[isoc-ny] AfroCROWD Wikipedia Community News & Opportunities (April, 2018)
ISOC-NY announcements
announce at lists.isoc-ny.org
Tue Apr 10 19:23:25 PDT 2018
We are happy to have had Sherry Antoine of AFROCROWD elected to the current
ISOC-NY Board. The lengthy newsletter below is an indication of all the
good work she is involved in. She can be contacted directly at
Sherry at afrocrowd.org>
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*AfroCROWD Wikipedia News & Opportunities for April 2018*
*Catch up & connect with AfroCROWD: the initiative to increase awareness of
the Wikimedia and free knowledge, culture, and software movements among
potential editors of African descent!*
AfroCROWD invites you to the LaGuardia CC Translate-a-thon, 2018
*Do you speak more than one language? AfroCROWD is pleased to invite you to
the LaGuardia Community College
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two
day Wikipedia Translate-a-thon event!
*LAGCC TRANSLATE-A-THON When: Thurs 26 April, 26th (5-7pm); *
*Fri April, 27th (11am-5pm). * *Where: LaGuardia Community College *
*Room E-111, 31-10 Thomson Avenue Queens, NY
<https://maps.google.com/?q=31-10+Thomson+Avenue+Queens,+NY&entry=gmail&source=g>*
At this event, anyone from the public is invited to LaGuardia to join
students, professors, and CUNY faculty in translating Wikipedia articles
among any languages which attendees understand. Themes for this event
include nursing and the history of New York City.
New York City has a large immigrant population and great diversity of
speakers of various languages. Among all schools in New York City,
LaGuardia has the highest percentage of immigrant students, the highest
percentage of students who speak a language other than English as their
first language, and the greatest representation of language diversity. It
is a strength of LaGuardia that it can present
"Wikipedia translate-a-thons", which are Wikipedia translation events.
Event participants will leave with the following:
1. Perspective and the ability to discuss Wikipedia's place in the media
2. Live publication of information in Wikipedia and instructions for
seeing how many people read it
3. Experience of having edited Wikipedia a few times in the usual way
For more information on the event, click here.
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*Don't forget your laptop.* All languages and levels of Wikipedia exposure
are welcomed. If you are coming, log in to Wikipedia or create a Wikipedia
account
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then please sign in!
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AfroCROWD
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is
pleased to join the other organizers and projects supporting this event
which include: LaGuardia Community College
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City University of New York
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, Wikimedia New York City
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, Wikitongues
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, Wiki Project Med
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, Wiki Education Foundation
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and Consumer Reports
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Sign me up for the LaGuardia CC Translate-a-thon!
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*AfroCROWD to be featured at the 43rd Annual Conference** of the New York
African(a) Studies Association (NYASA) at **Seton Hall University*.
*NEW YORK AFRICAN(A) STUDIES ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE THEME: GLOBAL AFRICA:
HUMAN MIGRATION, THE AFRICAN DIASPORA, AND THE FUTURE. *
*When: April 13 – 14, 2018*
*Where: Seton Hall University, NJ.
<https://maps.google.com/?q=NJ.+%0D%0A+%0D%0A+400+S+Orange+Ave,+South+Orange,+NJ&entry=gmail&source=g>*
*400 S Orange Ave, South Orange, NJ
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*
The 43rd Annual Conference of the New York African(a) Studies Association
(NYASA), being held at Seton Hall University, will gather academics
interested in the African Diaspora to disicuss some of the most pressing
issues surrounding human migration and Africa. AfroCROWD will present on
the benefits of Wikipedia in helping to tell the story of the African
Diaspora from the perspective of people of African descent, and the
importance of information access.
Among other topics discussed will be human migration in Africa, its
diaspora, and what the future holds for Africa and Africans. The conference
will also feature presentations, panels, and roundtable discussions by
individuals working with African immigrants. This included those
specializing in economic, educational, health, and legal issues.
