Wikipedia:Black WikiHistory Month

Black WikiHistory Month

Black History Month Editathon in London, 2012

Annual campaign

Black WikiHistory Month is a wiki-coordinated program of article writing, image/picture creating, events and edit-a-thons focused on Black history in the United States and worldwide, working with WikiProject African diaspora and related projects. In February 2015 BHM was being celebrated for the first time in the USA in association with the United States' Black History Month.

February 2022

• Women in Red's annual Black women online event, Feb 1-28
• Smithsonian Black Women in Food History, February 1
• Met Afrofuturist Period Room edit-a-thon and Seneca Village collaboration (all month), with a virtual launch event on Saturday February 5

February 2021

• Wikipedia:Meetup/Black_Lunch_Table/MiA: BLT @ Twin Cities arts edit-a-thon, Minneapolis & St.Paul, MN (online) Feb 6th, 2021
• Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Black in Genetics with Genspace (online) Feb 11th, 2021, editing through Feb 25th

Where: Online! But registration is required.

• Wikipedia:Meetup/Black_Lunch_Table/CAA_editathon_2021: BLT @ CAA, NY, NY (online) Feb 13th, 2021
• African Americans in STEM edit-a-thon: Washington DC, Sun Feb 21, 2021 and during the ensuing week
• Wikipedia:Meetup/Connecticut/BIPOC-In-The Built - February 22-28, 2021
• Wikipedia:Meetup/UKY/BlackLivesMatter2021: Lexington, KY (virtually/online) on Thursday, February 25, 2021
• Black Wiki History Month 2021 at New York's Schomburg Center Online with NYU Los Angeles, ImageNation Cinema and AfroCROWD. Guest speaker: ImageNation Cinema Founder Moikgantsi Kgama 10:30 AM - 2 PM PST / 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM EST on Thursday, February 25, 2021.
• Writing Black History of the Pacific Northwest into Wikipedia Editathon 2021 with Oregon State University, Education Opportunities Program and AfroCROWD. Guest speaker: Spelman College's Alexandria Lockett 1:00-5:00 PM PST / 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM EST on Friday, February 26, 2021.
• Black History Month Nigeria 2021 - Celebrating Women Leaders of Africa's Diaspora with Wikimedia Nigeria and African Women On Board. and AfroCROWD. Guest speaker: Author Lola Akinmade Åkerström 17:30 - 20:00 PM UTC / 12:30 PM - 3:00 PM EST on Saturday, February 27, 2021.
• Wikipedia:Meetup/Black_Lunch_Table/RutgersFeb2021:BLT Black History Everyday edit-a-thon, New Brunswick, NJ(online)Feb 28th, 2021
• Wikipedia:Meetup/Toronto/Black History Edit-A-Thon (February 2021): Toronto, ON, Canada (online) through February 2021. See event page for facilitated drop-in schedule.

Online

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Black Lives Matter/Q1 2021

February 2020

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Please add your upcoming events to the February 2020 events section and images and outcomes from those events!

United States

• Wikipedia:Meetup/KC_African_American_Artists_2020, Kansas City, MO (Saturday, February 22, 2020)
• Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/InVisibility, New York, NY (Friday, February 21, 2020)
• Phenomenal Black Women Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at NYPL Schomburg Center, New York, NY (Saturday, February 22, 2020) with AfroCROWD
• Wikipedia:Meetup/Black History Month Edit-a-thon at Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA (Thursday, February 20, 2020)
• Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco/Black History Month Wiki-a-thon at Prelinger Library San Francisco, CA (February 9, 2020)

February 2019

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United States

• Oregon State University Black History Month Wikipedia Edit-a-thon with AfroCROWD at Oregon State University, Oregon February 7 and 8, 2019
• Black Lunch Table @ Staten Island Museum Black History Everyday! February 9, 2019
• Baltimore Museum of Industry: Black History Month Wikipedia Edit-a-thon February 10, 2019
• Black New York Wikipedia Edit-a-thon @ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY (Saturday, February 16, 2019)
• Smithsonian American Art Museum African American Artists Wikipedia Edit-a-thon February 17, 2019
• Evans-Tibbs Archive of African American Art Wikipedia Edit-a-thon February 23, 2019
• Black Lunch Table + WikiNYC @ BMCC Black History Everyday! February 26, 2019

