The GC Digital Initiatives is hosting a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
<https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/event/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-earth-day/>
to celebrate Earth Day and to improve the quality of open access, free
resources about environmental sciences and humanities.
Earth Day is celebrated on April 22nd and people from all over the world
are launching campaigns and promoting awareness about critical
environmental issues. Our Wikipedia Edit-a-thon is designed to help create
and improve Wikipedia’s environmental sciences and humanities content. As
the largest and most popular general reference work on Internet, Wikipedia
provides many people with their first contact with scientific information.
During the Edit-a-thon, you will learn how to set up an account to edit
content, learn how to create citations, and either begin connecting
existing content to reliable sources or adding new content supported by
citations.
*When:* Thursday, April 27th, 11AM – 2 PM
*Where:* Science Center (The Graduate Center, CUNY, 4th floor)
*Who:* Open to GC community and the public
If you are interested in attending, please RSVP here
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/earth-day-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-tickets-336441…>
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Hi Wiki Yorkers,
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community on April 19 for our
next evening "WikiWednesday" salon and knowledge-sharing workshop at
Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.
We welcome all interest from the education, museum and library, and
nonprofit worlds, and from everyone in any community interested in building
a bigger, broader and better Wikipedia.
With a meetup-keynote this month TBA. Also, we welcome your 5-minute
lightning talks!
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WikiWednesday Details:
April 19 @ Babycastles, 137 West 14th Street
7:00pm - 9:00pm Regular meeting: Introduction for new participants,
Noshing, Chapter projects
Agenda and RSVP on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYChttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC#Sign_up
RSVP on meetup.com:
http://www.meetup.com/WikimediaNYC/
Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues!
Thanks,
Richard (User:Pharos)
Wikimedia NYC