Hey all--academic librarian previously in open data in Cambodia, and new to
this group. Really appreciate the shout-out about the Jacob Lawrence event.
I will try to make that.

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 10:56 PM, Joe Mabel <[email protected]> wrote:

> Felix already has Seko (and others) from Whose Knowledge on board. They've
> discussed in the abstract what metadata is needed, but I don't get the
> impression that the actual data modeling skills are there yet. Also, from
> what Seko said during the conference, she's also still struggling with how
> to get this stuff into Wikipedia in a way that will stick. She talked about
> re-traumatization (maybe too strong a word, but hers) when Dalits wrote
> articles and had them subsequently deleted.
>
> These groups are way ahead of us in terms of engaging with indigenous and
> ethnic populations, but I think we'd be ahead on data modeling almost from
> the get-go.
>
> There's a lot to talk about here, right now I'm more interested in who
> might be on board to work on this than trying to run it all through in
> emails, which often can be rather ephemeral. I hope that's OK.
>
> JM
>
>
>
> On 4/25/2018 4:23 AM, Jonathan Morgan wrote:
>
>> Might be a project that Whose Knowledge <https://whoseknowledge.org/>
>> (started by a couple of WMF ex-pats) is interested in supporting? They
>> don't have a lot of technical resources of their own, but are probably
>> connected with the right networks.
>>
>> - J
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 4:16 PM, Joe Mabel <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I talked this evening with Felix Nartey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
>>> /Felix_Nartey) from Ghana and it looks like their group are pretty far
>>> along in arranging to do some orally-based work with people from
>>> indigenous
>>> cultures there.  However, the want to use Wikidata to track their
>>> content,
>>> and on data modeling they are very much just beginners. I told them that
>>> I
>>> suspect I am not the only Cascadia Wikimedian who would be interested in
>>> helping them work out a schema to model the data, since several of us
>>> have
>>> relevant skills. This might eventually also be of benefit to us locally
>>> as
>>> well, for cultural stuff with ethic groups and tribes/nations in our
>>> geographic area. Not sure all of what this will ultimately entail from
>>> us,
>>> but Felix seems rock-solid, so we'd have a strong collaborator on the
>>> other
>>> end: I'm pretty sure they can sort out most of what data they'd want to
>>> track, and we'd just have to devise a schema.
>>>
>>> Are there others in Cascadia besides just me who'd be interested in
>>> taking
>>> this on? Anyone know someone not yet a Wikimedian (or not all that
>>> active)
>>> who might find this interesting?
>>>
>>> JM
>>>
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