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Concept note draft.

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Create a new document and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Docs to edit Word files. Free from Google.

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3 proposal sent:

1. SDC Workshop

2. Visible Wiki Women Photoboothl

3. Languages Panel

Status: proposals 1 and 2 approved! Waiting for the languages panel.

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A photo competition

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Wiki editing club with GALA Archive and Iziko Museum (South Africa)

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Wiki editing club with GALA Archive and Iziko Museum (South Africa)

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A recurring series of meetings e.g. flexible, horizontal, peer2peer structure on how queer archives can contribute, from the basics. WK? team providing guidance and support.

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Create a new spreadsheet and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Sheets to edit Excel files. Free from Google.

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Positive and meaningful impact of bringing knowledges to Wikimedia projects documented through storytelling centered and grounded in experiences and embodied knowledge of participants and their communities.

Target: 3 stories

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Deeper understanding on how sustainable allyship building and practices work for WK? & Wikimedia communities, including strengths, opportunities, challenges, etc.

Target: 3 key learning insights shared

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Our grant report was approved.

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Collection of Resources, Tactics & Practices

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Collection of Resources, Tactics & Practices

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Community pool of resources, tactics and practices around knowledge justice curated by Wikimedia community.

Target: 3 practices documented

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What are the key things we want change/decolonize in the WM movement?

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What are the key things we want change/decolonize in the WM movement?

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I love all the activities that we are doing within and beyond the WM movement but I am missing to have these activities connected with a set of key priorities on what we want to change in the movement.

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I love the format of this check-in (esp. creativity in the Padlet) & thank you so much for designing and holding this! I can see us further designing the learnings piece and including collaborators in that convo, + a conversation prior to Wikimania so that we discuss our presence re: strategy & the shifts we want to make in wiki spaces.

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I think creating a circle of trust for this program will be key in the next few months. We are moving towards every team having its own circle of trust and I think this should be part of the dreaming/opportunities for Decolonizing WP/WM as well.

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I would love to participate in the process of thinking this! I think it can be part of our learning sessions.
Coti

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27 April | #VisibleWikiWomen launch party

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27 April | #VisibleWikiWomen launch party

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Zoom registration link
Theme of the year

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Sharing images from previous VWW campaings, and DHM resources on social media. Upcoming blogpost about AI and Dalit perspectives, by Maari.

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WK? supporting Ivonne from Noircir to participate in UK wiki workshop on colonial public statues

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WK? supporting Ivonne from Noircir to participate in UK wiki workshop on colonial public statues

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Virtual course “Introducción al estudio de los derechos fundamentales en el ecosistema digital” (introduction to human rights studies in the digital ecosystem)

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Virtual course “Introducción al estudio de los derechos fundamentales en el ecosistema digital” (introduction to human rights studies in the digital ecosystem)

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Mariana & Coti collaboration with Wikimedia Argentina + CETyS

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May 2 | Ilustratona Mulheres Visíveis na Wiki

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May 2 | Ilustratona Mulheres Visíveis na Wiki

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#VisibleWikiWomen collaboration with Wiki Editoras Lx

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Panel "Queering Wikimedia from the archive: anti-colonial, anti-oppression and liberatory practices in Southern Africa". With GALA + Iziko Museum. Workspace.

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May 14-20 | Changing Faces, Changing Spaces Conference VIII

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May 14-20 | Changing Faces, Changing Spaces Conference VIII

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Sunshine applied successfully for attending and bringing #VisibleWikiWomen to the this pan-African sex worker and LGBTIQ+ conference in Botwsana.

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Jun 7-9 | Wikihistories 2023 - Wikipedia and its implications for memory (and forgetting)

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Jun 7-9 | Wikihistories 2023 - Wikipedia and its implications for memory (and forgetting)

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Registration now (25/5) open. Looks like a fascinating programme https://wikihistories.net/2023-conference/

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Where and when

Registration is now open. Register for one or both days as you choose. Zoom details will be provided to registered attendees prior to the event.

Register for Day 1: June 7th/8th 2023 for participants in the Asia-Pacific ( 1000-1300 AEST).

Register for Day 2: June 8th/9th 2023 for participants in Africa and Europe ( 1600-1900 AEST).

Programme

Call for papers

From its earliest beginnings shortly before 911, Wikipedia has documented history as it happens. Revolutions, terrorist attacks, earthquakes, fires and floods have been written about on the platform, often within minutes of the first recorded protests, attacks, and blazes. This practice of documentation, conducted by volunteers who are connected by shared interest rather than shared expertise, falls between the disciplines of digital journalism and history. What does Wikipedia's coverage of events "that haven't even stopped happening yet" mean for history-making on the platform? Researchers have noted that recent events are covered more than early history, and stories are more often presented from colonialist rather than local perspectives. More recently, Wikipedia has been uncovered as a site of both conscious forgetting and the "frenzy of commemorations," a venue for nationalist propaganda projecting particular stories that favour particular ideologies and social groups.

