Tco03displays

Cyprus Wikithon

Hi -

I am organising an edit-a-thon at my university, European University Cyprus, for the 12th May. The page for the event is at Wikipedia:Meetup/Cyprus_Wikithon.

The event will be in the evening and will last around 3 hours. I will have various academics there whose research mainly concentrates on Cyprus, but who have never edited Wikipedia, as well as students and hopefully expert Wikipedians such as yourself. We will also have access to the subscription e-journals and databases that the university subscribes to (http://euc.ac.cy/en/library/search-the-euc-e-journals-and-databases).

The aim, as with any edit-a-thon, would be to get academic input into existing articles and train educators and students in how to improve the encyclopedia (also, it's always good to meet other editors face to face). The initial introduction to wiki markup, good practice, etc, will be in English, but we can work on English, Greek, and Turkish Wikipedias at the event itself. (My own Greek is still not good, but most academics in attendance are Greek speaking).

I have run two similar events before - a wikithon at the British Association of American Studies in 2008, and another at the Native American Literature Symposium last year - and am reasonably confident of being able to get attendees interested. However, I am not a very active editor these days, and really need to get expert, active editors such as yourself involved.

So, this is to ask, firstly, if you would consider attending the event, and, second, if you can recommend other Wikipedians in Cyprus who I should contact?

If you have any queries please message me here or via j. mackay@ euc.ac. cy.

Kind Regards Dr James Mackay

Hello,

Thank you for your invitation. I am most interested to attend, but unfortunately I will not be in Cyprus on the 12th of May. I do hope the meeting works well for those who attend. I do not know of any other Wikipidians in Cyprus, with the exception of Kdemetriou (talk), who I encountered online when working on the article of Monsieur Doumani, but never met in person. --Tco03displays (talk) 17:30, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

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