Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Press

Press[edit]

Thornton, Henrietta (20 March 2024). "QPL Hosts Edit-a-thon to Enhance Wikipedia and Wikidata on Queens". Library Journal.
Fatima, Zoha (16 June 2023). "People are charmed to learn that Wikipedia editors hang out in a public library once a month". Upworthy.
Smoot, Donnavan (15 June 2023). "Wikipedia Editor Gives a Behind-the-Scenes Look at Their Monthly Hangout: 'What a Positive Thing About Society'". In the Know.
"Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon". Pratt Institute Libraries. 12 January 2023.
"The Enduring Allure of the Library of Alexandria". On the Media. 11 November 2022.
"The Met x Wikipedia Virtual Edit Meet-up: Afrofuturism and "Before Yesterday We Could Fly"". Metropolitan Museum of Art. 5 February 2022.
Harrison, Stephen (27 May 2020). "Future Historians Will Need Access to Coronavirus Misinformation". Slate Magazine.
Beschizza, Rob (24 March 2020). "Woman speaking Shaetlan". Boing Boing.
McClendon, Sachi (23 June 2019). "New York's Career Wikipedians". Uptown Radio.
Blancaflor, Saleah (3 May 2019). "Wikipedia edit-a-thon wants to fill in the gaps in Asian American literature". NBC News.
CBC Radio (25 April 2019). "How a missing Wikipedia entry for Who Let the Dogs Out led to a nine-year hunt for answers". CBC Radio.
Jacobs, Julia (8 April 2019). "Wikipedia Isn't Officially a Social Network. But the Harassment Can Get Ugly". The New York Times.
Jackson, Esther; Costantino, Grace (2019-03-19). "#HerNaturalHistory: Open Data, BHL, and Wiki Projects". Biodiversity Heritage Library. Disclaimer: As of the date of this publication, Jackson is also a member of the board at Wikimedia NYC.
Weiner, Shira Schecter; Horbacewicz, Jill; Rasberry, Lane; Bensinger-Brody, Yocheved (18 March 2019). "Improving the Quality of Consumer Health Information on Wikipedia: Case Series". Journal of Medical Internet Research. 21 (3): e12450. doi:10.2196/12450. PMC 6441860. PMID 30882357.
"Meet the Spring 2019 class of TED Residents". TED Blog. 7 March 2019.
Sperling, Jonathan (4 January 2019). "Jim Henderson: Wikipedia Photog and Unsung Hero of Community News". Queens Daily Eagle. Queens Daily Eagle.
Treglia, Kristen (18 December 2018). "December Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Event". Fordham IT News.
Wade, Jess; Zaringhalam, Maryam (14 August 2018). "Why we're editing women scientists onto Wikipedia". Nature. doi:10.1038/d41586-018-05947-8. S2CID 186774096.
Zaringhalam, Maryam (23 July 2018). "Hosting an Edit-a-thon – Science Rising". www.sciencerising.org.
"Finding Women on Wikipedia: Our First Wikipedia Edit-a-thon". Women at the Center. 9 August 2018.
Eimer, Annick (6 July 2018). "Frauen in der Wissenschaft: Jetzt schreibt doch auch mal was!". Spiegel online (in German). Retrieved 6 July 2018.
Allison, Dwight; Meighan Cordero (June 2018). "Wikipedia Translat-a-thon". The Bridge: LaGuardia's Official Student Newspaper. LaGuardia Community College, CUNY. p. 9. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
Ho, Karen K. (16 May 2018). "If an Asian American author doesn't have a Wikipedia page, do they exist?". The Outline.
Ramey, Corinne (7 May 2018). "The 15 People Who Keep Wikipedia's Editors From Killing Each Other". Wall Street Journal.
Alcántara, Ann-Marie (15 March 2018). "Grindr Sponsors a Queer 'Edit-a-Thon' of Wikipedia at SXSW". Ad Week.
Tamacas, Carmen Molina. "Prominentes coreógrafas latinas tendrán página en Wikipedia." El Diario (accessed March 27, 2018) (Editathon at Queens College, March 28, 2018)

Art + Feminism Edit-a-thon at the Museum of Modern Art March 7, 2015 (English Subtitles)

