diversity and inclusion in wikipedia

Diversity and Inclusion in InformationA Working Wikipedia Session

Noreen Y. Whysel, COO, Decision Fishnwhysel@gmail.comWikipedia User:nwhysel

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Session Overview⬜Inclusion in Information⬜Wikipedia Diversity Programs⬜Wikipedia Conduct Policies⬜Core Content Policies⬜Be Bold!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_policies#Conduct

Inclusion in Information⬜Newspaper ownership⬜Bias in academic research⬜Disparity in positions of authority⬜Number of editors within a given group⬜Translating articles from one Wikipedia

language site to another.

Projects, initiatives, user groups

⬜ AfroCROWD⬜ Art+Community⬜ Art+Feminism⬜ Black WikiHistory Month⬜ Black Lunch Table⬜ Black Women Intelligentsia⬜ Indigenous Film & Media⬜ Indigenous Storytellers WikiThon⬜ Smithsonian APA Asian Pacific American⬜Wiki Loves Pride⬜ wikiD: Women. Wikipedia. Design.⬜Women in Red⬜Writing Middle Eastern Women into History Initiative (WMWH)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup#Projects.2C_initiatives.2C_user_groups

WikiProject Women in Red

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red

⬜Redlinks are pages that have not been created.

⬜If a woman’s name is linked and she does not have a Wikipedia page yet, the link will be red.

⬜The objective of WikiProject Women in Red is to turn Redlinks into Blue Links.

Art + Feminism⬜Less than 10% of contributors to Wikipedia

identify as female.⬜Our main purpose is to contribute and

amend meaningful content to the Wikipedia. ⬜All gender identities and expressions

welcome.

http://www.artandfeminism.org

AfroCROWD

http://www.afrocrowd.org

⬜Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia (AfroCROWD) seeks to increase the number of people of African Descent who actively partake in the Wikimedia and free knowledge, culture and software movements.

Wiki Loves Pride⬜Supported by Wikimedia LGBT+,

a user group that promotes the development of content on Wikimedia projects which is of interest to LGBT+ communities.⬜Activities usually in June and

September.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Loves_Pride

Refugees 2016⬜In May 2016 the Wikimedia DC Chapter held an

editathon on issues affecting refugees worldwide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Refugees2016

Her Girl Friday / Lenny Letter⬜Women Journos Unconference and Editathon, a

Her Girl Friday Tackles the Gender Gap: The Wikipedia Editing Brunch event co-sponsored by Her Girl Friday and Lenny Letter, January 28, 2017, New York.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/2017-01_HGF_Lenny

Projects in Vancouver⬜ Indigenous Storytellers WikiThon (April 4, 2017 @ UBC) :

Theme: Indigenous storytellers, specifically those working in film and theatre and situated in the country known as Canada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Indigenous_Storytellers_WikiThon

⬜ Art + Feminism (March 18, 2017 @ Belkin Art Gallery, UBC & March 19, 2017 @ Western Front Society): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Vancouver/ArtAndFeminism_2017

⬜ Local Women in Science (September 21, 2016 @ UBC, SFU, BCIT): Theme: Local Women in Science, specifically, female scientists at BCIT, SFU, and UBC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Vancouver/LocalWomeninSciencey

Neutral point of view – All Wikipedia articles and other encyclopedic content must be written from a neutral point of view, representing significant views fairly, proportionately and without bias.

Basic Rules: Core Content Policies

Be aware of the difference between a neutral point of view and a common understanding, which may reflect structural or institutional bias.

No original research – Wikipedia does not publish original thought: all material in Wikipedia must be attributable to a reliable, published source. Articles may not contain any new analysis or synthesis of published material that serves to advance a position not clearly advanced by the sources.

BASIC RULES: CORE CONTENT POLICIES

If a topic is little known or studied in academic institutions, it may be difficult to find sources to point to. For example, if you want to create an article about an endangered indigenous language, where would you find secondary sources?

