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Hi everyone, my name is Sherry Antoine.

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I am the executive director of

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AfroCROWD.org

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which is um

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holding this panel discussion today with

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some amazing people throughout the

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Wikimedia movement, many of them leaders

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of initiatives that are making

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change in the BIPOC space in Wikipedia.

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I'm also joined today by Dr. Alexandria

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Lockett, who is an assistant professor of

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English at Spelman College, which is a

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historically Black college and

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university,

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who will also be leading us in what, uh

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what is known as a free write workshop

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today, which is a pretty exciting way to

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delve into Wikipedia and our topic

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for today which is civil rights and

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Wikipedia as we revisit

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the Juneteenth conference on civil

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rights, um, from 2020 which was a

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pivotal year in civil rights, uh, not

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only in the U.S. but many parts of the

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world.

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Okay, um, so,

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uh,

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firstly, the purpose of today's event

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is, uh, to offer continued

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reflection on AfroCROWD's Juneteenth

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civil rights edit-a-thon of 2020. This event

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was significant because of the

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unwarranted, untimely deaths of George

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Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, along

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with a stream of thousands of Black,

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Brown and Indigenous people's

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deaths, combined with our global pandemic

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and climate change-induced natural

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disasters that have sparked global

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protests and insecurity about our

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technologies.

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Once heralded as the future, we continue

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to find ourselves wondering about the

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power of information technologies over

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our lives and livelihoods.

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Wikipedia is one of the major, uh, power

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brokers of information and knowledge.

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Its capacity of reach is immense, being

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the fifth or sixth most-visited website

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on the planet, as well as the top, kind of

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resource of its kind, uh, online.

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Inspiring... um, it's inspiring, but can also

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be intimidating for many communities.

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On the one hand few, uh,

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media is capable of representing the

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kind of knowledge about things like the

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murder of George Floyd and other

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controversial, uh, pieces of knowledge

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more quickly or accurately.

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On the other hand the BIPOC (Black,

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Indigenous people of color) are not

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likely to edit Wikipedia.

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A recent study found that less than five

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percent, um, and in some cases it's been

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estimated to be even lower, uh, of editors

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on Wikipedia are from the BIPOC

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communities.

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Today we reflect on the Juneteenth event,

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which is now a national holiday, and

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actually became a national holiday

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around the time of this event in 2020.

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So,

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our main question today for you, audience,

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is: "what is civil rights in the age of

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Wikipedia dominance?"

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So, I'm going to quickly switch over to

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tell you a little bit about conference,

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and... and then we're going to introduce

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panel of guests from the movement.

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that screen... hold on one moment.

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So on Juneteenth, as I mentioned before,

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during the height of the COVID-19

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pandemic, people from eight countries

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spanning three continents gathered

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online to participate, uh, on this first

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ever virtual Juneteenth conference on

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civil rights.

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It was on this day in June 1865, now

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celebrated the Juneteenth holiday, that

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enslaved Africans in America finally

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learned two years after the fact that

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they had been set free.

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So, this day not only celebrates

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emancipation but life-changing power of

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knowledge.

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For our Juneteenth event we originally

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hoped for,

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um, hoped to offer a discussion and free

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wiki editor training as we usually do,

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AfroCROWD usually does,

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um,

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and,

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in the wake of

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uh, worldwide George Floyd and Black

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Lives Matter protests, what transpired

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far exceeded our expectations.

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The inaugural conference kicked off a

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weekend of activity starting with an

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opening talk on the significance of

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Wikipedia to the Black historical

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narrative by Dr. Lockett, who we have

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today,

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um, an experienced Wikipedian, English

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professor at HBCU Spelman, as well as

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a slew of others who, um, who joined to

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help coach and mentor those who came

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work.

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It continued with seven

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Wikipedia coaching sessions, each of them

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an hour-long training hosted by

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volunteers throughout the movement, many

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of whom you'll meet today.

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From artists to entrepreneurs, librarians,

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organizational executives, teaching, uh,

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instructors and so forth,

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they were of diverse professions and

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diverse experiences of Wikipedia. About

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half came to learn for the first time.

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While our focus was not on quick editing,

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36 registered participants took to

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Wikipedia that weekend.

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Together, they edited 229 articles, 79 of

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them from scratch,

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that were seen over a thousand times and...

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sorry, that were...

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with

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over a thousand total edits,

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many words added, and you can see the

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rest of the the data from that.

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Including 29 Commons uploads that have

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been viewed, um

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four and a half million times since

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The participants came from eight

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different countries, including Ghana,

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Nigeria, South Africa, Jamaica, Canada,

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and so forth,

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and um, from both, uh, coasts.

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So, from many parts of the world.

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five different languages,

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um, as well as, um, many were from

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um, different... smaller ethnic groups

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event continues today. Our goal is to

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continue to gather Wikipedians from

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around the globe for peaceful exchanges

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of ideas like this.

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So we hope that today

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you will be able to be a part of that

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continued effort.

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All right, I'm going to switch back now

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our group for today.

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introducing our panelists.

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our panelists on the screen as I go

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Excuse me as I switch gears here.

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recently spoke at WikiVibrance which is

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this week, um...

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which aims at commemorating

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International Youth Day in the movement.

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who is a leader in WikiVibrance, which

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aims at commemorating International

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Youth Day and Movement by working with

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young people in the

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Wikimedia Movement to mobilize and

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engage particularly young Wikimedians

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and the rest of Wikimedia community to

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improve articles

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in the theme of transforming

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food systems and innovation in youth and

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plenary health,

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which touches many communities all over

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the world.

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We have Adele Vrana who is co-director

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and co-founder of Whose Knowledge?

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partnerships in community initiatives in

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Brazil, the U.S., and across the global

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South making sure people like her can be

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fully visible,

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heard, and affirmed.

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Partnerships at the Wikimedia Foundation

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and a 2015 Erasmus prize laureate on

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behalf of her work

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to expand access to Wikipedia.

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the sources that we use to inform

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Wikipedia, which includes newspapers

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like the Caribbean, which we focused on

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this year. Thank you also Pete for coming.

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librarian at Oregon State University.

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Laurie has been working with AfroCROWD in

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later in, in, in the talk to, uh,

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to mention her experience working with

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AfroCROWD as well as different groups

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in different parts of the world

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including Nigeria.

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and, uh, every year she's also led

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a Black History Month-focused, um,

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event at the college, with other schools

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as well, including Stanford and

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include, um, introduce briefly

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uh, Dr. Lockett. And Dr. Lockett, um, since

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you will be, um, leading us into this next

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I think it would be wonderful, um

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those here to hear a little bit more

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your work.

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uh, along this line. So, Dr. Lockett, I throw

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it over to you.

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- You can do it

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you can do it.
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so Dr. Alexandria Lockett

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is a professor... an assistant professor of

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English at Spelman college.

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Um

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she also was the leader

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of, uh sorry, the lead speaker at, um

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the Juneteenth 2020 conference on

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civil rights.

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She has worked um, for many years, uh

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not only in the space, uh

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that we're discussing today

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but she serves on the CCC Special

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Executive Committee on Wikipedia.

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Additionally, she has served as a

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consultant and technical writer for Wiki

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Education Foundation.

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She is head of race rhetoric and

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research methods

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um

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at WCAC Clearinghouse

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and co-editor of learning from the lived

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experiences of graduate student writers

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- Oh, Sherry, I don't mean to interrupt you

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but i think we've got some people

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waiting and, um

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you've been so generous in the

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introductions so I'll go ahead and, um

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you know, move this along while you get

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those people in here.
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- Sorry, this is just really,

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really weird for me

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um

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not having the audience and view is

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awkward and strange and I'm gonna say

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that out loud before we go on.

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So... audience, hello!

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Um, I hope you are not too confused or

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feeling weird as I am, um, but I'm going to

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try to shake it

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so, um

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we figured that

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instead of the panelists just kind of

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talking ad nauseum about every wonderful,

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awesome thing we do, because we have so

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many wonderful and awesome things that

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we do,

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um, we really wanted to make this a lot

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more

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um, in the spirit of

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an exchange with the panelists. So

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um, I have a

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um

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I have a

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port... I will be leading a portion of a

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free writing activity that will actually

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maybe help us, um

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make this as inclusive as possible.

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Because you know how it is when you go

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to a conference and you want to ask a

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question

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but there's so many questions, there's so

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many panelists you can't get to it? So

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that's kind of the logic behind

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including a free write so, like, if we

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don't get to your question or your

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comment we have it for asynchronous

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response purposes and also for

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networking. So

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um

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we've got a couple of questions, um, as

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per Sherry's wonderful introduction

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to um

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have you respond. I don't know how many

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of you there are, I don't know what

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uh, methods are preferable to you, but let

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me go ahead and give you just a couple.

