Event:Listening party: Decolonizing Structured Data

Whose Knowledge? is celebrating the 12th birthday of Wikidata with a listening party for the third season of Whose Voices?, a podcast series that is part of our work of centering and documenting our stories, voices, and knowledges online.

Whose Voices?

Last year, we published the Decolonizing The Internet – East Africa series, which brought together insightful and heartfelt conversations with feminists from East Africa about their work and ideas for an anti-oppression internet.

This year, we’re diving deep into Decolonizing Structured Data, featuring conversations with Wikipedians and Wikidata enthusiasts and builders about what structured data is, how, and why it’s important to apply a critical lens to its creation and use.

Decolonizing Structured Data episodes

In this season, we have five new episodes:

1. “Nothing about us without us”: Dumisani Ndubane reflects on ways to decolonise structured data.
2. Cuestionando cómo los datos estructurados invisibilizan las realidades y narrativas LGBTQIA+, con Vic Sfriso
3. Making structured data more accessible with Kira Wisniewski.
4. Alice Kibombo explores how librarians can use structured data.
5. Unpacking Wikidata’s possibilities with Lydia Pintscher.

At the end of the series, we’re gathering with friends and allies for a party to share highlights, feelings, thoughts and our enthusiasm for structured data.

Join us and stay tuned!

Illustration for Wikidata's birthday. Designed by Jasmina El Bouamraoui.

This listening party will take place on November 8th at 1 pm UTC via Zoom, co-held by our Decolonizing Wikimedia team, Mariana Fossatti and Sunshine Fionah Komusana, and our Radical Communications team, Priscila Bellini and Youlendree Appasamy.

Register to the event on the top of this page, and you will get the Zoom link and receive email notifications about the launch of each episode.