User talk:Lizzstearns

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Glad to see that you are participating
I look forward to working with you at the British Library editathon it's always great to have new users at these events, and we will have lots of fun working with you. Might I suggest that, since you are relatively new to the community, that you try your hand at editing a couple or articles that interest you, adding a couple references here and there. It's always good to be familiar with Wikipedia syntax and stuffs before you participate in an editathon. It's easier to teach people policies and such, but a little harder to make editing and reading the syntax which articles are written in comfortable. If you have any questions, feel free to ask, and don't be afraid to just Be Bold!!!!!!!! Happy editing, Sadads (talk) 18:56, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Penny dreadful
Oxford English Dictionary citations:

penny dreadful n. and adj. (a) n. a cheaply published crime story written in a sensational or morbidly exciting style; a cheap book containing such a story; (b) adj. of or relating to penny dreadfuls.1861    N. Amer. Rev. July 29  They can read the ‘*penny dreadful,’ but they cannot darn their stockings or mend their shoes. 1884   World 20 Aug. 9/2   The wicked noblemen of the transpontine melodrama or of penny dreadfuls. 1906   ‘M. Corelli’ Treasure of Heaven 55  The proper way for him to behave at this juncture‥would be that he should take her tenderly in his arms and murmur, after the penny-dreadful style of elderly hero, ‘My darling’. 1963   Times 18 Feb. 5/3   He was perfectly happy with a ‘penny dreadful’, a warm fire, a friendly dog, and a good meal inside him. 2001   Smithsonian May 127/1   He could talk with equal ease about Horace or penny dreadfuls Tim riley (talk) 11:27, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Editathon
I greatly enjoyed today's séance, and I hope you will not hesitate to leave a note on my talk page if you want any rummaging in UK archives in the future; it will be a pleasure. I shall keep an eye on Penny Dreadfuls, and put any refs etc into standard Wikipedia form as neccessary, so don't worry about the conventions too much! Happy editing, and enjoy the rest of your stay in the UK. Tim riley (talk) 19:29, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

re:Thanks and thoughts on Wikipedia in classroom
Hey Lizz, glad to have been of help!

We talked briefly about doing stuff with Wikipedia in the classroom. I would like to direction you to two places, the first is the education portal at the outreach website, which can give you tools for creating your own assignments http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education and also the WP:Ambassador program, which is a great way to get support. I will email you soon with the contact for the regional ambassador in your area! Sadads (talk) 20:15, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

British Library follow-up
Thank you for participating in the English and Drama Editathon at the British Library on June 4. I hope you enjoyed the day and got something useful out of it.

If you are new to Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects, I hope you had any questions or problems answered and maybe found being a contributor as addictive as many of the regulars do. If you've got any questions or need help, please feel free to ask any of us on our talk page or by e-mail (Fæ, Tom Morris, Sadads, James F., RHaworth, The Land, AdamBMorgan), ask on the British Library collaboration page or through the Wikipedia Help Desk.

If you are interested in working on Wikipedia, you might want to consider joining one of the WikiProjects. These are places where team work between editors interested in a particular topic can be coordinated. Some suggestions for WikiProjects that may be of interest to you as a participant in the event on Saturday include Literature, Poetry or Science Fiction. A full list of literature and language related WikiProjects can be found here, and a list of all WikiProjects is here. The WikiProjects often have things that need doing, and if you need help you can often ask in their talk page.

But there are other places you can get involved. If you are interested on working on images, such as improving image descriptions, categorisation or uploading new media, consider getting involved in Wikimedia Commons. Wikisource also needs people willing to help make available original source material, and Wikiquote is trying to compile a directory of quotes which you may be able to contribute to.

If you want to continue some of the work we got started on Saturday, here are a few potential things to help with:


 * Following on from work on Ella D'Arcy on Saturday, work has started to make all of The Yellow Book available on Wikisource. If you go to the page on Wikisource and pick a volume then click on 'scan index' you can start helping to proofread pages from the journal - simply click on the page you want to work on, and go through to check that the text on the left reflects the text on the right. If you need any help with getting started, please ask User:Tom Morris.
 * If you created any new articles at the event, you might want to submit them to Did you know?.
 * If you are able to translate into other languages, why not pick one of the articles we worked on, translate it and post it on another language version of Wikipedia: there are now versions in hundreds of languages. On Wikimedia Commons, it is also possible to provide multilingual descriptions of images and categories: this enables editors on the other language versions to better find images and media files they can use in their project.
 * If you need images from the British Library to illustrate articles, please add them to the image requests page. If you would like a British LIbrary curator to help collaborate on an article, please add it to the collaborations page.
 * You might also be interested in attending GLAMcamp London.
 * To explore more articles related to the British Library, visit Portal:British Library.

Whatever you do, please tell us about the positive and negative experiences you have. On behalf of the organisers of the event, thanks again.

—Tom Morris (talk) 11:23, 10 June 2011 (UTC)