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Magicpedia:All Things Magic Edit-a-thon 2013

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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 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)

I'm leaning toward a Saturday in September. Will discuss with Bill Kalush next week for dates CARC is availble.

  • Sept 7 (Sat after Labor Day weekend)
  • 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"[1][2] 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?

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.

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.


References

  1. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_run_an_edit-a-thon#List_of_edit-a-thons
  2. ↑ http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Loves_Libraries
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