Wikipedia:WikiProject University of Oxford/RediscoveringRycote

{|style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;border-radius: 8px; width:100%" !colspan=2 style="font-size:150%;"|Rediscovering Rycote Wikipedia Editathon
 * Rycote Chapel from the south-east.jpg
 * Rycote Chapel from the south-east.jpg

About the Event

 * Date: 2-5pm, Friday 15 November 2013
 * Venue: Training Room, Radcliffe Science Library, Oxford (directions).
 * Participants: All welcome! No Wiki editing experience is necessary, though experienced editors are very welcome; tutorials will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers. Can’t be there the whole time? No problem. Join us for as little or as long as you like.
 * Can’t get to Oxford? Virtual participation is welcome. Stay tuned for details of how to chat with us on the day.
 * Registration: Sign up via Eventbrite and add your name to the list of participants below..
 * Cost: Free!
 * Contacts: Any questions? Please contact or communications@undefinedbodleian.ox.ac.uk. For Wikimedia UK, Jonathan Cardy is supporting (jonathan.cardy@undefinedwikimedia.org.uk)

The Bodleian Libraries are organising an editathon focused on the Rediscovering Rycote online resource. Rycote Park, near Thame in Oxfordshire, was the site of a mansion originally built in Tudor times for Sir Richard Fowler, Giles Heron or John, Baron Williams of Thame - which one is not known. It was almost completely demolished in June 1807 and all that remains today is part of the south-west tower.

The Tudor mansion at Rycote was arguably the dominant country house in early modern Oxfordshire and played host to six English kings and queens, including Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. The mansion archive was destroyed on a bonfire, but the Bodleian Library holds many manuscripts, letters, accounts, drawings and maps relating to Rycote. The Rediscovering Rycote website uses these archival resources to reconstruct the history of the house and its residents.

We aim to use the Rediscovering Rycote resources improve coverage of people, events and other information related to Rycote. The day will include a short talk from the Rycote project archivist as well as a chance to view some original manuscripts related to the history of Rycote Park and the project.

Come along to learn about how Wikipedia works and contribute a greater understanding of history!

On the day

 * 2-2.30: Introduction to the Rycote website and a chance to see some original manuscripts
 * 2.30-2.45/3: Introduction to Wikipedia and Wikipedia editing
 * 3-5: Rycote editing

We will be based in a computer lab, so there is no need to bring your own laptop (though you are very welcome to do so; wifi will be available).

Access: Lift access suitable for wheelchairs is available to all public areas, including the training room. A portable induction loop is available on request, and an infrared induction system is in place in the Training Room.

Participants
please add your name below
 * Liz McCarthy
 * Jarry1250 (also happy to help out generally)
 * Howard Batey
 * lou580
 * Sarah Beecraft
 * Howard Briggs
 * Malvina Kalim
 * CDNCait
 * NPGlibrarian
 * Gillian Mairi
 * Fruitbonbon
 * MickyRoss
 * Lizzie Shadow
 * Kat777Oxford
 * Sonja Kujansuu

Trainers
(There will also be a morning session for 6th formers, so please can trainers indicate if they will be attending all day, just for Rycote, or just for the morning)
 * User:RexxS all day
 * Harry Mitchell; will come down with Doug, happy to stay for the whole day.

Looking for topic ideas?
We've provided a few suggestions below, and more will be provided nearer to the date. Feel free to come up with your own ideas and post them here! Helpful updates could be as simple as: Making sure reference links are still appropriate and functional; Adding new inline citations/references; Adding a photo; Adding an infobox; Adding data to more fields in an existing infobox; Creating headings; Adding categories; etc.

To update or improve:
 * John, Baron Williams of Thame
 * Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys
 * Sir John Norris
 * Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire
 * Elizabeth Wray, 3rd Baroness Norreys of Rycote
 * Peregrine_Bertie_(junior)
 * Bridget_de_Vere
 * Any of the pages for the various title holders called the Earl of Abingdon
 * Willoughby Bertie, 4th Earl of Abingdon
 * James Bertie, 1st Earl of Abingdon
 * Montagu Bertie, 7th Earl of Abingdon
 * Montagu Bertie, 5th Earl of Abingdon
 * Montagu Bertie, 6th Earl of Abingdon
 * Montagu Venables-Bertie, 2nd Earl of Abingdon
 * Rycote (summary of history)
 * Rycote House (full history and current use -- but be careful not to edit the same bit of the page as someone else!)
 * Any of the owners of Rycote (see list)

To create:
 * Rycote Magna
 * Rycote Parva

Resources: In addition to the vast primary resources available on the Rediscovering Rycote website, we will make available a selection of reference works and editors will have access to some of the Libraries' online resources.
 * Rediscovering Rycote: People
 * Rediscovering Rycote: Catalogue
 * Oxfordshire County Council Historic Environment Record
 * |The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth
 * Rycote-related images


 * Tools


 * PrepBio: tool for starting a biographical article: Don't worry if you don't know what this is, just go ahead and edit directly.

Want to learn more about editing?
If you want to learn more about editing before you come, try these introductions:
 * Tutorial
 * Help:Editing - traditional wiki mark up help
 * VisualEditor/User guide - new Visual Editor help