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All Things Magic Edit-a-thon 2013 was held on Saturday, September 14th.

This Wiki-kadabra event promoted bringing together magicians and magic enthusiasts from around the world to help update Wikipedia and MagicPedia articles concentrating on a range of topics around magic history. See the Wikipedia Meetup page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/All_Things_Magic_Edit-a-thon_2013

Sponsored by MagicPedia (the wiki for magicians by magicians), Genii Magazine, the Conjuring Arts Research Center and Grand Illusions magic store, it was held virtually around the world, with the goal to help assimilate MagicPedia's content into Wikipedia (and vice versa).

Thanks to everyone who participated!

Event details

Wiki-kadabra: All Things Magic Edit-a-thon

Date: Saturday, September 14, 2013
Time: 11:00am - 6:00pm EDT and PDT (There will be a short Kickoff/Introduction at both 11:00am EDT and 11:00am PDT)
Location: All over the world
- We plan to use Google Hangouts and Skype
  - Google Hangout Event: https://plus.google.com/events/c9pot7ghkc6cjptfkdigrggmgt8
- Grand Illusions magic shop in Carmichael, California will host a local hangout. The store will be open from 10am to 6pm. They have a large library of Magic, Genii, Linking Ring and Mum magazines, some dating into the 30s, available.
Event: An edit-a-thon! Learn how to contribute to Wikipedia and collaborate with others to write about topics related to magic history.
Hashtag: #Wikikadabra

Contribute to the world's most popular encyclopedia! In conjunction with MagicPedia (the wiki for magicians by magicians), Genii Magazine, the Conjuring Arts Research Center and Grand Illusions magic store, we will be hosting a virtual edit-a-thon to improve a range of topics around magic history in Wikiepedia and MagicPedia.

Join us! No experience needed. Anyone with an interest in editing collaboratively and having a great time is encouraged to attend. Even if you just have a favorite magician you would like the volunteers to research, join in and provide ideas.

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
Help create needed pages in MagicPedia (those with the most links from other pages): Special:WantedPages
Nominate featured articles and featured pictures Category:Featured_Article_Candidate.
Suggest other ideas!

Sign up if you plan on attending

MagicPedia users:

Create an account if needed (it's free)

Ask Alexander Access:

If you would like a high level access to Ask Alexander during of the event, add your Ask Alexander username below (it's free to register at http://askalexander.org/) or email it to Jpecore

Wikipedia

Be sure to also get a Wikipedia account and you can sign up there at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/All_Things_Magic_Edit-a-thon_2013#Sign_up

Wikipedia resources for edit-a-thon participants

Read beforehand if you want to be up and running before the event:

Wikipedia:REFB - Referencing for beginners
Wikipedia:PRIMER - A great guide for new users, particularly on building articles and moving pages from user sandboxes, which is where some may want to start.
Wikipedia:TEAHOUSE - This is The Teahouse, where hosts help new users out with questions about a variety of how-to type questions. Turnaround time on questions is pretty fast because there are a lot of eyes on the page these days.
photosubmission@wikimedia.org - The e-mail that editors should contact if they want to contribute images or photographs of magic-related subjects for use on Wikipedia under a free license.

Others:

Notes

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 to be available on the day of the event. Jethro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:I_Jethrobot), a Wikipedia editor since 2006, has signed up to join us.

GLAM provided some tips on helping to prepare and advertise.

