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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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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 the BL and from the British Museum, home to some of the other IDP collections.

== Problems and lessons learned ==

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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}}.