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Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Poetry
March 29, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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ikipedia for Educators at Fordham will be hosting a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Friday, March 29th from 4:00pm to 8:00pm at Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus.
This event is designed to improve coverage of missing poets, especially women poets, on Wikipedia. The edit-a-thon will include tutorials for the beginner Wikipedian, ongoing editing support, reference materials, and refreshments. This event is free and open to the public. People of all gender identities and expressions are encouraged to participate.
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Questions? Please contact Kristen Treglia: treglia [at] fordham [dot]edu.
Wikipedia for Educators at Fordham supports and promotes the use of Wikipedia in the classroom, organizes edit-a-thons on campus and promotes Wikipedia events in the community. This is an open group made of faculty, staff, and students. Founded in 1841, Fordham University, the Jesuit University of New York, is committed to the discovery of Wisdom and the transmission of Learning, through research and through undergraduate, graduate and professional education of the highest quality.
Wikimedia NYC is the regional Wikimedia chapter serving the New York metropolitan area. They help promote free access to the world’s knowledge in support of Wikipedia and the other projects of the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikimedia NYC is a separate organization from the Wikimedia Foundation and has no editorial control over Wikipedia or any other project hosted by the Foundation.
