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 an "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 include 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 if 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
• See if all the Genii covers we have been uploading to MagicPedia can be used on Wikipedia. They have lots of images of magicians we can use.