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So

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you're welcome to use the comments from

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the StreamYards to enter a response.

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You're also welcome to use this

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wonderful Google document we've set up

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for you

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Um, I'll go ahead and share my screen if

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that's possible...

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um

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so

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we've got this document right here every...

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anyone can edit this document

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I'm going to be writing my response here

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um, and then also copy and pasting it

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over to the comment

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um, in the StreamYard

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and so, um

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you know, you can use your Evernote... just

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what, you know, whatever, whatever you want.

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Um, but basically we're going to give you

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about five minutes to just take the time

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to really contemplate a couple of

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questions, or just write your thoughts or

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any questions you had when you came

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to the session

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in mind... um, with

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the questions you might have had in mind

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when you came to the session. So here

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they are.

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"What does civil rights mean in an age in

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which Wikipedia has survived to be 20?"

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Think about that question. You know,

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imagine that if your teacher, your

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students are

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are, um

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some of them may be

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the same age as Wikipedia or younger

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than Wikipedia. Think about

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how

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we're living in a time period where

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the word "encyclopedia" is synonymous with

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Wikipedia. So even the nature of

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references has changed. So we really want

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to, sort of, you know, get you to really

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think about

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these kinds of questions.

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Um, additional questions might be, you

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know, just related to the pandemic and

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just the global catastrophic shitshow of

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society that we're living in right now

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in general, which is just, sorry, I'm

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thinking about Haiti, I can't stop

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thinking about Haiti today.

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I'm just going to take a moment for that

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because

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the devastation there is

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immense and...

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anyway. So, um

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how do we think about Wikipedia's value,

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its potential, its roles in society? Or,

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how are we thinking about the meaning of

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words like "civil rights" and "equity"? Again,

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coming back to the first prompt. So, we

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want to go ahead and give you, uh, like I

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said, just about five minutes to write

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down your thoughts or your questions or

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doesn't even have to relate to those

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prompts. Can be anything you want.

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And we will rejoin, um

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I will

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moderate the next portion which will be

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just to kind of

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talk a little bit through some of those

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things and turn it back over to our

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moderators again.

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- So while, uh, while you do this I also

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want to quickly

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um, uh

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introduce uh, more of our guests, uh, which

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were, who were backstage. We've got Rosie

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Stephenson-Goodknight, who is a Wikipedia

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editor and an administrator since 2009.

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She's created more than 5,000 new

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articles on Wikipedia including more

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than 1,400 biographies, uh

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about notable women.

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She served as a visiting scholar at

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Northeastern University

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um

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excuse me, Northeastern University, um, and

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is a vice president of Wikimedia

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District Columbia

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uh as well as the board for the

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Coalition of Women in Journalism

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and she's chair of the Foundation's

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Affiliations Committee she's also well

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known

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as being a leader of

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Women in Red, which focuses on

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women who

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um, uh are...

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they are...

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have red links on Wikipedia, meaning they

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don't have uh, uh articles. And has been

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um, one of the people who have been

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actively, um, helping to increase um

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uh

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recognition of of women on Wikipedia

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um, going from, uh

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I believe it was, uh

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uh, just a few years ago that it was, uh

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below 15 percent now we're seeing 20 percent

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So it's great to see you, Rosie.

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And we've got AfroCROWD Linda, who is a

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community organizer with with AfroCROWD

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here today. Uh, Linda has been editing

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with AfroCROWD for

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um

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almost as long as we've been around, I

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believe. Uh, we've been here for about six

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years and Linda has been active in that

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um

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part of the movement as well,

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leading community events, um, during the

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pandemic to continue

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highlighting people of color, people of

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African descent on Wikipedia.

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Okay so as we continue, please continue

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adding your information,

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um, to, uh, adding your

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thoughts to the Etherpad

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and to the

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comments, um, concerning

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uh, our question for today, as well as

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um

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you know, your thoughts concerning, in

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general, Wikipedia in the civil rights

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space.

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I'm just going to throw it back to you

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Alexandria, if you have any further

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comment.

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- I do not. Please write. And um

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we've got a full about

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a full five minutes, um, but we'll

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you know

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loop back in in about four just to kind

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of

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make sure we're staying on time here.
- Yes

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- And I'm writing, as you can see

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- We also invite the panelists to um

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uh, add information on that on the either

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the Etherpad or

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our, um

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our link for today of the agenda. I'm

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gonna add that, those two links in the

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chat right now.

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Just be aware that as you're adding

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information to the Etherpad that there

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is a volunteer who is looking at the

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Etherpad and will...

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will see your comments and get it over

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to us so don't worry about that.

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And please remember that this space,

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there's no right or wrong words, there's

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no right or wrong thoughts

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just add, um, what... what you would like to

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add to the conversation.

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- Although I will say, make it purposeful.
- Yes.

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- Like, you know, if you really do have a

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question that you came with

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focus on that, you know.

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Or a thought you'd like to share or

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whatever. I just have to

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make sure that's clear, this is not just

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like, whatever...

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free for all...

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per se.

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Alright, we got about a minute left. Why

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don't you go ahead and try to wrap up

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what you got going on?

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[musical phone alarm]
- That lovely sound means [singing] wrap it up

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please.

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Alrighty

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so we are really excited to

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entertain now, um

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a sort of more panel-

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driven

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uh, discussion. We still have

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29 minutes and 30 seconds so that's a

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nice amount of time.

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Um,

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I have put a response, um, and I'm going

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to look at the comments section now. If

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you have a specific question that you

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could pose in your response, please feel

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free to, um

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include it in

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the

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um

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the comments. But I'm going to go back to

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the document and just see if I can find

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any sort of

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questions.

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Um, it looks like we've got some

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narratives.

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Um, and so I'll give you just a, you know

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just a minute to get your question in

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the comments if you've got one or

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add some questions to

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um, the document. But

566
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:43,840
you know, I started off with my own

567
00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:45,919
response and then I'm going to shift to

568
00:26:45,919 --> 00:26:47,919
Sherry as the moderator since we don't

569
00:26:47,919 --> 00:26:48,880
have

570
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:50,000
um

571
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:52,000
I'm not seeing um any questions right

572
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:52,880
now.

573
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:55,919
So, um, my response

574
00:26:55,919 --> 00:26:58,159
is uh, you know when I think about civil

575
00:26:58,159 --> 00:26:59,840
rights I think about

576
00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:02,799
the dismantling of legal definitions

577
00:27:02,799 --> 00:27:05,279
of Black people from property to human

578
00:27:05,279 --> 00:27:07,279
being and citizen.

579
00:27:07,279 --> 00:27:11,120
Um, and since '64 you know, we've had a lot

580
00:27:11,120 --> 00:27:13,120
of challenges with

581
00:27:13,120 --> 00:27:14,799
desegregation and Black personhood. I

582
00:27:14,799 --> 00:27:16,480
think we're kind of in this really

583
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:18,720
interesting historical moment where

584
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:20,960
we're starting to ask ourselves about

585
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:24,240
the efficacy of those Band-Aids, you know.

586
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:26,880
Did they work? You know, arguably schools

587
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:28,399
are more segregated now than they've

588
00:27:28,399 --> 00:27:29,760
ever been.

589
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:30,480
So,

590
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:33,679
we clearly have some issues.

591
00:27:33,679 --> 00:27:36,320
And I think about the wealth gap a lot

592
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:39,279
because it's so staggering, and it's a

593
00:27:39,279 --> 00:27:40,960
demonstration of

594
00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:42,960
sort of how these multiple oppressions

595
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:44,559
have emerged

596
00:27:44,559 --> 00:27:45,440
as

597
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:48,640
um, we've entered a situation of global

598
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:50,000
capitalism.

599
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:51,919
So I think a lot about this notion of

600
00:27:51,919 --> 00:27:55,360
Black capitalism as sort of an answer to

601
00:27:55,360 --> 00:27:58,320
um, oppression historical oppression. You

602
00:27:58,320 --> 00:27:59,279
know, if we could just become

603
00:27:59,279 --> 00:28:01,039
entrepreneurs, if we could just become

604
00:28:01,039 --> 00:28:03,120
self-sufficient, but those things still

605
00:28:03,120 --> 00:28:05,200
don't change the issue

606
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:07,760
of unarmed people dying at the hands of

607
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:09,679
a fortified military prison and law

608
00:28:09,679 --> 00:28:11,679
enforcement complex.

609
00:28:11,679 --> 00:28:13,919
So

610
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:17,679
that makes me really turn to...

611
00:28:17,679 --> 00:28:20,480
better understanding how...

