Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia (AfroCROWD) is an initiative founded in 2015 that seeks to increase awareness of the Wikimedia Movement in the BIPOC community and the number of people of African descent who actively partake in the Wikimedia and free knowledge, culture and software movements. We celebrate Black History Month and Wikipedia Day all year round. Join us for a coming event!-->

Featured AfroCROWD Events

April 13: Earth Day Photowalk,Jos Nigeria! When: 10:00 WAT Where: Kefiano Creative Hub, 1 Yakubu Gowon Way, Jos, Plateau, Nigeria Are you a writer? Or a photographer? In the Jos area? Join our friends and partners in Jos, Nigeria, for a Wikipedia Photowalk in celebration of Earth Day! Partners: WikiVibrance and Open Future Africa. Sign up here.

April 22-May 17, 2024 : Free Course: In celebration of Earth Day, Wiki Education in collaboration with AfroCROWD/Wiki Cari invites experienced Wikipedia editors to participate in a free virtual course "Global Approaches to Climate Finance for Wikipedians". Sign up here.

• Dates: April 22, 2024-May 17, 2024
• Meeting times: Mondays and Thursdays @ 10 am Eastern/14:00 UTC

March 1 -April 30: 1ᵉʳ mars au 30 avril 2024 AfroCROWD s'associe aux Wikimedians du Congo pour Wiki Loves Africa 2024! Thème : AFRICA CREATE (Creations Africaines)! Info

March 23: Join us this Saturday, March 23, for one more opportunity to learn to edit #Wikipedia on notable Black Women this Womens Herstory Month! We are meeting online from 11:30 AM-1:00 PM ET (NYC time). Sign up here.

February 3 and 25:

Celebrate Black Wiki History Month with AfroCROWD Join our #Wikipedia editing workshop, editathon, or events this February! Register

• In person: Sat. February 03, Columbia University at The Forum, 601 W 125th St, Harlem, NYC, Wikipedia editing sessions at 1 PM - 4 PM ET (NYC time). General symposium 10:30 AM - 6:00 PM ET.

• Online: Sun. February 25, 1:30–3:30 PM ET, Register for complete details.

Connect with Wikimedia editors, learn new Wiki skills, and make Black Wiki history. All are welcome! We look forward to seeing you!

November 9-12: AfroCROWD at North America, Toronto! The first in-person WikiConference NA since 2019!

August 15-20: AfroCROWD at Wikimania 2023 and the Wiki Women's Summit 2023 in Singapore!

August 5: Happy Birthday Hip Hop! August 2023! Join us August 5, 1-6 PM as we celebrate in the AfroCROWD Room at the Banjee Boombox Festival on Governor's Island NYC, more at Eventbrite.

June:

June 23: Wikipedia photo walk through, Old San Juan Puerto Rico and Bronx NY in partnership with Wiki Caribbean and Chocobar Cortes. June 23, 1:30-4:00 PM. Click here to register.

June 19: Juneteenth Celebration: This year, Juneteenth finally becomes a national holiday in the US. Join us Sunday, June 19 from 1:30-3:00 PM EST as we celebrate Juneteenth2022 with a virtual Wikipedia editing workshop.

June 7: We partner with Wikimedians of the Caribbean, Access Now and Jaaklac at RightsCon. Focus: closing the Wikimedia knowledge gap on Digital Human Rights in the Caribbean. Register by Jun 3 at http://rightscon.org/program/ and join our social hour at #RightsCon w/friends Jun 7, 4 PM ET.

May:

May 27: We partner with Open Foundation West Africa in Ghana for the African Wiki Challenge with featured speaker AfroCROWD friend Dr. Phiwo Mnyandu, Howard University Center for African Studies lecturer. Focus: Projecting African Culture. More at Africa Wiki Challenge 2022. You can register for the May 27th launch here.

April:

• April 28: WikiGap 2022 - Women, Health & Environment Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

Event: Thursday, April 28th, 9am-12pm EST Where: Swedish Residence and online! (Registration is required)

• April 2: Join as AfroCROWD to celebrate Black Herstory as we cohostSpelman English Edits Wikipedia with the acclaimed HBCU Spelman college's Department of English from 1-7 p.m./EDT. This event is part of the Spelman English Department's Annual Lit Week, which concludes with Social Justice Saturday. New and experienced editors are welcome to come anytime to improve representations of Black Herstory in the Literary Arts, Media, Activism (among several other topics) on Wikipedia. The event features a training session, workshops on knowledge building, and a live drawing for a gift card giveaway. Editors @JaneNova and @PeteForsyth will also facilitate and support. Sign up on our meetup Page.

