AfroCrowd
AfroCrowd | |
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founding | 2015 |
founder | Alice Backer |
Seat | New York City |
Website | afrocrowd.org |
AfroCrowd (also Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia ; stylized as AfroCROWD ) is an initiative to bring information about black culture and history to Wikipedia and improve it. The New York City- based project was founded by Alice Backer in 2015.
founding
Some observers have noticed that there is a lack of sub-Saharan African history content on Wikipedia. In 2015, lawyer Alice Backer founded AfroCROWD. Backer started AfroCROWD to " rectify Wikipedia's lack of articles about black history and black culture " (German: "Wikipedia's lack of articles about black history and black culture"). According to Backer, the aim of the project is “ give people of color opportunities to do more than participate in and consume social media ” (German: “To give colored people the opportunity to do more than participate in and consume on social media ”).
Strategies and tactics
AfroCROWD is hosting edit-a-thons and talks across the New York metropolitan area . They worked with other organizations such as the Haiti Cultural Exchange and Haitian Creole Language Institute to make these events possible.
Web links
- afrocrowd.org. Official website. In: afrocrowd.org. (English).
- Ellen Tani, Heather Hart, Jina Valentine: Why Are All the Black Artists Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? - Artsy. In: artsy.net. January 17, 2016 (English).
- Emily Frisella: How Activists Are Diversifying Wikipedia One Edit At A Time. In: good.is. April 27, 2017 (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Cynthia Allum: Women leading movements to champion equality on Wikipedia - Women in the World. In: womenintheworld.com. February 29, 2016, accessed May 29, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Patrick Delices: Black Digital Empowerment Through AfroCROWD workshops. In: blackstarnews.com. February 15, 2015, accessed May 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Ann Matsuuchi: Connecting Wikipedia and the Archive: Building a Public History of HIV / AIDS in New York City. (PDF; 384 kB) In: wikistudies.org. September 25, 2017, accessed May 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Carla Murphy: Can 'Black Wikipedia' Take Off Like 'Black Twitter'? In: colorlines.com. February 4, 2015, accessed May 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Cynthia Allum: Women leading movements to champion equality on Wikipedia ( en ) In: The New York Times . February 29, 2016. Retrieved October 20, 2017.
- ↑ Fabiola Jean: African Crowd: Owning Haitian History Through Digital Empowerment - The Haitian Times. In: haitiantimes.com. February 25, 2019, accessed May 29, 2019 .