GLAM/Newsletter/April 2019/Contents/USA report

This Month in GLAM – Volume IX, Issue IV, April 2019

USA report

Women's History

Votes for Women Edit-a-thon (repeated from last month)

Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and Wikimedia DC held a meetup. AWHI Votes for Women Edit-a-thon with Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery

Recognizing Black Suffragists

Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument and Wikimedia DC held a meetup, Recognizing Black Suffragists: A Wikipedia Editing Workshop

Black Lunch Table/University of Pennsylvania

Black Lunch Table and Fisher Fine Arts Library, University of Pennsylvania held a meetup, Black Lunch Table/UPENN

San Diego/April 2019

Wikimedia San Diego and Chula Vista Public Library held a meetup, San Diego/April 2019.

Ford's Theatre Workshop

Ford's Theatre and Wikimedia DC held a meetup, Ford's Theatre Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

Program for Cooperative Cataloging May 2019

Program for Cooperative Cataloging and Library of Congress held a "Intro to Wikidata", for librarians, Program for Cooperative Cataloging May 2019.

Wikimedia Commons: a highly hostile place for multimedia students contributions

Apparently, there was some difficulty getting student video work undeleted at commons: Education/News/April 2019/Wikimedia Commons: a highly hostile place for multimedia students contributions. see also Commons:Undeletion_requests/Archive/2019-05#File:Haurdunaldia.webm

Metropolitan Museum of Art to join Wiki Loves Pride in June

The Metropolitan Museum of Art will join Wiki Loves Pride 2019 in June with the Wikimedia LGBT+ user group, Wiki Loves Love, and Consumer Reports. The museum will be supporting one pillar of this wide-ranging campaign with an in-person edit-a-thon and global online effort focused on LGBT artists and artworks with LGBT themes. Those interested in helping to organize on Commons or their local Wikipedia are encouraged to sign up on the meta page.