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
*Black Lives Matter Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the NYPL Schomburg Center for
Research in Black Culture *
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_Edita…
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Dorothy Howard
Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)
212.228.2320 x127