I’m happy to share that I’ll be hosting monthly Wiki-Wednesday Drop-In Hours, as your very own CUNY Wikimedian-in-Residence on the last Wednesday of each month!

From the Wiki-curious to more experienced Wikipedians, all are welcome to join! Drop-In Hours will be informal, open calls for CUNY folks to connect, share, and collaborate on how we can make CUNY’s rich archive of research materials more accessible to the public through Wikipedia. And we’ll explore how to build on the existing coordinated efforts by the students, faculty, and staff to improve public access to quality information.

Please share widely! Among your library/archive circles, instructors who have experience in teaching wiki-classes or would like to start, interested students, or anyone at CUNY who might be want to learn more about this area.

Hoping we can build a real community of practice here with people sharing across different disciplines and areas of experience, for both online and in-person activities across the campuses. The great thing about an encyclopedia built on free knowledge is its breadth and the possibility for unexpected connections!

Our first Wiki-Wednesday Drop-In will be on April 30 at 11 am. Please register on Zoom .

And you can read more about the CUNY Wikimedian-in-Residence project in our recent announcement in CUNY News.

P.S. Announcing this month's inaugural CUNYpedia Focus Article, representing a fruitful on-wiki collaboration springing from the CUNYverse. In this case between the Cultivating Archives & Institutional Memory project and the disability activism collection at the College of Staten Island, about an amazing decades-long effort to empower special education students through bus and subway skills.

We'll have a CUNY student who worked on [[travel training]] as this month's guest speaker: