coast lists.)
Best,
Alice
A L I C E B A C K E R
www.afrocrowd.orgwww.kiskeacity.com
skype: alicebacker
Thank you all for coming out to the amazing #BlackLivesMatter Wikipedia
Edit-a-thon last week, Saturday February 7th, 2015
I've published an initial re-cap in this month in GLAM:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/January_2015/Contents/U…
And we've started a Commons category with many images from the event (any
many donated by the Schomburg photographer!) here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Schomburg_Center_Black_Lives_Ma…
Please add to the Commons category with any images you took of the event,
and watch out for an upcoming post on the event in the Wikimedia blog!
Cheers,
Dorothy
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Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)
212.228.2320 x127
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The 3 train is not running at all today, and the 2 train is not running
between 3 Av-149 St and 96 St.
My train is to take the C train to 135 St, and then walk east to Malcolm X
Blvd / Lenox Ave.
(There may also be a bus solution, but I'm not very familiar with Manhattan
buses.)
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Dear NYC Wikipedians,
You are invited to join us for Wikiturgy NYC<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/WikiturgyNYC>, an edit-a-thon on theater with a focus on artists who are queer, women, people of color, or otherwise underrepresented as part of a worldwide Wikiturgy Edit-a-Thon.
Help improve articles like the one on Warhol star Jackie Curtis<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Curtis> or "master of camp" Helen Hanft<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Hanft> or create articles on artists whose work you admire and feel should have a place in Wikipedia.
Where: The Studio (Room 208), Butler Library, Columbia University, New York, NY
When: February 17, 2015, 4:00-7:30 pm
See the Wikiturgy NYC meetup page<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/WikiturgyNYC> for more details, directions, and to RSVP. Hope to see you there!
All the best,
Lea
Leanora Lange
Processing and Institutional Archivist and Digitization Projects Liaison
Center for Jewish History
15 W. 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
212-294-8301 x1051
llange(a)cjh.org<mailto:llange@cjh.org>
Hi All,
We are gearing up for the February 7th #BlackLivesMatter Wikipedia
Edit-a-thon
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Black_Life_Matters_Edita…>
this 12noon-5pm this Saturday February 7th at the NYPL Schomburg Center for
Research in Black Culture in Harlem, NY (organized by NYPL
<http://www.nypl.org/locations/schomburg>, METRO
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/METRO>, Wikimedia NYC
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_New_York_City>), as well as the
AfroCROWD Editathon
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/AFROcroWd_and_Interglider.ORG/Ou…>
(Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia) at the Brooklyn Public Library
Central on Feb 7th and 8th (organized by Alice Backer, Milos Rancic,
Wikimedia NYC).
In addition to having a big community response at the Schomburg we have had
enough enthusiasm so that there are Black History Month Edit-a-thons being
planned by other organizers in Nashville
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Nashville/Our_Story_Matters_…>,
Westchester County
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Westchester_County/Black_Lif…>
(SUNY Purchase), and in Washington D.C. (note: we will be running a Google
Hangouts on Air/Youtube livestream with simultaneous events on February
7th). Richard Knipel has generously created a general launching page for
all Black History Month events at Wikipedia:Black WikiHistory Month
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Black_WikiHistory_Month>, and
there has already been some exciting and overwhelming press coverage by
major media outlets, Black History Month special reports, and Twitter (!),
which I will be documenting on Wiki
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Black_WikiHistory_Month#Press>.
If you are a Wikipedian and plan to attend any of these events, please sign
up on the Event page(s) so we can have an estimate of facilitators we will
have on hand (though you are welcome to sign up as a participant but just
plan to do your own editing thing rather than help do training, as you
wish!)
*I can’t emphasize enough how thankful we are to have volunteer Wikipedians
attend these events, participate remotely, and take interest in the
multicultural gaps in Wikipedia. You all inspire me and the spirit of your
labor has attracted global attention to Black History and to the
socio/political import of Wikipedia! *
*One final note: we are collectively looking for experienced Wikipedians
in the SUNY Purchase/ Westchester area that might be able to help out at
the SUNY Purchase event scheduled for Saturday February 7th. Please email
me if you are in that area, and would like to help out! *
Let me know if there are any further questions.
All the best,
Kindest regards,
Dorothy Howard
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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!
***
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