Submissions:2021/Caribbean Digital Human Rights Community Workspace & Edit-A-Thon

This submission has been accepted for WikiConference North America 2021.

Etherpad

Title:

Caribbean Digital Human Rights Community Workspace & Edit-A-Thon

Theme:

Global & Local, Relationship Building & Support, Inclusion & Diversity, Depth & Breadth for Newer Editors

Type of session:

Workshop

Abstract:

The session will focus on enabling Caribbean civil society organizations with the tools to continue their work in advocacy through novel means, like Wikipedia. The session's aim is to, at the end, equip new or unfamiliar audiences with the means to manage the task of explaining more complex and polarizing phenomena on Wikipedia, while maintaining modalities as MoS, NPOV, etc. This session will help to support future learnings within the pool of concerned CSOs on information salience within the Caribbean and tell of the mediating effect that greater ease-of-access through Wikipedia would obtain.

Academic Peer Review option:

No

Author name:

Brandon Sullivan

E-mail address:

sullivanbusiness@outlook.com

Wikimedia username:

JamaicanEditor

Affiliated organization(s):

Wikimedians of the Caribbean

Estimated time:

2 hours

Special requests:

Translation support for Spanish and French-Speaking attendees

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

Yes; Zoom roundtable on September 16.

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)

Perhaps