Hello everyone,

We have just published "Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle Wikipedia’s multicultural gaps" to the blog. url below:

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/24/black-history-month-edit-a-thons/

Thanks to Dorothy Howard, Wikipedian-in-Residence, Metropolitan New York Library Council, Aliceba for all the help editing and getting the draft ready for publication. 

Below is some proposed social media messages for this story. Please tweak as needed.

Twitter (@wikimedianyc)

* Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle #Wikipedia's multicultural gaps throughout the U.S. (link) 
#BlackLivesMatter #glamwiki 

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* Black History Month and #BlackLivesMatter Wikipedia Edit-a-thons take place throughout the United States to tackle Wikipedia's Multicultural Gaps #Wikipedia #glamwiki 


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Facebook (Wikimedia NYC Facebook)

*Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle Wikipedia's multicultural gaps: #BlackLivesMatter events took place throughout the United States, helping create many new articles about black history. (link)

Thanks,

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Andrew Sherman
Digital Communications | Wikimedia Foundation