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Event:WAH Episode 43 - De-colonising knowledge on Wikipedia
WAH Episode 43 - De-colonising knowledge on Wikipedia
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16:00, 26 February 2025 to 17:30, 26 February 2025
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WikiAfrica Hour is a monthly live discussion that supports the activities of the WikiAfrica movement and Wikimedians across Africa.
WikiAfrica Hour's intention is to: Share current updates and highlights of African Wikimedian activities Interact with guest(s) (if any), and take questions from community members Promote synergy within the Wiki community by discussing topics, projects, constraints, collaborations, and opportunities.
Description
[edit]What do we mean by decolonising knowledge? Why is it important to document that on Wikimedia projects? What are the main settled projects inside (and even outside) Wikimedia concerning this topic? How can we improve these existing initiatives and encourage others to start documenting? All these questions and beyond are going to be answered by guests who are experienced in this topic.
Guest Host
[edit]- Achal Prabhala: a public health activist who works against medicine monopolies in India, Brazil and South Africa. Formerly, he spent several years working against copyright monopolies, as well as supporting new models of open knowledge and scholarship. As a former Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board member (2006-2018), he worked closely inside the Wikimedia movement, and in 2011, initiated a project around oral citations, addressing one of the challenges facing Wikipedia.
Guests
[edit]- Iolanda Pensa: a wikipedian and researcher. She has been contributing to Wikipedia since 2006, she organized in 2016 “Wikimania Esino Lario”, she is chair of the Wikimania Steering Committee, former chair and now national coordinator for GLAMs of Wikimedia Italia, scientific director of WikiAfrica from 2007 until 2011 and co-founder of Wiki in Africa. Leader of De-colonising knowledge on wikipedia in Switzerland.
- Asuru Lutherking Petercan: a research assistant in architectural history and heritage preservation. Advocating for free knowledge in Nigeria, advocating for policy change and creating awareness in the built environment and beyond about heritage and historic architectural archives, contributing to open source platforms, training more professionals to contribute and also starting an architectural heritage community to join in the contribution of Heritage architecture and GLAM related knowledge in Nigeria.
- Sandra Schmitt Soster: Sandra Soster is the GLAM and Culture Manager of Wiki Movimento Brasil since 2022. She holds a PhD degree of Architecture and Urbanism by University of São Paulo (USP).
- Chantal Edie Ntube: an artist whose art representation extends beyond her visual practice as a photographer and writer. Chantal has a BSC in History, a Masters I in Political Sciences, and an HND in HSC from Reading in the UK. Co-creator of once upon a time symposium in Yaounde Cameroon.