Black WikiHistory Month
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Annual campaign
Black WikiHistory Month is a wiki-coordinated program of article writing, image/picture creating, events and edit-a-thons focused on Black history in the United States and worldwide, working with WikiProject African diaspora and related projects. In February 2015 BHM was being celebrated for the first time in the USA in association with the United States' Black History Month.
February 2016
- Please add your upcoming events to the February 2016 events section and images and outcomes from those events!
United States:
- Baltimore, MD - African American Artists at the Baltimore Museum of Art (Saturday, February 13, 2016)
- Cambridge, MA - Writing Black History @ MIT Libraries (Friday, January 29, 2016)
- Charlotte, NC:
- Black Lunch Table @ McColl Center 1 (Thursday, February 4, 2016)
- Black Lunch Table @ McColl Center 2 (Thursday, February 11, 2016)
- Black Lunch Table @ McColl Center 3 (Thursday, February 18, 2016)
- Black Lunch Table @ McColl Center 4 (Thursday, February 25, 2016)
- Los Angeles, CA - Black History Matters @ Oviatt Library, CSU Northridge (Wednesday, February 24, 2016)
- New York City, NY - Black Life Matters Wikipedia Edit-a-thon AfroCROWD @ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (Saturday, February 6, 2016)
- Nashville, TN - Our Story Matters Wikipedia Edit-a-thon @ Nashville Public Library (Saturday, February 13, 2016)
- Omaha, NE - Black History Month @ Do Space (Saturday, February 20, 2016)
- South Bend, IN - Notre Dame Black Lives Matter Wikipedia Edit-a-thon (Wednesday, February 24, 2016)
- Washington, DC:
- Black History Month First Edit at NPR (Friday, February 12, 2016)
- African American Artists @ Smithsonian American Art Museum (Saturday, February 20, 2016)
- Howard University Black History Month Edit-a-Thon (Friday, February 26, 2016)
United Kingdom
- London - Black Cultural Archives (Saturday, February 13, 2016) on-line collaborators welcome
Worldwide
- Virtual editathon on Black Women's History (Monday, February 1 for two weeks), open to all
February 2015
United States:
- New York City - "Black WikiHistory Month Weekend NYC"
- Black Life Matters Editathon @ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (Feb 7)
- AfroCROWD editathon @ Brooklyn Public Library (Feb 7 12:30 -3PM & Feb 8 1 - 3:30 PM) (AfroCROWD meta project)
- Nashville - Our Story Matters Editathon @ Nashville Public Library (Feb 7)
- Westchester County, New York, Black Life Matters Edit-a-thon @ Purchase College Library, Purchase College, SUNY (Feb. 7, 12pm-5pm)
- Washington DC
- Howard University (Feb 19)
- NPR Black History Month (Feb 24)
- African Americans in STEM @ Office of Science and Technology Policy (Feb 24)
Related editathons
United States
Since February 2015, Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/AfroCrowd has pursued a monthly series of editathons.
Other events in past years:
- Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/EOB/Unforgetting 7
- Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Africa Collection Editathon
- Wikipedia:Meetup/University of Delaware/April 2014 Colored Conventions
- Wikipedia:Meetup/Chicago 5
Europe
- In common with other parts of the United Kingdom, Black History Month BHM is celebrated in October. BHM was first celebrated by the Wikimedian community on 26th October 2012 at an event organised by Wikimedia UK and the Equiano Centre, University College London.
Resources for Organizers
- Help:Cheatsheet
- "Learning to work with Wikipedia: New Pages Patrol and how to create new Wikipedia articles that will stick" by Adrianne Wadewitz. HASTAC.
- Hour-long Wikipedia editing tutorial by FemTechNet.
- Wikipedia:Training/For students is a good intro to editing.
Account creation
Wikipedia has a limit on the number of accounts that can be created in a day at one IP address. Encourage attendees of your event to register on Wikipedia prior to coming. Reach out to an administrator via the artandfeminism-organizegooglegroups.com email list to get Account Creator permissions prior to your event.
Press
- Cassano, Jay. "Black History Matters so why is Wikipedia Missing so Much of it." FastCompany. January 29, 2015.
- Solis, Gustavo. "Schomburg Center Hosts Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon for Articles on Black Culture." DNAInfo. January 30, 2015.
- Gebreyes, Rahel. "Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon Reinforces The Value Of Digitizing Black History," Huffington Post Blackvoices. February 2, 2015.
- Lewis, Taylor. "Wikipedia Is Getting a Lesson in Black History." Essence.com
- Smith, Jada F. (February 19, 2015). "Howard University Fills in Wikipedia’s Gaps in Black History". The New York Times.
- "For Blacks, New Afrocrowd Initiative Offers Opportunity to Tell Stories." Our Time Press.
- "Can ‘Black Wikipedia’ Take Off Like ‘Black Twitter’?" ColorLines.
- Black Digital Empowerment Through AfroCROWD workshops," Black Star News.
- AfroCrowd: The Black Wikipedia For People of African Descent
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Getting ready to edit Black British History
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Pair editing at BHM 2012
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Being introduced to commons-based peer production
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