Thanks, Alex! We did a series of five last year and have expanded a little this year. Each edit-a-thon is coordinated by a different librarian and most of us have been working with classes or are part of a larger community event. You’re right that students can be hard to reach, but we’ve had great success in working with faculty members as you suggest. We’re also fortunate in that we have a great school of information & library science, and many of our organizers and volunteers come from there.
Emily
On Mar 25, 2016, at 12:29 PM, Alex Stinson <astinson@wikimedia.org> wrote:
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 - 29 March 2016
- At UNC: Assessment in Psychology Edit-a-thon - 31 March 2016
- UNC: North Carolina Folk Heritage Edit-a-thon - 5 April 2016
- UNC: Women + Graphic Novels Edit-a-thon - 6 April 2016
- UNC: African Diaspora Women Artists Edit-a-thon - 7 April 2016
- UNC: Women in Science Edit-a-thon - 18 April 2016
- UNC: Art + 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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