Magicpedia:All Things Magic Edit-a-thon 2013

A MagicPedia/Wikipedia Edit-a-thon proposal, similar to the one just done for , 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 ). This one will encourage participation from all levels of expertise of Wikipedia users and magic history enthusiasts.

This was inspired from reading the Washington Post article on the DC edit-a-thon: http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-03-26/local/38036155_1_wikipedia-chuck-brown-software-developer

Overview

An edit-a-thon is an event in which people work together in person to build content on a wiki. Edit-a-thons can be very informal or very structured; they can be designed as primarily outreach events (to draw in new contributors) or to meet the needs of longtime contributors.

Other Edit-a-thons:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/DC_History
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Civil_War
• http://www.lib.umd.edu/news/2012/wikipedia-loves-humanities
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Topeka/Wikipedia_Day

More information:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_run_an_edit-a-thon
• http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Introductory_edit-a-thons
• 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

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)
• July 27 (Sat)
• Aug 3 (Sat)

Proposed places

• Virtually, via google hangouts
• Ask CARC if they would be willing to host at Library in NYC.
• Ask Magicana if they would be willing to host one (in Chicago?)

Proposed event names

• MagicPedia/Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
• Anything better? (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_run_an_edit-a-thon#List_of_edit-a-thons)
  • Wiki Loves Magic or Wiki Loves Conjurors? (like http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Loves_Libraries ,wikipedia-loves-humanities , Wiki Loves Sound, Wiki Loves Monuments)

Places to start advertising

• forums
  • Genii
  • MagicCafe
  • Theory 11
• newsletters
  • Have You Heard?… by Maria Ibâñez
  • New Zealand
• tweets
• Organizations
  • Wikipedia's Wikiproject Magic
  • SAM
  • IBM
  • MCA
  • CARC

Suggested tasks for the edit-a-thon

• 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
• Study what http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Magic have been doing
• 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.

Wikipedia resources for edit-a-thon participants

• 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