Verifiability – Material challenged or likely to be challenged, and all quotations, must be attributed to a reliable, published source. In Wikipedia, verifiability means that people reading and editing the encyclopedia can check that information comes from a reliable source.

How would you find a reliable source? Journal articles on the subject with DOI link. Texts written by researchers at academic programs. “Mainstream media.” Avoid primary sources. What do you do if the source you use is challenged?

BASIC RULES: NOTABILITY

What if notability guidelines reproduce structural sexism and racism? How can we address and amend this?

Basic Rules: Core Content Policy

Notability is a test used by editors to decide if a given topic warrants its own article. If a topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed to be suitable for a stand-alone article or list. If no reliable, third-party sources can be found on a topic, it will not be given a separate article.

Basic Rules: Core Content Policy

H.W. Janson’s History of Art

● Seminal reference work● Published in 1962● Hundreds of artists

profiled● Only 27 female artists● Zero female artists

were included before the 1980s

Biographies of Living Persons: Articles about living persons, which require a degree of sensitivity, must adhere strictly to Wikipedia's content policies. Be very firm about high-quality references, particularly about details of personal lives.

“Unsourced or poorly sourced contentious material—whether negative, positive, or just questionable—about living (or sometimes recently deceased) persons should be removed immediately and without discussion from Wikipedia articles, talk pages, user pages, and project space."

If you think you have a Conflict Of Interest (COI), don’t create the article, post that someone else should create it on a related talk page.

Basic Rules: Conflict of Interest

Content Guidelines...or how to avoid rejection or reversion⬜Cite sources⬜Do not create hoaxes⬜No full text of primary sources⬜Identify reliable sources⬜No plagiarism⬜No patent nonsense

Wikipedia Conduct Policies

⬜Civility⬜Clean start⬜Consensus⬜Dispute resolution⬜Edit warring⬜Editing policy

⬜Harassment⬜No personal attack

s⬜Ownership of articl

es⬜Sock puppetry⬜Username policy⬜Vandalism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_policies#Conduct

Wikipedia Conduct Policies

⬜Code of Conduct⬜Safer Spaces⬜Child Care⬜Focus on collaborative editing⬜Access for the disabled

Creating a Gender PerspectiveThe Women You Have Never Met project offers guidelines for sensitivity to gendered point of view.⬜Titles: Avoid using a married name in a title,

if the person is known by their maiden name.⬜Relationships: Avoid describing a female

subject in relation to her spouse or father (“wife of”, “daughter of”) in the lead paragraph.

⬜Description: Avoid referencing a subject’s gender, race or sexuality if it is irrelevant to their importances as a subject (“woman scientist” or “female author”)

https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Women_You_Have_Never_Met #How_to_edit_including_the_gender_perspective_in_Wikipedia.3F

Creating a Gender Perspective

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hélène_Langevin-Joliot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irène_Joliot-Curie

• Post a question on the talk page of another Wikipedia User's talk page.

• Ask a question to the Wikipedia Teahouse question board.

• Resolving disputes; Wikipedia:Dispute resolution, Wikipedia:Etiquette, Wikipedia:Staying cool when the editing gets hot.

• Email info@art.plusfeminism.org with specific Wikipedia editing questions if you can't find what you need on Wikipedia

Asking for Help and Resolving Disputes

• Wikipedia is highly democratic. Anyone can edit any page. This can create challenges in developing an authentic and neutral point of view.

• Even information from reliable sources can be contentious (Fake News, intersectionality)

• Who speaks for the subject? Whose “neutral point of view” is most authentic? Must an authentic article equal an “authentic point of view”?

Challenge: Establishing Authenticity

• Wikimedia ProjectsWikidataWikimedia

CommonsWikisourceWikiquotes

Wikipedia features and tools for organizing information include:

• Categories• Infoboxes• Portals• WikiProjects• WikiTools

ReasonatorListeriaBotPetScan

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