On Wednesday May 13th, the first illustration edit-a-thon took place at the picture collection at RISD. Usually, Wikipedia Edit-a-thons are about updating the text of an article, however, this event focused on editing the illustrations, charts, diagrams, and photographs within Wikipedia articles. A Wikipedia edit-a-thon is a great opportunity to publish unused or new work on Wikipedia and make existing articles better. It is also a way to re-think school projects that end up nowhere and see how the work we make in studio can help strengthen open source communities.
The 2015 first RISD Illustration edit-a-thon took place Wednesday May 13th at the "Visual + Material Resource collection (room 204) in the RISD Fleet Library.
Since most attendants will not have the permissions to upload images directly to Wikipedia, here is the shortcut for newly created accounts: