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The New York Public Libraryorganized a mass Black Power Wikipedia editing event on Saturday to add and correct content in the online encyclopedia.

The event, called Black Power! Wikipedia Edit-a-thonis organized for the third time and invites people to come and learn how to work with Wikipedia and edit the pages. The particular focus of the eventis black history and culture.

At this event, you will learn how Wikipedia works and how to add content to it. Take advantage of the rich resources of the Schomburg library to write and edit entries on black history and culture,claims the event page.

Passion for black history and culture is highly recommended! it added.

Wikipedia Edit-a-thons are becoming increasingly more popular. Last year, New Yorker wrote about a feminist edit-a-thon focused on feminist art. As the article recalled:

One table over, Corinne Vizzacchero and Andrew Sloat, friends in their late thirties, were collaborating on an article about the Madame Binh Graphics Collective, the all-women propaganda arm of a Communist organization that was founded by members of the Weather Underground.

On March 1, another event is being held called Womens Herstory editathon inviting people ofall gender identities expressions, transgender cisgender and gender nonconforming women tocorrect skewed content on Wikipedia.

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