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Magicpedia:All Things Magic Edit-a-thon 2013
A Wikipedia/MagicPedia Edit-a-thon is being planned for 2013 concentrating on a range of topics around magic history with sponsorship by MagicPedia (the wiki for magicians by magicians), Genii Magazine, the Conjuring Arts Research Center and Grand Illusions magic store.
The event is being planned to be held virtually around the world, with the goal to help assimilate MagicPedia's content into Wikipedia (and vice versa). This is similar to Lee Asher's proposal to Wikipedia's WikiProject Magic back in 2008 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Leeasher#Original_Letter_to_Project_Magic ), but will now encourage a broader participation from all levels of Wikipedia users and magic history enthusiasts.
Contents
- 1 Overview
- 2 Suggested tasks
- 3 Proposed dates
- 4 Proposed places
- 5 Suggested event names
- 6 Logo/poster
- 7 Wikipedia expert
- 8 Promoting
- 9 Wikipedia resources for edit-a-thon participants
- 10 Add your name if you would like to help participate or organize
- 11 Notes
- 12 More information and examples
- 13 References
Overview
An edit-a-thon is an event in which people work together to build content on a wiki. They can be very informal or very structured and designed as a primarily outreach event (to draw in new contributors) or to meet the needs of longtime contributors.
Some example of edit-a-thons: Washington Post article on the Washington DC edit-a-thon DC History, DC Civil War, Wiki loves Humanities, Topeka Wikipedia Day, Wikipedia_Goes_to_the_Movies NY Times article wikiwomen-love-libraries Bodleian Libraries ‘editathon’ focusing on the Queen Victoria’s Journals Bloomsbury_Group_editathon
Suggested tasks
- Create articles on notable magicians on MagicPedia not yet on Wikipedia
- List of good candidates (where we left off last time) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Leeasher#Articles_I.27m_going_to_start
- Flesh out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Magic_%28illusion%29_stubs
- See if all the Genii covers on MagicPedia can be used on Wikipedia. It has lots of images of magicians we can use.
- Synchronize all the current Wikipedia articles being used in MagicPedia: Category:Reused_content_from_Wikimedia_projects
- Check for other topics requested on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Magic
- Improve and help organize the magic related categories http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Magic_%28illusion%29
- Review the current WikiProject_Magic_articles
- Review current article by quality Category:Magic_articles_by_quality
- Nominate featured articles and featured pictures.
- Suggest other ideas!
Proposed dates
- Saturday in September 14th is the current tentative date
Backup dates are:
- Sept 21
- Sept 28
- Oct 26
After confirming we have enough interest, I post on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup
Proposed places
- We will all also be hosting virtually via google hangouts and skype
- Steve Johnson has also offered to host at the Grand Illusions magic shop in Carmichael, California. They have a large library of Magic, Genii, Linking Ring and Mum magazines, some dating into the 30s, available.
- Others are welcomed to sponsor at their place. Add yourself here:
Suggested event names
Leading candidate is
- All Things Magic Edit-a-thon 2013
Others are:
- Wikis Love Magic
- Wikis Love the Conjuring Arts
- Wikipedia goes to a Magic Show
- Preserving the Conjuring Arts edit-a-thon
- Teach Wikis about Magicians
- Wiki-kadabra!
Logo/poster
- Dean Carnegie has offered to help us design something similar to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WIKILPA.jpg
Wikipedia expert
Most editathons suggest including an expert Wikipedia editor to help volunteers navigate the ins and outs of Wikipedia guidelines. We'll be in search of at least one.
Promoting
Once we have a date, we should start promoting, then start the heavy promotion one month before.
Places to promote the edit-a-thon to magicians and magic history buffs:
- Wikis
- Create an Editathon page under Wikipedia:WikiProject_Magic like Wikipedia:WikiProject_Shimer_College/Editathon ?
- Post on front page of MagicPedia and with a blurb at the top of every article (if I can figure out how)
- Post on forums
- Newsletters
- Have You Heard?… by Maria Ibâñez (by sending email to merlina@merlina.com)
- New Zealand Newsletter... by Alan Watson
- Asher's Announcements... by Lee Asher
- Magicians Life... by Mel Kientz - kientz@bnproducts.com
- Tweets
- Come up with a hashtag?
- #WikiMagic2013?
- also use #editathon
- Weibo (Chinese Twitter)
- #WikiMagic2013# (same as twitter, kind of)
- Facebook
- create a page to like Wikipedia Editathon "All things International"
- Write a news release for:
- Offer to appear on podcasts:
- Organizations
Wikipedia resources for edit-a-thon participants
- Wikipedia:Starting_an_article
- Wikipedia:Tutorial
- Wikipedia:Cheatsheet
- Wikipedia:Article wizard
- Wikipedia:GLAM/BeginnersGuide
- Wikipedia:Notability
- Wikipedia:Principles
- Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
- wiki/Bookshelf
- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Introduction-to-Editing-Wikipedia-for-GLAM-professionals.pdf
Add your name if you would like to help participate or organize
Notes
- Bill Kalush of CARC has offered access to Ask Alexander to users that participate. We'll need to confirm and get specifics.
- GLAM provided some tips on helping to prepare and advertise.
More information and examples
- http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Introductory_edit-a-thons
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_run_an_edit-a-thon
- https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/23/lets-throw-more-wikipedia-editing-parties/
- http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Loves_Libraries
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Loves_Libraries
- http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Model_projects/Library_Edit-a-thons
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/US/New_York
- http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/how-to-organize-your-own-wikipedia-edit-a-thon/49757
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Arts/Live_Arts_Editathon_2013
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Literature/Bloomsbury_Group_editathon
- http://www.ice.org.uk/News-Public-Affairs/ICE-News/Wikipedia-Editathon-19-July-2013
- http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/02/wikimedia-argentina-hosts-editathon-gets-image-donation/#English
- http://www.roh.org.uk/news/editathon-offers-a-chance-to-improve-ballet%E2%80%A8-entries-on-wikipedia
- http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/08/collection-days-edit-a-thon-warsaw-poland/
- http://royalsociety.org/events/2013/wikipedia-editathon-mill-hill/