612
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:22,399
all of the material resources in the

613
00:28:22,399 --> 00:28:24,720
world don't really get us away from this

614
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:26,159
philosophy that led to the

615
00:28:26,159 --> 00:28:29,279
dehumanization of Black people

616
00:28:29,279 --> 00:28:31,200
And I think that when

617
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:32,799
we don't really focus on that

618
00:28:32,799 --> 00:28:34,880
philosophical issue,

619
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,360
we miss an opportunity to really better

620
00:28:37,360 --> 00:28:38,799
understand

621
00:28:38,799 --> 00:28:41,440
what has happened with the labor force

622
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,720
since we moved from farm to city to

623
00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:46,960
computer and now we're in this

624
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:48,720
remediation of all of it and i think

625
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:50,240
Wikipedia,

626
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:53,360
which is aided by Google and Facebook,

627
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:55,360
which are

628
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,799
the dominant advertising locuses of our

629
00:28:58,799 --> 00:29:00,080
time

630
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:00,880
um

631
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:04,159
how who we are, what we are, how we behave,

632
00:29:04,159 --> 00:29:06,399
um, all of these things are are in my

633
00:29:06,399 --> 00:29:08,320
mind as we are coming to the discussion

634
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:10,159
today. So I don't know if that sparks

635
00:29:10,159 --> 00:29:11,520
some maybe, some questions or some

636
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:13,520
thoughts from people, but um I'm going to put

637
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:15,120
myself on mute now

638
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:18,640
and, um, I'm really excited to hear from

639
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:21,360
other people and open to your questions

640
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:22,880
for me as well.

641
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:26,640
So, um.. Oh! Well, sorry I... Pete, I can't

642
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:27,679
navigate

643
00:29:27,679 --> 00:29:30,559
500 screens... forgive me.

644
00:29:30,559 --> 00:29:32,159
But thank you so much, because I didn't

645
00:29:32,159 --> 00:29:33,760
even see that. So before... okay, sorry

646
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:35,760
before we turn it over let me, let me, let

647
00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:37,120
me look at this really quick because I

648
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:39,039
didn't even know people were writing

649
00:29:39,039 --> 00:29:41,840
here. Okay, um...

650
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,640
it looks like...

651
00:29:49,279 --> 00:29:51,919
we relied on Siri now to tell us

652
00:29:51,919 --> 00:29:53,679
what civil rights is, I mean that's an

653
00:29:53,679 --> 00:29:56,640
interesting question right away from me.

654
00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:58,960
Um

655
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,000
and we've got people talking about

656
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,640
projects and so forth and so on. So uh, so

657
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:06,159
Sherry, I'll, you know, let you use your

658
00:30:06,159 --> 00:30:07,440
judgment as far as how you want to

659
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:09,840
navigate the conversation. But um, I

660
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:11,360
appreciate you guys taking the time to

661
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:12,640
write your thoughts and it gives us

662
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:15,440
something for a continuous discussion in

663
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:18,960
the future and some networking, so.

664
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:20,960
- Well, thank you so much.

665
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:22,559
It's wonderful that

666
00:30:22,559 --> 00:30:25,520
um, you know, that we can have all these

667
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:28,880
great minds here, um, even, uh, on a day

668
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:31,760
like today where we're navigating using

669
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:34,080
this technology for our first virtual

670
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:37,600
Wikipedia edit-a-thon, excuse me, Wikimania

671
00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:40,640
um, that we're still able to to continue

672
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,360
trying this, um, this new way of doing

673
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:44,399
this.

674
00:30:44,399 --> 00:30:47,760
Okay so we have some information coming

675
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:50,320
on the Etherpad and some

676
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:52,399
from some of our panelists. So what I'd

677
00:30:52,399 --> 00:30:54,320
like to do is kind of do both, go in

678
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:56,960
between. I'd love to hear your response

679
00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:58,960
to the, to the prompt, Adele

680
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:02,159
Um and also, uh, if we could infuse just a

681
00:31:02,159 --> 00:31:04,640
little bit about, um, ways that you've

682
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:06,399
been working in this space as well. I

683
00:31:06,399 --> 00:31:08,480
know VisibleWikiWomen has done a lot

684
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:12,640
of good things on Wikipedia as well.

685
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,440
- Yeah sure. Hi everyone.

686
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:17,919
I hope you can hear me. You can?
- And thank

687
00:31:17,919 --> 00:31:20,000
you for coming

688
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:21,600
this early in the morning, all of you in

689
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:24,799
PST time, PDT time, we appreciate it.
- Yes,

690
00:31:24,799 --> 00:31:27,279
Yes, of course, of course. I'm glad to be

691
00:31:27,279 --> 00:31:28,159
here.

692
00:31:28,159 --> 00:31:30,720
Yeah, I really love, um, the prompt

693
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:34,080
question, um, that Dr. Lockett brought, and

694
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:36,080
you as well Sherry, and thank you for

695
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:38,960
having me it's always great, um, attending

696
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:41,679
and being partnered with AfroCROWD. Um

697
00:31:41,679 --> 00:31:44,080
and for me, I'm thinking, right? Like when

698
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:45,679
I think about Wikipedia and civil rights

699
00:31:45,679 --> 00:31:47,919
I think about the incredible potential

700
00:31:47,919 --> 00:31:49,600
of Wikimedia,

701
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:51,360
of Wikimedia projects in general but

702
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:53,919
more particularly Wikipedia, to help us

703
00:31:53,919 --> 00:31:56,080
dismantle these historical systems of

704
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:57,760
power and privilege that have been

705
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,640
historically and currently oppressing

706
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:03,279
us: Black, Indigenous, and people of color.

707
00:32:03,279 --> 00:32:05,919
Um, the minoritized majority of the world,

708
00:32:05,919 --> 00:32:10,799
right? And in an era where human rights

709
00:32:10,799 --> 00:32:12,640
include digital rights, and that you

710
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:15,440
can not only access the technology and

711
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:18,399
Internet but also, right, like, be the own

712
00:32:18,399 --> 00:32:20,080
writer of your

713
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:22,240
histories and stories, I think there's

714
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:26,000
this potential, um, there for us. Um,

715
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,799
I remember coming to the movement, uh, 10

716
00:32:28,799 --> 00:32:31,279
years ago and not seeing myself. Not

717
00:32:31,279 --> 00:32:33,679
seeing, uh, content that would

718
00:32:33,679 --> 00:32:35,120
represent me

719
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:37,279
um, as a Black woman from the global

720
00:32:37,279 --> 00:32:40,480
South. And how far we have come, right? Um

721
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:43,679
so I think we are slowly getting there

722
00:32:43,679 --> 00:32:45,919
but there's so much more to be done. And

723
00:32:45,919 --> 00:32:47,679
still, right, there's a reflection in the

724
00:32:47,679 --> 00:32:49,760
event last year, the Juneteenth event last

725
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:53,120
year, there were amazing examples, um, of

726
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:55,279
how far still we have to go

727
00:32:55,279 --> 00:32:58,240
to use this, um, platform, right? Like in

728
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:01,120
the potential transformation, to rewrite

729
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:03,519
um, the story that our colonizers wrote

730
00:33:03,519 --> 00:33:07,840
about us, right? Um, so just that, that what...

731
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,399
what... it is what comes to mind today and

732
00:33:10,399 --> 00:33:11,919
I think in terms of VisibleWikiWomen,

733
00:33:11,919 --> 00:33:13,760
Whose Knowledge does a lot

734
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:15,760
of bringing and centering, uh, the

735
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:17,840
knowledges of marginalized communities

736
00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:20,240
um, online when they want to be on

737
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,640
Wikipedia, right? Um, online is not

738
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:25,200
only Wikipedia but when they want, um, we

739
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:26,960
are here to support them. And we have

740
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:28,480
done, um

741
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:31,120
we have been running a campaign around

742
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:33,600
visibility. Women's visibility, not only

743
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:35,279
women's but

744
00:33:35,279 --> 00:33:37,360
non-binary and trans,

745
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:39,519
uh, folks visibility on Wikipedia because

746
00:33:39,519 --> 00:33:41,440
when we look at the number of articles,

747
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:44,000
and Rosie's here to tell us that, right?

748
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,960
Like we have the minority, around 20 percent

749
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:49,519
of biographies are of individuals that

750
00:33:49,519 --> 00:33:52,000
identify as women, but then when we look

751
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,399
at the number of images in those

752
00:33:54,399 --> 00:33:57,039
articles that percentage is even lower.

