Talk:World War I/World War I Editathon

Chris, from my experience of the BL & editathons, it is worth saying that a) You can't remove books from the reading rooms to the room the editathon is using, and the editathon experiencce tends to break down to a stark choice between using good sources in the reading room, by oneself, or taking advantage of the experts but not being able to use stuff for references. b) The vast majority of the books I ever need are off-site & have to be ordered in advance, often 3-4 days. Even the ones in the building take 45 mins or more to arrive. It might be wise to pre-order some standard or relevant works. c) Alternatively they do "loan" books on a commercial basis. It would be worth exploring with the WiR whether we can get some free "loans" just to remain inside the BL building. Johnbod (talk) 16:00, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

I agree - I've added a note to clarify. Thanks! The Land (talk) 20:09, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

This is a pretty good point, and I'll look into it - as you say, having a "standard" collection to hand might be very helpful. The difficulty of cutting to and fro from the reading room was certainly quite discouraging last time around... Andrew Gray (talk) 20:50, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

I've had a quick chat about this. I can probably arrange to have some material in the room and available for reference - though I'll need to know in advance what the desired books are - and we may be able to request some stuff on the day if it is available on-site (a lot of material is only available at Boston Spa and requires a few days notice to be trucked down). I'll probably circulate an email closer to the day and see what people would like, what they recommend is generally useful, and what they have access to anyway. Andrew Gray (talk) 11:24, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

If we focus on a particular theme then detailed material will be more readily available to all. 81.178.153.61

Great venue

Just to say; very pleased to see the venue :) I've always tried to get to one of our editathons there but always miss out. Plus it's right next to where I travel into. Thumbs up! See you there. --ErrantX (talk) 15:51, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

Online partciepation and vairius other stuff

Sorry about bad spelling I havenent got much time. First would it be possible to particepate online and if so how and where. Second can you do something on the surface raiders of WW1 and the operations in the pacfic. Thanks Nhog 5/23/12

Travel expenses

What nature are these? I would like to come from the Isle of Man. I am willing to pay the upgrade to first class if wikimedia pays for everything else? 217.28.12.57 19:57, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

For existing Wikimedians, UK travel expenses are fine (including accomodation if necessary). Isle of Man can be accomodated as well. We can buy them for you if you'd prefer. If you buy them, we'd need you to keep the receipts, and ideally try and keep the costs down! Our full policy, if you'd like to see it, is at Finance Policy 2012. All the best, Richard Symonds (talk) 12:04, 1 June 2012 (UTC)