"Nothing about us without us" - I was familiar with the phrase, but I wasn't aware of its origins in Central Europe, Nihil de nobis, sine nobis.
via Amy Carleton at #WikiConferenceNA
@iramjohn.bsky.social
@iramjohn.bsky.social"Nothing about us without us" - I was familiar with the phrase, but I wasn't aware of its origins in Central Europe, Nihil de nobis, sine nobis.
via Amy Carleton at #WikiConferenceNA
@iramjohn.bsky.socialBET (Paramount) took 190k articles offline? WTAF? This erasure of Black history was a terrible act of vandalism!
Via Mark Graham at #WikiConferenceNA (Internet Archive was able to reconstruct over 170k of them.)
@iramjohn.bsky.socialStacy Allison-Cassin’s keynote at #WikiConferenceNA was an amazing look into how the way that filters like language and your relationship to a culture affects the way things are represented (both on Wikipedia and elsewhere in the world).
@iramjohn.bsky.socialJere Odell’s presentation about men standing comfortably on “the linoleum floor” on Wikipedia while women in similar positions struggle to break the glass ceiling was an interesting addition to the debate.
@openhistoricalmap.orgExcited to be at #WCNA #WikiConferenceNA in Edmonton this weekend. Find Minh (mxn) to hear about how OpenHistoricalMap can be a partner to #Wikipedia in the campaign against #recentism in the digital humanities.
@ohm.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gyExcited to be at #WikiConferenceNA in Edmonton this weekend. Find @mxn to hear about how OpenHistoricalMap can be a partner to #Wikipedia in the campaign against #recentism in the digital humanities.
@iramjohn.bsky.social"Editing Wikipedia is not a crime - freedom for Osama Khalid"
Osama Khalid has been imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for editing Wikipedia since 2020.
@ameliasbrain.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gyRE: https://glammr.us/@carkner/117326997415949909
Welcome Wikipedians! If you're looking for local goings-on or tips, the #YEG hashtag is busier than the #Edmonton one.