Wikipedia:WikiProject Poetry/William Blake/KSU Editathon

Welcome! On October 11, 2013 from 1-5 PM, the William Blake Archive and Kansas State's Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art will be cosponsoring a William Blake Editathon as part of the GLAM-Wiki cooperation with the Archive. For more information on what an edithathon is see http://editathon.org/. At the editathon, we will be working with Mark Crosby, an editor for the William Blake Archive and professor at K-State, to improve the content of several high profile pages related to William Blake's art and poetry. Also, we will have original print copies of Blake's illustrations of two other artist's works (Robert Blair's The Grave (poem) and Benjamin Heath Malkin's Father's Memoirs of His Child), and a small talk explaining the works by Mark Crosby. Wikipedians and Volunteers will be joined at the editathon by students from one of Crosby's classes who will be working on other Blake articles as a class assignment. Snacks and WiFi will be provided by the Beach Museum but please bring your own computers (a few extra laptops will be on hand, if you don't have one available). Editathons are great opportunities to meet other Wikipedians and to learn more about the dynamics of cultural institutions!

Schedule

 * 12:30-1:00 - Arrive at the Beach Museum
 * 1:00-1:20 - Introduction from the Beach Museum and Brief Informational discussion from Mark Crosby about Blake and his materials
 * 1:20-1:40 - Introduction to Wikipedia editing- how to ad references, and create new content
 * 1:40-5 - Break up into groups to edit pages on the "Content focus areas" section, including occasional breaks to go explore the Museum
 * 5:20 - Possible retreat to Aggieville for dinner and/or drinks and good company

Getting to the Beach Museum
The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum is located near the corner of 14th St. and Anderson Ave in Manhattan, Kansas. For directions and parking instructions see the information available on the Beach Museum's Webpage. We will be meeting in the UMB Theater, the large room on the East end of the building on the second floor of the Museum. Parking is free for visitors to the museum in the parking lot adjacent to the Museum, however, make sure to register the vehicle with the Museum at the Information Desk on the second floor. Their is also free public parking across Anderson in Aggieville.

We will be meeting on the second floor of the Museum in the large room on the East end of the building.

Content focus areas
The following articles will be the focus of the editing event, because the event is sponsored by the William Blake Archive. Of course, Editathons are open events, if you have other ideas or would like to work on something other than those items listed below, that will certainly be fine! Go ahead and add those ideas to the list:

Works we have in person

 * Robert Blair's The Grave (poem) - Especially in need of a discussion of themes and poetic concerns in the poem
 * |A238178774&v=2.1&u=ksu&it=r&p=AONE&sw=w Prosopopoeia as a cognitive ekphrastic activity: a case from eighteenth-century graveyard poetry in Candian Social Science
 * |A144503893&v=2.1&u=ksu&it=r&p=AONE&sw=w Dark days for Blake's spiritual illuminations The poet-artist's watercolours for Robert Blair's 'The Grave' are in danger of being split up and exported in the Financial Times
 * DISINTERRING THE GRAVE: ELIGIOUS AUTHORITY, POETIC AUTONOMY AND ROBERT BLAIR'S FIDEIST POETICS by ERIC PARISOT in Scottish Studies Review
 * |A17096727&v=2.1&u=ksu&it=r&p=AONE&sw=w Graved in tropes: the figural logic of epitaphs and elegies in Blair, Gray, Cowper and Wordsworth by Lorna Clymer in ELH


 * Benjamin Heath Malkin's Father's Memoirs of His Child - Draft for the event
 * Google Scholar Search of Works citing the poem
 * Discussion of Malkin's work as Relevant to Blake Criticism
 * Archive.org copy of the work
 * Literary Ways of Killing A Child: The 19th Century Practice by Judith Plotz
 * Or, if you don't want to write an article, we currently have an incomplete transcription of the work at Wikisource

Other Blake of interest

 * Additional already identified projects at Blake
 * Nurse's Song - severally small article on two distinct poems in Songs of Innocence and of Experience
 * Article on Women in Blake
 * Mention in a Companion to Blake
 * Earlier article that uses the poem as an example of contrast
 * Another article using it as an example
 * Visions of the Daughters of Albion
 * Colby Quarterly article on Daughters of Albion
 * Notes on the Visions of the Daughters of Albion by Wasser in Modern Language Quarterly
 * |A232800018&docType=GALE&role= "Essence, gender, race: William Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion" by Dennis M. Welch" in Studies in Romanticism
 * A Little Girl Lost
 * |A18626701&docType=GALE&role= Analysis by Katelin E. Trowbridge in The Explicator
 * BLAKE: FINDINGS IN ‘A LITTLE GIRL LOST’ by Paul Miner in Notes and Queries

Beach Museum

 * Open table from the Beach's collection (more information coming soon)

Important materials for help

 * http://editathon.org
 * http://editathon.org/begin-a-new-article/
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cheatsheet

Results
The group for the event was a little smaller then expected: as is often the case with academic communities, many people doing many things at many times. However, for an event that didn't draw many experienced Wikipedians (there are few in Kansas and the time of the week prevented attendence from that small community), we got a fair amount done. Beyond teaching 5 new editors how to edit Wikipedia and Wikisource, the volunteers got a chance to learn more about Blake's works and contributed to both Wikipedia and the Wikisource! The event was also one of the first times that the Beach Musuem has included outside volunteers in an active event related to the museum and it's community.


 * Pages improved
 * Birger Sandzén
 * The Draft for Father's Memoir of His Child
 * About 20 pages at wikisource:Index:Father%27s_memoirs_of_his_child.djvu
 * https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grave_(dikt)


 * Users in attendence:
 * One of the Museum Staff
 * One of the Museum Staff
 * One of the Museum Staff
 * One of the Museum Staff
 * One of the Museum Staff
 * One of the Museum Staff
 * One of the Museum Staff
 * One of the Museum Staff