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• We're just closing up the workshop now, with 9.1% of the books complete and 1500+ new maps found. Not a bad day's work! Andrew Gray (talk) 16:52, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

• Note: Unfortunately, due to the Signpost's queasy relationship with punctuality, this is now a historical piece. However, the day went very well, with thirty volunteers tagging nearly 1,500 maps from the British Library. Gingerdead Men were had and enjoyed by all. Happy Halloween! Serendi^podous 19:43, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
  • Not at all. The day at the British Library is over, but the images are still there, the status page is still being updated every ten minutes, and it would be great to see how many more maps we can discover by the end of the weekend.

  The BL labs group's big annual symposium is on Monday, jammed to with 270 people coming, with an hour-long discussion of this collection and what's been achieved with it in the last twelve months the finale item on Monday afternoon. 10% of the collection completed by 30 volunteers in a couple of hours is a fantastic start. Let's see what we can achieve now with everybody, by the time of that discussion on Monday afternoon! Jheald (talk) 20:20, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

  (And the collection is well worth a browse, just to see what's in it). Jheald (talk) 20:21, 31 October 2014 (UTC)