Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/AfroCrowd/AfricaCROWD/May 2015

AfroCROWD Presents AfricaCROWD: Wikipedia Resources for Africa and Africans

AFRICACROWD
Afri Diaspora, Yoruba Cultural Institure and AfroCROWD present AFRICACROWD Join us as we explore Wikipedia resources for and about Africa and Africans, including resources in English, French and African languages such as Yoruba, Twi, Igbo etc. We will also get a brief intro to Wikimedia and Wikipedia and learn what gaps exist about Africa and Africans in the largest online reference site in the world and ways to use this resource to make children and adults more digitally skilled and more knowledgeable about their culture, history and languages.

AfroCROWD workshops aim to advance the” development” principles of the UN International Decade for People of African Descent. The Black Twitter phenomenon in the U.S. and the use of Face book in the Americas shows that Afrodescendants have capitalized on social media as an organizing tool. Exposing more Afrodescendants to Wikimedia has the potential to take this journey a step further and transfer skills that might deepen Afrodescendant exploration of online technology. By using such platforms to develop and maintain online bodies of relevant knowledge in native languages such as Garifuna, Haitian Kreyòl, Igbo, Spanish or Yoruba, Afrodescendant communities thereby contribute to the survival of and increase in their proficiency in those languages while also feeling more culturally grounded.

Light refreshments

Wikimedia NYC will assist with training.

Event details

 * Date: Sunday May 31, 2015
 * Time: 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
 * Location: Brooklyn Public Library Central Branch, NYC
 * Find us at: Information Commons Lab, 1st Floor

Articles Edited

 * Weeksville, Brooklyn
 * Hector Hyppolite
 * Sean Bell shooting incident

Sign up
| Register for the event on Eventbrite if you plan to attend in-person. If you are able, please also add your Wikipedia username to the appropriate section below (signatures are created by saving four tildes [~] in a row). If you haven't edited Wikipedia before, please create an account using the link in the upper right hand corner prior to the event date. We will provide training at the event for first-time editors.

Participants
If you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia, you might try this training module which will help explain a lot of things, including how to add your signature.
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