wikipedia as a new cultural battlefield
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Iolanda Pensa, Wikipedia as a new cultural battlefield. Swiss Researching Africa Days, Bern, 16/10/2014.TRANSCRIPT
Artwork: © Yinka Shonibare, Scramble for Africa, 2000 in Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora. Commissioned by and courtesy Museum for African Art NY.
Wikipedia as a new cultural battlefield. Swiss Researching Africa Days, Bern, 17/10/2014. Iolanda Pensa - SUPSI University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland
Marc Augé’s non-placesAchille Mbembe’s borders
Jean-Loup Amselle’s connections Homi K. Bhabha’s location of culture
Arjun Appadurai’s cultural dimensions of globalizationSaskia Sassen’s global city
Yochai Benkler’s networked social production and open collaboration
Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams’s Wikinomics
Maja van der Velden’s contact zone on Wikipedia
Mathieu O’Neil’s cyberchiefs
Heather Ford’s missing Wikipedians
Sarat Maharaj’s art and knowledge production
Tirdad Zolghadr’s approach to art and exhibitions
Steven Weber’s open source production
V.Y. Mudimbe’s invention of Africa
Michel Foucault’s power and knowledge
Edward Said’s Orientalism
Mark Graham’s Africa on Wikipedia
Frantz Fanon’s colonial violence and weight
We need to rewrite history Rasheed Araeen
Representations of Africa
Africa in public domain content (-early XX century) uploaded on Wikipedia
Self-representation
Sources
Licenses
Restitution
Sharing knowledge and problematic content which it is not easy to share (art from secret societies, human remains, content not contextualized…)
Dissemination of academic knowledge
Reaching the public
Background knowledgeHistoriography
Oral sourcesAvailability of sources
Access to sourcesAccess to data
Languages
Colonial and post-colonial archives
NichePower Control
Research ethics
Relationships with institutions and governmentsAcademic credits
Intercultural dialogueContemporary society
Geographic dynamics
HistoryGeographyAnthropology
Culture
AuthorshipInternet
Mobile phonesICTConnectivity
© Information Architects, Web Trand Map 2007/V2, 2007.
Wikipedia as a new continent, participating with a growing role in shaping culture and local cultures, and contributing to cultural processes.
Distribution of offline Wikipedia on DVD, USB key and in classrooms. Credits: Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa.
Wikipedia Zero. Access to Wikipedia on mobile phones for free.
Correcting a mistake on Wikipedia. DensityDesign Research Lab-INDACO Department Politecnico di Milano, Share Your Knowledge, 2011-2012, cc by-sa.
Adding text to an article on Wikipedia. DensityDesign Research Lab-INDACO Department Politecnico di Milano, Share Your Knowledge, 2011-2012, cc by-sa.
© Chacho Pueble, his great-aunt and photos by his sister Lula, http://www.behance.net/gallery/Grandmother-Tips/2392946.
Why
Wikipedia editors. DensityDesign Research Lab-INDACO Department Politecnico di Milano, Share Your Knowledge, 2011-2012, cc by-sa.
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Spacial distribution of edits for Wikipedia in English. Erik Zachte, May 2011, cc by-sa.
© Mounir Fatmi, G8 Les balais, 2004, installation.
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Chris Harrison, WikiViz, 2006.
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How
The license Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike. DensityDesign Research Lab-INDACO Department Politecnico di Milano, Share Your Knowledge, 2011-2012, cc by-sa.
I.
People and institutions do not need to become Wikipedias to contribute.
Chimurenga Library, 2007-2008. A project promoted by Chimurenga and supported by lettera27/WikiAfrica, GNU GPL / cc by-sa.
WikiAfrica/Share Your Knowledge 2006-2012. Status report, 2013, cc by-sa. http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Case_studies/WikiAfrica/Share_Your_Knowledge/Institutions
Event: conference/training/workshop
Research
Archives
Wiki Loves Monuments
Notebooks (Detour, myDetour, WikiAfrica special editions)
Presentations and events
Creative Commons affiliate
Orange and Orange Foundation (free Wikipedia on mobile phones)
Brooklyn MuseumFeed My Starving Children
International Institute for !Communication and Development
Sustainable Sanitation AllianceHeinrich-Böll-StiftungAfricaFilms.tv
Western Province Government – Department of museums - 28 museums in Western Cape Province, South Africa, Bartolomeu Dias Museum, Beaufort-West Museum, Caledon Museum, Cango Caves Museum, Cape Medical Museum, CP Nel Museum, Drostdy Museum, Fransie Pienaar Museum, Genadendal Mission Museum, George Museum, Groot-Brakrivier Museum, Hout Bay Museum, Huguenot Memorial Museum, Jan Dankaert Museum, Koopmans De Wet House Museum, Montagu Museum, Old Harbour Museum, Paarl Museum, Robertson Museum, SA Fisheries Museum, Sendinggestig(Missionary)Museum, Shipwreck Museum, Simon's Town Museum, Stellenbosch Museum, Transport Riders Museum, Wellington Museum, Wheat Industry Museum, Worcester Museum
Gambia National Museum
Sungani Zakwathu Cultural Heritage Promotions!Postal Museum, Matengatenga, Malawi
Zanzibar National Museum
Phuthidikabo Museum, Mochudi, BotswanaSeychelles People Defense !
