Help improve LGBT history and culture on Wikipedia!
You are invited to join us at Jefferson Market Library on Sat June 21,
11am-4pm. for "Wiki Loves Pride", an edit-a-thon where both experienced and
new Wikipedia editors will collaboratively improve articles on LGBT topics.
Hosted by New York Public Library, Metropolitan New York Library Council,
Wikimedia LGBT and Wikimedia New York City.
Event details on the Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
P.S. And in July, we have the return of the Central Park Wiknic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wiknic
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Hi All,
I want to announce an upcoming NYC Edit-a-Thon for the Wiki Loves Pride
2014 Campaign, organized by WikiLGBT and to invite Wikimedia NYC members to
join in.
*Wiki Loves Pride 2014 *Edit-a-Thon at NYPL's Jefferson Market Library
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Market_Library>, June 21st, 2014.
11am-5pm.
*Event Page: *
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wiki_Loves_Pride_2014
*Facebook: *https://www.facebook.com/events/468297923301575/
*Inside Jefferson Market Library *
This event is part of the international Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-Thons
taking place during Pride month, the month of June.
Below and attached are our standard press releases we are using to
advertise these events to institutions and seek institutional hosts for
these events. Please pass along this press release and the attachment to
any other institutions (US and International) that you think may want
to join in. Contact me if you have any more questions.
We hope to see you there!
WikiLGBT
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WIKI LOVES PRIDE LGBT WIKIPEDIA EDIT-A-THONS SET FOR JUNE, 2014
In the past few years, organized groups on Wikipedia and the other
Wikimedia Foundation project-spaces have sought to increase the quality and
scope of public domain information and media relating to the LGBT
community. June, 2014 will see the first global Wiki Loves Pride Campaign.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Loves_Pride_2014>
One of the aims of Wiki Loves Pride will be increasing the number of people
and perspectives contributing to LGBT information on the world's largest
encyclopedia, as well as encouraging institutions to add their authority
information, research and images to the public domain.
Contributions to information about LGBT topics in politics and policy,
medicine, topics in identity sexuality, and society, rights and attitudes,
history, culture, and institutions will vastly affect the ways in which
these topics are researched and understood internationally. In the past,
Wikipedia articles on these topics have been riddled with a lack of
scholarly sources and lack of perspectives, a problem which has the effect
of skewing public perceptions and affecting research and decisions in
public policy, science and medical practice, and community acceptance.
If you would like to host a Wikipedia edit-a-thon at your institution, or
to sponsor this campaign by offering your endorsement in some other way,
please contact the organizers. This campaign page will be a resource for
all satellite events, and will be available to help connect institutions
with experienced Wikipedians and learning resources. We are looking for
libraries, galleries, colleges, and other public, educational spaces to
host events.
*Information*
*When:* June 2014. Host an event as part of virtual Edit-a-Thons throughout
the month of June! Saturday June 21st will be the main day for events.
*Where:* Locations are still being sought please contact us to start
planning!
*Webpage:* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Loves_Pride_2014
*Contact:* WikiLGBT(a)gmail.com
Hi All,
I've updated the WikiConferenceUSA press release/invitation with details
about the schedule.
Please do pass it along to anyone you think needs a reminder!
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Cheers,
DH
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Dorothy Howard, Open Data Fellow
Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)
212.228.2320 x127
Hi All,
I want to share a few resources I've developed through my work with Metro.
All of this is CC0 so feel free to use and adapt as you like and let me
know if you have suggestions.
Included
1. An Edit-a-Thon (before, during, after) checklist.
2. A Wikipedia event attendance sheet.
3. A GLAM Best practices statement to be included on GLAM pages or
potentially individual pages. (Adapted from NARA's best practices
statement).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/National_Archives_and_Records_A…
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Dorothy Howard
Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)
212.228.2320 x127
<http://metro.org/>
I am very pleased to announce that WikiConference USA is less than 30 days
away! Over the last few months, Wikimedia NYC and Wikimedia DC have been
collecting curated submissions on a diversity of wiki and free/open
knowledge-related topics (with tracks on Community, Tech, Outreach, GLAM,
Education), and recruited some excellent keynote speakers who can speak to
their personal activism and leadership in these domains.
But this is a "Wiki" conference, and what it thrives on most is your
participation, your differing areas of experience and expertise, to enliven
and enrich all of the sessions we have planned together. And, exciting
too, there still will be numerous opportunities for "unconference" sessions
led by participants on the fly, and we encourage you to bring the ideas
from your domain for these sessions as well.
Here are the details for the conference:
Dates: Friday, May 30, 2014 - Sunday, June 1, 2014
Location: New York Law School (185 West Broadway, New York, NY 10013)
Website: http://wikiconferenceusa.org
Email: wikicon(a)wikimedianyc.org
Registration: http://wikiconusa.eventbrite.org/
And our distinguished and dynamic roster of keynote speakers:
*Phoebe Ayers - Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
*Sumana Harihareswara - Wikimedia Foundation Engineering Community Team;
Advisor, Ada Initiative
*Christie Koehler - Community Building Education Lead, Mozilla Corporation
*DC Vito, Executive Director - The LAMP/MediaBreaker
For more information, please review our official press release below! We
hope you will join us and help us spread the word!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiCon_USA_2014_Press_Release_v1.p…
Thanks,
Richard Knipel (User:Pharos)
Wikimedia NYC
P.S. You are also invited to join the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American
Center for an Edit-a-thon on Saturday May 10:
http://smithsonianapa.org/project/wiki
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Hi All,
Myself, Jason Moore in Portland, OR, and other participants of Wikimedia
LGBT <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_LGBT/Portal> (a proposed
usergroup) have been organizing an Edit-a-Thon campaign called *Wiki Loves
Pride 2014*. We hope the campaign will reach community groups and
institutions interested in diversifying Wikipedia and adding information to
articles on LGBT topics. Along with others, Jason and I both helped out
organizing the Wikipedia Art+Feminism Campaign
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism>and hope to
replicate this wildly successful model with apt media and press outreach as
well as catering to both wiki and non-wiki crowds.
Wiki Loves Pride<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Loves_Pride_2014>,
a series of Edit-a-Thons will take place in June (most likely around
Saturday June 22nd).
If you are interested in volunteering to help organize these events or have
a venue that you think would want to host an Edit-a-Thon please email me or
wikiLGBT(a)gmail.com. We would love to have more co-coordinators and
supporters.
Please also find a general event poster attached which we encourage you to
distribute to interested parties.
Thank you!
Dorothy
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Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)
212.228.2320 x127
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You're invited to participate in the Film, Freedom, and Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon this Friday, April 25th. Although the edit-a-thon will be held as part of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) 2014 in Rochester, you do not need to be attending the conference to participate. Online participation is highly encouraged!
Check out the Meetup page for inspiration, resources, and tools: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/FilmFreedomAndFeminism
To participate,
1. Add your username to the list of participants.
2. Edit anytime, anywhere on Friday, April 25th on the topics of film, freedom, or feminism.
3. Add your contributions to the Outcomes section of the Meetup page.
Happy editing!
Lea
Leanora Lange
Processing and Institutional Archivist and Digitization Projects Liaison
Center for Jewish History
15 W. 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
212-294-8301 x1051
llange(a)cjh.org<mailto:llange@cjh.org>