AfroCROWD is excited to partner with NYU Los Angeles and Young Enertainmend Activists (YEA) to hold a series of Wikipedia edit-a-thons this November with three online classes at NYU LA.
First are holding a general Training Session - October 14th, 10 - 11 AM PDT/ 1-2PM EDT: open to all NYU LA students and AfroCROWDers as members of the public. This online event will cover the basics of Wikipedia and get you started.
Click here to register for sessions (you can sign up for more than one) . edit
Once you have registered, please check your email for information on how to join the event on Zoom.
Next, join us for an entire week in the month of November where we will dive in to topics featured in NYU LA classes, all touching on the contributions and histories of Black and Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC). We can't wait!
Take a look at the training shedule below, and peruse this page from time for some editing ideas. All Wikipedia sessions are open to the public through AfroCROWD.
In-Class Online Training Sessions with AfroCROWD edit
Please sign up for the sessions through the registration link:
Tuesday, November 3rd, 12.15 - 2.15 PM (PDT) Class: Performing Race: The Renaissance and Now Professor’s Name: Sam Kolodezh Course Objective: “Focus on racial others such as Jews, Moors, and Egyptians or “Gypsies,” while examining how early moderns thought about and defined race within their own historical and social context. This course will focus primarily on texts by Shakespeare, Montaigne, John Webster, John Fletcher, Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, Matthieu Chapman, Kim Hall, and others.”
Wednesday, November 4th, 12.15 - 1.45 PM (PDT) Class: Radical Figures Professor’s Name: Erin Mizrahi Course Objective: "What makes an individual or an idea “radical”? How have our definitions of what’s radical changed over time? The term itself is bound up with social expectations and limitations. As radical often refers to something that breaks with the norm, what do these thinkers, figures, and texts speak against? What are they challenging? Who is threatened by these figures? Beginning with Antigone and Medusa we will trace a path of radical figures and movements leading us to the present day and movements like Black Lives Matter. The texts and figures we will study this semester have offered us new ways of seeing, new directions and new ways of processing the world." "
Thursday, November, 5th, 12.15 - 2.15 PM (PDT) Class: Black American Exilic Cultures: Postwar Los Angeles, Paris, and Rome Professor’s Name: Melanie Masterton Sherazi Course Objective: “This course will explore interrelated contexts of postwar Black exile and expatriation in cultural works produced in and about three major metropoles: Los Angeles, Paris, and Rome. We will begin by examining the state of being in exile in one’s own country in the context of the Second Great Migration, wherein Black Americans moved en masse to Los Angeles during World War II to flee racial terror and in search of wartime employment. In the years following World War II, an unprecedented number of Black American writers, artists, and intellectuals moved to Paris and to Rome, seeking greater personal liberties and a refuge from racial discrimination at home.”
- Please adhere to the Wikimedia Friendly Space Policy for all activities (https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Friendly_space_policy*).
Partners edit
- Young Entertainment Activists
- New York University Los Angeles
- News On Wiki NOW
- Wikimedians of the Caribbean
Tools and templates edit
- AfroCROWD Wikimedia Tutorials: Learn to edit with us!
- Wikipedia Template:Infobox person
- Adding images to your entry, a tutorial ; video here; AfroCROWD tutorial on addimg images to Wikipedia
Ideas for editing/ contrbutions edit
- Add images to infoboxes
- Add this image in some way where this text is: "The following day, standing on the balcony of Galveston's Ashton Villa, Granger read aloud the contents of "General Order No. 3", announcing the total emancipation of those held as slaves" - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ashton_Villa_Galveston_Texas.jpg*
- Make a simple English article?
- Commons gallery and category
- Classification of more images to Juneteenth
- Books and other media about Juneteenth
- Improve Tulsa_race_massacre which occurred on Juneteenth
- Women in Red's meetup page for creating or improving articles related to Black Women, which includes lists of suggested articles.
For further inspiration edit
See also:
== Resources ==*
These resources are from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, with whom we partnered for our Black Life Matters editathon previously.
These magazines are from Google Books magazine collection. Please link directly to these resources when citing.