753
00:33:57,039 --> 00:33:59,200
So because we have so many great folks

754
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:01,919
already creating the articles we thought

755
00:34:01,919 --> 00:34:04,240
us as Whose Knowledge? would really

756
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:05,679
partner with a lot of folks that are

757
00:34:05,679 --> 00:34:07,440
here in the call today to bring

758
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:11,280
visibility um, to... to us. Black, Indigenous

759
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:12,480
and um

760
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:14,800
non-binary, trans folks, and people of

761
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:16,720
color in general that still have to be

762
00:34:16,720 --> 00:34:18,079
seen...

763
00:34:18,079 --> 00:34:18,839
and

764
00:34:18,839 --> 00:34:21,200
affirmed.
- Thank you so much for that good

765
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:24,320
work. And, and also you mentioned, um

766
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:27,839
Rosie who's here, um, from Women in Red

767
00:34:27,839 --> 00:34:30,960
who has been really a force, um, in

768
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:33,440
that same vein. Rosie, can you talk a

769
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:34,960
little bit about your response to the

770
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:37,520
prompt and, uh, maybe infuse that with

771
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:39,679
some of what Women in Red is doing in

772
00:34:39,679 --> 00:34:42,079
the BIPOC space, uh

773
00:34:42,079 --> 00:34:43,599
with women.

774
00:34:43,599 --> 00:34:46,000
- Yeah sure. Thanks Sherry for having me on

775
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:47,520
this panel.

776
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:48,720
So

777
00:34:48,720 --> 00:34:51,520
Women in Red, the organization, the

778
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:54,159
community that I co-founded

779
00:34:54,159 --> 00:34:54,960
in

780
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:57,599
2015 has had a focus

781
00:34:57,599 --> 00:34:58,480
on

782
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:02,000
missing women from Wikipedia.

783
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,560
And we have these very long lists of

784
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:06,720
women who we know to be notable but we

785
00:35:06,720 --> 00:35:09,119
don't have an article and this includes,

786
00:35:09,119 --> 00:35:10,480
every year,

787
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:13,920
that we work with you and with AfroCROWD

788
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,400
in the month of February

789
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:19,760
on, uh, Black women. But

790
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:23,599
in 2020 we extended that. We

791
00:35:23,599 --> 00:35:27,119
decided after doing the, uh, edit-a-thon

792
00:35:27,119 --> 00:35:30,160
event with you for Juneteenth that there

793
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:32,720
is so much more we can do than just one

794
00:35:32,720 --> 00:35:34,240
month of focus

795
00:35:34,240 --> 00:35:38,640
on um, the missing women for

796
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:41,359
that are Black women. That instead we

797
00:35:41,359 --> 00:35:43,520
would spend the rest of the year, July

798
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:46,880
through December 2020, focusing on women

799
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:48,320
of color,

800
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:51,440
anyone who self-identifies as a woman.

801
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:52,240
And

802
00:35:52,240 --> 00:35:54,560
as a result we've created,

803
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:57,119
the group created, about a hundred new

804
00:35:57,119 --> 00:36:00,400
articles and close to--
- Yay!

805
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:03,599
- Indeed. And close to a hundred new images

806
00:36:03,599 --> 00:36:06,880
were uploaded that, um, some of them could

807
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:10,000
be used in the articles and some were

808
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,320
women who still need to have an article

809
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:13,920
written about them.

810
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:16,880
Some of these articles were written so

811
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:19,280
well that they actually have appeared on

812
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,560
the main page of the English Wikipedia

813
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:26,079
in the "Did you know?" section. So bravo to

814
00:36:26,079 --> 00:36:29,520
all the editors, anonymous names, people

815
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:32,560
who I can't say who they are. But here

816
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:34,640
they are, and i hope they're watching

817
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:37,440
this session and understand how much we

818
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,880
need to collaborate, because no one here

819
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:43,599
alone on the panel can do all the work.

820
00:36:43,599 --> 00:36:46,960
We rely on all of those anonymous other

821
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:49,920
people to get involved and to see the

822
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:52,880
reason why we need to do this work and,

823
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:55,760
with us, learn how to do it better so

824
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:58,720
that, um, we change the narrative which

825
00:36:58,720 --> 00:37:00,000
society

826
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,480
has written in one way but doesn't

827
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:04,480
really reflect, um

828
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:08,800
reality, the truth of what, um

829
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:12,480
what we know has happened in history.

830
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:13,920
- Thank you.

831
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:16,160
And, um, you know, there are many groups

832
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:17,760
that...

833
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:19,839
AfroCROWD focuses on the African

834
00:37:19,839 --> 00:37:23,040
diaspora on Wikipedia and, um,

835
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,040
the Wikimedia movement in general, and

836
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,280
increasing knowledge about the wiki

837
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:29,920
movement in general to people of African

838
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:33,839
descent. Um, and also, uh, you know, we do a

839
00:37:33,839 --> 00:37:36,000
lot of collaboration. We're deep into

840
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:39,440
collaboration because, um, we know that

841
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:41,440
there are many people who

842
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:44,720
um, in different ways can, um,

843
00:37:44,720 --> 00:37:45,920
add, uh...

844
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:48,720
can either help others learn how to edit

845
00:37:48,720 --> 00:37:52,079
Wikipedia, um, and also encourage

846
00:37:52,079 --> 00:37:54,560
others to, uh, people of African descent

847
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:56,320
especially, as I mentioned it's below

848
00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:57,599
five percent,

849
00:37:57,599 --> 00:37:59,599
um, to be a part of the wiki movement in

850
00:37:59,599 --> 00:38:01,599
general. It can be kind of intimidating

851
00:38:01,599 --> 00:38:03,200
when you first come

852
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:04,400
to Wikipedia,

853
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:06,400
especially if you don't know how to edit,

854
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:07,280
um

855
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:09,520
and you may have something that you want

856
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:10,240
to

857
00:38:10,240 --> 00:38:11,119
um

858
00:38:11,119 --> 00:38:12,480
to

859
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:15,440
contribute but you're not sure how.

860
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:18,400
And so we work with a lot of

861
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:20,400
wikipedia coaches from throughout the

862
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:23,280
movement, no matter your background,

863
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:25,119
no matter...

864
00:38:25,119 --> 00:38:26,880
as long as you can you have something

865
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:28,640
that you can share with someone else in

866
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:31,599
the movement, we want to hear from you

867
00:38:31,599 --> 00:38:33,599
as we try and get more people

868
00:38:33,599 --> 00:38:35,359
um

869
00:38:35,359 --> 00:38:39,520
to, to participate. And, uh, not just on

870
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:42,160
on editing but in different ways as well.

871
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,400
Pete Forsyth is one of the

872
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:47,119
Wikipedia coaches who've been

873
00:38:47,119 --> 00:38:48,800
training other Wikipedia editors

874
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:51,280
throughout the movement. And I've been...

875
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:52,640
had the good fortune to partner with

876
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:55,520
him this year to focus on

877
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:58,800
editing newspapers, which are often used

878
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:01,839
as critical resources for

879
00:39:01,839 --> 00:39:03,839
editing notable content and reliable

880
00:39:03,839 --> 00:39:06,000
content on Wikipedia. But one thing

881
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:07,440
that's been

882
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,240
lacking is information about, for example,

883
00:39:10,240 --> 00:39:13,200
Black-owned newspapers,

884
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:15,920
newspapers um in regional areas like the

885
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:17,680
Caribbean, which is where we focused this

886
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:20,480
year, um, as well as local newspapers in

887
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:22,560
general. Pete, can you talk a little bit

888
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:24,960
about that? And if you could also infuse

889
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:28,480
that with where you see civil rights um

890
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:32,160
uh, landing in that work? Or if you

891
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:33,440
want to talk a little bit about your

892
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:35,440
response to the prompt.

893
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:37,280
- Sure, thanks Sherry

894
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:38,160
um

895
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:40,079
so, you know, I think, um

896
00:39:40,079 --> 00:39:40,880
just

897
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:43,359
also, kind of, uh, uh, leveraging off of

898
00:39:43,359 --> 00:39:45,040
what Rosie was just talking about. About

899
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:47,359
the, you know, the importance of how many

900
00:39:47,359 --> 00:39:49,040
stories there are to tell,

901
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:51,359
um, and how much really needs to be added

902
00:39:51,359 --> 00:39:53,200
to Wikipedia to start to bring things

903
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:54,839
into balance.