More information and examples

References

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-'''A Wikipedia 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) and the [[Conjuring Arts Research Center]] with it's online resources of over 1,000,000 pages of historical magic literature, including the 75 years of monthly [[Genii Magazine]]s (the longest-running independent magazine devoted to magic.)
+'''All Things Magic Edit-a-thon 2013''' was held on Saturday, September 14th.
-The event is being planned to be held at the [[Conjuring Arts Research Center]]'s (CARC) library in New York City, and 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.
+This Wiki-kadabra event  promoted bringing together magicians and magic enthusiasts from around the world to help update Wikipedia and MagicPedia articles concentrating on a range of topics around magic history. See the Wikipedia Meetup page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/All_Things_Magic_Edit-a-thon_2013 [[File:Editathon2013Bunn.jpeg|right|thumb|300px]]
-== Overview ==
+Sponsored by [[MagicPedia]] (the wiki for magicians by magicians), [[Genii Magazine]], the [[Conjuring Arts Research Center]] and [[Grand Illusions]] magic store, it was held virtually around the world, with the goal to help assimilate MagicPedia's content into Wikipedia (and vice versa).
-An edit-a-thon is an event in which people work together in person 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.
-Other example of edit-a-thons: [http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-03-26/local/38036155_1_wikipedia-chuck-brown-software-developer Washington Post article on the Washington DC edit-a-thon] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/DC_History DC History], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Civil_War DC Civil War], [http://www.lib.umd.edu/news/2012/wikipedia-loves-humanities Wiki loves Humanities],  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Topeka/Wikipedia_Day Topeka Wikipedia Day], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Goes_to_the_Movies Wikipedia_Goes_to_the_Movies] [http://theater.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/theater/editing-wikipedia-at-the-new-york-public-library-for-the-performing-arts.html NY Times article]
+Thanks to everyone who participated!
-More information:
-* 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
+==Event details==
+'''Wiki-kadabra''': All Things Magic Edit-a-thon
+* '''Date''': Saturday, September  14, 2013
+* '''Time''': 11:00am  - 6:00pm EDT and PDT  (There will be a short Kickoff/Introduction at both 11:00am EDT and 11:00am PDT)
+* '''Location''':  All over the world
+** We plan to use Google Hangouts and Skype
+*** Google Hangout Event: https://plus.google.com/events/c9pot7ghkc6cjptfkdigrggmgt8
+** Grand Illusions magic shop in Carmichael, California will host a local hangout. The store will be open from 10am to 6pm. They have a large library of Magic, Genii, Linking Ring and Mum magazines, some dating into the 30s, available.
+* '''Event''': An edit-a-thon! Learn how to contribute to Wikipedia and collaborate with others to write about topics related to magic history.
+* '''Hashtag''': #Wikikadabra
+'''Contribute to the world's most popular encyclopedia!''' In conjunction with  MagicPedia (the wiki for magicians by magicians), Genii Magazine, the Conjuring Arts Research Center and Grand Illusions magic store, we will be hosting a  virtual edit-a-thon to improve a range of topics around magic history in Wikiepedia and MagicPedia.
+Join us! No experience needed. Anyone with an interest in editing collaboratively and having a great time is encouraged to attend. Even if you just have a favorite magician you would like the volunteers to research, join in and provide ideas.
 == Suggested tasks ==
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 * Review the current [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiProject_Magic_articles WikiProject_Magic_articles]
 * Review current article by quality [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Magic_articles_by_quality Category:Magic_articles_by_quality]
-* Nominate featured articles and featured  pictures.
+* Help create needed pages in MagicPedia (those with the most links from other pages): [[Special:WantedPages]]
+* Nominate featured articles and featured  pictures [[:Category:Featured_Article_Candidate]].
 * Suggest other ideas!
+== Sign up if you plan on attending ==
+===MagicPedia users:===
+[http://www.geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup Create an account if needed (it's free)]
+* [[User:Jpecore|Joe Pecore]]
+* [http://geniimagazine.com/magicpedia/Lee_Asher Lee Asher]
+* [[user:ilusnst|Steve Johnson]]
+* [[User:Rigonally|Joe Culpepper]]
-==Proposed dates==
+===Ask Alexander Access:===
-* Will need quite a few months to prepare and advertise, so earliest chance would be in July.
+If you would like a high level access to Ask Alexander during of the event, add your Ask Alexander username below (it's free to register at http://askalexander.org/) or email it to [http://www.geniimagazine.com/magicpedia/Special:EmailUser/Jpecore Jpecore]
-* Black out dates
+*
-** July 17-20 (IBM conv)
-**  August 11-14 (Magic Live)
-**   August 27 through September 3rd (Sorcerers Safari Magic Camp)
-I'm leaning toward a Saturday in September. Will discuss with Bill Kalush next week for dates CARC is availble.
+===Wikipedia===
-* Sept 7 (Sat after Labor Day weekend)
+Be sure to also get a Wikipedia account and you can sign up there at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/All_Things_Magic_Edit-a-thon_2013#Sign_up
-* Sept 14
-* Sept 21
-* Sept 28
-* Oct 26 (usually the beginning of "magic week")
-After deciding, post on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup
-==Proposed places ==
-* [[CARC]] has offered to host at their Library in NYC. They have over 12,000 volumes devoted to magic and its allied arts, including more than a thousand volumes printed before the year 1900 and over 500 printed prior to 1700.
-* Steve Johnson has offer 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.
-* We will all also be hosting virtually via google hangouts and/or skype
-* Others are welcomed to sponsor an editathon at their place. Add yourself here:
-**
-== Suggested event names ==
-Would be nice to come up with a catchy name. As examples, other Wikipedia editathons have been named "Wikipedia Loves xxxxx", "Wikipedia goes to the [Movies|Theaters]", "All Things xxxxx"<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_run_an_edit-a-thon#List_of_edit-a-thons</ref><ref>http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Loves_Libraries</ref>
