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.
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.
What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?: Everyone can participate in this session
I'm an active contributor on the Wikipedia in French since 2009, and later on Commons and Wikidata. I'm also a member of the Wikimedians for Sustainable Developement User Group. I also translate a lot from English to French.
I'm involved in technical and community discussions for preventing issues coming from bad accessibility, such as the huge redesign of the Main page on the Wikipedia in French (2017) or the transformation from Pages for Deletion procedure to Notability Debates (Débats d'admissibilité, 2021-2022) on the same wiki. I also bring some accessibility input to the team developing the Vector 2022 redesign.
I also try to promote Wikimedia projects through workshops to people involved with local and reliable knowledge, such as libraries and associations.
You can reach me on :
- Mastodon https://mastodon.social/@JN_Squire
- Twitter/X @JN_Squire