Nigeria

• Oregon State University Black History Month Wikipedia Edit-a-thon with AfroCROWD at Oregon State University, Oregon February 7 and 8, 2019

Online

• Black Women - virtual editathon - facilitated by Women in Red (February 1-28, 2019)

February 2018

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United States:

• Georgetown Slavery Archive Editing Workshop, Washington, D.C. (Friday, February 2, 2018)
• Kansas City’s African American Artists, Kansas City, MO (Saturday, February 3, 2018)
• Black History Everyday @ MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL (Thursday, February 8, 2018)
• Black Lunch Table @ The Triangle Arts Association, New York, NY (Thursday, February 8, 2018)
• Black Liberation Month Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, Chico, CA (Friday, February 16, 2018)
• AfroCROWD Africa and the Diaspora Edit-a-thon @ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY (Saturday, February 24, 2018)
• Wikipedia:Meetup/Nashville/Vanderbilt Libraries/African American History Month 2018, Nashville, TN (Wednesday, February 28, 2018)

Worldwide

• Black Women - virtual editathon - facilitated by Women in Red (February 1-28, 2018)

February 2017

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United States:

• African American Artists Wikipedia Edit-a-thon @ Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia), Minneapolis, MN (Saturday, January 28, 2017)
• Wiki≡quality February 2017, Tampa, FL (Friday, February 10, 2017)
• Our Story Matters Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, Nashville, TN (Saturday, February 11, 2017) – Check out the talk page for a question from Nashville's event!
• AfroCROWD African Americans in Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) Black History Month Wikipedia Edit-a-thon @ Accenture, New York, NY (Friday, February 17, 2017) – part of Accenture NY Metro African American Employee Resource Group (AAERG)
• Black-History-Month-edit-a-thon @ Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN (Saturday, February 18, 2017)
• Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/DCPL Black History Month 2017 (February 18, 2017)
• Black Lunch Table @ Eastern Washington U, Cheney, WA (Tuesday, February 21, 2017)
• Black Lunch Table @ Terrain Gallery, Spokane, WA (Tuesday, February 21, 2017)
• Editing as Activism: Black WikiHistory Month Workshop and Edit-a-thon @ University of Washington-Bothell, Bothell, WA (Wednesday-Thursday, February 22-23, 2017)
• Black History Month Edit-a-thon @ Tennessee State University 2017, Nashville, TN (Friday, February 24, 2017)
• New York City: Black WikiHistory Month Weekend NYC
  • AfroCROWD Black Power! 2017 Edition @ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY (Saturday, February 25, 2017)
  • Action=History WikiSalon (February) with AfroCROWD @ Ace Hotel New York, New York, NY (Sunday, February 26, 2017)
  • Black Lunch Table Black WikiHistory Month @ Creative Capital, NYC, New York, NY (Monday, February 27, 2017)

Worldwide

• Black History Month - virtual editathon - facilitated by Women in Red (February 1-28, 2017)

February 2016

2016 events

Please add your upcoming events to the February 2016 events section and images and outcomes from those events!

United States:

• Baltimore, MD - African American Artists at the Baltimore Museum of Art (Saturday, February 13, 2016)
• Cambridge, MA - Writing Black History @ MIT Libraries (Friday, January 29, 2016)
• Charlotte, NC:
  • Black Lunch Table @ McColl Center 1 (Thursday, February 4, 2016)
  • Black Lunch Table @ McColl Center 2 (Thursday, February 11, 2016)
  • Black Lunch Table @ McColl Center 3 (Thursday, February 18, 2016)
  • Black Lunch Table @ McColl Center 4 (Thursday, February 25, 2016)
• Los Angeles, CA - Black History Matters @ Oviatt Library, CSU Northridge (Wednesday, February 24, 2016)
• New York City, NY - Black Life Matters Wikipedia Edit-a-thon AfroCROWD @ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (Saturday, February 6, 2016)
• Nashville, TN - Our Story Matters Wikipedia Edit-a-thon @ Nashville Public Library (Saturday, February 13, 2016)
• Omaha, NE - Black History Month @ Do Space (Saturday, February 20, 2016)
• South Bend, IN - Notre Dame Black Lives Matter Wikipedia Edit-a-thon (Wednesday, February 24, 2016)
• Washington, DC:
  • Black History Month First Edit at NPR (Friday, February 12, 2016)
  • African American Artists @ Smithsonian American Art Museum (Saturday, February 20, 2016)
  • Howard University Black History Month Edit-a-Thon (Friday, February 26, 2016)