The New York African Studies Association (NYASA), founded in 1967 as the
SUNY African Studies Faculty Association, is a non profit membership
association, incorporated as NYASA in 1975, dedicated to advancing the
discipline of Africana Studies.
As a regional organization, the New York African Studies Association
promotes the visibility and advancement of the discipline in New York State
and surrounding areas, and offers opportunities for the scholarly and
professional development of educators, and enhanced education for community
members, leaders and activists.
Head here for further info: http://newyorkafricanstudiesassociation.org
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Register for the NYASA Conference
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*AfroCROWD to be at Wikimedia Conference 2018, Berlin Wikimedia Conference
2018
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takes
place in Berlin, Germany, from *April 20th to 22nd, 2018*. It is the annual
meeting of all Wikimedia organizations ( Wikimedia chapters
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, thematic organizations
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, user groups
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and the Wikimedia Foundation
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as well as other committees to discuss the future of the Wikimedia movement
in terms of strategy, collaboration, and organizational development.
AfroCROWD's founder, Alice Backer and our program manager, Sherry Antoine,
will join Wikimedia New York City Chapter president, Megan Wacha, to
represent the Chapter at the conference.
This conference is hosted and organized by Wikimedia Deutschland (WMDE) in
cooperation with the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF).
Head here for more information.
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*Other Wiki Happenings*
*Black Lunch Table Wikipedia Events *
Join our friends at Black Lunch table at these upcoming events aimed
at mobilizing a collective authoring of a specific set of articles*
pertaining to the lives and works of black artists: *
Wooster WGSS Edit-A-Thon
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April 12, 2018
North Carolina Heritage Awards edit-a-thon
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April 12, 2018
San Diego 2018 Bonfire
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April 14, 2018
Cambridge 37
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April 29, 2018
May 2018 +/-
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Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve
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May 11, 2018
London 130
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May 13, 2018
EaT10 @ Amon Carter Museum
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May 24, 2018
*Wikimania 2018, Cape Town, South Africa is only a few months away*
Get ready! This year's Wikimania will be held in Cape Town
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, *South Africa*, from *July 18th to July, 2018.* All are welcome, whether
you're an expert, enthusiast, beginner, or just curious. This will be an
event to remember!
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Wikimania
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is
the annual conference celebrating all the free knowledge projects hosted by
the Wikimedia Foundation
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Commons
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MediaWiki
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Meta-Wiki
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Wikibooks
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Wikidata
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Wikinews
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Wikipedia
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Wikiquote
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[image: Wikisource]
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Wikisource
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Wikispecies
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Wikiversity
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Wikivoyage
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and [image: Wiktionary]
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Wiktionary
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with three days of conferences, discussions, meetups, training, and
workshops. Hundreds of volunteers and Free Knowledge leaders from around
the world gather to discuss issues, report on new projects and approaches,
and exchange ideas.
Themes of the conference include the advancement of Free Knowledge, the
role of academic and cultural institutions within the movement, privacy and
rights, and the role of technology to further those objectives. Wikimania
2018 will specifically focus on the gaps - gender, cultural, demographic
and knowledge - and strategies for reducing them.
There are other related events: the pre-conference Hackathon
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where
members of the technical community connected with Wikimedia projects gather
to work and contribute to code.
Learn more here.
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*Coming Events out of Wikimedia NYC*
- * Members Meeting, Spring 2018
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Wednesday,
April 11, 2018
- * WikiWednesday Salon & Skillshare @ Babycastles
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Wednesday,
April 25, 2018
*Wiki Wednesday*
The *April, 2018 NYC WikiWednesday* salon
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with
the Wikimedia NYC
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community
will be held *Wednesday, April 25, 2018, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm* at *
Babycastles
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a
co-working space and gallery located near 14th Street / Union Square
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in
Manhattan.
