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We are the regional Wikimedia chapter serving the New York City metropolitan area. Event calendar at https://xitter.cf/t.co/cBcwm9ETmJ

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This year, Wikicurious helped hundreds of people learn to edit Wikipedia — each event built around something the local community genuinely cared about. 🧵 A recap of our first half of 2026. Thanks to @craignewmark Philanthropies for their support. #Wikicurious #Wikipedia
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Come to Wikicurious: Rooted in Oakland on Nov. 12 to learn to edit Wikipedia and add Oakland’s legacy to the world’s most-read encyclopedia. 🗓 Thu Nov. 12, 5:30–8:30 pm 📍 @_BayRising Movement Hub, Downtown Oakland ✨ Free! No experience needed, just bring a laptop. Dinner is on us.
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💻 RSVP: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event:… 📣 Share this event with a Wikicurious friend. We hope to see you there! 🌆 Hosted by @WikimediaNYC & the Bay Area Wikipedians User Group. Wikicurious is supported by @craignewmark Philanthropies.

Event:Wikicurious: Rooted in Oakland - Wikipedia

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@Wikipedia is where facts go to live. A network of editors provides an immune system that's the best that that people can do. They do this to benefit, seriously, everyone. More needed, announcements forthcoming... iis where facts go to live. A network of editors provides an immune system that's the best that that people can do.
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This year, Wikicurious helped hundreds of people learn to edit Wikipedia — each event built around something the local community genuinely cared about. 🧵 A recap of our first half of 2026. Thanks to @craignewmark Philanthropies for their support. #Wikicurious #Wikipedia
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Fort Lauderdale (272 chars) In June, 40+ new editors gathered at @BrowardAARLCC for Wikicurious: Black Broward — improving Wikipedia coverage of Black history in Broward County, and piloting the new WikiLatinos Learning Platform. 👤 48 editors | ✍️ 495 total edits | 👁️ 784,000 article views 📍 Fort Lauderdale, FL
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More Wikicurious events are on the way — and you can participate from anywhere. Follow us to stay in the loop. (Photo credits listed in Baby Globe alt text, below) #Wikicurious #Wikipedia #WikimediaNYC #FreeKnowledge #EditWikipedia
Photo credits — Baby Globe: Tohaomg / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). Slide 1 (cover): Carrie Gibson, participant. Slide 2 (Sundance): Kevin Payravi / WikiPortraits. Slides 3–4 (Austin): Jenny8 Lee / WikiPortraits. Slides 5–6 (Asheville): Jenny Bowen / Buncombe County Special Collections. Slides 7–8 (Chapel Hill): Gaurav Vaidya / North Carolina Wikipedians. Slides 9–10 (Fort Lauderdale): Oscar Costero / WikiLatinos.

ALT Photo credits — Baby Globe: Tohaomg / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). Slide 1 (cover): Carrie Gibson, participant. Slide 2 (Sundance): Kevin Payravi / WikiPortraits. Slides 3–4 (Austin): Jenny8 Lee / WikiPortraits. Slides 5–6 (Asheville): Jenny Bowen / Buncombe County Special Collections. Slides 7–8 (Chapel Hill): Gaurav Vaidya / North Carolina Wikipedians. Slides 9–10 (Fort Lauderdale): Oscar Costero / WikiLatinos.

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Come celebrate the 14th birthday of Wikidata with us! Join the local Wikidata editing community for Wikidata Day in New York City on Friday, October 30, 2026 from 2pm to 6pm hosted by Wikimedia NYC in collaboration with @semlabteam at @prattischool. Register here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event:…
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Join Wikimedia NYC and Electronic Frontier Foundation on Tuesday, October 20th from 5:00pm to 8:00pm for an Open Access Week social gathering and discussion about the human cost of knowledge 📖 Food and drinks will be provided 🍕 Register on our events page!
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Register on our Events page, here: wikimedianyc.org/events/pay-…

Pay Per Pie: How Restrictive Platforms Require More for the Same Crust — Wikimedia New York City

Join Wikimedia New York City and Electronic Frontier Foundation on Tuesday, October 20th from 5:00pm to 8:00pm at Prime Produce for a social gathering and community discussion about the invisible...

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The focus: the Index of American Design, a WPA Federal Art Project that made a pictorial survey of American crafts and decorative arts from the colonial era to 1900. The Index images are now held by the National Gallery of Art.
English: Title: Index of American Design Abstract: Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition of "Index of American Design," showing woven fabric. Physical description: 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen, color. Notes: Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Date between 1936 and 1939 Source Library of Congress Catalog: http://lccn.loc.gov/98517902 Image download: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3b40000/3b48000/3b48700/3b48727r.jpg Original url: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b48727 or Work Projects Administration Poster Collection

ALT English: Title: Index of American Design Abstract: Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition of "Index of American Design," showing woven fabric. Physical description: 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen, color. Notes: Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Date between 1936 and 1939 Source Library of Congress Catalog: http://lccn.loc.gov/98517902 Image download: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3b40000/3b48000/3b48700/3b48727r.jpg Original url: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b48727 or Work Projects Administration Poster Collection

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New to editing? Training is provided. Bring a laptop or borrow one on-site. To find the group: enter the East Building on 4th St NW and head to the first-floor study center. Past security, walk straight, go past the stairs and turn right at the interactive easels.
By Gryffindor  This panoramic image was created with Autostitch (stitched images may differ from reality). - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2955975

ALT By Gryffindor  This panoramic image was created with Autostitch (stitched images may differ from reality). - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2955975

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Thanks to Ariel Cetrone and Wikimedia DC for organizing. Event details: nga.gov/calendar/first-satur…
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🏛️ Tomorrow in DC! Drop-in Wikipedia edit-a-thon at the National Gallery of Art, with support from Wikimedia DC. Sat, Oct 3, 1–3pm. No registration needed. All welcome, and thanks as always to @craignewmark ! nga.gov/calendar/first-satur… 🧵
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🇵🇷 Wikicurious traveled to San Juan, Puerto Rico, for Wikicurious: Arte y Cultura, two days of Wikipedia editing and photography at the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (MAPR) on Aug 28–29. The event drew 53 registrants to the museum in San Juan's Santurce barrio. 🧵
Oscar Costero of WikiLatinos leads a training session. Photo by Natalia Ortega, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (MAPR), CC BY-SA 4.0.

ALT Oscar Costero of WikiLatinos leads a training session. Photo by Natalia Ortega, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (MAPR), CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Thank you to MAPR, to trainers Oscar Costero of WikiLatinos and @payravi of @wikiportraits, to Patricia Tours, and to every editor who took part, from longtime contributors to first-timers. Many thanks as well to @craignewmark for supporting WikiCurious!
Las Musas, by Annex Burgos, installed at the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico. By Betxypr, CC BY-SA 4.0.

ALT Las Musas, by Annex Burgos, installed at the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico. By Betxypr, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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