March:

• March 13: Course Translat-a-thon and editathon with the women of the National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates at Brooklyn College, 1-3PM EST in at Brooklyn College and online during Women's History Month.

February:

• February 26th, 11 AM EST/ 1600 UTC: Join us for our HBCU focused Wikipedia editing workshop with Howard University and the men of SMOOTH Inc. Sat. February 26th, 11 AM EST/ 1600 UTC. Sign up here!

• Feb. 25, 2-5 PM PST/ 5-8 PM EST: join us Oregon State University for the Writing the Black history of the Pacific North West into Wikipedia virtual Editathon! Connect with others, ace Wikimedia, gain new skills and amplify Black PNW history. Register here.

• February 9, 2022: Launch of Wiki Unseen, a collaboration with the Wikimedia Foundation, AfroCROWD and Behance, aimed at expanding the visual representation of Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) in Wikimedia projects and advancing knowledge equity. AfroCROWD is a proud lead partner of the WikiUnseen project. Learn more here!

• February 5, 12-2PM: AfroCROWD partners with the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Wiki partners Black Lunch Table and Wikimedia NYC for the launch of the Met Afrofuturist, a month-long Wikipedia editing campaign on themes of the Met #Afrofuturism exhibit "Before Yesterday We Could Fly.".

January:

• January 22, 10:30-11:30 AM: Free editing clinic, this Saturday, January 22, 10:30-11:30 AM Focus: civil and human rights. This office hour style event in partnership with Wikimedians of the Caribbean is an opportunity to answer your Wiki editing questions or simply an opportunity to connect and edit with others.

• January 15, 2022: Happy 21st birthday Wikipedia!

December:

• December 10, 2021: AfroCROWD HBCU Africa Wikipedia Exchange Indaba Diaspora Skillshare, Focus: Africa. Partnership with Howard University Center for African Studies and Smooth Inc. This is our first online exchange between HBCU students and African Wikipedians. This is meant to establish transcontinental collaboration.

Signup directly here or on the Wikipedia page above.

November:

• November 4, 2021: AfroCROWD is at Wiki Indaba 2021! Join us in the pre-conference 9:30 AM EDT/ 1330 UTC with Speacial Guests and Speakers at HBCU Howard University and SMOOTH Inc.Indaba Diaspora: Rethinking and Resetting Knowledge Sharing on Africa in the 6th Region of the African Union, the Diaspora. Join us at virtual table 4 after the presentation and throughout the conference breaks to connect.

October:

WikiConference North America 2021:

• October 8, 2021, 2:25 PM EDT: News On Wiki, Phase 2 complete; Future steps with ASU journalism school
• October 9, 2021, 4:10 PM EDT: Caribbean Digital Human Rights Community Workspace & Edit-A-Thon

September:

• September 26, 2021, AfroCROWD Co-hosts Wiki Cari Fesitval 2021 with Wikimedians of the Caribbean User Group on Wikipedia Weekly with special guests in the Haitian community including Haitian-American actor, writer, director, and producer Bechir Sylvain. This year's Wiki Cari Festival (2021) was the most watched event on Wikipedia Weekly when it posted and as of April 2022, is the third most viewed! Check it out here.

August:

• August 19: Marks the start of Molloy College Linguistics' course incorporating AfroCROWD Wikipedia editing with the National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates via Zoom.

July:

• July 13-17: AfroCROWD invites you to the NAMLE 2021 conference where our director, Sherry Antoine joins a panel Sun 9:30 PT/12:30 ET focused on partner News On Wiki NOW's campaign to improve Wikimedia coverage of Black Owned, local & Caribbean newspapers.

June:

• June 19: The NYU Soul of Reason Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: A Juneteenth Celebration of Black Culture. Saturday, June 19, 2021, 1-3:00 PM

May:

• May 8: The NYU Soul of Reason Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Celebrating Black Culture. Saturday, May 8, 2021, 1-3:30 PM

April:

• April 22nd is Earth Day! Let's Celebrate the earth and our environment!

