User:MassiveEartha

About me

Affiliations

  • Founding Organiser, AfroCROWD UK
  • Chapter Lead, Creative Commons UK
  • member of and volunteer lead trainer for Wikimedia UK chapter
  • member of Wikimedia Foundation Project Grants Committee
  • User Group memberships:
    • AfroCROWD User Group
    • Art + Feminism User Groups
    • Wikimedia and Libraries User Group
    • Wikimedians of the Caribbean User Group
    • WikiWomen's User Group

Awards and honors

2017 UK Wikimedian of the Year (joint award with Ewan McAndrew)

Events

Wikimedia events I've attended or taken part in.

Training delivered

Description Role
23 - 24 May 2021 Editathon with Noircri Wikipedia at the Clinch Festival 2021, Hanover dashboard Co-trainer
19 May 2021 Bodies and Art editathon, University of East London dashboard Lead
30 November 2020 Women at Work editathon - Royal Society of Sculptors dashboard Lead
10 November 2020 Diversithon Berlin 2020, Berlin Institute of Health Lead
7 July 2020 "The Middle East in Global Politics", SOAS Summer School. Lead
20 April 2020 Wikipedia and Archives: an introduction for archivists - with Jo Pugh User:Mr impossible Lead
1 December 2019 Festival Of Minds and Bodies, Wellcome Collection Trainer
6 November 2019 Diversithon Berlin 2019, Berlin Institute of Health Trainer
6 July 2019 The Middle East in Global Politics, SOAS Summer School Lead
6 June 2019 Rediscovering the Women of Royal Holloway and Bedford, Royal Holloway, University of London Trainer
30 March 2019 Black Lives in England 1500-1800 - AfroCROWD editathon, Institute of Historical Research, University of London Trainer
20-21 Nov 2018 Daylighting Wikimedia 101 — Wellcome Collection Trainer
24 Oct 2018 Black History Month editathon — Lambeth Libraries at Streatham Library, London Trainer
20 Sep 2018 #WCCWiki workshop — Women's Classical Committee at Department of Greek and Latin, UCL Trainer
8 Jun 2018 Women in Medicine Wikithon — Wellcome Library Trainer
23 May 2018 Women and Food editathon at British LibraryOxford Food Symposium/British Library

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Lead Trainer
27 Jan 2018 AfroCROWD UK workshop at Afrotech Fest 2018 Lead Trainer
10 Nov 2017 Women and Food editathon at British LibraryOxford Food Symposium/British Library Lead Trainer
23 Sep 2017 Documenting Lambeth: Wikipedia Workshop at Minet Library/Lambeth Archives — Lambeth Heritage Festival Lead Trainer
9 Sep 2017 Documenting Lambeth: Wikipedia Photo Walk at Minet Library/Lambeth Archives — Lambeth Heritage Festival Lead Trainer
25 Aug 2017 Battle of Lewisham workshop at Deptford Library — Lewisham Libraries Lead Trainer
31 Jul 2017 Workshop for librarians at Clapham Library (part 2) — Lambeth Libraries Lead Trainer
24 Jul 2017 Workshop for librarians at Clapham Library (part 1) — Lambeth Libraries Lead Trainer
7 Jul 2017 Food & Cookery wikithon at St. Catherine's College, Oxford Univeristy — Oxford Food Symposium Trainer
9 Jun 2017 Women in Science Wiki-workshop at Northwood CollegeThe Wellcome WiR/Royal Society of Chemistry/Biochemical Society Trainer
28 Apr 2017 Women and Food editathon at British LibraryOxford Food Symposium/British Library Trainer
5 Mar 2017 Art & Feminism editathon at the Royal Academy — Royal Academy of Arts Lead Trainer
23 Jan 2017 Women in Classical Studies editathon at Senate House — Institute of Classical Studies/Women's Classical Committee pics Lead Trainer
- Disordered and Reconsidered Edit-a-thon at 198 Gallery Lead Trainer

