08-19, 07:30–07:50 (UTC), Room 325
Language: English
France has oversea territories in the Pacific territories that have less coverage on Wikimedia projects than on European mainland. How to fix it?
France has four oversea territories (ex-colonies) in the Pacific: New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna, Polynesia, and Clipperton. Although they are culture-rich and got some autonomy, it's not the case of the content dedicated to them on projects, such as Wikipedia, which is underdeveloped in about every topic. Worse, their semi-autonomous status excludes them from the reliable website references usually used to write on regular French départements! And most of the project users don't inhabit these territories either.
In this conference, we'll see how colonization impacted the production and accessibility for knowledge. We'll also analyse if previous initiatives by the Wikimedia France in French oversea territories could be reproduced there to fix this knowledge inequity and develop local communities with some autonomy from the metropolitan territory.
Everyone can participate in this session
How will you deliver this session? –Hybrid, live: Some speakers will be onsite in Singapore and some will dial in
How does your session relate to the event themes: Diversity, Collaboration, Future? –France is present in the Pacific with oversea territories that are very culture-rich an diverse compared to the European territory. Collaboration with local people and organisations and their empowerment to create local groups. We need to avoid sending a lot of editors from the European territory France, to cut costs and greenhouse gases emissions. We need to display the diversity of cultures from the French Republic, including ones that might disappear (or that already did) due to colonization consequences, despite natives being full citizens since the end of World War 2.