Magicpedia:All Things Magic Edit-a-thon 2013

A MagicPedia/Wikipedia Edit-a-thon proposal, similar to the one just done for Washington D.C., that would concentrate on a range of topics around magic history.

Proposal: Hold a edit-a-thon in 2013 with the goal to help assimilate MagicPedia's content into Wikipedia (and vice versa). This is similar to Lee Asher's original proposal to Wikipedia's WikiProject Magic back in 2008 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Leeasher#Original_Letter_to_Project_Magic ), but including both the entire Wikipedia and magic community.

Things to do:

• Learn about edit-a-thons
  • 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/GLAM/Model_projects/Library_Edit-a-thons
• Propose dates
  • Maybe for this summer
• Propose places
  • Virtually, via google hangouts
  • Ask CARC is they would be willing to host it.
  • Maybe during some upcoming magic conference (Washington Symposium on Magic History in a few weeks would have been ideal, if I had thought of it in time! )
• Advertise (forums, newsletters, tweets) and invite (Wikipedia's Wikiproject Magic, others?)
• Start selecting good candidates of notable magicians in MagicPedia that are not yet in Wikipedia
• Identify all the magic related categories on Wikipedia.
• Learn all about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability
• Provide resources for new Wikipedia users
  • http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf/
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Starting_an_article
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cheatsheet
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BeginnersGuide