Presentations and conferences

date role description
23 Apr 2021 guest speaker Masterclass 1, Wikimedia en Wikipedia - Wikimediatraining Suriname en het Caribisch Gebied, Wikimedia Netherlands
1 Apr 2021 speaker Public Engagement & Outreach with Alice White - Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Network in Open Knowledge, St Andrews University
20 Mar 2021 presenter Editing it ourselves – knowledge equity and the Wikimedia community, Recording it Ourselves
3 Feb 2020 presenter Empowering Theme panel at Empower your Collections: creating dynamic and relevant museums* conference, Museums Association, Nottingham
8 Nov 2019 presenter Restitution and Return of African Cultural Heritage: a role for Wikimedians? lightning talk at Wiki Indaba 2019, Abuja, Nigeria
18 Sep 2019 presenter Cultural Heritage and Open Access panel, Barbican, London
14 - 18 Aug, 2019 participant Wikimania 2019, Stockholm (pre-conference learning days)
28 Jun 2019 attendee Methodologies for teaching Ancient History with Wikipedia seminar by Juliana Bastos Marques, University of Rio de Janeiro, in the Digital Classics seminar series, University of London, London
4 Jun 2019 presenter “Digital Heritage in the University History Curriculum: Opportunities and Challenges” panel at Heritage Dot conference, Lincoln University
10 May 2019 presenter A “radical practise of sharing”?: working towards knowledge equity in African-heritage communities in London", CC Global Summit 2019, Lisbon, Portugal
22 Feb 2019 presenter "What do we mean by open? Ethics and equity in digital archives", Digital and the Archive - Gerald Aylmer Seminar, The National Archives, London
12 Feb 2019 presenter Ethics and Digital History panel at Digital History Seminar series, Institute of Historical Research, University of London
Jan 2019 participant AfroCROWD Global Summit at Brooklyn Central Library, New York
2019 committee Program advisory committee/Ethics track team CC Global Summit 2019, Lisbon, Portugal
23 Sep 2018 presenter Digitising Africa In The Dancehall: a Wikipedia intervention, Decolonise The Archive at the Africa Centre, London
Jul 2018 presenter AfroCROWD: expanding into the African Diaspora at Wikimania 2018, South Africa
Jul 2018 panel Centering Knowledge from the Margins: A Whose Knowledge? discussion at Wikimania 2018, South Africa
Jul 2018 delegate Wikimania 2018 - Cape Town, South Africa
Jul 2018 delegate Decolonise the Internet conference - Cape Town, South Africa
Jul 2018 delegate Celtic Knot Conference 2018/Cynhadledd Cwlwm Celtaidd 2018 at National Library of Wales/Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, Aberystwyth
23 May 2018 presenter An Afterlife for Community Archives?: Wikipedia and the Commons at Digital Archives in Communities: practice and preservation at the University of Sussex, Falmer
26 May 2018 panel Tech Dystopia/Utopia with Henna Zarmurda-Butt, Marcus Gilroy Ware and Yen Ooi at Bare Lit Festival 2018, Deptford, London
21 Apr 2018 roundtable Transmitting and Archiving Memories of Igbo Communities with Nathan Richards and Ego Ahaiwe-Sowkinski at The 7th Annual International Igbo Conference 2018: Memory, Culture and Community, SOAS, London
3 Feb 2018 delegate The Future of Wikipedia with Katherine Maher at NewspeakHouse/WMUK, London
2018 committee Wikimania 2018, Cape Town
2018 committee Program advisory committee/GLAM track team - Creative Commons Summit 2018, Toronto
Oct 2017 panel Where are we? - Representation and women missing from public life at FiLia (Feminism in London conference), London
Aug 2017 presenter [lightning talk] Wikidata - documenting the Transatlantic Slave Trade at Wikiconference North America 2017 (etherpad)
Aug 2017 delegate Wikiconference North America 2017 - Montreal, Canada
Aug 2017 delegate Wikimania 2017 - Montreal, Canada
15 Jul 2017 participant Wikimedia UK AGM 2017 and Training the Trainers refresher
30 Jun 2017 presenter [keynote] Representations of Blackness in Open Knowledge Systems at Digital Blackness: culture, theory & technology in the network ecology conference, University of Sussex
16 May 2017 participant Editing women: Reflections on the Birkbeck International Women’s Day Wikipedia edit-a-thon at Birkbeck College
8 Apr 2017 training Wikidata Training: Tools, queries and uploads (WMUK)
20 Feb 2017 participant Wikimedia UK Education Summit with Middlesex University/WMUK
8 Dec 2016 participant BBC 100 Women editathon at Broadcasting House, BBC/WMUK
24 Sep 2016 participant WMUK Education Meetup
25 Aug 2016 participant British Liberal History editathon at the National Liberal Club/WMUK
30-31 Jul 2016 training Train the Trainers 2016, WMUK
26 Oct 2012 participant Black History Month Editathon at Equiano Centre, UCL/WMUK pics