Forces Museum (SPDF)
Uganda National Museum
Dataset of administrations in Botswana
Raccolte Extraeuropee del Castello Sforzesco, Milano, 2012, Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa.Raccolte civiche Extraeuropee, Castello Sforzesco, Milano. Images and catalogue on Wikimedia Commons while the collection was not online nor exhibited, 2012, cc by-sa.
The National Archives UK, Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa.
National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School - April 2014
WIKIPEDIA PRIMARY SCHOOLProviding on Wikipedia the information necessary to complete the cycle of primary education in the languages used by the different education systems.
RESEARCH PROBLEMThe research is developed within a Swiss-South African cooperation lead by the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) and the University of Cape Town, in partnership with Wikimedia Switzerland and the Africa Centre based in Cape Town, and with the support of SNF and the South African National Research Foundation (NRF).!Iolanda Pensa (principal investigator Switzerland), Tobias Schönwetter (principal investigator South Africa), Luca Botturi, Davide Fornari, Giancarlo Gianocca, Isla Haddow-Flood, Erica Litrenta, Giovanni Profeta, Kelsey Wiens.
Wikipedia is meant to be an educational tool and it is currently available online, via mobile phones and offline. Experiences have shown that, once accessible, Wikipedia does not provide information that responds directly to curriculum-based questions. The project relies on Wikipedia as an existing and growing resource, it solves the need for an encyclopedia capable of responding to curriculum-based questions, and it fosters Wikipedia content, quality and outreach.
THE PROJECT RESEARCH TEAMThe research project developed within a Swiss-South African cooperation (2014-2017) focuses on the theoretical frame of Wikipedia Primary School and in developing and evaluating a system to assess Wikipedia articles for primary education and to involve a wide network of scholars and contributors in their production. !More specifically the project aims at:!1. Bridging Wikipedia and primary education. This objective
implies to move the Wikipedia community towards a focus on primary education, and at the same time to strengthen the capacity of the education ecosystem to contribute to Wikipedia, and in general to open collaborative knowledge.
2. Enriching Wikipedia with new content relevant to primary education. This objective implies an assessment of the articles produced.
3. Fostering the development of translations and new content in different Wikipedia linguistic editions. This objective implies the release of existing educational resources (OER in cc by or cc by-sa), the production of datasets and the involvement of the Wikimedia movement.
4. Verifying and evaluating the use of Wikipedia as a source of information for primary education. This objective implies the involvement of stakeholders and data analysis.
Wikipedia Primary School contributes to universal primary education and to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG2: Achieve Universal Primary Education). Even if it is scalable and international, the project is conceived primarily to address African countries and languages.
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Mounir Fatmi, Les connexions, 2003-2004, installation.
It is not a fight against Wikipedia. It is a fight with Wikipedia, for all its 400 million growing readers, and for knowledge.
Iolanda Pensa - [email protected] - http://iopensa.it
Extra
DensityDesign Research Lab-INDACO Department Politecnico di Milano, Share Your Knowledge, 2011-2012, cc by-sa.
The countries promoting the contest Wiki Loves Monuments 2010-2013 and documenting with a total of 900’000 images cultural heritage around the world, 2014, cc by-sa.
“The big opportunity with open licenses is far more practical: it has the potential to dramatically increase the impact, reach and scale of the ideas we invest in…”
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The Shuttleworth Foundation, 2008
The Africa Centre in Cape Town South Africa promoting “WikiAfrica: Increasing the the quality and quantity of African content on Wikipedia”.
© Tsesler & Voichenko, Welcome, Minsk, Road sign.
DensityDesign Research Lab-INDACO Department Politecnico di Milano, Share Your Knowledge, 2011-2012, cc by-sa.
Iolanda Pensa - [email protected] - http://iopensa.it
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