Wikimedia NYC

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Since 2020 only about 15% of Wikipedia editors identify as women! This affects the number of Wikipedia articles about women and non-binary journalists. Earlier this month, we worked with @womendonews to help close that gender gap 💻 Participants helped edit and create new…

Wikicurious: Editing to the Beat is headed to Miami to groove to Caribbean & Latin Music! Join us on Aug 30 from 12-5:30pm at the Miami-Dade Public Library to learn to edit #Wikipedia. RSVP at our event calendar in bio. Wikicurious is supported by @craignewmark Philanthropies.

Thank you to @WSPConservancy for hosting our first Wiknic of the year! Despite a random burst of rain 🤣 we had a great time exploring the park and West Village neighborhood to take photos for Wikimedia Commons as part of our Wikipedia #NYC400 project ☔️ @craignewmark

This month, Wikicurious landed at The Bechtler in Charlotte, North Carolina! Dr. Amy Carleton led a training for more than 60 new Wikipedians focused on addressing content gaps on Wikipedia and good digital citizenship. Wikicurious is supported by @craignewmark philanthropies.…

Grab your laptop, camera, and some shades 😎 and join us in the summer sun for a special NYC 400 Wikipedia picnic (Wiknic!) and photo tour in partnership with @WSPConservancy on Sunday, July 20th from 12pm to 4pm🧺 RSVP here: eventbrite.com/e/nyc-400-wikn… Support for the NYC 400…

Want to raise the visibility of women, women-identified, non-binary journalists? Love Wikipedia? In NYC July 17th? Come to Prime Produce 5-8pm and join us & Women Do News for an edit-a-thon! Details: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event:NYC…

Earlier this year for the official 400th anniversary of #NYC, we called on New Yorkers and everyone else who loves this city to nominate 400 impactful New Yorkers and NYC neighborhoods that deserve a place on #Wikipedia 🏆 We received over 1000 submissions from the public and…

Flashback Friday! 📷 Take a look back at our Wikicurious: Community Memory event last month with @rhizome and the @cyberneticslib! We had so much fun exploring the art installations, reading rare books, and editing Wikipedia articles about media art 🔥

The deadline to submit a program proposal for WikiConference North America is July 1st! 😀 If you have an idea or a session you're interested in leading at this year's conference in NYC, October 16th to 19th, 2025, make sure you propose it before the deadline ‼️…

Charlotte, North Carolina! 📍Join us on Wed, July 2 from 5-8p at The Bechtler Museum for Wikicurious: Rewriting the Canvas on Wikipedia. This event is perfect for anyone looking to learn more about how to create and edit articles on Wikipedia, and those interested in learning…

Last week, in collaboration with @Wikimedia, @UN, @ItalyUN_NY and the UN Mission for Sri Lanka, we held the largest Wikipedia edit-a-thon at the United Nations! Take a read of this Diff post to learn more about what we achieved: diff.wikimedia.org/2025/06/18/ins…

Italy proud of co-organizing with @Wikimedia & Sri Lanka the Edit-A-Thon at the #UNOpenSourceWeek promoted by @ODET_UN 🇺🇳. Together with hundreds of Youths from all over the 🌍 we celebrated the power of OpenSource to accelerate #GlobalGoals. #70ItalyUN

Last month, Wikicurious held our first event in Dallas, TX! We partnered with @HWildCatters to host Wikicurious: Editing Health Innovation on Wikipedia. We loved training the community on how to take the leap from being Wikipedia readers to editors. Local journalist…

Calling all policymakers, engineers, & open source builders for UN Tech Over during UN Open Source Week! 📍 UN HQ, NYC | 16 June 🔹 Edit-A-Thon – UN history w/ @Wikimedia 🔗 Register now: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/response… #UNOpenSourceWeek #OpenSource @UN_OICT

We're excited to share that Inside Higher Ed published a great feature on our Wikimedian-in-Residence project in partnership with @CUNY and funded by @craignewmark. The article highlights the important work being done to bring academic resources to a broader audience, with…