Hi folks,
Just to let you know that registration is now open for another of our Sandbox Sessions - *a Wikisource Transcribe-a-thon*, led by Dr Martin Poulter!
The event will take place on Thursday 20 November, 18:00 - 20:00 UTC. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Event:WMUK_Sandbox_Sessions/Wikisource_Transcribe-a-thon_20.11.25
*About the event*: This event will introduce Wikisource: a community that is building a huge library of freely available texts. Together we will transcribe a pamphlet or paper and explore how 1) contributing to Wikisource can be a rewarding hobby and 2) how transcribe-a-thon events can be part of a campaign to highlight kinds of literature and knowledge.
*About the presenter:* Dr. Martin Poulter is a trainer for Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikisource who helps professionals, students, and newcomers to share open knowledge. He has held Wikimedia-related placements at the Khalili Foundation, the Bodleian Libraries and the educational charity Jisc.
You can register for this event here https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Event:WMUK_Sandbox_Sessions/Wikisource_Transcribe-a-thon_20.11.25- we'll send the Zoom link out through the events extension, so please make sure that you've got "Allow other users to email me" enabled in Preferences
User profile. If you'd rather not have that enabled then please let me
know by email off-list.
Hope to see you there!
Best, Sara