Wikipedia:Meetup/V&A Peter Brook editathon, 20 July 2015

Wikipedia:V&A Peter Brook editathon, 20 July 2015 for V&A staff will run from 10am - 3pm at the V&A Archives Study Room, Blythe House, London W14.

Wikipedia training event at the V&A Archive, Blythe Houe, London W14 in a nutshell:

Where?: V&A Archive, London
Nearest station - Olympia
When?: 20 July 2015, 10:00-15:00
Point of contact: User:Edwardx
Twitter:
Cost: Free

About the event

This is a joint event about Peter Brook for V&A staff, between Wikimedia UK and the Victoria and Albert Museum. The event is part of a Heritage Lottery Fund project to catalogue and make accessible the work of director Peter Brook. You can read more about the project here: http://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/theatre-and-performance-2/peter-brook-at-the-va.

How do I prepare?

Create a Wikipedia account - Special:UserLogin/signup
Computers will be provided (with wi-fi)
Learn about editing if you like: Wikipedia:Tutorial, or Getting started on Wikipedia for more information

Attendees

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Trainers

Edwardx (talk)

Image adding exercise

Image adding How to add an image from Commons to an article without one.

Here are some articles currently without images, for which we have suitable image(s) on Commmons. If you want to add an image to one of these, please speak to your Trainer (to avoid two people working on the same article). "I" means that the image can go in the infobox:

How to expand a Wikipedia article

Go to "History", start at the beginning and compare each successive version to see how it is done

Articles that could be expanded on the day

Peter Brook (improve on works, influence, collaborators^[1]^[2]^[3]
Natasha Parry, his wife (expand/improve)^[4]
Edward Gordon Craig (improve)
Lord of the Flies (1963 film) (improve)
Meetings with Remarkable Men (film) (improve)
The Mahabharata (1985 stage play) (organise and improve)
The Mahabharata (1989 film) (expand)
Pincher Martin (add details on Golding and Brook’s attempt to create a film based on the novel)
The Empty Space (expand stub)
Adrian Mitchell (improve content on Tell Me Lies)
Ted Hughes (add content on plays: Oedipus and Orghast)
Tell Me Lies (expand stub)
Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord (add something about Brook's many years in charge)
Gordon Parry (film director), his father-in-law
Marat/Sade (film) (expand)
* Seven Days... Seven Nights (expand)

New articles that could be created on the day

The Man Who (play)
Alexis Brook, Peter's brother, the psychiatrist and psychotherapist;, has a Guardian obituary^[5]
US (play) (create) There is a short article on the film about the making of the play, Benefit of the Doubt which could be expanded too.
Tierno Bokar (play), 2005 play about Tierno Bokar. There is already a section on the Peter Brook page that could form the basis of a stand-alone article.
Micheline Rozan, co-founded (with Brook), the International Centre for Theatre Research (might merit a short article)
Simon Brook (director), director and writer, son of Peter Brook and Natasha Parry

Other subjects in need of improvement

Experimental Theatre

What we did on the day

Improved and expanded

Improved Peter Brook, adding a section on collaborators and Shakespeare.

Improved Natasha Parry
Expanded The Empty Space
Improved Lord of the Flies (1963 film)
Improved Le Mahabharata (1985 stage play)
Improved Ted Hughes (content on plays: Oedipus and Orghast)
Improved Orghast
Expanded Tell Me Lies
Expanded Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
Improved Gordon Parry

New articles created

Alexis Brook, his brother
Marie-Hélène Estienne, long time collaborator
Micheline Rozan, long time collaborator
Simon Brook (director), his son
The Man Who (play), play written by Brook
US (play), play directed by Brook

Tools

References

Reftag - copy and paste a Google Books URL to generate a Wikipedia citation

Copyright-free images

Wikimedia Commons - 24 million images

Wikipedia statistics

Wikipedia:Top 25 Report - the 25 most viewed articles on English language Wikipedia in the past week
Total edits on all Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia edits live stream
Wikipedia:Statistics - a huge range of statistics about Wikipedia

More numbers

Top 1000 articles 2008-2014, and by year (Kim Kardashian, Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga have all "peaked")

Future events

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References

Bespoke welcome

We have a tailored welcome for this event, just post:

{{subst:User:Edwardx/WelcomeV&A}} ~~~~ to the talkpage of any new accounts created for the event

[1] ttp://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/471253/

[2] ttp://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/tag/peter-brook

[3] ttp://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/sep/25/peter-brook-victoria-and-albert-archives-purchased-stage

[4] ttp://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp55128/natasha-parry

[5] ttp://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/sep/27/guardianobituaries.obituaries1

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