Touro College School of Health Sciences (23 February 2018). ""We Feel a Commitment to Share Evidence-Based Information"". shs.touro.edu. Touro College.
Leo Baeck Institute (18 July 2014). "Wikipedians Write the Book on LBI Collections". www.lbi.org.
Howard, Dorothy. "GLAM-Wiki 2015 Re-cap: Friday April 10 – Sunday April 12, 2015." bibliodot. April 15, 2015.
Howard, Dorothy and Richard Knipel. "Wikimedia Conference 2015 Report." bibliodot. June 10, 2015.
Kessenides, Dimitra; Chafkin, Max (22 December 2016). "Is Wikipedia Woke?". Bloomberg.com.
Lee, Grace. "Wikipedia: Health Information Lives Here." Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. October 27, 2015.
- Video: "Health and Wikipedia: Wikipedia is the cat's meow for health info" by Lane Rasberry, Wikipedian-in-Resident, Consumer Reports.
Solis, Gustavo. "Schomburg Center Hosts Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon for Articles on Black Culture." DNAInfo. January 30, 2015.
"In an age of misinformation, these..." (Video). Elite Daily. 28 January 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
Knipel, Richard (February 12, 2016). "Connecting Wikipedia with the Guggenheim". Guggenheim Museum.
Howard, Dorothy. "GLAM-WIKI 2015 - 10 April - Consortium Wikipedian-in-Residence." April 10, 2015.
Gebreyes, Rahel. ""Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon Reinforces The Value Of Digitizing Black History." Huffington Post Blackvoices. February 2, 2015.
"Introducing Dorothy Howard, METRO's Wikipedian-in-Residence and Open Data Fellow." Metropolitan New York Library Council. August 7, 2013.
EdLab Studios. "Seen in NY: Wikipedia Day." New Learning Times. March 20, 2013.
- Video: "Seen in NY: Wikipedia Day."
Petrusich, Amanda. "Wikipedia's Deep Dive Into a Library Collection." The New York Times. October 20, 2011.
Allum, Cynthia. "Women leading movements to champion equality on Wikipedia: Frustrated by Wikipedia’s male-dominated culture, women are spearheading efforts to record history fairly, and take control of their own stories." The New York Times. February 29, 2016.
Mir, Rebecca. Go “Guggathon”! How We Collaboratively Edited Architecture Pages on Wikipedia." Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Blog. October 17, 2014
Urban Smith, Robin. "StreetFilms: Wikipedia Takes Manhattan." Street Films. October 6, 2008.
- Video: "Wikis Take Manhattan."
Cembalest, Robin. "Museums Open Up to Power of Wiki." The Wall Street Journal. October 11, 2015.
"Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon: Basquiat Still Fly @55." This Week In New York. November 6, 2015.
Rasberry, Lane (17 April 2016). "Wikipedian offer insights into online medical information". HealthLink on Air (Interview). Interviewed by Linda Cohen. Oswego, New York: WRVO. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
Wortham, Jenna (June 21, 2016). "How an Archive of the Internet Could Change History". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
Azzam, Amin; Bresler, David; Leon, Armando; Maggio, Lauren; Whitaker, Evans; Heilman, James; Orlowitz, Jake; Swisher, Valerie; Rasberry, Lane; Otoide, Kingsley; Trotter, Fred; Ross, Will; McCue, Jack D. (2016). "Why Medical Schools Should Embrace Wikipedia". Academic Medicine. 92 (2): 1. doi:10.1097/ACM.0000000000001381. ISSN 1040-2446. PMID 27627633. S2CID 24613560.
Harford, Sonia (17 March 2017). "Project to increase listing of women architects in Wikipedia". The Sydney Morning Herald. - WM NYC supports WP:WikiD
Stoelker, Tom (May 24, 2017). "On Faculty Technology Day, Embracing Digital Citizenship". Fordham News. Fordham University.
"El ejemplo cubano para solucionar la brecha digital en el mundo". CNNEspañol.com (in European Spanish). 22 December 2016.
Nelson, Katherine; Gonzales, Lucia Haro; Millan, Maria Gonzalez; Suito, Jorge Salem (14 June 2017). "Internet-in-a-box—connectivity for the rest of the world". Phys.org.
Nelson, Katherine; Gonzales, Lucia del Pilar Haro; Millán, Maria González; Suito, Jorge Salem; Nelson, Katherine; Gonzales, Lucia del Pilar Haro; Millán, Maria González; Suito, Jorge Salem (8 June 2017). "Information for the Unconnected". Foreign Affairs.
Earth Institute; Nelson, Katherine; Gonzales, Lucia Haro; Millan, Maria Gonzalez; Suito, Jorge Salem (13 June 2017). "Internet-in-a-Box: Connectivity for the Rest of the World". Earth Institute.
Wikis take Manhattan, 2008
20 Dollars = Dessert for Two, 2008

Blog posts[edit]

