Hi NYC Wiki-interested folks, You're invited to help us improve Wikipedia articles on Black history and culture- new contributors and voices are especially encouraged to join! Event: 'Black Life Matters' Wikipedia Edit-a-thon @ 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 Time: 12 noon-4:30/5:00pm The Wikipedia training and Edit-a-thon will take place in the Aaron Douglas Reading Room of the Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, with a following reception in the Langston Hughes lobby on the first floor of the building. In addition to new people, we also need some volunteers to help with hands-on training during the event! *** For details, see our edit-a-thon page on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Black_Life_Matters_Edita… And please sign up on eventbrite as well: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-life-matters-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-ticke… *** And for those around Brooklyn, check out sister event AfroCROWD @ Brooklyn Public Library on Saturday and Sunday, part of our shared "Black WikiHistory Month Weekend". Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia_NYC mailing list Wikimedia_NYC(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia_nyc