How does Wikipedia construct history and collective memory?

Does Wikipedia enable the forging of a collective memory via consensus?

How are some versions of the past pushed to the fringes?

What gets remembered and what gets forgotten?

How can we study history-making on the platform?

In this first annual symposium of the wikihistories project, we will take stock of what we know and what we still need to know about Wikipedia as a history-making platform. We do this because Wikipedia's representation of history matters. Its facts travel through knowledge ecosystems and rest as answers to questions provided by digital assistants, search engines and other AI-enhanced tools. Wikipedia's claims to neutrality are more a hope than a promise, a guise that hides the dreams and ideologies of the individuals and groups that understand its power and are determined to master its form.

We invite Wikipedia scholars and researchers to participate in a two-day symposium being held online on the 8th and 9th of June. Please send an abstract of 250-300 words to michael.falk@uts.edu.au before March 17 (close of day anywhere in the world) responding to any of the above questions. We expect a mixture of both analytical and methodological contributions for the event which will be held annually for the 3 years of the wikihistories project.

Keynote Speakers

This year's symposium will feature keynotes by Dr Shira Klein and Dr Simon Sleight.

Dr Shira Klein is an Associate Professor of History at Chapman University. Her recent article on "Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust" has garnered tens of thousands of views since its publication in February, has received media coverage in English, Polish, Hebrew, German, and Spanish, and has triggered a rare self-initiated action of English Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee.

Dr Simon Sleight is a Reader in Urban History, Historical Youth Cultures and Australian History at King's College, London. Dr Sleight is the co-editor of History, Memory and Public Life: The Past in the Present (Routledge, 2018) and will provide a rich background to our investigations of collective memory from the history discipline for an interdisciplinary audience.

[1] Brian Keegan, "An Encyclopedia with Breaking News," in Wikipedia@ 20: Stories of an Incomplete Revolution, ed. Joseph Reagle and Jackie Koerner (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2019), 55-70, https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12366.003.0007.

[2] Heather Ford, Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2022). https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11386.001.0001

[3] Bunty Avieson, "Breaking News on Wikipedia: Collaborating, Collating and Competing," First Monday, April 30, 2019, https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v24i5.9530; Christian Pentzold, "Fixing the Floating Gap: The Online Encyclopaedia Wikipedia as a Global Memory Place," Memory Studies 2, no. 2 (May 2009): 255-72, https://doi.org/10.1177/1750698008102055.

[4] Brian Keegan, Darren Gergle, and Noshir Contractor, "Hot off the Wiki: Dynamics, Practices, and Structures in Wikipedia's Coverage of the Tōhoku Catastrophes," in Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym '11: The 7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration, Mountain View California: ACM, 2011), 105-13, https://doi.org/10.1145/2038558.2038577.

[5] "All the News That's Fit to Print Out," New York Times (Online) (New York: New York Times Company, July 1, 2007), 2223136739, ProQuest Central, https://www.proquest.com/blogs-podcasts-websites/all-news-that-s-fit-print-out/docview/2223136739.

[6] Graham, Mark, Scott Hale, and Monica Stephens. "Geographies of the World's Knowledge." (2011).

[7] Brendan Luyt, "The Nature of Historical Representation on Wikipedia: Dominant or Alterative Historiography?," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 62, no. 6 (2011): 1058-65, https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.21531; Bunty Avieson, "Two Wikipedias in Bhutan: Problems and Solutions for Knowledge Equity in the Digital Age," Asian Journal of Communication 32, no. 5 (September 3, 2022): 399-416, https://doi.org/10.1080/01292986.2021.1937248.

[8] Paul Ricoeur, Memory, History, Forgetting, trans. Kathleen Blamey and David Pellauer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), 85.

[9] Brendan Luyt, "Wikipedia, Collective Memory, and the Vietnam War," Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 67, no. 8 (2016): 1956-61, https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23518; Pentzold, "Fixing the Floating Gap"; Marlon Twyman, Brian C. Keegan, and Aaron Shaw, "Black Lives Matter in Wikipedia: Collaboration and Collective Memory around Online Social Movements," in Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 2017, 1400-1412, https://doi.org/10.1145/2998181.2998232.
Image: Wikipedia (manuscript) (public domain)

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wikihistories 2023: Wikipedia and its implications for memory (and forgetting)

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Registration is now open. Register for one or both days as you choose. Zoom details will be provided to registered attendees prior to the event. Register for Day 1: June 7th/8th 2023 for participants in the Asia-Pacific ( 1000-1300 AEST). Register for Day 2: June 8th/9th 2023 for participants in Africa and Europe ( 1600-1900 AEST).