904
00:39:54,839 --> 00:39:58,800
Um, you know, I think a lot about uh

905
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:01,760
sort of the different roles that

906
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:04,480
I can or should have as a white person

907
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:06,480
uh, trying to be supportive of that

908
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:08,880
effort. Uh, but also how there are limits

909
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:10,560
to that, right? Because I can't tell the

910
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:12,000
story of

911
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,079
people that don't that I don't represent,

912
00:40:14,079 --> 00:40:15,359
that I don't have... that I don't share an

913
00:40:15,359 --> 00:40:17,599
experience with. And so I think the

914
00:40:17,599 --> 00:40:19,680
work that you're talking about, Sherry,

915
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:22,160
of bringing coaches in and constantly

916
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,400
having a focus on

917
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:26,000
helping people find on-ramps to

918
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,400
Wikipedia and figure out how to edit,

919
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:31,280
is really crucial to that work.

920
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:34,319
You know with the newspapers project,

921
00:40:34,319 --> 00:40:37,040
I think that's an area where

922
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:39,200
it--and also and I think the Women in Red

923
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:41,359
project is another one like this--where

924
00:40:41,359 --> 00:40:43,359
there's so much opportunity, regardless

925
00:40:43,359 --> 00:40:45,440
of your background, to just kind of fill

926
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:47,760
in the gaps. So we... like, just by making

927
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:49,760
sure that Black-owned newspapers have

928
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:51,920
reasonable coverage on Wikipedia, that

929
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:52,960
helps

930
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:55,200
anyone around the world understand that

931
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:57,200
that newspaper is a viable source for

932
00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:58,720
other materials. And that helps other

933
00:40:58,720 --> 00:41:01,440
people, in the long run, draw stories out

934
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:02,960
of something that was originally written

935
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:05,040
by Black people. So it's... it gets us a

936
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:06,560
little bit of a step away from white

937
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:07,599
people

938
00:41:07,599 --> 00:41:09,520
writing the story of Black people.

939
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:12,000
Um and, you know, I think that that kind

940
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:14,400
of work is always going to be a little

941
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:15,920
nuanced. There's always going to be some

942
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:18,880
kind of pitfalls where, um, you know, I

943
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:20,160
certainly have kind of gotten into

944
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:22,240
trouble sometimes where I try to write

945
00:41:22,240 --> 00:41:23,599
something that isn't really my story to

946
00:41:23,599 --> 00:41:25,200
tell but I see a gap and I want to fill

947
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:26,720
it and then you know I learned that I

948
00:41:26,720 --> 00:41:29,280
kind of got something wrong? Um,

949
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:32,160
and I think it's really only by

950
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:34,160
uh, being gracious to each other, getting

951
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:35,839
to know each other, and helping each

952
00:41:35,839 --> 00:41:37,920
other along the way that we can kind of

953
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:40,319
uh, correct those missteps as we... as we go

954
00:41:40,319 --> 00:41:41,440
forward and make sure that we're always

955
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:43,200
kind of making progress in the big

956
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:44,560
picture.

957
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:46,880
So uh, yeah. And I think another example I

958
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:48,640
just want to mention really briefly too

959
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:50,880
is a project I'm working on right now, uh

960
00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:52,960
which is called Architect Build Wiki

961
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:55,040
where we're working to

962
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:57,440
um help Black architects

963
00:41:57,440 --> 00:42:00,000
uh, write biographies of other Black

964
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:01,200
architects and the buildings that

965
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,119
they've they've built, and really trying

966
00:42:03,119 --> 00:42:05,760
to establish a model of um

967
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:06,880
of how

968
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:10,480
uh, Black professionals can, uh, can

969
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:12,079
organize among themselves to make sure

970
00:42:12,079 --> 00:42:13,280
that their stories are told well on

971
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:15,119
Wikipedia and also elsewhere. So i think

972
00:42:15,119 --> 00:42:16,720
there are you know many models for

973
00:42:16,720 --> 00:42:18,720
that kind of mutually supportive work.

974
00:42:18,720 --> 00:42:21,599
- That's really a lot of my work too. Um, I

975
00:42:21,599 --> 00:42:23,680
want to, um

976
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:24,720
kind of

977
00:42:24,720 --> 00:42:27,359
uh, really kind of build on what Pete is

978
00:42:27,359 --> 00:42:29,680
saying in terms of my own context. For

979
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:31,040
people who are interested in what that

980
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:32,560
might look like in an educational

981
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:33,920
context.

982
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:35,599
I systematically

983
00:42:35,599 --> 00:42:38,240
focus on Black women,

984
00:42:38,240 --> 00:42:40,480
notable Black women in my first year

985
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:42,480
classes at Spelman College, which is a

986
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:44,800
historically Black college for women.

987
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:47,920
It is one of two in the entire country.

988
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:49,599
Bennett is the other,

989
00:42:49,599 --> 00:42:52,400
in Greensboro, North Carolina.

990
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:55,599
And the reason why I wanted to follow up

991
00:42:55,599 --> 00:42:57,520
on what Pete said is because there's a

992
00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:00,240
whole politics of citation

993
00:43:00,240 --> 00:43:01,040
that

994
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:03,920
governs the way that people learn

995
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:07,440
how to build knowledge in general. So,

996
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:08,400
um

997
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:10,640
for example when we think "going into

998
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:13,119
history" we think "oh, I'm going to go to a

999
00:43:13,119 --> 00:43:15,359
database and type 'the one great man' and

1000
00:43:15,359 --> 00:43:17,359
'the one great time' and

1001
00:43:17,359 --> 00:43:19,839
and look for the mainstream sources". What

1002
00:43:19,839 --> 00:43:23,280
News on Wiki does so greatly, and it, uh,

1003
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:24,720
follows the practice--my very own

1004
00:43:24,720 --> 00:43:26,400
practice--which is when I introduce

1005
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:28,160
students to research, I introduce them to

1006
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:30,560
the Black historical papers databases

1007
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:32,640
because... and I, and I look up something

1008
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:36,079
really mainstream like "Watergate" or

1009
00:43:36,079 --> 00:43:38,240
"surveillance" or, you know, just to kind of

1010
00:43:38,240 --> 00:43:40,480
get them to see that when we change the

1011
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:43,280
source, we change the information, and

1012
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:45,760
a lot of them have never even thought to

1013
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:47,680
look at a historical Black paper to

1014
00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:49,280
build knowledge in an academic space

1015
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:50,480
before.

1016
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:52,560
So if that's going on in an academic

1017
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:54,160
space, think about how this affects

1018
00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:55,839
communities that are trying to recover

1019
00:43:55,839 --> 00:43:58,160
their herstories and histories all over

1020
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:01,359
the world. Um, and if it's not documented

1021
00:44:01,359 --> 00:44:03,359
in this particular way, what what it

1022
00:44:03,359 --> 00:44:05,280
highlights is that

1023
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:07,680
part of our work of civil rights has to

1024
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:09,680
be to acknowledge that Black and Brown

1025
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:11,520
people, but particularly, we have to look

1026
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:14,079
at the miraculous achievement of Black

1027
00:44:14,079 --> 00:44:17,119
people creating over 1,500

1028
00:44:17,119 --> 00:44:19,839
independent media during

1029
00:44:19,839 --> 00:44:22,960
uh, the long stretch from 18--well for

1030
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:26,160
Freedom's Journal in 1841 all the way to

1031
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:27,280
now.

1032
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:32,079
Um, how that whole enterprise of creating

1033
00:44:32,079 --> 00:44:34,400
the the sources, creating the,

1034
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:36,560
documenting the knowledge. I've long

1035
00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:39,359
joked and said "we need a Black Wikipedia"

1036
00:44:39,359 --> 00:44:42,240
because it's... it's... it's in and of itself

1037
00:44:42,240 --> 00:44:45,000
so robust and so complex and so

1038
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:47,280
representationally nuanced

1039
00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:50,640
that it requires a News on Wiki to...

1040
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:53,280
to respond. But I did put some links in

1041
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:56,640
um, the resources page and also in the

1042
00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:59,119
chat if you really want to sort of look

1043
00:44:59,119 --> 00:44:59,760
at

1044
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:02,319
how I organize that, or how I integrate

1045
00:45:02,319 --> 00:45:03,760
that, into the teaching. There's a whole

1046
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:06,240
lot of abundant resources there. So, um

1047
00:45:06,240 --> 00:45:07,920
that'll-I know we're running out of time--

1048
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:09,440
so that'll be the last thing that I say,

1049
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:11,359
but i did want to plug my,

1050
00:45:11,359 --> 00:45:13,280
my teaching in that area if you are

1051
00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:15,520
interested in teaching. I know I don't do

1052
00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:17,599
a whole lot with Women in Red, but we're

1053
00:45:17,599 --> 00:45:19,359
going to start trying to

1054
00:45:19,359 --> 00:45:21,040
make sure that what we're doing at

1055
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:23,920
Spelman is more documented in that area.

1056
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:26,000
We put a couple names on there but not...