Join us for Wikimedia NYC's Wiki Wednesday Salon. A relaxed, town-hall
style gathering of area Wikipedia editors to talk about upcoming events and
opportunities and a chance to ask questions about Wikipedia and other
Wikimedia projects, usually over some pizza and beverages
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*Check out AfroCROWD Partner the Columbia University Oral History Master of
Arts Program's Graduate Exhibit *
HEAR & NOW: An Interactive Oral History Exhibit
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*When: Thursday, April 12, 2018, 5-8pm*
*Where: The Social Hall, Union Theological Seminary, 3041 Broadway at 121st
Street*
Last fall we first partnered with the world reknown Columbia University
Masters Program for an oral history project we designed on marginalized
linguistic and ethnic communities which lead to graduate student and *
AfroCROWDer, Dian Zi, presenting on the project at her first Wikipedia Day
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This thursday, Dian and other oral historians in the program will present
their graduate projects.
A big thank you to AfroCROWDer Linda Fletcher, an avid historian herself,
for first introducing us to this fantastic program.
The event is FREE, open to the public, accessible, and open to all ages!
Refreshments will be served. Please RSVP on the Eventbrite Page
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*Recent Events*
*We look forward to seeing you soon at a coming Wikipedia event! Here are
some highlights from recent AfroCROWD gatherings and other events.*
*The shirt makes it official: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is an
AfroCROWDer!*
It was fantastic seeing Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales wear one of our
AfroCROWD t-shirts at a recent Knight Foundation conference. At the
conference Mr. Wales discussed the *WikiTribune.* A new open-source news
site. You can learn more about WikiTribune here.
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AfroCROWDer Ann Bennett for the screen grabs.
*AfroCROWD and Wikimedia NYC partner with the Swedish Mission to the UN for
WikiGap, 2018 *AfroCROWD joined forces with the Swedish Mission to the
United Nations, Wikimedia New York City and others throughout the UN system
for WikiGap 2018.
Led by the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this event was part of the
*#WikiGap* *initiative*, a partnership between Swedish embassies and local
Wikimedia affiliates and volunteers around the world *to close the gender
and diversity gap* on Wikipedia. Guests from throughout the United Nations
system gathered on International Women's Day at the UN headquarters to edit
and write articles on women leaders from around the world.
Our Sherry Antoine and Wikimedia NYC's Megan Wacha were among the
moderators of the event. Wikipedia coaches from Wikimedia New York City and
AfroCROWD helped train guests who hailed from all over the world and
together added thousands of words on the work of women leaders to the
Wikipedia lexicon and the greater WikiGap campaign. Great going everyone!
The Swedish Mission to the United Nations
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organized
the event in partnership with the United Nations, UN Women, UN DPI, UN
DM/OICT, Office of the SG's Envoy on Youth, UN Intranet-iSeek, Consulate
General of Sweden
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Wikimedia, Wikimedia NYC
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AfroCrowd
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and
the greater WikiGap
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campaign.
*Photos: (Top) Editors and organizers gather for a photo at the UN WikiGap,
2018 Women Leaders editathon with Sweden's State Secretary for Foreign
Affairs, **Annika Söder * *(center in flowered red dress). (Bottom right)
Wikimedia NYC coaches Ann, Jeremy, Rajene, Abishek and Richard join
AfroCORWD organizer, Sherry, for a group selfie at the offices of the
Swedish Mission to the UN where the group helped train staff ahead of the
UN WikiGap editathon. *
*Check out the video below* by the UN Youth Envoy, Jayathma
Wickramanayake, featuring
AfroCROWDers and Wikimedia NYC Coaches in action at the United Nations
WikiGap Editathon on Women Leaders!
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*AfroCROWD joins the Art and Feminism packed schedule during Women's
History Month*
AfroCROWD was pleased to link up with fellow Wikipedia project, Art and
Feminism, at recent events for Women's History Month in New York City. This
year, the project, which focuses on improving coverage of cis and
transgender women, feminism and the arts on Wikipedia, held an editathon *
every week* during the month of March. Quite at feat.