• April 17-May 3, Main event April 28: AfroCROWD is joining Wikimedians of the Caribbean and more for Wiki Earthweek 2021, April 28, 1-3 PM.

• April 28: AfroCROWD is joining Wikimedians of the Caribbean and more for Wiki Earthweek 2021, April 28, 1-3 PM.

March:

• March 19: Join us for the Women Scientists Wikipedia editathon sponsored by Oregon State University Libraries & Press, Stanford Libraries, and AfroCROWD. Click here to register.

• March 8-15: Congratulations to participant winners of the Women Leaders of Africa's Diaspora article contest as we begin Women's Herstroy Month! Let's continue to work on red links and stubs and add names. Follow us on Twitter for more @AfroCROWDit!

• March 8: Join members of the Wiki community and others as we celebrate International Women's Day 2021 with the Female Quotient Equality Lab Panel! 11:00 AM EST

February:

• February 27: Black History Month Nigeria 2021 - Celebrating Women Leaders of Africa's Diaspora with Wikimedia Nigeria and African Women On Board. Guest speaker: Nigerian National Geographic Photographer and author Lola Akinmade Akerstrom 17:30 - 20:00 PM UTC / 12:30 PM - 3:00 PM EST

Click here to register directly

• February 26: Writing Black History of the Pacific Northwest into Wikipedia Editathon 2021 with Oregon State University This is the Wikipedia Meetup Page for ongoing editingnfor this year's event. Guest Speaker: Spelman College's Alexandria Lockett 1:00-5:00 PM PST / 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM EST

Click here to register directly

• February 25: Black Wiki History Month 2021 at the Schomburg Center Online with NYU LA, ImageNation Cinema and more! Guest speaker: ImageNation Cinema Founder Moikgantsi Kgama 10:30 AM - 2 PM PST / 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM EST

Click here to register directly

January:
Happy 20th birthday Wikipedia!

• January 15: Wiki Translate the Environment in Celebration of Wikipedia at 20, Partners: Wikimedians of the Caribbean, News on Wiki, Federated Wiki

• December 12: Black-Owned Newspapers Wikipedia Edit-a-thon during WikiConference North America, Partners: News on Wiki NOW, Phili Your Black News, Wikimedia Philadelphia
• NYU Los Angeles Virtual Week of Wiki with Young Entertainment Activists November 3-5, 2020
• Movement Strategy Forum: The Future of Wikipedia October 28, 2020
• NYU Los Angeles opening Wikipedia Webinar October 14, 2020
• AfroCROWD ED on keynote panel at the Computers in Libraries Conference September 24, 2020
• Wiki Caribbean Festival September 19, 2020
• Wiki BIPOC Wikipedia Edit-a-thon August 1, 2020 1:30 PM ET/ 10:30 AM PST - 5 PM ET/ 2:30 PM PST
• Wikipedia Training to Uplift Afro-Dominican History. 5pm-8pm EDT, July 21, 2020 on Zoom.

• AfroCROWD Wiki Juneteenth Weekend Friday June 19, 2020 main event 4:46 PM-6:46, with Wiki coach editing sessions Saturday June 20, 8:46 AM-8:46 PM on Zoom. Regster Here
• AfroCROWD is the main organizer of the Global Wiki Check In. May 16-August 22, 2020.
• AfroCROWD Edit On Weekly Wiki Challenge during the Corona Virus/ COVID-19 Pandemic. Online, Friday March 20, 2020 - June 30, 2020.
• Schomburg Phenomenal Black Women Wikipedia Edit-a-thon with AfroCROWD Saturday, February 22nd 12:00PM - 6:00PM
• In/Visibility Wikipedia Edit-a-thon @ Pratt Institute, 144 W 14th Street, NY Friday, February 21st 12:00PM - 4:00PM
• Frankie Knuckles and Friends: A Wikipedia Editathon @ Chicago's Stony Island Arts Bank, January 12, 2020 Chicago, IL 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM
• Wiki Year of Return edit-a-thon with Open Foundation West Africa in Accra, Ghana: Saturday, 28 December 2019, 09:00 – 14:00 GMT
• #DistruptWikipedia @ Columbia University, Butler Library Monday, September 16, 3:00 - 6:00PM

