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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:
- WikiProjects:
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 | |
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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 Library — Oxford Food Symposium/British Library | Lead Trainer |
27 Jan 2018 | AfroCROWD UK workshop at Afrotech Fest 2018 | Lead Trainer |
10 Nov 2017 | Women and Food editathon at British Library — Oxford 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 College — The Wellcome WiR/Royal Society of Chemistry/Biochemical Society | Trainer |
28 Apr 2017 | Women and Food editathon at British Library — Oxford 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 |
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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 |
Articles started (incomplete)
Full list: https://xtools.wmflabs.org/pages/en.wikipedia.org/MassiveEartha/all#0
- Paraffection, Chanel subsidiary
- Incorporated Society of London Fashion Designers
- Rudi Patterson Jamaican born British actor and painter.
- Armet Francis Jamaican British photographer and publisher.
- Pearl Alcock Jamaican British painter, best known as an Outsider artist.
- Claudette Johnson British artist
- Ras Daniel Heartman Jamaican artist (stub)
- Rita Keegan American-born artist
- Stella Dadzie British educationalist, author and activist
- Ajamu X British artist and activist
- Dora Dean American dancer and entertainer
- Black Ink Collective publisher
- 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning London based arts organisation and gallery
- Joy Gregory British artist
- Eweka II Oba of Benin
- Flavia Irwin British artist
- Barbara Walker (artist) British artist
- Mary Sturge British doctor
- Malika Booker British writer and poet
- Cyrus Bustill African American baker and abolitionist
- Robert Douglass, Jr. African American artist and abolitionist
- Inua Ellams poet and playwright
- Chineke! Orchestra British orchestra
- Altheia Jones-LeCointe Trinidadian political activist and scientist
- Alfred Fagon Jamaican born British playwright
- Jill Norman British publisher
- Anne Marie Becraft African American nun and educator
- Peter Oliver (theatre director) Welsh theatre director
- Jhalak Prize British literary prize
- Emancipation Park (Kingston, Jamaica) urban park
- Barry Beckham African American playwright and academic
- Keith Baird Bajan African American linguist and educator
Tools and resources
Stats
- latest stats on English Wikipedia
- As of Wednesday, 21 August 2024, 18:18 (UTC), The English Wikipedia has 47,846,956 registered users, 113,251 active editors, and 855 administrators. Together we have made 1,236,770,039 edits, created 61,289,058 pages of all kinds and created 6,870,686 articles.
- Wikimedia statistics https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/#/en.wikipedia.org
- What Gender is Wikipedia?
- English Wikipedia at a glance December 2018
- WiViVi - Wikipedia pageviews, percentage to language (documentation)
- Active editors by country
Edit counters
- StalkToy https://meta.toolforge.org/stalktoy/
- View global details about a user across all Wikimedia wikis
- XTools Edit Counter https://xtools.wmflabs.org/ec
Tools
- Wikimedia Resource Center
- Find link - for wikilinks
- Wiki URL Shortener
- External link search
- WikiWash - "Track Wikipedia edits in real time"
- WikiBlame - "find the authors of good, questionable or even dangerous (e.g., copyrighted) passages of an article"
- Page history
- reFill, fixes bare URL's.
- Earwig's Copyvio Detector, detects copyright violations
- Who Wrote That?, a browser extension, which displays authorship information directly on Wikipedia articles.
- Cross-wiki linksearch searches various Wikimedia projects for a specific link
- redirect tool Wikipedia:How to make a redirect
- Wikipedia:Redirect in Manual od Style
Visualizations
- Listen to Wikipedia by Hatnote
- Recent Changes map by Hatnote
- visualizations built on Wikipedia data, curated by Hatnote
- WikiStream
- Listen to Wikipedia
- Gender gap on Wikidata and Wikipedia
Recent Changes
- Wikipedia recent changes live
- EN Wikipedia gallery of new files
- Commons upload log
User and User Page tips
Creating an account
What to put on your User Pages
- Create your user page (Including and put stuff on it)
- Customise your User Page
- FRWP Minimum wage userbox https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod%C3%A8le:Utilisateur_SMIC
- Userpage disclaimers
- User page design center
- add user info - adds an information line below a user's name on their user and talk pages (but not subpages). Namely, this information is gender, privileges, account age, edit count, and how long ago the user made his/her last edit.
Finding your pages
- Special:PrefixIndex Special prefix index
Other useful tips
Welcome templates
Tips for writing biographies on Wikipedia
- Tips for writing biographies
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Biographies
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Assessment
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
- How to cite archival holdings
- Wikimedia and the new collaborative digital archives (2011) by Dominic McDevitt-Parks, National Archives and Records Administration
- Wikipedia:GLAM/The_National_Archives/Image_requests
To sort - needs to be updated
- Best practices for Librarians, Archivists and Cultural Professionals who want to link to collections on Wikipedia, The Wikipedia Library
- Template:Library resources box
- Wikipedia Loves Libraries
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Museums/Guideline
- Connected Open Heritage - Preserving cultural heritage at risk online, and giving people easy access to it
- 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
- UK Duration of copyright (excluding Crown copyright) - The National Archives UK
- UK Duration of Crown copyright for literary, dramatic and artistic works - The National Archives UK
- USA Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States - Cornell University
- How to find images for your articles, check their copyright, upload them, and restore them, Signpost, August 2023
in no particular order!
- Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia
- Interwikimedia links
- Wikipedia citation tool for Google Books http://reftag.appspot.com/
- New York Times Wikipedia reference generator http://reftag.appspot.com/nytweb.py
- DOI reference generator http://reftag.appspot.com/doiweb.py
- How to copyedit Guild of Copy Editors
- Identifying reliable sources
- Category:Wikipedia sources
- citation templates
- New Pages Feed
- Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup/Verifiability and sources
- Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia
- Wikidata:In one page
on deletions
Recognition for volunteers
Writing about women and non-binary people
- WiR essay Ten Simple Rules for Creating Women's Biographies
- Wikipedia:Writing about women
- Gender Neutral Language
- WikiProject LGBT studies - Guidelines - How to write about transgender and non-binary people
- WiR essay Primer for creating women's biographies
- Manual of Style: gender identity
- Name:
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]
- 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]
Projects
- Women's Classical Committee - resources
- Wikipedia @ 20 to be published in print by the MIT Press in Fall 2020
- Noircir Wikipédia weekly meet up notes FRWP
Notability
Miscellany
- List of lists of lists
- Lists of lists of women
- Lists of colours
- lamest edit wars
- Lupe Hernández hand sanitizer legend
Interesting articles about west Africa
- Royal titles of Yoruba monarchs
- Uli (design) Igbo design tradition
Americas
- Revolt of the Lash 1910 naval mutiny in Rio de Janerio