Wikipedia:WikiProject Literature/Bloomsbury Group editathon


Bloomsbury Group editathon
The Bloomsbury Group graph
The Bloomsbury Group graph

To coincide with the Bloomsbury Festival, Wikimedia UK and Senate House Library organised an editathon focusing on the Bloomsbury Group, hosted at Senate House in central London on 19 October 2013.

The aim was to improve the coverage of The Bloomsbury Group. As well as subject expertise, the Senate House provided resources to support editing - Jordan Landes and Richard Espley, the English Librarian, were on hand, both for editing and to help with the library

  • Date: Saturday 19 October 2013, 10am–4pm
  • Venue: Senate House, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU.
  • Participants: All were welcome! There was space for 14 in total.
  • Cost: Free. We are only able to reimburse travel costs for organisers.
  • Contacts: Any questions? Please contact Jonathan Cardy (WMUK). From Senate House, the lead organiser was Jordan Landes.

Participants in the room

There were also attendees from the Bloomsbury Festival.

  1. Richard Nevell (WMUK) (supporting the logistics of the event)
  2. KTo288, looks interesting, though like Richard, I'm willing to bow out if this fills up and a real Bloomsbury Group aficianado is being denied a place. --KTo288 (talk) 19:48, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
  3. David Phillips, IHR Library
  4. Philafrenzy (talk) 00:14, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
  5. I work in the area and so am quite familiar with it. Andrew Davidson (talk) 17:14, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
  6. Jordan Landes, Senate House Library
  7. Tom Morris

Couldn't make it on the day

  1. SacSene Interesting opportunity, although I might need some help with the technical issues. --SacSene (talk)

Participants online

  1. Edwardx (talk) 14:48, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

Agenda for the day

  • The library opens at 9:45 and the room will be ready by 10 for editing to start.
  • Tea and coffee, as well as sandwiches provided for everyone
  • The event finishes at 4pm

Articles

Below were suggestions for editing on the day.

Article log - outcomes

Did You Know... nominations

Bloomsbury Festival - comments

This was quite interesting too. I took part in the slow bicycle race in Store Street and got a respectable time. The presentations about the construction of the Senate House and the Ministry of Information were quite good. And the installation of the phantom railings across the road from the Senate House was especially spooky. I wasn't expecting them and so it took me a while to work out that I wasn't being hoaxed myself. Andrew Davidson (talk) 22:32, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

The construction of the Senate House sounds interesting, but I've got to ask: what phantom railings? Nev1 (talk) 23:06, 19 October 2013 (UTC)