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Language matters...

  • S. Spencer-Thomas, Language Matters: Why We Don't Say "Committed Suicide" June 2018,
  • P. Gabrielle Foreman, et al. “Writing about Slavery/Teaching About Slavery: This Might Help” community-sourced document,(CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
  • Words Matter: An Unfinished Guide to Word Choices in the Cultural Sector [EN] / Woorden doen er toe : Een incomplete gids voor woordkeuze binnen de culturele sector [NL]. Compiled by the National Museum of World Cultures (Tropenmuseum, Afrika Museum, Museum Volkenkunde, Wereldmuseum)
  • Media Wiki - Inclusive Language https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Inclusive_language

Footnotes

Libraries, archives and museums

Archives

To sort - needs to be updated

  • Connected Open Heritage/Get Involved/Volunteer Tasks 2017
  • Connected Open Heritage, 2017 European GLAMwiki Coordinators meeting
  • Critical issues presentations/How You and the Rest of the Wikimedia Movement Can Help Preserve the World’s Cultural Heritage – or How to Beat the Deadline - Wikimania 2016, Esino Lario, Italy
  • The Impact of Open Access on Galleries, Libraries, Museums, & Archives by Effie Kapsalis, Smithsonian Emerging Leaders Development Program
  • Share Your Knowledge, Wikimedia Commons
  • How I learned to stop worrying and love Wikipedia, publiclibrariesnews.com

On copyright

in no particular order!

on deletions

Recognition for volunteers

Writing about women and non-binary people

Writing about enslaved people and enslavers

  • 1865 Alexandria, VA, at Convention of the Colored People of Virginia delegated decided to replace the word 'masters' with 'former oppressors'
http://coloredconventions.org/items/show/272
  • "Wm. E. Walker, of Petersburg, desired that there should be a correction made where the expression in the address read--"our former masters." He moved that the word "masters" be stricken out and the words "our former oppressors" be substituted therefor. The amendment was adopted."
  • P. Gabrielle Foreman, et al. “Writing about Slavery/Teaching About Slavery: This Might Help” CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A4TEdDgYslX-hlKezLodMIM71My3KTN0zxRv0IQTOQs/edit
  • NB: "This document uses “community-sourced” instead of “crowdsourced” to acknowledge the ways in which the connotation of “crowd” has been historically racialized, as P. Gabrielle Foreman points out. The term is also more accurate; an online community contributed to this document and its multiple intervention.
  • Why Language Matters [UK, 2007]
  • http://www.understandingslavery.com/index.php-option=com_content&view=article&id=57_use-of-language&catid=37&Itemid=92.html
  • Words Matter [NL, 2018]
https://www.materialculture.nl/en/publications/words-matter
  • Although I note, this document doesn't address terminology associated with enslavers.
  • "De l’esclave à l’esclavisé" [FR, 2019]
https://www.anacaona.fr/blog/esclave-esclavise-evolution-langage-racisme-slave-enslaved/

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Interesting articles about west Africa

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