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,