From: Katherine Casey
My guess would be that the open to bit is intended to bring in people
who might otherwise feel they're not welcome if they're not
specifically invited,
more than it's intended to dis-invite people who already know they're
always welcome at Wikimedia events.
From: Jeremy
That's interesting:
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.
I've never seen editithons that exclude people
I recognize at least some of the names on the attendance list there as
people who don't, to the best of my knowledge, identify as being of African
descent, so it doesn't appear to have been an event that excluded anyone.
My guess would be that the open to bit is intended to bring in people who
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
On Mar 23, 2015 11:41 AM, Katherine Casey fluffernutter.w...@gmail.com
wrote:
I recognize at least some of the names on the attendance list there as
people who don't, to the best of my knowledge, identify as being of African
descent, so it doesn't appear to have been an event that excluded
From a UK perspective, I have been to and helped to run a couple of
women-based editathons, they were mainly attended by women but were
never intended to be exclusive. There have also been a couple of black
history editathons in London, again they were not exclusive to any
particular group. I ran
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
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.
*I doubt I'd attend any event purporting to recruit women that
nevertheless limited itself to people who were born female; that's very
much a type of exclusion I'm uncomfortable with. In general, however,
there's nothing stopping you or anyone else from arranging a women-centric
(or even
See also this article: AfroCrowd: The Black Wikipedia For People of
African Descent http://kreyolicious.com/afrocrowd/17531/
One of the drawbacks of GLAM is that people are just making a few edits,
and leaving, rather than becoming long-term editors. There may be chances
for followup here that we
I doubt I'd attend any event purporting to recruit women that nevertheless
limited itself to people who were born female; that's very much a type of
exclusion I'm uncomfortable with. In general, however, there's nothing
stopping you or anyone else from arranging a women-centric (or even
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