Saturday, May 10, 2014, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
31-00 47th Avenue, #1105, Long Island City, NY
Bring your laptop and participate in the first-ever Wikipedia edit-a-thon focused on Asian Pacific America!
Schedule:
10:00 – Check in/light breakfast/meet someone you don’t already know!
10:30 – Welcome/Intro to Wiki
11:00 – Get started on editing
12:00 – Lunch is served! (Filipino food from Tito’s)
12:30 – 12:45 – GUEST SPEAKER – Nancy Bulalacao, Principal of the Filipino American Museum (FAM)
1:00 – Continue editing!
2:00 – 2:15 – GUEST SPEAKER – Fiction reading by Jordan Alam (http://thecowation.blogspot.com/ and Editor-in-Chief of http://project-as-i-am.com/)
3:00 – 3:15 – What’s next at the Smithsonian APA Center?
4:00 – Wrap Up / Happy Hour – Share what you edited!
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Wikipedia is one of the most widely-used resources in the world for general information. Whether you’re a seasoned Wikipedian, an APA studies scholar, or completely new to all of this, your voice is needed to add to the presence of cultural, historic, and artistic information on Wikipedia about Asian Pacific American (APA) experiences.
For more information about the event, please visit:
http://smithsonianapa.org/project/wiki