Dear colleagues,
The GC Digital Initiatives will be hosting an Earth Day Edit-a-thon. It is open to the public. Come for an hour or for all three and learn how to become a Wikipedia editor. See below for more information, and we hope to see you there!
Best,
Lisa
When: Thursday, April 27th, 11AM – 2 PM
Where: Science Center (The Graduate Center, CUNY, 4th floor)
Who: Open to GC community and the public
Participation is free, but an <a href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/earth-day-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-tickets-33644132506\">RSVP is appreciated</a>.
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The GC Digital Initiatives is hosting a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon to celebrate Earth Day and to improve the quality of open access, free resources about environmental sciences and humanities.
Earth Day is celebrated on April 22nd and people from all over the world are launching campaigns and promoting awareness about critical environmental issues. Our Wikipedia Edit-a-thon is designed to help create and improve Wikipedia’s environmental sciences and humanities content. As the largest and most popular general reference work on Internet, Wikipedia provides many people with their first contact with scientific information.
During the Edit-a-thon, you will learn how to set up an account to edit content, learn how to create citations, and either begin connecting existing content to reliable sources or adding new content supported by citations.
No previous experience is required. If you are interested in attending, please <a href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/earth-day-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-tickets-33644132506\">RSVP here</a>.
If you need accessibility accommodation to attend, contact us at <a href=\"http://cuny.is/contactus\">cuny.is/contactus</a>.
This topic was also posted in: CUNY Academic Commons Subcommittee - Forum,
CUNY Digital History Project,
CUNY GC ITP Program - Forum,
Digital Humanities Reading Group,
GC Digital Initiatives at the CUNY Graduate Center,
Digital Praxis Seminar 2015-2016,
Digital Praxis Seminar 2016-2017,
Digital Research Bootcamp,
GC Digital Initiatives Fellows - Master Group,
GC DRI Jan 2017,
GC Events and Workshops,
GCDI Bootcamp,
GCDI Digital Research Institute Summer 2016,
Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (Public Group),
MALS Digital Humanities Track,
New Media Lab - Forum,
Post-Election Working Group,
Provost’s Digital Innovation Grant Recipients,
Digital Humanities Initiative.
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