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== Places to start advertising to magicians ==
== Places to start advertising to magicians ==
* Wikipedia
** 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 forums
* Post on forums
** [http://forums.geniimagazine.com/viewforum.php?f=10 Genii]
** [http://forums.geniimagazine.com/viewforum.php?f=10 Genii]

Revision as of 16:23, 18 April 2013

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 2 million pages of historical magic literature, including the 75 years of monthly Genii Magazines (the longest-running independent magazine devoted to magic.)

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.

Overview

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: 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

More information:

Suggested tasks

Proposed dates

  • Will need quite a few months to prepare and advertise, so earliest chance would be in July.
  • Black out dates
    • July 17-20 (IBM conv)
    • August 11-14 (Magic Live)
    • August 27 through September 3rd (Sorcerers Safari Magic Camp)
  • July 27 (Sat)
  • Aug 3 (Sat)
  • Oct 26 (usually the beginning of "magic week")

After deciding, post on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup

Proposed places

  • CARC at their Library in NYC.
  • Virtually via google hangouts and/or skype
  • We also welcome others that wish to sponsor an editathon at their place on the same day. List here:

Suggested event names

Logo/poster?

Places to start advertising to magicians

Wikipedia resources for edit-a-thon participants

Add your name if you would like to help organize

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.
  • Emailed GLAM to see if they could be of assistance in helping to prepare and advertise.
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