Teh One Who Knocks
02-27-2017, 01:13 PM
By Lukas Mikelionis - Heat Street
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The New York Public Library organized a mass “Black Power” Wikipedia editing event on Saturday to add and correct content in the online encyclopedia.
The event, called “Black Power! Wikipedia Edit-a-thon” is organized for the third time and invites people to come and learn how to work with Wikipedia and edit the pages. The particular focus of the event is black history and culture.
“At this event, you will learn how Wikipedia works and how to add content to it. Take advantage of the rich resources of the Schomburg library to write and edit entries on black history and culture,” claims the event page.
“Passion for black history and culture is highly recommended!” it added.
Wikipedia “Edit-a-thons” are becoming increasingly more popular. Last year, New Yorker wrote about a feminist edit-a-thon focused on feminist art. As the article recalled:
One table over, Corinne Vizzacchero and Andrew Sloat, friends in their late thirties, were collaborating on an article about the Madame Binh Graphics Collective, the all-women propaganda arm of a Communist organization that was founded by members of the Weather Underground.
On March 1, another event is being held called “Women’s Herstory editathon” inviting people of all “gender identities expressions, transgender cisgender and gender nonconforming women” to correct “skewed” content on Wikipedia.
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The New York Public Library organized a mass “Black Power” Wikipedia editing event on Saturday to add and correct content in the online encyclopedia.
The event, called “Black Power! Wikipedia Edit-a-thon” is organized for the third time and invites people to come and learn how to work with Wikipedia and edit the pages. The particular focus of the event is black history and culture.
“At this event, you will learn how Wikipedia works and how to add content to it. Take advantage of the rich resources of the Schomburg library to write and edit entries on black history and culture,” claims the event page.
“Passion for black history and culture is highly recommended!” it added.
Wikipedia “Edit-a-thons” are becoming increasingly more popular. Last year, New Yorker wrote about a feminist edit-a-thon focused on feminist art. As the article recalled:
One table over, Corinne Vizzacchero and Andrew Sloat, friends in their late thirties, were collaborating on an article about the Madame Binh Graphics Collective, the all-women propaganda arm of a Communist organization that was founded by members of the Weather Underground.
On March 1, another event is being held called “Women’s Herstory editathon” inviting people of all “gender identities expressions, transgender cisgender and gender nonconforming women” to correct “skewed” content on Wikipedia.