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Image Description Week

You’re invited to take part in a new Wikimedia event linked to International Museum Day (18 May) and Global Accessibility Awareness Day (19 May). It’s a week-long program dedicated to describing images to make them more accessible and discoverable, in all languages. We’re programming a global mix of conversations, demonstrations, and editing events to highlight image description as a creative task that can advance social justice goals.

start-date19/05/2022

end-date22/05/2022

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Background

You’re invited to take part in a new Wikimedia event linked to International Museum Day (18 May) and Global Accessibility Awareness Day (19 May). It’s a week-long program dedicated to describing images to make them more accessible and discoverable, in all languages. We’re programming a global mix of conversations, demonstrations, and editing events to highlight image description as a creative task that can advance social justice goals.

Objectives

Editors reflect on how they select and interpret images in different contexts.
Organizers understand image description as a creative task that can advance social justice goals.
More images can be discovered and understood in multiple languages.

Activities

The program will be community-led but we’re already expecting demonstrations of the new image-led experiences being developed by the Wikimedia Foundation’s product teams; introductions to image description tools like OpenRefine, ISA, and Depictor; and a panel about the limits of automated image description. We’re also hoping to have a playful introduction to Alt Text as Poetry by artists Shannon Finnegan and Bojana Coklyat.

Virtual Meetings

Date: 19/05/2022
Time: 11am UTC
Link: tbc

Date: 20/05/2022
Time: 3pm UTC
Link: tbc

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		Languages
Wikidata items	Label	#	enwiki	frwiki	swwiki
d:Q52	Wikipedia	389	Wikipedia	Wikipédia	Wikipedia

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