Submissions:2023/Wikipedia as a site of archival activism: potentials and limits from the experience of BIPOC community advocates

This submission has been accepted for WikiConference North America 2023.

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Title:

Wikipedia as a site of archival activism: potentials and limits from the experience of BIPOC community advocates

Theme:

Community Initiatives, Equity / Inclusion / Community Health

Type of session:

Panel

Abstract:

The growth in community archives especially in the digital sphere has been in part because of grassroots efforts and a desire to decolonize archival spaces that remain to be unavailable to many. What underlies these efforts are also because of the growing recognition of how the opening up of public spaces and record keeping, archives included, have a relationship to social justice. Duff, Flinn, Suurtamm, and Wallace has a role of “providing public space, welcoming all members of society, and providing information resources that aid in their development” (Duff et al. 2013, p. 332).

Wikipedia, in a sense, because of its community editorial potential, acts like a community archive and thus becomes a site for these decolonizing efforts.

This talk will share our different experiences with community archiving - via YouTube, our efforts to submit to the Public Library Archives, and efforts at doing Wikipedia editathons.

Author name:

Anabelle Ragsag and Jessica Vinluan

E-mail address:

filipinasofhamontgmail.com

Wikimedia username:

SinagHamOnt

Affiliated organization(s):

FilipinasofHamOnt

Estimated time:

Special requests:

Have you presented on this topic previously? If yes, where/when?:

No

Okay to livestream?

Livestreaming is okay

If your submission is not accepted, would you be open to presenting your topic in another part of the program? (e.g. lightning talk or unconference session)

Yes