Welcome! On October 11, 2013 from 1-5 PM, the William Blake Archive and Kansas State's Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art will be cosponsoring a William Blake Editathon as part of the GLAM-Wiki cooperation with the Archive. For more information on what an edithathon is see http://editathon.org/ . At the editathon, we will be working with Mark Crosby, an editor for the William Blake Archive and professor at K-State, to improve the content of several high profile pages related to William Blake's art and poetry. Also, we will have original print copies of Blake's illustrations of two other artist's works ( Robert Blair's The Grave (poem) and Benjamin Heath Malkin's Father's Memoirs of His Child), and a small talk explaining the works by Mark Crosby. Wikipedians and Volunteers will be joined at the editathon by students from one of Crosby's classes who will be working on other Blake articles as a class assignment. Snacks and WiFi will be provided by the Beach Museum but please bring your own computers (a few extra laptops will be on hand, if you don't have one available). Editathons are great opportunities to meet other Wikipedians and to learn more about the dynamics of cultural institutions!
The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum is located near the corner of 14th St. and Anderson Ave in Manhattan, Kansas. For directions and parking instructions see the information available on the Beach Museum's Webpage. We will be meeting in the UMB Theater, the large room on the East end of the building on the second floor of the Museum. Parking is free for visitors to the museum in the parking lot adjacent to the Museum, however, make sure to register the vehicle with the Museum at the Information Desk on the second floor. Their is also free public parking across Anderson in Aggieville.
We will be meeting on the second floor of the Museum in the large room on the East end of the building.
Please sign for which part of the editathon you will be participating in below with # ~~~~ which will add you to the list of participants! (Requires being signed in, to create an account go to: the Wikipedia SignUp Page)
In person participants will have opportunities to interact with Wikipedia editors, Beach Museum Staff, and Mark Crosby from the Blake Archive. Snacks and Wi-Fi will be provided.
Online participants will provide much needed review and followup on the articles. If you would like to help, and/or be digitally present during the event on Oct 11, please note it here.
If you cannot attend but would be interested in hearing about future events in Manhattan, Topeka, Lawrence or other parts of Kansas, please add yourself to our invite list for the region.
The following articles will be the focus of the editing event, because the event is sponsored by the William Blake Archive. Of course, Editathons are open events, if you have other ideas or would like to work on something other than those items listed below, that will certainly be fine! Go ahead and add those ideas to the list:
The group for the event was a little smaller then expected: as is often the case with academic communities, many people doing many things at many times. However, for an event that didn't draw many experienced Wikipedians (there are few in Kansas and the time of the week prevented attendence from that small community), we got a fair amount done. Beyond teaching 5 new editors how to edit Wikipedia and Wikisource, the volunteers got a chance to learn more about Blake's works and contributed to both Wikipedia and the Wikisource! The event was also one of the first times that the Beach Musuem has included outside volunteers in an active event related to the museum and it's community.
Welcome! On October 11, 2013 from 1-5 PM, the William Blake Archive and Kansas State's Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art will be cosponsoring a William Blake Editathon as part of the GLAM-Wiki cooperation with the Archive. For more information on what an edithathon is see http://editathon.org/ . At the editathon, we will be working with Mark Crosby, an editor for the William Blake Archive and professor at K-State, to improve the content of several high profile pages related to William Blake's art and poetry. Also, we will have original print copies of Blake's illustrations of two other artist's works ( Robert Blair's The Grave (poem) and Benjamin Heath Malkin's Father's Memoirs of His Child), and a small talk explaining the works by Mark Crosby. Wikipedians and Volunteers will be joined at the editathon by students from one of Crosby's classes who will be working on other Blake articles as a class assignment. Snacks and WiFi will be provided by the Beach Museum but please bring your own computers (a few extra laptops will be on hand, if you don't have one available). Editathons are great opportunities to meet other Wikipedians and to learn more about the dynamics of cultural institutions!
The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum is located near the corner of 14th St. and Anderson Ave in Manhattan, Kansas. For directions and parking instructions see the information available on the Beach Museum's Webpage. We will be meeting in the UMB Theater, the large room on the East end of the building on the second floor of the Museum. Parking is free for visitors to the museum in the parking lot adjacent to the Museum, however, make sure to register the vehicle with the Museum at the Information Desk on the second floor. Their is also free public parking across Anderson in Aggieville.
We will be meeting on the second floor of the Museum in the large room on the East end of the building.
Please sign for which part of the editathon you will be participating in below with # ~~~~ which will add you to the list of participants! (Requires being signed in, to create an account go to: the Wikipedia SignUp Page)
In person participants will have opportunities to interact with Wikipedia editors, Beach Museum Staff, and Mark Crosby from the Blake Archive. Snacks and Wi-Fi will be provided.
Online participants will provide much needed review and followup on the articles. If you would like to help, and/or be digitally present during the event on Oct 11, please note it here.
If you cannot attend but would be interested in hearing about future events in Manhattan, Topeka, Lawrence or other parts of Kansas, please add yourself to our invite list for the region.
The following articles will be the focus of the editing event, because the event is sponsored by the William Blake Archive. Of course, Editathons are open events, if you have other ideas or would like to work on something other than those items listed below, that will certainly be fine! Go ahead and add those ideas to the list:
The group for the event was a little smaller then expected: as is often the case with academic communities, many people doing many things at many times. However, for an event that didn't draw many experienced Wikipedians (there are few in Kansas and the time of the week prevented attendence from that small community), we got a fair amount done. Beyond teaching 5 new editors how to edit Wikipedia and Wikisource, the volunteers got a chance to learn more about Blake's works and contributed to both Wikipedia and the Wikisource! The event was also one of the first times that the Beach Musuem has included outside volunteers in an active event related to the museum and it's community.