CUNYpedia Focus Articles represent fruitful on-wiki collaborations springing from the CUNYverse.
Explore these examples of how CUNY’s faculty, staff, and students are actively improving and expanding public information on Wikipedia, while also connecting people to CUNY’s rich library and archive collections.
African American Film Score Composers – June 2025
This student’s Wikipedia article on African American film score composers examines the role of African American music in American film history. The article came out of an English composition course taught by Professors Ximena Gallardo C. and Ann Matsuuchi of La Guardia Community College in which students explored uses of Generative AI (GenAI) in academic research. (This was the first class under the WikiEducation Foundation system expressly designed to use GenAI to help draft new articles and is being used as a pilot to explore GenAI’s ethical use in Wikipedia classroom assignments.) As part of their process, students were tasked with researching and writing a Wikipedia article entry, which resulted in a wide variety of topics explored.
HIV/AIDS in New York City – May 2025
This month’s article was developed as part of a program over several years with the La Guardia and Wagner Archives, where student teams focused their research on the creation of this Wikipedia entry on HIV/AIDS in New York City and related subjects.
Travel training – April 2025
In this month’s article, archivists from the Cultivating Archives & Institutional Memory project collaborated with the Archives and Special Collections at the College of Staten Island to make more accessible the New York Disability Rights Archive (specifically the Margaret M. “Peggy” Groce Collection) and help tell the story of an amazing decades-long effort to empower special education students through bus and subway skills.
