From Transcription Centre to Schomburg Center: A Wikidata Edit-a-thon

Wikidata Edit-a-thon | 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM | Aaron Douglas Reading Room

Presented by the Schomburg Center as part of the 2026 New York Black and African Literature Festival, join us for this special Wikidata Edit-a-thon. Participants will create Wikidata items for the writers, works, organizations, and other entities referenced in the Schomburg Center’s Transcription Centre Interviews with African Writers audio collection. The event will include an introduction and training on Wikidata basics. We welcome all participants—no previous experience is necessary. We ask that attendees bring a laptop and set up a Wikidata account prior to the event via the account registration link.

Questions: contact [email protected]

E-TRANSPORTATION NYPL policy prohibits electric transportation devices (e.g., motorbikes, e-bikes, e-scooters, e-skateboards) from being brought into or stored at library sites for any length of time, as this is the best way to keep our spaces & people safe.

AUDIO/VIDEO RECORDING Programs are photographed and recorded by the Schomburg Center. Attending this event indicates your consent to being filmed/photographed and your consent to the use of your recorded image for any all purposes of the New York Public Library.

PRESS Please send all press inquiries (photo, video, interviews, audio-recording, etc) at least 24-hours before the day of the program to Leah Drayton at [email protected].

Please note that professional video recordings are prohibited without expressed consent.

The Schomburg Center thanks outreach partner AfroCROWD for their support with this event.

Photo credit: Lewis Nkosi, Chinua Achebe, and Wole Soyinka discuss an African mask," undated, Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library.