Wikipedia:United Nations in New York City/2017 Summer Youth Assembly at the United Nations



The 2017 Summer Youth Assembly at the United Nations  is hosting a Wikipedia event for attendees to commemorate International Youth Day. This is a private event at the United Nations and only attendees of the Youth Assembly may participate.


 * See the recorded talk!

Event information

 * Date: Friday, August 11, 2017
 * Location: United Nations Headquarters (46th Street & 1st Avenue), Trusteeship Council Conference Room, New York, NY 10017 40.74944°N, -73.96806°W
 * Participants should arrive at the security entrance at 8:30 am
 * All participants must go through the security tent of the UN visitors centre, located on 46th and 1st Avenue to gain access to the UN
 * United Nations Headquarters map

Transit details

 * Subway: UN directions recommend taking the 4, 5, 6, 7, or S trains to Grand Central Station; walk east on 42nd Street to 1st Avenue -- or transfer to M42 Bus
 * to 42nd St. (exit at Grand Central 42nd Street and Park Avenue)
 * to 42nd St. (exit at 42nd Street and Bryant Park (5th/6th Avenue)
 * to 42nd St. (exit at 42nd Street and Broadway/7th Avenue)
 * to 42nd St. (exit at 42nd Street and 7th Avenue)
 * to Grand Central (exit at Grand Central 42nd Street and Park Avenue)
 * to 42nd St. (exit at 42nd Street and 8th Avenue) and take M42 bus
 * NYCT Bus: ,
 * M42 Bus Schedule, MTA Bus Time for M42 Bus
 * MTA Bus:
 * BSicon BAHN.svg Metro-North: Harlem, Hudson, and New Haven Lines (at Grand Central Terminal)
 * Car: Private parking garages are available from East 45th Street to East 49th Streets, between 1st and 2nd Avenues

About
Wikipedia and its related projects have a global reach and audience. These sites, which can be updated by anyone, have as their goal to collect all of the information in the world, and to provide a free encyclopedia to every person in their language. This session will include presentations from three Wikipedians related to topics that demonstrate Wikipedia’s inclusivity and equity-building strengths. Speakers will present on the following three topics: Felix Richter (User:Salubrious Toxin), an MD, PhD student at Mount Sinai, will present on a group that he started of Mount Sinai medical students, clinicians, and other healthcare professionals to edit medical articles on Wikipedia through the non-profit, Wiki Project Med Foundation. The group decides on what articles to focus on based in part on page view statistics and current events. Richter will show attendees some tools related to page-view and quality metrics. Abhishek Suryawanshi, founder of Wikipedia Club Pune, will present on how impactful access to information through Wikipedia can be for youth in developing nations. Growing up in a rural village, using health information in Wikipedia, Suryawanshi was able to better understand and manage his asthma. Using engineering articles, he innovated irrigation techniques in his village, for which he was recognized by the President of India. Suryawanshi works in different language Wikipedias and will introduce attendees to other language Wikipedias and demonstrate the live editing map. Esther Jackson, Public Services Librarian at the New York Botanical Garden, will discuss the Plants And People initiative, a project dedicated to sharing information about botanical topics through Wikipedia. She will speak about a recent editathon arranged around the topic of “Women in Science” and demonstrate how to add a citation in Wikipedia.

About this event
Organizations providing support for this Wikipedia outreach include the following:


 * UN Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth