Events and Programs

Join City Tech Library and the City Tech Pride Club to edit Wikipedia! We’ll be looking at how Wikipedia can be a tool for increasing online visibility of LGBTQIA+ topics. Join us if you want to learn to edit Wikipedia, already know how to edit, or are just wiki-curious! We’ll start our event with a short training session for anyone new to Wikipedia or who would like a refresher. We’ll  spend the rest of the event improving Wikipedia articles about LGBTQIA+ topics related to CUNY, New York City, and beyond.

Food will be served.

When: March 26, 2026, 12:45-2:15pm

Where: City Tech, 300 Jay Street, Brooklyn NY — Dean of Arts and Sciences’ Conference Room, N321

What to bring: a laptop if you have one; if not, we have some you can borrow.

This event is supported by a Wikimedia Foundation Rapid Grant for Exploring Wikiprojects at City Tech Library. All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC’s code of conduct and Photo Consent Policy.

Join Jen Hoyer from City Tech Library on Thursday, November 13th at 10am for a 30 minute introduction to Wikimedia Commons, the internet’s best image repository.

In our 30 minutes together we’ll cover: 

• What is Wikimedia Commons? 
• How can images from Wikimedia Commons be used for teaching or in student assignments? 
• How can individuals contribute to Wikimedia Commons?

We’ll practice searching Wikimedia Commons, explore the types of content available, look at various rights policies and usage licenses on images, and learn about fun initiatives and contests for contributing images to Wikimedia Commons.

This workshop is taking place online and will not be recorded. If you can’t attend, keep an eye out for future offerings of this same workshop. 

Join us at City Tech Library to use CUNY’s rich archival resources for editing Wikipedia!

Did you know that City Tech has an amazing archive—and we’re just one of many CUNYs with a rich historic repository? At this event, we’ll be using digitized archival material from City Tech and other CUNYs to edit Wikipedia pages about people and events connected to CUNY’s history.

No editing experience required! This event will start with a short training session for anyone new to Wikipedia or who would like a refresher. We’ll be working in a space with desktop computers for all participants, so laptops are not needed. Food and drinks will be provided.

If you’d like to start brainstorming what’s possible, check out historic student newspapers from City Tech, Medgar Evers College, York College, and the College of Staten Island! We’ll also look at how the CUNY Digital History Archive can be a resource for editing about Occupy CUNY, the fight for Asian American Studies at Hunter College, the history of Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College, and more.

This event is supported by a Wikimedia Foundation Rapid Grant for Exploring Wikiprojects at City Tech Library. All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC’s code of conduct and Photo Consent Policy.

Where: City Tech Library, 300 Jay Street, Brooklyn NY 11201

When: April 16, 2026, 12:30 – 4:00pm (feel free to join us for any portion of this time)

We are thrilled to be working with Wikimedia NYC to host Wikipedia Day at City Tech in January 2026. Wikipedia Day NYC is the annual birthday party for the biggest online encyclopedia; in 2026 we get to celebrate 25 years! Together we will explore the past, present, and future of the free knowledge movement, and celebrate all the people, communities and ideas that make Wikipedia possible.

Details:

Location: The Theater at City Tech, 285 Jay Street, Brooklyn
Date: Sunday, January 25, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Registration:

Register now on eventbrite.

Lend a hand!

We need lots of volunteers to make Wikipedia Day happen. Sign up on this form to help out.

What will the day look like?

The schedule will include things like:

• Keynote speeches
• Lightning talks
• Panels & presentations on internet culture, etc.
• Beginner-level training for new Wikipedia editors!
• Interactive edit-a-thons and skill-building workshops
• Creative and cultural activities celebrating global stories and local histories
• Lots of food, cake & community-building with Wikimedians and partners in New York City

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC’s code of conduct.

Join Jen Hoyer from City Tech Library on Thursday, November 13th at 1pm for a 30 minute introduction to Wikimedia Commons, the internet’s best image repository.

In our 30 minutes together we’ll discuss questions like: 

• What is Wikimedia Commons? 
• How can images from Wikimedia Commons be used for teaching or in student assignments? 
• How can individuals contribute to Wikimedia Commons?

We’ll practice searching Wikimedia Commons, explore the types of content available, look at various rights policies and usage licenses on images, and learn about fun initiatives and contests for contributing images to Wikimedia Commons.

This workshop is taking place online and will not be recorded. If you can’t attend, keep an eye out for future offerings of this same workshop. 

In collaboration with Wikimedia NYC, City Tech Library is hosting an event for anyone who is wikicurious—that is, new to Wiki-editing and eager to learn more. We’ll focus our energy on editing Wikidata items and Wikipedia articles for individuals and neighborhoods identified through Wikimedia NYC’s NYC400 campaign.

Are you new to Wikipedia? This is your opportunity to learn the ropes! Do you have a lot of experience as an editor? Spend time with us taking a deep dive into some of the NYC content that the NYC400 campaign has identified for improvement.

Food and drinks will be provided.

The NYC400 campaign is supported by Craig Newmark Philanthropies. 

This event will be taking place in a classroom in City Tech Library. That classroom is accessed via a short flight of stairs; the wheelchair lift for those stairs is currently broken. Access can be provided to the room via another route if needed; please reach out to the event organizers and we will help you navigate access.

Check out what we worked on via the City Tech Library Blog

A drop-in event for City Tech faculty who are curious about making use of Wikipedia and other Wikiprojects in the classroom.

Refreshments from 2-3pm; short presentation and discussion at 3pm.

Location: City Tech Library (library building, 4th floor) Multimedia Projection Room

RSVP here: https://cityte.ch/wikioncampus

Join us for refreshments, discussion, and a short presentation on what the role of Wikipedia and other Wikiprojects can look like at City Tech. Jen Hoyer, Technical Services and Electronic Resources Librarian, will share an overview of upcoming wiki-related events planned at City Tech Library over the 2025-26 academic year, including a Wikicurious event for beginners in November 2025 focused on learning about Wikidata and contributing to the NYC400 editing campaign.

Are you teaching a class related to New York City history, geography, or culture? Interested in how your students might take part in this event? Or, just curious about other wikipedia events coming up this academic year? Stop by!

Attendees will be welcome to share their own experiences and questions about Wikipedia in the classroom, and there will also be a brief introduction to resources available through WikiEdu. We’ll also be joined by Richard Knipel, CUNY’s Wikimedian in Residence, for a quick look at how Wikipedia has been used on other CUNY campuses to create and share knowledge. 

Questions? Get in touch!

This event is supported by a Rapid Grant from the Wikimedia Foundation