Yes, the idea is to be extra inclusionary by reaching out to all these
groups explicitly, and in particular to representing different cultural
identities in rather non-monolithic African American / African Diasporic
communities.
Thanks,
Pharos
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Jeremy Baron <jer...@tuxmachine.com>
wrote:
> On Mar 23, 2015 11:25 AM, "Neotarf" <neot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've never seen editithons that exclude people before. I've been to a
> couple of black history events, and all were welcomed, although of course
> there was a very high proportion of African descent.
>
> I think the point was actually to be extra inclusionary: to cover all of
> the above not just a subset when recruiting new editors. So potential
> recruits don't think but I'm not really {{label}} and exclude themselves.
>
> I'm pretty sure others won't be excluded but these events will be
> *focused* on topics related to those groups and editors with some sort of a
> connection to Africa. To address biases similarly to women focused outreach
> but with a twist thrown in: adding a new language to Wikipedia too, they
> started already Garifuna Wikipedia on incubator.
>
> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/cab
>
> -Jeremy
>
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