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Boston University Libraries would like to invite you to attend a Wikipedia edit-a-thon on July 10, 2018, from 1-4pm in Mugar Library, Third Floor Conference Room.

In anticipation of the upcoming 2018 Wikimania Cape Town conference, our theme for this event will be the Global South: Bridging Knowledge Gaps.

Please register here: http://www.bu.edu/library/summer18wikipedia/

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Geolocated items being filled in on Wikidata from 2014 to 2017—an example of knowledge gaps being filled in over time.
Image<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Items_Map_2014_%E2%80%93_2017_gif.gif> by Denis Schroeder/Wikimedia Germany, CC0<https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en>.
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/02/05/wikimania-cape-town-ubuntu/

Event details:
Date: Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Time: 1:00-4:00pm (Please feel free to drop by for some or all of the event)
Place: 3rd floor Large Admin Room, Mugar Memorial Library
Food: Snacks and refreshments will be served.
RSVP encouraged: http://www.bu.edu/library/summer18wikipedia/
No experience required!

Please feel free to contact Laura, Rachel, or Ellen with any questions.  Hope to see you on July 10th!

All the best,

Rachel Dwyer, Assistant Head, African Studies Library, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Laura Jenemann,  Communication Media & Film Librarian,  [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Ellen Phillips, Open Access Specialist, Digital Scholarship Services, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>



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