• LIU Translate-a-thon with the National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates at LIU Brooklyn. June 18th, 11 AM -3 PM.
• AfroCROWD Africa Day International Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Notable African Women. May 25th, 2019.
• Whoseknowledge Visible Wiki Women Women of Colors Campaign. April 22 - May 2, 2019
• LaGuardia Translatathon. LaGuardia Community College. Thursday, April 4 and Friday, April 5, 2019.
• Labor in Context Art + Feminism editathon Saturday, March 16, 2019
• Wikigap Online Campaign, with support from the Swedish Mission to the United Nations in celebration of Women's History Month. Friday, March 8- Monday, April 8, 2019.
• Schomburg Center Black History Month Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Black New York History. Saturday, February 16, 2019
• Oregon State University Black History Month Wikipedia Edit-a-thon with AfroCROWD at Oregon State University, Oregon and Nigerian Wikipedians February 7-8, 2019
• AfroCROWD is proud to be a part of Black Wiki History Month, 2019! February 1 - 28, 2019.
• Fordham University Wikipedia Edit-a-thon with AfroCROWD @ Fordham University Licoln Center Campus, December 6, 2018
• AfroCROWDLA Wikipedia Edit-a-thon and Training the Trainers at Los Angeles Library. November 15, 2018
• Georgetown AfroCROWD Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on African Cinema. Georgetown University Library, Washington, DC. November 11, 2018.
• AfroCROWD LA Local History Wikipedia Edit-a-thon(LAPL) Los Angeles Public Library 630 West 5th Street; Los Angeles, California. Thursday, November 15, 2018
• Months of African Cinema with the Wiki AfroCine Project, Online, October 1-November 30, 2018
• Afro-Oral Knowledge Record-a-thon @ LaGuardia Community College, Queens Sunday, August 26, 2018

• Afrocrowd Juneteenth Jazz in Harlem Editathon @ Countee Cullen Library Saturday June 23, 2018
• ENA Dakar Wikipedia Edit-a-thon May 2018 @ Ecole Nationale des Arts, Dakar, Senegal Friday May 4 and Monday, May 7, 2018.
• Translatathon April 2018 @ LaGuardia Community College Thursday-Friday, April 26-27, 2018
• The Swedish Mission to the United Nations WikiGap Women in Leadership Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the United Nations Headquarters, New York, Thursday, March 8, 2018
• Art + Feminism MoMA Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. Saturday, March 3, 2018
• Africa & the Diaspora Edit-a-thon With AfroCROWD @ Schomburg Center for Black Culture. Saturday, February 24, 2018
• Wikimedia NYC Wikipedia Day 2018 celebration and mini conference at the Ace Hotel NYC!. Sunday, January 14, 2018.

• AfroCROWD Street Culture Wikipedia Edit-a-thon and Year End Celebraiton. Saturday, December 16, 2017.
• AfroCROWD @BLERD City (Black Girl Nerd) Conference, New York City. Sunday, July 30th, 2017.

• AfroCROWD @ Allied Media Conference, Detroit Michigan. Sunday, June 18th, 2017
• Art+Feminism @ MoMA. Saturday, March 11, 2017 – "Editing Wikipedia Articles on Women Artists of the African Diaspora Seminar," 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm, MoMA Classroom C, Mezzanine Level
• Black Lunch Table co-hosts Art+Feminism @ Kickstarter HQ. Sunday, March 12, 2017
• Art + Feminism @ School of Visual Arts Library. Saturday, March 18, 2017

AfroCROWD was founded in 2015 by Alice Backer, Esq. and is run by Executive Director Sherry Antoine, MPA. We are celebrating over 6 years working to improve representation in the Wikimedia Movement. Thank you for your support. Check out these shots from AfroCROWD over the years:

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  AfroCROWDers at BLERD Black Comic book Writers Wikipedia Editathon
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  AfroCROWD is women-led, with more than 51% of AfroCROWDers being women.
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  AfroCROWD Director, Sherry Antoine, Speaks at the United Nations
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  AfroCROWDers at MIT African Students Association Event
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  AfroCROWDers at the Schomburg Center for Research In Black Culture annual editathon 2018
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  AfroCROWD Kickoff, Brooklyn Library, Black Wiki History Month, 2015