Museums Open Up to Power of Wiki
MoMA now hosts monthly edit-a-thons to help improve the quality of Wikipedia pages
Robin Cembalest | October 11, 2015
“Stay cool when the editing gets hot” was the catchphrase in the Museum of Modern Art’s library one Saturday earlier this month, where volunteers from New York City’s Wikimedia chapter were training a diverse group on the culture and mechanics of crowd-sourced Web content.
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| The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. Source: http://mayfairnewyork.com/times-square.html |
<more at http://www.wsj.com/articles/museums-open-up-to-power-of-wiki-1444613033; related links: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/06/moma-to-host-wikipedia-editing-marathon-to-improve-coverage-of-women-in-the-arts/?_r=0 (MoMA to Host Wikipedia Editing Marathon, to Improve Coverage of Women in the Arts. March 6, 2015) and http://www.eventbrite.com/e/artfeminism-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-tickets-15701844640 (Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. The Museum of Modern Art. Saturday, March 7, 2015 from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM (EST) New York, NY)>
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