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The [[International Dunhuang Project]] group at the British Library, together with [[User:Andrew Gray|Andrew Gray]], the Wikipedian in Residence, ran a multi-day, multi-language, editing programme during late October 2012. This was focused on the broad theme of Central Asian history and archaeology, as well as material specific to the Dunhuang collections worldwide. Participants were drawn from IDP staff and colleagues in other departments of the British Library, as well as volunteer Wikipedians, three groups of students, and a number of participants from external institutions.
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== Preparation ==
[[File:IDPWikipediaEditathon2012 IDP5 1034.jpg|thumb|Students from UCL at the Wikipedia editathon.]]
The event was sketched out in May, following the appointment of the BL's Wikipedian in Residence. The date of late October was settled on so as to fit with the run-up to the [http://idp.bl.uk/conference/index.html Archaeology of the Southern Taklamakan] conference in early November. An October date also made it more practical to bring in student groups, as there would be time to organise it prior to the next academic year.
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By mid-September, we had some academic partners identified, and were working on arranging the logistics for the event, specifically ensuring sufficient wireless internet capacity in the room. A second round of advertising to Wikipedia contributors, including geographically targeted notices, went out during this period, and a workshop was held to ensure IDP staff were familiar with the practical aspects of editing Wikipedia.
The main work during late September and early October was to prepare the list of topics for editing. These were heavily focused on [[Wikipedia:GLAM/BL/IDP/People|individual archaeologists\researchers]] and [[Wikipedia:GLAM/BL/IDP/Places|specific sites]]; where possible we extracted supporting data such as coordinates or contextual information. As the plan had originally been for significant international participation, some lists (such as that of people) were crossreferenced to non-English Wikipedias, specificially those in the core IDP languages (French, German, Chinese, etc.) This threw up a number of individuals covered in non-English languages only. The IDP imaging team also began to select suitable material for publication, and to check the metadata.
During October, the subject lists were finalised and a last call went out for volunteers from Wikipedia. The three student groups were contacted and a plan was organised; the two London groups would come to the BL for a practical workshop, while the group in Birmingham would have a session on-site arranged by [[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]].
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[[File:IDPWikipediaEditathon2012 IDP5 1029.jpg|thumb|SOAS students at the Wikipedia editathon.]]
The week began with a workshop on Monday 22nd at the University of Birmingham, where a group of students contributed material about [[Buddhism in Khotan|Buddhist sites in Khotan]], including [[Endere]], [[Balawaste]] and [[Farhad-beg-yailaki]].
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On Thursday 25th, a student group from [[UCL]] visited in the morning, and stayed for around four hours. After a short seminar, the students produced several new articles, such as [[Domoko]], and reworked others, such as [[Cities along the Silk Road]]. The group also wrote articles in [[:tw:Merw|Turkmen]] and [[:zh:黄文弼|Chinese]] as well as English.
Friday 26th, the final day of the workshop, was quieter. A large number of site images (both from recent expeditions and from the Stein publications) were uploaded, sorted, and added to articles, and staff and Wikipedia volunteers worked on completing some of the articles begun earlier in the week. Visitors on the Friday included curators from elsewhere in the BL and from the British Museum, home to some of the other IDP collections.
== Lessons learned ==▼
While the week went mostly smoothly and was quite productive, there were a few lessons learned for future sessions:
* Building on the experience of past public events, this was scheduled several months in advance in order to get participants aware of the event in time. However, a clear narrative of what was planned was not always ready, and this may have limited the ability to get involvement from IDP groups outside the Library. It is hoped that a future event will get better uptake now that we can point to these sessions as examples!
* Some rights issues - an unexpected complexity with the Stein photographs - caused problems with the uploading of a subset of the photographs. While all were cleared successfully, it is a warning sign to double-check the rights status thoroughly in future.
* One of the student groups had not got a preparatory email, which delayed the start of the practical session in order to do some initial setup. Lesson: double-check they've been sent.
== Outcomes ==
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==Acknowledgements==
Many thanks to the British Library for hosting the sessions, and to the Dunhuang Project for organising it. Thanks also to the Wikipedia volunteers who came along to help out - {{u|Pigsonthewing}}, {{u|Maculosae tegmine lyncis}}, {{u|PatHadley}}, {{u|Charles Matthews}}, {{u|BabelStone}}, {{u|KTC}}, {{u|Tibetologist}} and {{u|Andrew Davidson}}.
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