Hi, all -
I'm a library science graduate student, working with the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to plan our first ever edit-a-thon. Our theme is African Americans in North Carolina, and we want to use our collection's resources to improve or create articles on this topic.
I have a question for you all - where is the best place on Wikipedia for me to promote this event? We have a Meetup page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/unc_edit-a-thon and I've posted a link to it, with some event info, on the talk page of the NC Project. Am I missing any other popular/appropriate places where events like this are listed? Any help would be appreciated!
Caroline Zarzar carolinewz@unc.edu
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Ms Caroline Zarzar ducky@live.unc.eduwrote:
...the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to plan our first ever edit-a-thon. Our theme is African Americans in North Carolina,
...where is the best place on Wikipedia for me to promote this event?
There is no one place that serves as a central promotion spot. As with social media, you have to get into various places to promote your event.
Don't forget to add your event to this year's Wikipedia Loves Libraries list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Loves_Libraries/Planned_ev...
- Presumably the people in the local Wikimedia chapter are apprised of the event and will come. - Make sure the library and UNC will promote the event (widely) - don't forget the campus newspaper - Social media: Twitter, Facebook, and the usual suspects - There must be local venues/outlets (newspapers? websites? community centers?) that cater to the African American community in Chapel Hill and environs -- use them. - I note the date is April 16 - might you want a tie-in to Lincoln?
In short, as with social media, there is no "one size fits all" and you have to reach out in many ways (often) to promote your event.
Good luck!
The North Carolina WikiProjecthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_North_Carolinawould be a good place to start, although I don't know how active it is. You may also request a geonoticehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geonotice. :-)
Regards, --Ed
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Bob Kosovsky bobkosovsky@nypl.org wrote:
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Ms Caroline Zarzar ducky@live.unc.eduwrote:
...the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to plan our first ever edit-a-thon. Our theme is African Americans in North Carolina,
...where is the best place on Wikipedia for me to promote this event?
There is no one place that serves as a central promotion spot. As with social media, you have to get into various places to promote your event.
Don't forget to add your event to this year's Wikipedia Loves Libraries list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Loves_Libraries/Planned_ev...
- Presumably the people in the local Wikimedia chapter are apprised of
the event and will come.
- Make sure the library and UNC will promote the event (widely) -
don't forget the campus newspaper
- Social media: Twitter, Facebook, and the usual suspects
- There must be local venues/outlets (newspapers? websites? community
centers?) that cater to the African American community in Chapel Hill and environs -- use them.
- I note the date is April 16 - might you want a tie-in to Lincoln?
In short, as with social media, there is no "one size fits all" and you have to reach out in many ways (often) to promote your event.
Good luck!
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