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Photo booth uploads (CFCS and RightsCon) and potential work with Erika (APC) and TBTT volunteers to add structured data.

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How to photo-boothing respecting consent and privacy, including deletion policy.

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Blog post review - Wikidata:  Why we contribute to the Robot Epistemology? By Maari

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Blog post review - Wikidata:  Why we contribute to the Robot Epistemology? By Maari

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Create a new document and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Docs to edit Word files. Free from Google.

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Blog post drafting around CFCS and Pride Month, by Sunshine

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Blog post drafting around CFCS and Pride Month, by Sunshine

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Blog post drafting around RightsCon experience and how to create your feminist corner in big events, by Mariana

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Blog post drafting around RightsCon experience and how to create your feminist corner in big events, by Mariana

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Language justice research in action - co-dreaming and collaboration

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Language justice research in action - co-dreaming and collaboration

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Co-dreaming meetings between DAIR, Lesan and WK? are happening. Led by Claudia under LJ umbrella, with DW collaboration. We are figuring out how to include issues around language justice on Wikipedia. Concept note in progress.

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In conversation with Perse and Priscilla about bringing the VWW photobooth and having a conversation about the politics of online images for indigenous women.

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Dreaming and planning a meeting to talk about indigenous languages and structured data

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Dreaming and planning a meeting to talk about indigenous languages and structured data

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Opportunity to get together in Oaxaca.

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Scholarship application process open! Mariana has volunteered to be part of the program committee. In conversation with Ivonne González (Ennegreciendo Wikipedia) and Scann (Wikimedistas de Uruguay) for co-conspirate in bringing feminist anti-colonial activities and discussions to the event.

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It is a pleasure for Wikimedistas de Uruguay to host the next edition of the GLAM Wiki Conference: the conference on Culture, Heritage and Wikimedia, which will take place on November 16-18, 2023 at the Faculty of Information and Communication of the University of the Republic, located in Montevideo.

Scholarship process now open

The scholarship application is now open. To apply, please complete the application form by June 30, 2023, at the end of the day in your country. If you have any doubts about the questions to be completed in the application, please refer to the FAQ section of our Meta page.

About the conference

This is the global gathering of cultural heritage professionals, experts and volunteers of the Wikimedia movement. It is the first time it is held in Latin America, and we hope it will be an opportunity for a reunion after 5 years, following the GLAM Wiki Conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 2018. For its realization we have the support of Wikimedia Chile, Wikimedia Argentina and Wiki Movimento Brasil, in addition to the Wikimedia Foundation and the Culture and Heritage team.

Goals of the Conference

The GLAM Wiki Conference is an opportunity for professionals and volunteers from heritage institutions and libraries, as well as members of the Wikimedia community, to meet to reflect, discuss, generate strategies and take actions to improve access to scientific and cultural heritage. We hope that the meeting will allow us to:

Identify strategic priorities for the GLAM Wiki community for the promotion of equitable knowledge, diversity and inclusion.

Exchange and build capacity around GLAM Wiki collaborative tools.

Reflect, discuss and think about new roadmaps for our tools and platforms.

Reconnect after the pandemic, re-network and think among all the people involved about the future of GLAM Wiki.

These goals emerged from the interest survey we circulated between November and December 2022, which was answered by more than 200 people in Portuguese, English and Spanish.

Calendar

Scholarship applications open: June 6 - June 30

Open applications for the program: Coming! 2nd or 3rd week of June

Communication of scholarship decisions: Mid-late July

Travel logistics: July to September

Program communication: Late September - October

Conference takes place on November 16, 17 and 18.

About the conference venue

Montevideo is a city renowned for its architectural heritage, which combines different styles from art deco and art noveau, and its proximity to entertainment venues. The conference will take place in the facilities of the Faculty of Information and Communication (FIC), whose building was completely renovated and inaugurated in the last five years. The FIC has an accessible location, just a few meters from the rambla, Parque Rodó, the National Museum of Visual Arts, and other touristic attractions. For those coming from abroad, they will be accommodated near Punta Carretas - Pocitos, approximately half an hour walk from FIC, and with a wide range of leisure options in the area.

Learn more

To meet the organizing team behind the Conference, including the scholarship and program committees, to make inquiries, and to stay updated on the Conference, we recommend that you visit the Conference page on Meta.

The event will be simultaneously interpreted into English, Spanish and Portuguese in the main hall and in another hall.

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GLAM Wiki Conference 2023: Announcing the venue & scholarship application process open

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¿Cómo usar PetScan para el conocimiento visual?: campaña #VisibleWikiWomen