1057
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:27,680
not too many. We kind of

1058
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:31,520
work in our own community, but, um, anyway

1059
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:34,319
thanks a lot Sherry for inviting, um

1060
00:45:34,319 --> 00:45:36,079
inviting me. Because like I said that'll

1061
00:45:36,079 --> 00:45:38,319
be about the last thing I can say here

1062
00:45:38,319 --> 00:45:40,319
and I appreciate the rest of the panels

1063
00:45:40,319 --> 00:45:42,400
perspectives and audience perspectives

1064
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:44,160
as well.

1065
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:46,560
- And we appreciate you! We appreciate you.

1066
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:48,000
Thank you so much.

1067
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:50,640
Um, next we have, uh

1068
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:53,040
Laurie Bridges, and I want to say

1069
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:55,440
something about Laurie. Laurie, um, has

1070
00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:58,800
been doing some really great stuff um

1071
00:45:58,800 --> 00:45:59,680
uh

1072
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:02,079
throughout her time with the movement and

1073
00:46:02,079 --> 00:46:04,400
with AfroCROWD. Um, but we had a chance

1074
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:07,119
to meet at an event just like this

1075
00:46:07,119 --> 00:46:09,920
um, in... all the way in Spain

1076
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:13,520
and then that continued on um, uh to

1077
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:15,280
spill over into our projects that we've

1078
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:17,440
done together. So this event today,

1079
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:19,359
Wikimania, is a great time to meet some

1080
00:46:19,359 --> 00:46:22,079
awesome people. Laurie, please tell us about

1081
00:46:22,079 --> 00:46:25,040
what you've been up to in this space. Um

1082
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:27,680
uh, uh, Olushola Olaniyan of Wikimedia

1083
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:29,920
Nigeria couldn't be here to sort of show

1084
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:32,480
another part of what Laurie's story is, but

1085
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:33,520
um

1086
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:35,920
we'd love to hear your answer to the

1087
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:38,720
prompt as well as, um, you know, what

1088
00:46:38,720 --> 00:46:41,359
you've been, uh, doing. Laurie?

1089
00:46:41,359 --> 00:46:43,119
- Great, thank you Sherry for all your work

1090
00:46:43,119 --> 00:46:45,040
and everything you do. And Sherry didn't

1091
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:47,520
mention but we actually shared a room--

1092
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:48,960
- Yes [laughing]

1093
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:50,720
- And we didn't know we were roommates
- Roommates

1094
00:46:50,720 --> 00:46:52,720
- and I just opened the door and said "Sherry?"

1095
00:46:52,720 --> 00:46:54,319
when she came to the door. So that was

1096
00:46:54,319 --> 00:46:55,119
great.

1097
00:46:55,119 --> 00:46:56,640
Um [laughing]

1098
00:46:56,640 --> 00:46:59,119
So, as Sherry said, my name is Laurie and

1099
00:46:59,119 --> 00:47:04,319
I'm a librarian in Oregon. And in 2018

1100
00:47:04,319 --> 00:47:06,640
another librarian and an archivist and

1101
00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:09,359
myself decided we wanted to do an

1102
00:47:09,359 --> 00:47:12,319
edit-a-thon. And we wanted to focus on

1103
00:47:12,319 --> 00:47:14,720
Black history in Oregon

1104
00:47:14,720 --> 00:47:17,200
and just to give you some statistics

1105
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:19,599
really quickly is that in the U.S., uh

1106
00:47:19,599 --> 00:47:21,680
roughly 13 percent

1107
00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:24,800
of folks identify as Black, but in Oregon

1108
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:26,880
it's only two percent.

1109
00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:29,599
So the history is

1110
00:47:29,599 --> 00:47:31,920
smaller, it's very marginalized, and I

1111
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:33,920
became aware of this when I first moved

1112
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:36,319
to Oregon about 20 years ago, so it's

1113
00:47:36,319 --> 00:47:38,480
been on my mind since then.

1114
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:40,800
Um, we decided to do an edit-a-thon.

1115
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:42,240
We are on the west coast and it seems

1116
00:47:42,240 --> 00:47:44,079
like a lot of edit-a-thon activities

1117
00:47:44,079 --> 00:47:46,480
happen on the east coast, and so we

1118
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:48,480
honestly had never been to one and we

1119
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:51,760
didn't know how to host one. So, um, we

1120
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:53,680
reached out to some librarians we

1121
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:56,000
reached out to the Facebook Wikimedia

1122
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:57,839
Plus Libraries group

1123
00:47:57,839 --> 00:48:00,559
and on Twitter, and the overwhelming

1124
00:48:00,559 --> 00:48:04,240
response was "partner with AfroCROWD".

1125
00:48:04,240 --> 00:48:06,160
So I reached out to Sherry, and Sherry

1126
00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:07,760
immediately

1127
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:11,119
was so helpful and trained us and let us...

1128
00:48:11,119 --> 00:48:12,800
you know held our hand through the first

1129
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:15,599
edit-a-thon and has always been such a

1130
00:48:15,599 --> 00:48:17,280
great support.

1131
00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:19,839
Um, and we've now hosted three

1132
00:48:19,839 --> 00:48:21,359
edit-a-thons.

1133
00:48:21,359 --> 00:48:22,160
But,

1134
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:24,160
for that first one when we were getting

1135
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:24,960
near

1136
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:27,119
the date,

1137
00:48:27,119 --> 00:48:29,040
um, I mentioned that I had connections in

1138
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:31,200
Nigeria because I'm a member of the

1139
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:33,760
International Federation of Libraries

1140
00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:36,800
and Associations, and we have a sister

1141
00:48:36,800 --> 00:48:39,040
library relationship with an academic

1142
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:41,760
agricultural college in Nigeria, it's

1143
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:43,040
Abeokuta.

1144
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:45,359
And I mentioned it, and then

1145
00:48:45,359 --> 00:48:48,240
Sherry's enthusiasm was "let's ask them to

1146
00:48:48,240 --> 00:48:50,079
participate as well".

1147
00:48:50,079 --> 00:48:52,240
So that same year

1148
00:48:52,240 --> 00:48:55,839
the library in Nigeria participated, and

1149
00:48:55,839 --> 00:48:58,880
they focused on articles about

1150
00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:01,920
Nigerian-American history. And so, um, they had

1151
00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:05,040
several trainings, um, and we used that

1152
00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:07,680
here and they used us there to help

1153
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:09,359
promote each other by saying, you know, in

1154
00:49:09,359 --> 00:49:12,960
"Nigeria they're writing"... um and they used

1155
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:14,319
it here... we have a sister library

1156
00:49:14,319 --> 00:49:15,599
relationship and it really helped build

1157
00:49:15,599 --> 00:49:17,839
a lot of enthusiasm.

1158
00:49:17,839 --> 00:49:20,640
And this past year we added a second

1159
00:49:20,640 --> 00:49:23,040
edit-a-thon which was, uh, focused on

1160
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:24,559
women in STEM

1161
00:49:24,559 --> 00:49:26,880
which, uh, Sherry and AfroCROWD partnered

1162
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:28,839
with us as well, and we worked with

1163
00:49:28,839 --> 00:49:33,520
Stanford, and we just had a lot of, um,

1164
00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:36,400
new participation in that one and all

1165
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:38,079
previous ones. So we just want to thank

1166
00:49:38,079 --> 00:49:39,200
Sherry. And...

1167
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:41,440
and it's so important in my mind, as I

1168
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:43,520
said in my free write, to

1169
00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:44,720
reveal

1170
00:49:44,720 --> 00:49:47,359
histories that are left out by omission.

1171
00:49:47,359 --> 00:49:49,839
And I think in Oregon that's definitely

1172
00:49:49,839 --> 00:49:52,960
the case, most Oregonians don't know

1173
00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:54,720
the history [laughing] of Oregon, which is quite

1174
00:49:54,720 --> 00:49:56,800
fascinating, and it's a unique history

1175
00:49:56,800 --> 00:49:58,720
compared to much of the country,

1176
00:49:58,720 --> 00:50:01,040
so that's what we focus on in our

1177
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:03,599
edit-a-thons.

1178
00:50:03,599 --> 00:50:06,240
- Thank you so much Laurie! And I'm so glad

1179
00:50:06,240 --> 00:50:08,079
that you were able to go into a little bit

1180
00:50:08,079 --> 00:50:10,079
about the experience working with

1181
00:50:10,079 --> 00:50:12,240
Nigeria and people from different

1182
00:50:12,240 --> 00:50:13,280
countries.

