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This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue VI, June 2016

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USA report

June is busting out all over

By Slowking4 & Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing)

Wiki Loves Pride 2016 Museum of Modern Art.

Wikimedia NYC had an editathon at the Museum of Modern Art, on June 29, 2016.

National Archives LGBTQ Editathon

Michael Hussey, archivist, speaks to a group of editors during the LGBTQ Wikipedia Editathon

Wikimedia DC had a Loves Pride 2016 editathon at the National Archives Innovation Hub, on June 16, 2016.

Environment and American Art Edit-a-Thon

Wikimedia DC had a edit-a-thon at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, on June 11, 2016.

TED

Jane Darnell (User:Jane023) and Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) continue their stint as remote-working Wikipedians in Residence at NY-based TED (see last month's special report). A number of TED staff have been trained to edit Wikipedia and Wikidata. The TED speakers challenge has been extended for a week, and will run until 13 July. Wikimedians are invited to write or improve Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items about the 1,800+ speakers in the dataset donated by TED. Prizes are offered!