Thats amazing Emily! How is recruiting going for participation? The only other regions in the U.S. with that kind of editathon schedule, are very dense and have long historical networks. In my experience, student populations are often hard to engage, so you need a graduate student/faculty/volunteer core to make these kinds of events a success.
Cheers,
Alex Stinson
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 5:31 PM, Jack, Emily jack@email.unc.edu wrote:
Hi all,
In case anyone’s local to Durham and/or Chapel Hill, the libraries at Duke University and the University of North Carolina are hosting a series of seven edit-a-thons in March and April: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/UNC
- At Duke: Women of Science and Philosophy: Reframing the Canon with
the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection and Project Vox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Durham/Women_of_Science_and_Philosophy
- 29 March 2016
- At UNC: Assessment in Psychology Edit-a-thon
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/UNC/Assessment_in_Psychology_3
- 31 March 2016
- UNC: North Carolina Folk Heritage Edit-a-thon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/UNC/NC_Folk_Heritage_2016
- 5 April 2016
- UNC: Women + Graphic Novels Edit-a-thon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/UNC/Women_%2B_Graphic_Novels_2016
- 6 April 2016
- UNC: African Diaspora Women Artists Edit-a-thon
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/UNC/African_Diaspora_Women_Artists
- 7 April 2016
- UNC: Women in Science Edit-a-thon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/UNC/Women_in_Science_2016
- 18 April 2016
- UNC: Art + Feminism 2016
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/UNC/Art_%2B_Feminism_2016
- 20 April 2016
Also, a group of us have fielded questions from local librarians and archivists about how to organize an edit-a-thon so we created a planning toolkit: http://www.ncarchivists.org/editathon-toolkit/
Cheers, Emily
Emily Jack Digital Projects and Outreach Librarian North Carolina Collection Gallery, Wilson Special Collections Library CB #3930, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 27514-8890 (919) 962-4331 www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/gallery.html
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