1183
00:50:13,280 --> 00:50:14,720
Like I said, we met in a different

1184
00:50:14,720 --> 00:50:18,480
country, and um, but we have this resource

1185
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:20,400
online that connects us

1186
00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:23,280
um, so no boundaries are necessary. Just,

1187
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:24,960
you know, the boundaries of sleep because

1188
00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:27,920
I can't be getting up at 4am for... anyway

1189
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:28,800
um

1190
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:31,599
I won't go there, but uh, but we... we

1191
00:50:31,599 --> 00:50:34,079
definitely have less boundaries in some

1192
00:50:34,079 --> 00:50:36,319
ways because of our virtual connection.

1193
00:50:36,319 --> 00:50:38,160
And one way I connected virtually with

1194
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:40,720
someone was with Euphemia Uwandu

1195
00:50:40,720 --> 00:50:44,480
and she is the, um, the person who

1196
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:46,160
connected with me

1197
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:49,280
um about someone else on this panel, uh

1198
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:51,760
who i'll also introduce, about something

1199
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:52,800
that is really exciting

1200
00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:54,480
called WikiVibrance.

1201
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:57,119
Um, and what I loved is that this Black

1202
00:50:57,119 --> 00:50:58,720
woman [laughing]

1203
00:50:58,720 --> 00:51:01,359
just was, uh who, who contacted me from, uh

1204
00:51:01,359 --> 00:51:03,680
Nigeria, out of the blue, was like "you know

1205
00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:06,640
we're gonna work together", and that's it

1206
00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:08,480
you know, "and also I want to meet your

1207
00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:09,920
friend"

1208
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:12,559
and she's so young and uh, you know,

1209
00:51:12,559 --> 00:51:15,119
vibrant, and a really good look for the

1210
00:51:15,119 --> 00:51:17,200
movement that she's already doing so

1211
00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:21,040
much. Um, I had the pleasure of, um

1212
00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:22,640
connecting with her during Wikimania as

1213
00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:24,720
well, uh, Euphemia, please tell us a little

1214
00:51:24,720 --> 00:51:26,960
bit about how you see civil rights from

1215
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:30,800
your perspective, um, and Wikipedia,

1216
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:32,160
as well as a little bit about Wiki

1217
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:34,559
Vibrance

1218
00:51:34,559 --> 00:51:37,280
- Thank you so much, Sherry, um, I'm happy to

1219
00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:39,520
have [microphone cuts out]

1220
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:41,200
discussions

1221
00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:42,319
and um

1222
00:51:42,319 --> 00:51:45,359
well [microphone cuts out] was very [microphone cuts out]

1223
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:47,359
very short period of

1224
00:51:47,359 --> 00:51:50,240
time and how to contact Brandon and all

1225
00:51:50,240 --> 00:51:51,200
of that.

1226
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:53,599
It was something that really, um, popped

1227
00:51:53,599 --> 00:51:55,119
up very late.

1228
00:51:55,119 --> 00:51:58,319
And the motivation behind it was that, um

1229
00:51:58,319 --> 00:52:01,520
and Wikimedia movement

1230
00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:04,079
is one unique organization where you

1231
00:52:04,079 --> 00:52:06,720
have young people that are scattered in

1232
00:52:06,720 --> 00:52:09,119
almost every region of the world. And

1233
00:52:09,119 --> 00:52:11,760
that gives us an age as young people to

1234
00:52:11,760 --> 00:52:15,359
be empowered to, um, show what their

1235
00:52:15,359 --> 00:52:17,760
potentials are and all of that.

1236
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:18,400
But

1237
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:20,800
notwithstanding all this advantage, we

1238
00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:22,800
still find that that in some communities

1239
00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:24,640
in the Wikimedia movement, sometimes

1240
00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:26,400
young people don't feel like this space

1241
00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:27,520
is for us.

1242
00:52:27,520 --> 00:52:28,880
Sometimes they feel like some

1243
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:31,440
communities do have some rights, um, over

1244
00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:33,680
them. Sometimes they feel like they don't

1245
00:52:33,680 --> 00:52:36,079
have what it takes to function very well

1246
00:52:36,079 --> 00:52:39,280
in the community. And, um, I think having

1247
00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:41,599
the, um, WikiVibrance was also an

1248
00:52:41,599 --> 00:52:43,440
opportunity for us to get to hear from

1249
00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:45,440
these young people to know how they feel

1250
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:48,000
about the movement, how they see it, and

1251
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:50,559
how they, um, maybe... probably the kind of

1252
00:52:50,559 --> 00:52:53,119
help or assistance they can further have

1253
00:52:53,119 --> 00:52:55,200
to do well in what they need to do in

1254
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:56,640
the movement.

1255
00:52:56,640 --> 00:52:58,640
And, um, if you look at

1256
00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:01,119
some of the, um, communities, um, in the

1257
00:53:01,119 --> 00:53:03,440
Wikimedia movement, young people are

1258
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:05,040
already doing amazing things. Some of

1259
00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:06,800
them are leading campaigns and leading

1260
00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:08,640
projects and doing what they need to do

1261
00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:10,480
to advance open knowledge.

1262
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:11,359
But,

1263
00:53:11,359 --> 00:53:13,440
inasmuch as they can do all these

1264
00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:16,400
things, I'll just refer to Mother

1265
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:18,319
Teresa's quote about

1266
00:53:18,319 --> 00:53:20,240
um, "there's always something I can do, and

1267
00:53:20,240 --> 00:53:22,079
there's always something that you can do,

1268
00:53:22,079 --> 00:53:24,000
and together we can do great things". And

1269
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:27,359
I begin to imagine the kind of synergy

1270
00:53:27,359 --> 00:53:29,359
that young people can bring,

1271
00:53:29,359 --> 00:53:31,760
coming together from diverse communities

1272
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:33,200
to mobilize

1273
00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:35,440
the whole community to join them on

1274
00:53:35,440 --> 00:53:37,839
every International Youth Day to do one

1275
00:53:37,839 --> 00:53:39,200
thing or the other,

1276
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:41,040
to make it fun for them, and most

1277
00:53:41,040 --> 00:53:43,280
importantly to celebrate and recognize

1278
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:45,040
them for the work they are doing.

1279
00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:48,079
And um, it's also a way for us to improve

1280
00:53:48,079 --> 00:53:50,880
a lot of context, because International

1281
00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:53,200
Youth Day is one celebration that dwells

1282
00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:54,800
on it on different

1283
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:57,839
themes every year, so it's opportunity to

1284
00:53:57,839 --> 00:54:00,559
call everybody inasmuch as it might

1285
00:54:00,559 --> 00:54:02,880
not be your area of interest, to come and

1286
00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:05,040
join everybody to see that this content

1287
00:54:05,040 --> 00:54:07,440
that might have some level of gap will

1288
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:10,240
be improved. And for this year for

1289
00:54:10,240 --> 00:54:12,640
example we we did very something very

1290
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:15,280
special where we had to go on social

1291
00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:17,280
media to talk about people's first

1292
00:54:17,280 --> 00:54:20,079
article, what drew them to Wikipedia, what

1293
00:54:20,079 --> 00:54:22,319
is the attraction like, what was their

1294
00:54:22,319 --> 00:54:24,480
experience writing this first article,

1295
00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:26,640
and they were so happy, going back to

1296
00:54:26,640 --> 00:54:28,880
look at some of the work they did as

1297
00:54:28,880 --> 00:54:31,200
people who joined newly, and some of the

1298
00:54:31,200 --> 00:54:33,040
work they are doing now. And probably it

1299
00:54:33,040 --> 00:54:34,640
sets a place for them where they are

1300
00:54:34,640 --> 00:54:36,960
going to see themselves in the future, so...

1301
00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:39,440
And, um, it's also something we hope to

1302
00:54:39,440 --> 00:54:42,480
make, uh... that we hope to do to ensure that

1303
00:54:42,480 --> 00:54:45,839
this, um, WikiVibrance is very fun. Some

1304
00:54:45,839 --> 00:54:48,240
young people see it as, you know, um

1305
00:54:48,240 --> 00:54:50,000
something that will be very fun for them.

1306
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:52,960
So we don't want to, um, just limit it to

1307
00:54:52,960 --> 00:54:55,440
one type of thing. We want to do

1308
00:54:55,440 --> 00:54:57,839
something new, something different every

1309
00:54:57,839 --> 00:55:01,760
year and i really thank--
- And you are!

1310
00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:04,319
- Sherry and the WikiCaribbean community for their

1311
00:55:04,319 --> 00:55:07,359
support, I thank Brandon, and um it was

1312
00:55:07,359 --> 00:55:08,880
very

1313
00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:11,040
amazing hearing these young people and

1314
00:55:11,040 --> 00:55:12,240
what they think.

1315
00:55:12,240 --> 00:55:13,599
Thank you.

