British Library Workshop & Tour, 10 September run by Andrew Gray, the Wikipedian in Residence at the British Library.
In the afternoon of 10th September, starting at 1.00, we held an open session in the British Library, to work on BL-related content, and to talk about what's been done and what's coming up as part of the Wikipedian in Residence program. Attendees were encouraged to feed in their ideas as for what Andrew Gray ought to be doing as part of the residency.
Wireless and workspace were provided. As with the original BL editathon, there was no set agenda for the workshop, so attendees were free to come along and find something to collaborate on. Some possibilities outlined before the event included:
If you're interested in working with a curator on an article, please let me know and I'll try to set up a meeting.
If you'd like to work on some other BL-related content, let me know what it is and I'll see what can be arranged to help. There's an attempt at an outline of the notable collections here; many still lack articles.
We'll hopefully have some of the newly released digital collections to work on, for sorting and uploading - details TBC.
Following on from this, with the help of the English and Drama department here at the British Library, we have arranged a tour of the Writing Britain exhibition for Wikimedians in the evening. There was a break at 5 to have something to eat, and then met at 6 for a tour starting at 6.30. This was open even to people not able to attend the afternoon sessions. The exhibition included some particularly interesting items, as varied as the original manuscripts of Harry Potter and Middlemarch, and the oldest surviving text of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
