Wikiversity Node Cambridge/Launch

A Node is as good as a WNC to a blind horse

Launch of the

Wikiversity Node Cambridge

20th January 2022

A "Rename Seeley Library" sticker promoting the campaign, with a QR code to the campaign website, on a road crossing sign, opposite Bateman Street, in Cambridge

at the temporary art space We Are All Connected,

8 St Andrews Street,

Cambridge CB2 3AP,

East Anglia

This event is over

We see the wiki technology and the Wikimedia sites of Wikipedia, Wikiversity, Wikisource, Commons as being a practical illustration of how digital technologies can create on-line resources and communities which can help realise the sentiments expressed in the

We Are All Connected Statement

Following the success of the Decolonise Art History Wiki Jam in November 2021 our next step is the establishment of a pop-up Bricks and Clicks Wikiversity Node.

The Wikiversity Node Cambridge will be pop-up hybrid, involving both a physical presence in Cambridge, East Anglia, and on-line presence on Wikiversity.

Our first initiative will involve steeping through the Portal:Decolonise Knowledge. DUE TO ILLNESS THERE WILL NOW ONLY BE ONE SESSION

Thursday 20 January, 6-8 pm

We will highlight some of the decolonise projects and campaigns, past, present and future, around the Cambridge colleges.

We want to:

• develop educational resources to document these campaigns so they can be better linked up with a collectively created narrative and methodology for the decolonisation of knowledge.
• collectively imagine ways in which these campaigns will transform the university as a learning space that is inclusive and progressive for wider social change and justice.

One area for a case study is the creation and development of the wikipedia page on the Rustat Memorial, which Jesus College is proposing to remove from its chapel.

See Jesus College Faculty Application for the removal of the Rustat Memorial

Issues we have also identified include:

• Repatriation of the Gweagal Spears , Trinity College
• Repatriation of the Benin Bronzes, the first of which, the Okukor, was returned by Jesus College on 27 October 2021
• Renaming of the University of Cambridge's Seeley Historical Library. The Christ's College History Society has already dropped all reference to John Robert Seeley from their name.
• Removal of Sir Ronald Fisher window memorial to Ronald A. Fisher, Gonville and Caius College

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Portal:Decolonise_Knowledge