1316
00:55:13,599 --> 00:55:16,720
- Thank you so much, Euphemia! It's... it's...

1317
00:55:16,720 --> 00:55:18,160
I'm sure we all look forward to seeing

1318
00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:20,559
what WikiVibrance does. And thank you

1319
00:55:20,559 --> 00:55:22,799
also for mentioning Brandon and

1320
00:55:22,799 --> 00:55:25,520
WikiCaribbean. You know, um, I am a lead

1321
00:55:25,520 --> 00:55:27,760
organizer of WikiCaribbean and Brandon

1322
00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:30,480
is our dynamic communications lead who

1323
00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:32,839
has been doing so much already in the

1324
00:55:32,839 --> 00:55:35,839
movement. And um, uh

1325
00:55:35,839 --> 00:55:38,559
Euphemia was so taken by Brandon in

1326
00:55:38,559 --> 00:55:40,319
another group, she's like "how do I get in

1327
00:55:40,319 --> 00:55:42,400
touch with your friend Brandon?" and I was

1328
00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:44,799
like, "well, here we are!

1329
00:55:44,799 --> 00:55:46,319
go for it!" [laughing]

1330
00:55:46,319 --> 00:55:48,799
you know? But also I got to be in the mix

1331
00:55:48,799 --> 00:55:52,319
too, because, you know, middle person. [laughing]

1332
00:55:52,319 --> 00:55:54,079
So Brandon, please tell us a little bit

1333
00:55:54,079 --> 00:55:56,720
about what your perspective on Wiki...

1334
00:55:56,720 --> 00:55:59,040
Wikipedia and civil rights, and also a

1335
00:55:59,040 --> 00:56:01,520
little bit about, um, your experience with

1336
00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:03,920
um, things like WikiVibrance,

1337
00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:06,720
WikiCaribbean, and AfroCROWD, etcetera.

1338
00:56:06,720 --> 00:56:09,920
- Absolutely, um--
- As a young person in the movement.

1339
00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:12,079
- Absolutely, absolutely. Um, yeah, so, you

1340
00:56:12,079 --> 00:56:15,440
know, being young is also like something

1341
00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:17,839
that sits at the heart of my

1342
00:56:17,839 --> 00:56:20,559
um, you know, more of the work that I

1343
00:56:20,559 --> 00:56:23,280
help to do on Wikimedia and you know

1344
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:25,200
across different projects.

1345
00:56:25,200 --> 00:56:27,359
Um, chiefly of course with Wikimedians of

1346
00:56:27,359 --> 00:56:29,119
the Caribbean. As we stand right now, we're

1347
00:56:29,119 --> 00:56:31,760
working primarily on building and, um,

1348
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:34,480
ensuring the capacity across the

1349
00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:36,319
Caribbean. And I think it's crucial

1350
00:56:36,319 --> 00:56:37,760
especially because

1351
00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:39,440
as it stands right now we're having this

1352
00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:41,440
conversation about civil rights,

1353
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:42,960
but then there's also that broader

1354
00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:44,880
conversation about you know historical

1355
00:56:44,880 --> 00:56:46,880
contexts that are completely outside of

1356
00:56:46,880 --> 00:56:49,200
the remit of a lot of people's scope,

1357
00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:50,799
chiefly because of the fact that these

1358
00:56:50,799 --> 00:56:52,559
things are not being reflected on

1359
00:56:52,559 --> 00:56:55,520
platforms like Wikipedia, for instance.

1360
00:56:55,520 --> 00:56:58,319
Which is, in my opinion, one of the

1361
00:56:58,319 --> 00:57:00,400
cornerstones, or is perhaps the anchor,

1362
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:02,400
some might agree with,

1363
00:57:02,400 --> 00:57:06,000
um, of online knowledge. Of course being

1364
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:08,000
young, of course and being a digital

1365
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:10,720
native, it also means that there is some

1366
00:57:10,720 --> 00:57:13,520
some very, you know, unique, um

1367
00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:15,599
cross-fertilization that can occur there. And

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something that, you know, us at WikiCari

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have been focusing on,

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engaging with, um, educational, um, you know

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organizations, for instance working with

1372
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universities, and so many other

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activations that we've really seen just

1374
00:57:30,160 --> 00:57:31,520
some really

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um, fantastic movement in that regard.

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And uh you know of course I could go on

1377
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and on about this but, you know, I think

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what's what's really important and

1379
00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:42,000
something that I'm really heartened by

1380
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is seeing how young people, through

1381
00:57:44,559 --> 00:57:46,480
activations like WikiVibrance, do the

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work that AfroCROWD does through all

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00:57:48,559 --> 00:57:50,000
the different universities around the

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00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:52,079
world that are focusing not just on

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reflecting the record of human knowledge

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and Wikipedia, but chiefly that of Black,

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Indigenous, and people of color. And it

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really makes me super excited to see

1389
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where the movement goes in the future

1390
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and I'm absolutely thrilled to be a part

1391
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of that, as well. Thank you.

1392
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- Look at that! We did it!

1393
00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:11,760
We did it! It was a weird start, but we... we

1394
00:58:11,760 --> 00:58:13,280
got something out of this. I hope that

1395
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the audience has, I certainly have just

1396
00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:17,119
being a part of this discussion.

1397
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Thank you, Whose Knowledge? Thank you, um

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WikiVibrance, thank you News on Wiki

1399
00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:23,440
thank you

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um

1401
00:58:24,240 --> 00:58:27,599
uh, Laurie, can I say University... Oregon State

1402
00:58:27,599 --> 00:58:30,480
University, thank you Spelman [laughing] for sharing

1403
00:58:30,480 --> 00:58:33,920
your people with us in the movement. Um

1404
00:58:33,920 --> 00:58:36,559
uh, we have a resource that we hope that

1405
00:58:36,559 --> 00:58:38,160
the audience will be able to use. I hope

1406
00:58:38,160 --> 00:58:39,839
Colin you've been able to get that to

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00:58:39,839 --> 00:58:43,520
the people. Um, but, uh, if you want to

1408
00:58:43,520 --> 00:58:45,839
connect with any of us, all of our

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information, uh, well our Twitter

1410
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information, so you can slide into the

1411
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DMs [laughing]

1412
00:58:50,799 --> 00:58:52,400
um, just mention this conference

1413
00:58:52,400 --> 00:58:53,599
obviously

1414
00:58:53,599 --> 00:58:56,000
don't get weird [laughing]

1415
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is available to you so we can keep the

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00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:00,400
conversation going! Um

1417
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on September... the week of September 6,

1418
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keep your eye out for the WikiCariFest

1419
00:59:04,480 --> 00:59:06,960
by the way, which will be another

1420
00:59:06,960 --> 00:59:09,680
discussion focused with the Caribbean.

1421
00:59:09,680 --> 00:59:11,920
Uh go to AfroCROWD.org if you want to

1422
00:59:11,920 --> 00:59:13,440
connect with us on our mailing list or

1423
00:59:13,440 --> 00:59:15,520
to see what's going on there.

1424
00:59:15,520 --> 00:59:17,520
We have about a minute for anybody who

1425
00:59:17,520 --> 00:59:18,720
wants to

1426
00:59:18,720 --> 00:59:20,799
shout out any event that you're coming

1427
00:59:20,799 --> 00:59:22,640
up on that the audience can join you

1428
00:59:22,640 --> 00:59:24,720
with, but of course, let's keep the

1429
00:59:24,720 --> 00:59:26,640
conversation going through

1430
00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:29,760
our resource and um

1431
00:59:29,760 --> 00:59:31,440
I'm trying to think of a great way to

1432
00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:34,000
end this... but uh, yeah I promised a moment

1433
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:35,359
for you to share, so if you have something

1434
00:59:35,359 --> 00:59:36,720
to share please share it now. You've got

1435
00:59:36,720 --> 00:59:39,599
like 60 seconds.

1436
00:59:40,720 --> 00:59:43,359
Okay so go to AfroCROWD.org
- Hold on

1437
00:59:43,359 --> 00:59:47,760
- If any of them tell me of something then i'll add it
- Really quick, Sherry, sorry

1438
00:59:47,760 --> 00:59:49,839
If they want to network or connect or be on a list or

1439
00:59:49,839 --> 00:59:50,720
like

1440
00:59:50,720 --> 00:59:53,520
maybe they could add their, um, preferred

1441
00:59:53,520 --> 00:59:58,079
contact method on the Etherpad

1442
00:59:58,559 --> 01:00:01,040
- Okay everybody wave! Bye guys! Thank you

1443
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so much

1444
01:00:03,920 --> 01:00:06,640
- Thank you so much
- Bye