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 and AfroCROWD 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 and Ian Ramjohn of WikiCari.
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