We joined the annual Art and Feminism editathon at the Museum of Modern Art
(MoMA). Alice Backer, AfroCROWD's founder and Sherry Antoine, our program
and outreach manager, also participated in a panel moderated by Art and
Feminism co-founder Sian Evans with other female organizers at the *Out of
Bounds*, the 46th Annual Conference of the Art Libraries Society of North
America (ARLIS/NA) in New York City.
What an amazing month!
*Photos: (Below, left) AfroCROWD's Alice Backer (L) and Sherry Antoine take
a selfie at the Art and Feminism MoMA Editathon and (below, right) sit on a
panel lead by A+F's Sian Evans at the recent ARLIS/NA Out of Bounds
conference.*
*Congratulations to new AfroCROWD Los Angeles organizer Kai Alexis **Smith* who
recently moderated a Wiki EDU panel during Wikipedia Day LA , which was
held on Saturday, March 31st.
Held at the Ace Hotel, Los Angeles, Wikipedia Day LA celebrated the 17th
birthday of Wikipedia with Wikipedians from the Los Angeles area and
beyond. Learn more here
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The Wiki Ed panel talked about working with Wikipedia in the classroom.
The panelists included Dr. Grace Gilles, Professor in the Department of
Classics at UCLA, Dr. Karyl Ketchum, Associate Professor in the Department
of Women and Gender Studies at CSU Fulleron
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at
USC. Kai moderated the panel and is the Subject Librarian for the College
of Environmental Design, Ethnic and Women’s Studies and Foreign Languages
at Cal Poly Pomona
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.
*AfroCROWD Expanding*
Kai Smith (above) joins United Kingdom Wikipedian of the Year, 2017, Kelly
foster (right), who you may remember from last month's newsletter, as part
of the AfroCROWD team as organizers in their areas.
Kelly organizes in London as the founding organizer of AfroCROWD UK, while
Kai will lead AfroCROWD Los Angeles.
Stay tuned for more from both of these amazing ladies!
AfroCROWD is part of * Wikimedia New York City
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where
our founder, Alice Backer, serves as a vice president. The chapter is a
large group of dedicated individuals who are working hard to provide great
Wikipedia community related programs throughout the New York City area and
beyond.
*Thank you for your support!*
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You made it all the way over here! Thanks for reading.
Here is your Wikimedia tip of the day courtesy of the Wikimedia community:
*Did you know:*
*The Wiki Loves Women Project *
The Wiki Loves Women project seeks to fill two major subject gaps – women
and Africa – on the free encyclopaedia Wikipedia. These gaps exist both in
content on these two themes, but also in terms of participation in the
editorial level. Their objective is the fight against the existing
inequalities between men and women on the African continent.
More at:
Wiki Loves Women home page
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*If you have editing ideas, or are looking to partner with AfroCROWD for a
coming event, please contact us today:*
Founder, Executive Director - Alice Backer- *Alice at AfroCROWD.org*
<https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=Alice.Backer@gmail.com>
Program Manager, Public Outreach - Sherry Antoine, MPA: *
Sherry at AfroCROWD.org
<https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=sherryantoine@gmail.com>*
*AfroCROWD i.e. ** Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia (AfroCROWD)*
is an outreach initiative which seeks to increase awareness of the
Wikimedia and free knowledge, culture and software movements among
potential editors of African descent. Since its launch during Black Wiki
History Month in 2015, AfroCROWD has sensitized thousands in its target
audience about free culture crowdsourcing and the need to close the
multicultural and gender gaps in Wikipedia. AfroCROWD has also held monthly
multilingual edit-a-thons in partnership with cultural institutions,
galleries, libraries, archives, museums (GLAM) and many others. AfroCROWD
has also worked with professors at educational institutions like New York
University, The New School, Icahn Medical School and Columbia University
among others. AfroCROWD also organizes events to train future trainers in
its target community.
--
Joly MacFie
President - Internet Society New York Chapter (ISOC-NY)
http://isoc-ny.org 218 565 9365
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