Hello all,
Pardon my cross-list posting, but I want to be sure that this news makes it
out to all those who might be interested.
This coming Saturday the Children's Museum of Indianapolis will be hosting
our first Edit-a-Thon, in conjunction with our second Backstage Pass for
local Wikipedians. This will be similar to the Editing Fridays that were set
up for the Campus Ambassadors in that anyone can come and help contribute to
this handful of articles.
I would be thrilled to have anyone interested in participating online to
sign up on our Edit-a-Thon page and plan to be in virtual-attendance from
1pm-3pm ET (optional 5pm) on Saturday. Here you can sign up & learn about
our topic, the Caplan Collection of folk toys and Creative Playthings:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/TCMI/Caplan_Collection
We will have a good many sources digitized by Saturday so that online
e-volunteers can work in conjunction with our on-site Wikipedians to help us
create and improve articles relating to the Caplan Collection, which is made
up of folk toys from all over the world.
Part of this event includes the newly minted Wikipedia club and WM:Mexico
skyping in and translating our already existing articles into Spanish as we
work on creating new articles. This is a great way for the students to gain
English skills and for the museum to connect with and serve a community that
they otherwise would not have had easy, direct access to.
I'd appreciate you passing on this request to anyone that you may think to
be interested.
Thanks much,
--
Lori Phillips
Web Content Specialist | Wikipedian in Residence
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
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