WikidataCon 2021

Decolonizing Wikidata: Q&A session
2021-10-30 , Room 3

This is the follow up session of the keynote "Decolonizing Wikidata: why does knowledge justice matter for structured data". Bring your questions and your thoughts to this conversation with Anasuya Sengupta and Adele Godoy Vrana, from Whose Knowledge?


Link to notes:

https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WikidataCon2021-DecolonizingWikidataQAsession

What will the participants take away from this session?:

Participants are invited to imagine together practices for knowledge justice on Wikidata

Language:

English

Recording:

Yes

Anasuya Sengupta is an Indian feminist activist, scholar, and co-founder of Whose Knowledge?, who lives and works across multiple continents and online as a Wikipedian. She joined the Wikimedia Foundation in 2012, became Chief Grantmaking Officer, and then began in earnest to edit and amplify marginalised knowledges on Wikipedia as a volunteer. She has led and supported social justice initiatives in India and the United States, particularly against caste- and sexuality- based discriminations, religious fundamentalisms, and gender-based violence. She acknowledges the multiple positions of power and disempowerment she holds, especially as an “upper caste” savarna brown woman from the Global South.

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