Our sixth Wiki-Wednesday Drop-In is September 24, at 11 am! Please register on Zoom .

Announcing this month’s CUNYpedia Focus, representing a fruitful on-wiki collaboration springing from the CUNYverse. In this case, our focus is on the CUNY#History section, developed by Associate Archivists as part of the Cultivating Archives & Institutional Memory project:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_University_of_New_York#History

Additionally, now is the time to reach out, I’d encourage folks to get in touch with me to incorporate a Wikipedia assignment for students in your courses for this or the coming semester.

And as a bonus to the extensive online help available from Wiki Education, I’d be glad to support each assignment personally with a class visit this of the coming semester, and help build connections among CUNY faculty working with this program. In parallel with this effort, we also want to help seed Wiki Student Clubs, if any faculty would like to be a part of that:

Wiki-Support from the CUNY Wikimedian-in-Residence

Background

Every month, 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 each last Wednesday!

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!

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

Hope to see you soon!

Feel free to reply directly to me with any questions about the Zoom calls or other Wikimedian-in-Residence activities.

Thanks,

Richard Knipel

CUNY Wikimedian-in-Residence

Our sixth Wiki-Wednesday Drop-In is September 24, at 11 am! Please register on Zoom .

Announcing this month’s CUNYpedia Focus, representing a fruitful on-wiki collaboration springing from the CUNYverse. In this case, our focus is on the CUNY#History section, developed by Associate Archivists as part of the Cultivating Archives & Institutional Memory project:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_University_of_New_York#History

Additionally, now is the time to reach out, I’d encourage folks to get in touch with me to incorporate a Wikipedia assignment for students in your courses for this or the coming semester.

And as a bonus to the extensive online help available from Wiki Education, I’d be glad to support each assignment personally with a class visit this of the coming semester, and help build connections among CUNY faculty working with this program. In parallel with this effort, we also want to help seed Wiki Student Clubs, if any faculty would like to be a part of that:

Wiki-Support from the CUNY Wikimedian-in-Residence

Background

Every month, 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 each last Wednesday!

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!

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

Hope to see you soon!

Feel free to reply directly to me with any questions about the Zoom calls or other Wikimedian-in-Residence activities.

Thanks,

Richard Knipel

CUNY Wikimedian-in-Residence