Wikipedia:AfroCROWD/BIPOC

The Wiki BIPOC Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, August 1, 2020 1:30 PM ET/ 10:30 AM PST All are welcome, register for link information

Registration

Join us August 1, 2020 1:30PM PM EDT-5:00 PM EDT on Zoom for a free training on how to effectively edit Wikipedia with a focus on topics related to Black and Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC).

The event will have a speial focus on women, media, and emancipation. Hear from special guests, bring friends. All. Are. Welcome.

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Once you have registered, please proceed below for information on the event and how to join the event on Zoom (regstrants recieve link via email).

Please adhere to the Wikimedia Friendly Space Policy for all activities.

Event information

Date: August 1, 2020 1:30PM PM EDT-5:00 PM EDT
Location: [on Zoom (TBA day of)].

Editing Sessions/ Wiki Coaching Times.

These will take place in the same Zoom link.

What is BIPOC?

The acronym BIPOC, referring to "black, indigenous, and people of color", first appeared in the 2010s. By June 2020, it had become more prevalent on the internet, as racial justice awareness grew in the US in the wake of the killing of George Floyd. The term aims to emphasize the historic oppression of black and indigenous people.

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Partners / Supporters

This event is being sponsored and led by the AfroCROWD Wikimedia User Group in partnership with Global Situation Room, DeLite Media, WikiProject Women In Red, Young Entertainment Activists (YEA!)and Wikimedians of the Caribbean.

Tools and templates

AfroCROWD Wikimedia Tutorials: Learn to edit with us!
Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
Wikipedia Template:Infobox person
Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons
Writing an article
About the Sandbox
Adding images to your entry, a tutorial ; video here; AfroCROWD tutorial on addimg images to Wikipedia

External links

Languages other than English

You can also contribute in Wikipedia language editions in Spanish, French, Haitian Creole, Yoruba, Garifuna, Hausa and other languages!

Ideas for editing

Categories of articles needing improvement

Category:African-American journalists (379 names)
Category:African-American women journalists (143 names)
Category:African-American sports journalists (34 names)

Articles needing improvement

For further inspiration

Lists with names for potential new articles

Created automatically from Wikidata

African-American women (296 names)
Black women in the visual arts (222 names)

Crowd-sourced lists

Encyclopedias

Potential new articles/award winners

Useful References

Resources

These resources are from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, with whom we partnered for our Black Life Matters editathon previously.

These magazines are from Google Books magazine collection. Please link directly to these resources when citing.

The following Google Drive folder sharing 2 articles not available from the Google Books archive of Ebony. The 1951 article appears to be the earliest mention of Juneteenth in Ebony. Please note copyright statement on the last page of each article.Don not link to this folder when citing. Citation information is included in a separate document.

Google Drive Folder with Ebony articles pertaining to Juneteenth.

Open Access References

Definition of Open Access^[1]

Google Scholar
Open Library
Directory of Open Access Journals : "The Directory of Open Access Journals is a service that indexes high quality, peer reviewed Open Access research journals, periodicals and their articles' metadata. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access academic journals that use an appropriate quality control system (see below for definitions) and is not limited to particular languages or subject areas. The Directory aims to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access academic journals—regardless of size and country of origin—thereby promoting their visibility, usage and impact."
University of California Santa Barbara's list of Free Publicly, Accessible Databases

References

^ "Open Access: What is it and why should we have it?". OASIS: Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook. September 11, 2009. Retrieved 5 March 2017. Open Access provides the means to maximise the visibility, and thus the uptake and use, of research outputs. Open Access is the immediate, online, free availability of research outputs without the severe restrictions on use commonly imposed by publisher copyright agreements. It is definitely not vanity publishing or self-publishing, nor about the literature that scholars might normally expect to be paid for, such as books for which they hope to earn royalty payments. It concerns the outputs that scholars normally give away free to be published – peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers and datasets of various kinds.

Results

Feel free to showcase your contributions here! New and improved articles include:

[1] "Open Access: What is it and why should we have it?". OASIS: Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook. September 11, 2009. Retrieved 5 March 2017. Open Access provides the means to maximise the visibility, and thus the uptake and use, of research outputs. Open Access is the immediate, online, free availability of research outputs without the severe restrictions on use commonly imposed by publisher copyright agreements. It is definitely not vanity publishing or self-publishing, nor about the literature that scholars might normally expect to be paid for, such as books for which they hope to earn royalty payments. It concerns the outputs that scholars normally give away free to be published – peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers and datasets of various kinds.

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