The document discusses using Wikipedia to rewrite history by providing greater representation of non-Western perspectives and knowledge. It lists several scholars and concepts related to issues of power, knowledge production, colonialism, and culture. It suggests Wikipedia as a way to rewrite history and mentions initiatives like Orange Foundation providing free Wikipedia access on mobile phones and Wiki Loves Monuments. The overall message is that Wikipedia can help balance historical narratives by incorporating more voices from Africa and other regions.

1. The Power of Wikipedia
Legitimacy and Territorial Control
Iolanda Pensa, Scientific director WikiAfrica/Share Your Knowledge for lettera27 Foundation, member Wikimedia Italia
io@pensa.it http://www.iopensa.it
Wikipedia Academy, Berlin, 29/06/2012

2. Sarat Maharaj’s art and knowledge production
Tirdad Zolghadr’s approach to art and exhibitions
Michel Foucault’s power and knowledge James Clifford’s writing culture
Edward Said’s Orientalism Lawrence Lessing’s free culture
Frantz Fanon’s colonial violence and weight
Rasheed Araeen’s claim to rewrite history
V.Y. Mudimbe’s invention of Africa Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s strategic essentialism
We need to rewrite history
Marc Augé’s non-places Achille Mbembe’s borders
Homi K. Bhabha’s location of culture Jean-Loup Amselle’s connections
Arjun Appadurai’s cultural dimensions of globalization Saskia Sassen’s global city
Yochai Benkler’s networked social production and open collaboration
Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams’s Wikinomics Steven Weber’s open source production
Maja van der Velden’s contact zone on Wikipedia Mark Graham’s Africa on Wikipedia
Mathieu O’Neil’s cyberchiefs Heather Ford’s missing Wikipedians

3. How to rewrite history?
How about Wikipedia?

4. Orange and Orange Foundation (free Wikipedia on mobile phones)
Creative Commons affiliate
Event: conference/training/workshop
Presentations and events
Research
Archives
Notebooks (Detour, myDetour, WikiAfrica special editions)
Wiki Loves Monuments
WikiAfrica/Share Your Knowledge 2012 (in progress)

5. © Jane Alexander, Courtesy Africa Screams,Vienna, 2004.

6. © Samuel Fosso, La Femme américaine libérée des années 70, Série Tati, autoportrait I-V, 1997, coloured photography. In Africa Remix, p. 124.

7. © Maha Maamoun, Going Places: A Project for Public Busses, Le Caire, 2003-2004.

8. © Mounir Fatmi, Sortir de l'histoire, 2005-2006, cassettes VHS, photos, sons et vidéo.

9. © Mounir Fatmi, G8 Les balais, 2004, installation.

10. @ Yinka Shonibare, Scramble for Africa, 2000, 14 chairs, 14 figures, table in Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora, 2003. Commissioned by and courtesy Museum for African Art NY.

11. © Tsesler & Voichenko, Welcome, Minsk, Road sign.

12. Iolanda Pensa - io@pensa.it - http://www.iopensa.it