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North American Wikimedians/Indigenous North American issues team

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The North American region has many dispersed indigenous people and languages. The North American Hub can sponsor a multinational team to support addressing issues regarding content about these folks and relevant topics on-wiki. The team can create events and partnerships, file easily for small-project funding, and look at on-wiki topics related to Inuit, First Nations, Métis and Native Americans (hereafter referred to as Indigenous or Indigenous peoples) across the continent.

By teaming up we can help address certain intrinsic problems: Indigenous languages are "small", dispersed, and many are considered at risk by UNESCO; Indigenous peoples are split across countries, political boundaries and jurisdictions that may not match their own geographies or preferred administration; Indigenous peoples are at some disadvantage regarding good computer/wiki or internet access; many of the Indigenous histories are passed down orally and not written (or written from a colonizer's point of view), both of which create friction with policies such as reliable sources and neutral point of view; Indigenous groups often lack sufficient resources and know-how to address persistent on-wiki disputes; most on-wiki editors are not well-educated on Indigenous matters (e.g. identities, organizations, jurisdictions and legislations). There is past success in addressing particular areas with dispersed editorship with WikiProjects, but they tend to be on particular wikis. Several North American hub organizers think this topic area in particular would benefit from a better-supported explicitly international, multilingual network. This could help reduce isolation (from information, and from one another) that make it harder to do a good job on-wiki and reach consensus on topical matters.

Collaboration hours

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Our University of Maryland iSchool partners will host weekly-ish collaboration hours to collaborate and talk about Wikidata and Indigenous American content, methods, and projects. We don't have a very specific agenda. Let's meet one another, and share techniques and projects. We can work quietly too. We can expect a Hub to exist eventually and to support specific projects more formally.

We hold meetings on most Fridays, at 3pm Eastern Time. We meet here: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92219319931

Organizational partners for events and projects

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News items

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Interested people

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Freely sign up as an interested person, including if you wish contact info (e.g. home wiki) and topics of interest or expertise relevant to the potential team.

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