-Suggest a name and/or vote for the ones you like:
-* The MagicPedia/Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
-* Wikis Love Magic
-* Wikis Love the Conjuring Arts
-* Wikipedia goes to a Magic Show
-* All Things Magic edit-a-thon
-* Preserving the Conjuring Arts edit-a-thon
-* Teach Wikis about Magicians
-== Logo/poster? ==
-* An example 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.
-== Promoting ==
-Suggest places on where to get the word out about the edit-a-thon to magicians and magic history buffs.
-* Wikis
-** Create an Editathon page under [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Magic Wikipedia:WikiProject_Magic] like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Shimer_College/Editathon 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
-** [http://forums.geniimagazine.com/viewforum.php?f=10 Genii]
-** [http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewforum.php?forum=134&8575 Magic Cafe]
-** [http://forums.theory11.com/forum.php/ Theory11]
-** [http://www.penguinmagic.com/discuss Penguin Magic]
-** [http://forums.ellusionist.com/forumdisplay.php?20-General-Magic-Forum Ellusionist]
-** [http://www.lancepierce.com/forum/ The Pebble (Lance Piece Forum)]
-** [http://www.learnmagictricks.org/ LearnMagic.Org]
-** [http://www.virtualmagie.com/forum/ Virtual Magie (French)]
-** [http://forums.singaporemagiccircle.com/index.php? Singapore Magic Circle Forum]
-** [http://magibook.org magibook.org]
-** [http://www.themagicway.net/?page_id=109 The Magic Way (Chinese)]
-** [http://askalexander.org/forum/ Ask Alexander Forum]
-* Newsletters
-** [http://www.magician.org/portal/en/blog/12413 Have You Heard?… by Maria Ibâñez]
-** [http://www.magicnewzealand.com/ New Zealand Newsletter... by Alan Watson]
-** [http://www.leeasher.com/why_join.html Asher's Announcements... by Lee Asher]
-** Magicians Life... by Mel Kientz - <tt>kientz@bnproducts.com</tt>
-* Tweets
-** Come up with a hashtag?
-** #WikiMagic2013?
-** also use [http://twitter.com/search?q=%23editathon #editathon]
-* Weibo (Chinese Twitter)
-** #WikiMagic2013# (same as twitter, kind of)
-* Facebook
-** create a page to like [http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.464685383573951.101776.140118662697293  Wikipedia Editathon "All things International"]
-* Write a news release for:
-** [http://itricks.com/news/ Itricks]
-** [http://www.linkingpage.com/ The Magic Newswire]
-** [http://www.thedailydeception.com/ The Daily Deception]
-* Offer to appear on podcasts:
-** [http://themagicbroadcast.com/ The Magic Broadcast]
-* Organizations
-** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Magic Wikipedia's Wikiproject Magic]
-** [http://magicsam.com/ SAM] and their [https://www.facebook.com/TheSocietyOfAmericanMagicians new facebook page] and [http://magicsam.us4.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=0d848fee02bcdbf686f12b06e&id=e104b4ea27 compass newsletter]
-** [http://www.magician.org/ IBM]
-** [http://www.magicana.com/ Magicana MCA]
-** [http://conjuringarts.org/ CARC]
-** [http://askalexander.org/forum/Ask Alexander forum]
-** [http://www.nemca.com/ NEMCA]
 == Wikipedia resources for edit-a-thon participants ==
+Read beforehand if you want to be up and running before the event:
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:REFB Wikipedia:REFB] - Referencing for beginners
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:PRIMER Wikipedia:PRIMER] - A great guide for new users, particularly on building articles and moving pages from user sandboxes, which is where some may want to start.
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TEAHOUSE Wikipedia:TEAHOUSE] - This is The Teahouse, where hosts help new users out with questions about a variety of how-to type questions.  Turnaround time on questions is pretty fast because there are a lot of eyes on the page these days.
+* photosubmission@wikimedia.org - The e-mail that editors should contact if they want to contribute images or photographs of magic-related subjects for use on Wikipedia under a free license.
+Others:
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Starting_an_article Wikipedia:Starting_an_article]
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial Wikipedia:Tutorial]
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 * [http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf/ 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 organize ==
-* [[User:Jpecore|Joe Pecore]]
-* [http://geniimagazine.com/magicpedia/Lee_Asher Lee Asher]
-* [[user:ilusnst|Steve Johnson]]
-== Add your name if you would like to participate ==
-*
 == Notes ==
-* Bill Kalush of CARC is also offering access to [[Ask Alexander]] to users that participate.
+* 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 to be available on the day of the event. Jethro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:I_Jethrobot), a Wikipedia editor since 2006, has signed up to join us.
-* Emailed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM GLAM] to see if they could be of assistance in helping to prepare and advertise.
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM 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/
+* [http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-03-26/local/38036155_1_wikipedia-chuck-brown-software-developer Washington Post article on the Washington DC edit-a-thon]
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/DC_History DC History]
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Civil_War DC Civil War]
+* [http://www.lib.umd.edu/news/2012/wikipedia-loves-humanities Wiki loves Humanities]
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Topeka/Wikipedia_Day Topeka Wikipedia Day]
+*  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Goes_to_the_Movies Wikipedia_Goes_to_the_Movies]
+* [http://theater.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/theater/editing-wikipedia-at-the-new-york-public-library-for-the-performing-arts.html NY Times article] [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/05/14/wikiwomen-love-libraries-italian-edition/ wikiwomen-love-libraries]
+* [http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/notices/queen-victorias-journals-wikipedia  Bodleian Libraries ‘editathon’ focusing on the Queen Victoria’s Journals]
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Literature/Bloomsbury_Group_editathon Bloomsbury_Group_editathon]
+* http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/31/parallel-wwi-edit-a-thons/
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