Wikimedia Blog[edit]

chron order

Davis, LiAnna. "Regional Ambassadors recruit new Education Program participants." Wikimedia Blog. August 11, 2011.
Davis, LiAnna. "Digital media professor gives students real-world experiences through Wikipedia assignment." Wikimedia Blog. January 4, 2012.
Howard, Dorothy. "On Consortium-Based Wikipedian in Residence Positions." Wikimedia Blog. November 15, 2013.
Howard, Dorothy. "Wiki Loves Pride 2014 and Adding Diversity to Wikipedia." Wikimedia Blog. July 18, 2014.
Knipel, Richard. "UN, Wikimedia New York deliver open, free world maps on GIS Day." Wikimedia Blog. November 19, 2014.
Howard, Dorothy. "Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle Wikipedia’s multicultural gaps." Wikimedia Blog. February 24, 2015.
Evans, Siân and Jacqueline Mabey, Michael Mandiberg, Dorothy Howard. "Art+Feminism Events on International Women’s Day." Wikimedia Blog. March 19, 2015.
Grigas, Victor and Ed Erhart. "#BlackLifeMatters edit-a-thon bolsters Wikipedia’s coverage of black history." Wikimedia Blog. February 21, 2016.
Kozlowski, Tomasz; Grigas, Victor (17 August 2016). ""It's incredible that history decays almost immediately": Evan Amos and the Vanamo Online Game Museum – Wikimedia Blog". blog.wikimedia.org.
Knipel, Richard. "The Metropolitan Museum of Art makes 375,000 images of public domain art freely available under Creative Commons Zero" Wikimedia Blog. February 7, 2017.
Knipel, Richard. "The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 375,000 windows on art history, and that’s just the beginning" Wikimedia Blog. July 25, 2017.

Other blogs[edit]

Jackson, Esther; Richter, Felix; Suryawanshi, Abhishek (11 Aug 2017). "Wikimedia: Health, Science, & Inclusion Through Wikipedia - Session I: Wikimedia: Health, Science, & Inclusion Through Wikipedia". webtv.un.org. United Nations.
Therox, Orta; Roop (31 August 2017). "Art + Feminism and Artsy Wikipedia/Wikidata Editathon - Artsy Engineering". artsy.github.io.
Report from Wikipedia Day 2018 in New York City - Wiki Education (WikiEdu), January 30, 2018
Wikipedia Fellows pilot evaluation

GLAM interviews (2013-2014)[edit]

Dorothy Howard, member of Wikimedia NYC and Wikipedian in Residence at the Metropolitan New York Library Council ("Metro"), talked to Wikipedians about their work. This series ran from November 2013 to February 2014.

Howard, Dorothy and William Blueher. "Wikipedia for Special Collections: A Conversation with Metropolitan Museum of Art Watson Library's William Blueher." November 25, 2013.
Howard, Dorothy and Leanora Lange. "Wikipedia for Special Collections: A Conversation with Center for Jewish History's Leanora Lange." December 2, 2013.
Howard, Dorothy and Bob Kosovsky. "Contributing to Wikipedia Articles on Music: An Interview with Bob Kosovsky of New York Public Library New York Library for the Performing Arts." January 27, 2014.
Howard, Dorothy, Shannon Morelli and Sally Brazil. "Adding Authority Archival Information to Wikipedia: An Interview at The Frick Collection." February 20, 2014.
Howard, Dorothy and Ann Matsuuchi. "Wikipedia Takes to CUNY-LaGuardia Community College: A Conversation with Librarian Ann Matsuuchi." March 11, 2014.

Video and audio[edit]

ScienceApologist on Pseudoscience on Wikipedia on Internet Archive
David Shankbone on Wikinews, DGG on Librarians' criteria for reliability, Gmaxwell on New pages patrol feature on Internet Archive
MBisanz on Admin coaching on Internet Archive
Shapiros10 on RfA and ageism, Mitchazenia on educational projects
Becksguy on adjusting to growth
One_of_Us_(2017_film) is a documentary which features a Hasidic Brooklyn young man who reports that somehow he had no awareness of the non-Jewish world before discovering Wikipedia.

Did you know...[edit]

2016-07-12: Did you know... that Dyke Action Machine! created public art that used commercial photography styling to present lesbian images that resisted sexism and consumerism? -- created as part of Wiki Loves Pride 2016 @ MoMA by Lange.lea (talk) -- page views

Galleries[edit]

Event photos[edit]

see Wikimedia New York City event photos category on Wikimedia Commons

Logos[edit]

Wikimedia NYC
Wikimedia New York City

External links[edit]

Wikipedia Meetup - NYC (main events page)
Wikimedia New York City
Free Culture Alliance NYC