Submissions:2022/100 Caribbean Leaders on Wikidata: Launching WikiCari's newest project

This submission has been accepted for WikiConference North America 2022.

Etherpad

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:

Ian Ramjohn, Sherry Antoine

E-mail address:

ianwikiedu.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