AfroCrowd

AfroCrowd
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

Alice Backer, 2015

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 manager Sherry Antoine spoke to German Wikipedia author Sebastian Wallroth at the WikiConference North America 2018 in Columbus, Ohio for the WikiJabber podcast

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. Retrieved May 29, 2019(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).; accessed on May 29, 2019
Emily Frisella: How Activists Are Diversifying Wikipedia One Edit At A Time. In: good.is. April 27, 2017 (English).; accessed on May 29, 2019

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 .

[:0-1] Cynthia Allum: Women leading movements to champion equality on Wikipedia - Women in the World. In: womenintheworld.com. February 29, 2016, accessed May 29, 2019 .

[:1-2] Patrick Delices: Black Digital Empowerment Through AfroCROWD workshops. In: blackstarnews.com. February 15, 2015, accessed May 29, 2019 .

[3] 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 .

[4] Carla Murphy: Can 'Black Wikipedia' Take Off Like 'Black Twitter'? In: colorlines.com. February 4, 2015, accessed May 29, 2019 .

[Allum-5] Cynthia Allum: Women leading movements to champion equality on Wikipedia ( en ) In: The New York Times . February 29, 2016. Retrieved October 20, 2017.

[6] Fabiola Jean: African Crowd: Owning Haitian History Through Digital Empowerment - The Haitian Times. In: haitiantimes.com. February 25, 2019, accessed May 29, 2019 .