United Kingdom

• London - Black Cultural Archives (Saturday, February 13, 2016) on-line collaborators welcome

Worldwide

• Virtual editathon on Black Women's History (Monday, February 1 for two weeks), open to all

February 2015

2015 events

United States:

• New York City - "Black WikiHistory Month Weekend NYC"
  • Black Life Matters Editathon @ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (Feb 7)
  • AfroCROWD editathon @ Brooklyn Public Library (Feb 7 12:30 -3PM & Feb 8 1 - 3:30 PM) (AfroCROWD meta project)
• Nashville - Our Story Matters Editathon @ Nashville Public Library (Feb 7)
• Westchester County, New York, Black Life Matters Edit-a-thon @ Purchase College Library, Purchase College, SUNY (Feb. 7, 12pm-5pm)
• Washington DC
  • Howard University (Feb 19)
  • NPR Black History Month (Feb 24)
  • African Americans in STEM @ Office of Science and Technology Policy (Feb 24)

Related editathons

United States

Since February 2015, AfroCROWD has pursued a monthly series of editathons.

Other events in past years:

• Unforgetting 7 @ EOB, Los Angeles
• Africa Collection Editathon @ WM DC
• April 2014 Colored Conventions @ University of Delaware
• Chicago 5 @ Chicago

Europe

• In common with other parts of the United Kingdom, Black History Month BHM is celebrated in October. BHM was first celebrated by the Wikimedian community on 26th October 2012 at an event organised by Wikimedia UK and the Equiano Centre, University College London.

Resources for Organizers

• Help:Cheatsheet
• "Learning to work with Wikipedia: New Pages Patrol and how to create new Wikipedia articles that will stick" by Adrianne Wadewitz. HASTAC.
• Hour-long Wikipedia editing tutorial by FemTechNet.
• Wikipedia:Training/For students is a good intro to editing.

Account creation

Wikipedia has a limit on the number of accounts that can be created in a day at one IP address. Encourage attendees of your event to register on Wikipedia prior to coming. Reach out to an administrator via the artandfeminism-organizegooglegroups.com email list to get Account Creator permissions prior to your event.

Press

• Cassano, Jay. "Black History Matters so why is Wikipedia Missing so Much of it." FastCompany. January 29, 2015.
• Solis, Gustavo. "Schomburg Center Hosts Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon for Articles on Black Culture." DNAInfo. January 30, 2015.
• Gebreyes, Rahel. "Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon Reinforces The Value Of Digitizing Black History," Huffington Post Blackvoices. February 2, 2015.
• Lewis, Taylor. "Wikipedia Is Getting a Lesson in Black History." Essence.com
• Smith, Jada F. (February 19, 2015). "Howard University Fills in Wikipedia's Gaps in Black History". The New York Times.
• "For Blacks, New ‪Afrocrowd‬ Initiative Offers Opportunity to Tell Stories." Our Time Press.
• "Can ‘Black Wikipedia’ Take Off Like ‘Black Twitter’?" ColorLines.
• Black Digital Empowerment Through AfroCROWD workshops," Black Star News.
• AfroCrowd: The Black Wikipedia For People of African Descent

References

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  Black History Month Editathon 26th October 2012
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  Resources available at the Equiano Centre
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  Getting ready to edit Black British History
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  Pair editing at BHM 2012
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  Being introduced to commons-based peer production