MassiveEartha

This user is proud of their Jamaican ancestry

This user lives in London.

This user participates in
WikiProject African Diaspora.

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Women's History.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 12 years, 2 months and 6 days.

This user helps out newcomers.

This user has event coordinator rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify)

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:
- African Sources List - WikiProject Africa

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
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 press dashboard	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
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

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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

Help:Footnotes#Footnotes:_predefined_groups

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/Get Involved/Volunteer Tasks 2017

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

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
- Avoid self-published 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

Primer for AfD, AfC and PROD

Recognition for volunteers

Writing about women and non-binary people

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]

http://www.understandingslavery.com/index.php-option=com_content&view=article&id=57_use-of-language&catid=37&Itemid=92.html

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]

https://www.anacaona.fr/blog/esclave-esclavise-evolution-langage-racisme-slave-enslaved/