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.

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 - 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



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