Wikipedia:Black WikiHistory Month
Annual campaign
Black WikiHistory Month is a wiki-coordinated program of article writing, image/picture creating, events and edit-a-thons focused on Black history in the United States and worldwide, working with WikiProject African diaspora and related projects. In February 2015 BHM was being celebrated for the first time in the USA in association with the United States' Black History Month.
February 2022
- Women in Red's annual Black women online event, Feb 1-28
- Smithsonian Black Women in Food History, February 1
- Met Afrofuturist Period Room edit-a-thon and Seneca Village collaboration (all month), with a virtual launch event on Saturday February 5
February 2021
- Wikipedia:Meetup/Black_Lunch_Table/MiA: BLT @ Twin Cities arts edit-a-thon, Minneapolis & St.Paul, MN (online) Feb 6th, 2021
- Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Black in Genetics with Genspace (online) Feb 11th, 2021, editing through Feb 25th
- Where: Online! But registration is required.
- Wikipedia:Meetup/Black_Lunch_Table/CAA_editathon_2021: BLT @ CAA, NY, NY (online) Feb 13th, 2021
- African Americans in STEM edit-a-thon: Washington DC, Sun Feb 21, 2021 and during the ensuing week
- Wikipedia:Meetup/Connecticut/BIPOC-In-The Built - February 22-28, 2021
- Wikipedia:Meetup/UKY/BlackLivesMatter2021: Lexington, KY (virtually/online) on Thursday, February 25, 2021
- Black Wiki History Month 2021 at New York's Schomburg Center Online with NYU Los Angeles, ImageNation Cinema and AfroCROWD. Guest speaker: ImageNation Cinema Founder Moikgantsi Kgama 10:30 AM - 2 PM PST / 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM EST on Thursday, February 25, 2021.
- Writing Black History of the Pacific Northwest into Wikipedia Editathon 2021 with Oregon State University, Education Opportunities Program and AfroCROWD. Guest speaker: Spelman College's Alexandria Lockett 1:00-5:00 PM PST / 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM EST on Friday, February 26, 2021.
- Black History Month Nigeria 2021 - Celebrating Women Leaders of Africa's Diaspora with Wikimedia Nigeria and African Women On Board. and AfroCROWD. Guest speaker: Author Lola Akinmade Åkerström 17:30 - 20:00 PM UTC / 12:30 PM - 3:00 PM EST on Saturday, February 27, 2021.
- Wikipedia:Meetup/Black_Lunch_Table/RutgersFeb2021:BLT Black History Everyday edit-a-thon, New Brunswick, NJ(online)Feb 28th, 2021
- Wikipedia:Meetup/Toronto/Black History Edit-A-Thon (February 2021): Toronto, ON, Canada (online) through February 2021. See event page for facilitated drop-in schedule.
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Related editathons
United States
Since February 2015, AfroCROWD has pursued a monthly series of editathons.
Other events in past years:
- Unforgetting 7 @ EOB, Los Angeles
- Africa Collection Editathon @ WM DC
- April 2014 Colored Conventions @ University of Delaware
- Chicago 5 @ Chicago
Europe
- In common with other parts of the United Kingdom, Black History Month BHM is celebrated in October. BHM was first celebrated by the Wikimedian community on 26th October 2012 at an event organised by Wikimedia UK and the Equiano Centre, University College London.
Resources for Organizers
- Help:Cheatsheet
- "Learning to work with Wikipedia: New Pages Patrol and how to create new Wikipedia articles that will stick" by Adrianne Wadewitz. HASTAC.
- Hour-long Wikipedia editing tutorial by FemTechNet.
- Wikipedia:Training/For students is a good intro to editing.
Account creation
Wikipedia has a limit on the number of accounts that can be created in a day at one IP address. Encourage attendees of your event to register on Wikipedia prior to coming. Reach out to an administrator via the artandfeminism-organize
googlegroups.com email list to get Account Creator permissions prior to your event.
Press
- Cassano, Jay. "Black History Matters so why is Wikipedia Missing so Much of it." FastCompany. January 29, 2015.
- Solis, Gustavo. "Schomburg Center Hosts Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon for Articles on Black Culture." DNAInfo. January 30, 2015.
- Gebreyes, Rahel. "Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon Reinforces The Value Of Digitizing Black History," Huffington Post Blackvoices. February 2, 2015.
- Lewis, Taylor. "Wikipedia Is Getting a Lesson in Black History." Essence.com
- Smith, Jada F. (February 19, 2015). "Howard University Fills in Wikipedia's Gaps in Black History". The New York Times.
- "For Blacks, New Afrocrowd Initiative Offers Opportunity to Tell Stories." Our Time Press.
- "Can ‘Black Wikipedia’ Take Off Like ‘Black Twitter’?" ColorLines.
- Black Digital Empowerment Through AfroCROWD workshops," Black Star News.
- AfroCrowd: The Black Wikipedia For People of African Descent
References
- ^ Dowell, Megan. "Wikipedia a guide on editing and contributing to Wikipedia on FEB 20, 2019". Edit-a-Thons @ CU. Carroll University. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
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Black History Month Editathon 26th October 2012 -
Resources available at the Equiano Centre -
Getting ready to edit Black British History -
Pair editing at BHM 2012 -
Being introduced to commons-based peer production
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