Hi All,

Just wanted to loop everyone in about an upcoming Edit-a-thon that Richard Knipel, Michael Lewis, and staff at NYPL and the Schomburg Center have been discussing and beginning to plan with us.

This email is not an official announcement, but rather, an alert to those interested that this will be put on the calendar very soon. If you are interested in helping out on the day-of the event, please do RSVP asap on the Wikipedia event page, so we can get a sense of how many experienced editors will be in the house.

That said, if you are an experienced editor, I encourage you to come and plan to edit. I know often experienced editors come to Edit-a-thons and spend all their time helping newcomers, which is highly important, but I think it would be great if we could have some editing sprinting among experienced editors at these events as well.

Let me know if you have further questions. More info will be coming soon!

Cheers, and Happy New Year,

Dorothy

Date: Saturday February 7th, 2015

Address: 515 Malcolm X Boulevard (Lenox Avenue) between West 135th and 136th Streets, Harlem, New York

Nearest Subway Lines:

Time: 12noon-4:30/5:00pm

Wikipedia Training: Dorothy Howard, Wikipedian-in-Residence at the Metropolitan New York Library Council, will conduct a Wikipedia editing training at 12:30pm.

Organizers: Maira Liriano (Schomburg Center for Research of Black Culture), Shana Kimball (NYPL), Dorothy Howard (Metropolitan New York Library Council), Richard Knipel (Wikimedia NYC), Michael Lewis (Free Harlem WiFi).

Event page: Event page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Black_Lives_Matter_Editathon