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Wikimedia Blog "Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle Wikipedia’s multicultural gaps." February 24, 2015. "Wiki Loves Pride 2014 and Adding Diversity to Wikipedia." July 18, 2014. "On Consortium-Based Wikipedian in Residence Positions." November 13, 2013. Press for METRO Wikipedia Edit-a-thons "Wiki Rockaway Updates Wanted." The Wave. November 22, 2013. Mir, Rebecca. "Go 'Guggathon'! How We Collaboratively Edited Architecture Pages on Wikipedia." Guggenheim Museum blog. October 17, 2014. Press for the #BlackLivesMatter Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, Saturday February 7th Cassano, Jay. "Black History Matters so why is Wikipedia Missing so Much of it." FastCompany. January 29, 2015. Solis, Gustavo. "Schomburg Center Hosts Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon for Articles on Black Culture." DNAInfo. January 30, 2015. Gebreyes, Rahel. "Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon Reinforces The Value Of Digitizing Black History," Huffington Post Blackvoices. February 2, 2015. Lewis, Taylor. "Wikipedia Is Getting a Lesson in Black History." Essence.com Noisette, Thierry. "Un éditathon pour rédiger des pages Wikipédia sur la culture noire." Rue89. February 04, 2015. Mccalister, Jared. "BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2015 : New York celebrates African-American culture and heritage with an abundance of events." NYDaily News. February 05, 2015. Murphy, Carla. Can ‘Black Wikipedia’ Take Off Like ‘Black Twitter’?. Colorlines. February 14, 2015. Allen, Jessica. "Best eating and drinking events this weekend." CBS Local. February 6, 2015. "Participate in an Edit-a-thon Observing Black Wiki History Month." Ethnic Studies, University of Utah. Gedeon, Kimberly. “Where are the Black Pioneers on Wikipedia? A Black History Edit-a-thon will fill in the gaps.” January 30, 2015 The Root. February 2, 2015. GLAM-Wiki Interview Series This interview series began in November, 2013, and will be ongoing. The interviews are also archived on the Wikimedia NYC site. "Adding Authority Archival Information to Wikipedia: An Interview at The Frick Collection." February 20th, 23014. "Contributing to Wikipedia Articles on Music: An Interview with Bob Kosovsky of NYPL's Library for the Performing Arts." January 27th, 2014. "Wikipedia for Special Collections: A Conversation with Leanora Lange of the Center for Jewish History." December 2nd, 2013. "Wikipedia for Special Collections: A Conversation with William Blueher of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Thomas J. Watson Library." November 13, 2013. Other Articles Authored by METRO's Summer 2013-Spring 2015 Wikipedian-in-Residence "Wikipedia Meets Feminism." February 5, 2014. The Daily Beast. METRO Wikipedia-Related Blog Posts “Metro Receives Grant from Wikimedia Foundation.” July 17, 2014. “Libraries, Archives, and Wikipedia: Sessions for METRO members at WikiConference USA.” May 23, 2014. "Spring Wikipedia Activities in New York." May 6, 2014. "Barnard College and Columbia University "Hack the Cannon," Adding Women's History to Wikipedia." April 2, 2014. "Center for Jewish History to Host 'Women in Jewish History' Edit-a-thon on May 4th." April 23, 2014. "Advanced Wikipedia Editing Workshop." November 21, 2013. "A New Content for Greenwich Village History: Wikipedians Visit Jefferson Market Library." November 8, 2013. "Propose-a-Wikipedia-Article Project." October 9, 2013. “Write, Edit, and Share Articles on Queens History at our next Wikipedia Edit-a-thon.” Friday December 6, 2013. Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Greenwich Village in the 1960s." October 11, 2013. “Event Recap: Wikipedia Takes Brooklyn at BPL.” September 30, 2013. “METRO to participate in Wikipedia Takes Brooklyn.” August 21, 2013. Workshop Announcement: “Introduction to Wikipedia for Libraries, Archives, Museums.” Wednesday September 18,2013. “Introducting Dorothy Howard.” August 07, 2013.