Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Zabar Art Library

Art and Art History Edit-a-thon
When and Where
Date:	Thursday, October 27, 2016
Time:	1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Location:	Zabar Art Library
Attendees:	Students, faculty, and staff affiliated with Hunter College

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The Zabar Art Library hosted its first ever Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Thursday, October 27, 2016. Wikipedia edit-a-thons provide those new to Wikipedia with the opportunity to learn to edit Wikipedia articles. The edit-a-thon is focused on editing Art & Art History articles. All Hunter students, faculty and staff were invited to attend.

The edit-a-thon provide participants with the opportunity to help improve the encyclopedia by editing articles related to art. A limited number of laptops were available for students use.

A rticles to improve

Articles improved

Morehshin Allahyari (new media artist/educator/activist) -- Mozucat (talk)
Troy Brauntuch -- Infonet4all (talk)
Franklin Furnace Archive -- Mozucat (talk)
Larry Bell (artist)

Articles created

Oscar Muñoz (artist) -- Tgubernat (talk)

Wikidata items updated

Resources

Editing Wikipedia

Wikipedia's Principles

External links

Event page at Hunter College

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This event is open to all Hunter College students, faculty, and staff.

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Pharos (talk) 03:44, 24 October 2016 (UTC)reply
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