Wikipedia:WikiProject Atheism/Conway Hall editathon

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Wikimedia UK and Conway Hall organised an editathon focusing on Conway Hall's archives, hosted in the Brockway room at Conway Hall in London on Thursday, 8th August 2013.

The aim of the event was to improve the coverage of an assortment of nineteenth century organisations and people - especially related to the atheist movement. As well as subject expertise, Conway Hall has an archive which holds a lot of material that has been accumulated by the South Place Ethical Society. We were able to use that during the event.


 * Date: 8th August 2013, 6.30pm-9pm (coffees and introductions from 5.30)
 * Venue: Brockway Room (Ground floor), Conway Hall
 * Participants: Participation from Conway Hall as well as interested Wikimedians. There was space for 20 people in total.
 * Registration: Captured below and on Evenbrite for non-wiki editors
 * Cost: Free.
 * Contacts: Any questions? Please contact

Participants in the room

 * 1) Jonathan Cardy (WMUK) (talk) 14:19, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
 * 2) Count me in. —Tom Morris (talk) 11:26, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
 * 3) Philafrenzy (talk) 22:09, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 4) Sillypunk (CHES)
 * 5) I'm in! Skeptic sid (talk) 16:03, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 6) &mdash; RHaworth (talk · contribs) 11:20, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 7) Yes, please. FunkyCanute (talk) 22:53, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 8) Edwardx (talk) 23:20, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 9) Kenneth Rudd - Eventbrite
 * 10) tony gordon - Eventbrite
 * 11) Stewart Dean - Eventbrite
 * 12) George Jelliss - Eventbrite
 * 13) Ray Ward - Eventbrite
 * 14) Jonathan Pritchard - Eventbrite
 * 15) Morgan Phillips - Eventbrite
 * 16) Stells dessoy - Eventbrite
 * 17) Alex Wright - Eventbrite
 * 18) Mazin Zeki - Eventbrite
 * 19) Giles Enders - Eventbrite
 * 20) Ian m thomas - Eventbrite

Participants via teleconference
We run a Skype chat for people who can't get to London via jonathan.cardy.
 * I may be available in the evening. Would like to be involved in some way, even if just copyediting edited articles. MartinPoulter (talk) 13:46, 28 June 2013 (UTC) Sorry I couldn't make it. I'd be interested in taking part in any similar future events. MartinPoulter (talk) 11:28, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I am a member of the Ethical Society and have already edited Conway Hall which I visit often. I expect to be at Wikimania so will have to participate remotely but may take some photos ahead of the event to prepare. Andrew Davidson (talk) 23:58, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Gordo (talk)

Articles
Existing ones that could be improved:


 * John A Hobson
 * Depending on what's available, a wide range of articles relating to Imperialism, the scramble for Africa and the individuals involved could be improved.
 * Frederick James Gould
 * William Johnson Fox
 * Stanton Coit
 * Harold Blackham
 * Henry Snell
 * Chapman Cohen
 * Conway Hall Ethical Society - or is this too obvious?
 * John Pye-Smith

Potential new articles:


 * Harriet Law
 * C. Delisle Burns
 * Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner
 * Origin Housing (Used to be the Humanist Housing Association)
 * Ethical Church Redirect created to Ethical movement where this is covered in adequate detail.

Outcomes

 * Articles created


 * Articles improved

Did you know... nominations: New category:


 * Category:People associated with Conway Hall Ethical Society - 14 people added so far