Submissions:2022/100 Caribbean Leaders on Wikidata: Launching WikiCari's newest project
This submission has been accepted for WikiConference North America 2022.
Title:
- 100 Caribbean Leaders on Wikidata: Launching WikiCari's newest project
Theme:
- Saturday Longer Sessions
Type of session:
- Presentation
Abstract:
Caribbean leaders (including public servants, activists, labour leaders, and scientists) are under-represented on Wikidata and Wikipedia. Join Wikimedians of the Caribbean as we launch a project to add new Wikidata items for 100 Caribbean leaders as the first step in a new project to add 10,000 Caribbean people to Wikidata. The presentation will consist of a panel discussion featuring Sherry Antoine, Ian Ramjohn of WikiCari together with invited guests.
We will discuss the current level of (under)representation of Caribbean people on Wikidata, and the importance of representation as a crucial knowledge equity goal.
Academic Peer Review option:
Author name:
E-mail address:
- ian
wikiedu.org
Wikimedia username:
- Guettarda/Ian (Wiki Ed); Shanluan
Affiliated organization(s):
- Wikimedians of the Caribbean
Estimated time:
- 30-45 minutes
Special requests:
Have you presented on this topic previously? If yes, where/when?:
- No
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