Division of Libraries' Day(s) of Learning

As part of the NYU Libraries Day of Learning, we invite you to spend some time editing or contributing to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia created, curated, and edited in a process of community review. This process allows anyone to edit or suggest changes to other community members' work. While this lowers the bar for entry, it also means that knowledge within Wikipedia is subject to the same morays of culture at large. Many important topics, contents, contexts, and perspectives have been left out of the collective knowledge.

During a Wikipeida edit-a-thon community members seek to add different, contrasting, or complementary contributions to Wikipedia's knowledge base. For this week's NYU DoL DoL theme, we seek to add new perspectives using critical pedagogy and critical race theory on many topics.

You can help improve Wikipedia in several ways including:

• adding a citation (Watch a video to learn how)
• copy editing
• adding a section or paragraph to an article (Watch a video to learn how)
• drafting a completely new article

• Information Activism 
• Zine 
• Critical Library Instruction (section in a larger article on Library Instruction) 
• Critical Pedagogy
• Critical Literacy
• Critical Race Theory
• Audre Lorde
• Feminist Pedagogy
• LCSH Policy Issues (section in Library of Congress Subject Heading article)
• Illegal aliens (Library of Congress Subject Heading)
• Alexandria Library Sit in
• Dorothy Porter 
• Freedom Libraries (on Freedom Summer page)
• Tougaloo Nine (more on their read in)

Let's improve Wikipedia's inclusion and diversity! 

Find a Wikipedia article relating to the Libraries' IDBEA strategic priority.  Is there something you're reading, watching, or listening to for the DoL DoL?  Is there a way you can include that material as a citation in a Wikipedia article? 

Alternatively, find an article about a woman in Wikipedia to add a citation (only about 18% of Wikipedia articles are about women) or use Alex Provo & KARMS's aggregated list of resources from the OGI's list of Anti-racism resources to find a Wikipedia article related to the list and add a citation. 

You can also use some other tools available to discover articles that need to be edited: