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[[File:Queen_Victoria_1887.jpg|200px|thumb|right|alt=Queen Victoria|Queen Victoria]]
[[File:Royal_Opera_House_at_night.jpg|200px|thumb|right|alt=The Royal Opera House|The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London]]


''This post was written by Liz McCarthy, Communications and Social Media Officer for the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford''
As Wembley is to football and CERN is to particle physics, so the [http://www.roh.org.uk/ Royal Opera House] in London is to ballet. Home to both The Royal Opera and The Royal Ballet, the opera house is located in London’s Covent Garden. So it’s with great excitement that Wikimedia UK is supporting a ballet-themed editathon at this world-famous venue on Saturday 22 June.


‘This book, Mamma gave me, that I might write the journal of my journey to Wales in it.’ So began the young Victoria in 1832, beginning a lifelong habit – and providing fodder for researchers around the world.
The focus of the event is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Ashton Sir Frederick Ashton], The Royal Ballet’s founding choreographer and one of the most prominent figures in 20th century ballet. The Wikipedia article about him exists in 14 languages but is somewhat neglected, while only around 15% of his ballets have articles at all.


As Communications and Social Media Officer for the [http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ Bodleian Libraries], it was my job to find ways to get the word out and help our audiences engage with the [http://www.queenvictoriasjournals.org/ Queen Victoria’s Journals project]. The project, a collaborative effort between the Bodleian Libraries, the [http://www.royal.gov.uk/the%20royal%20collection%20and%20other%20collections/theroyalarchives/theroyalarchives.aspx Royal Archives] and information  company [http://www.proquest.co.uk/en-UK/ ProQuest], has made Queen Victoria’s diaries available online.
The Royal Opera House will be sharing lots of books and other materials to use as sources and there are still some places available at the event.


The Bodleian Libraries communications team had already begun to consider how we might create stronger links with the Wikipedia community – we’ve been chatting to Wikipedians in Residence and working with local editors to improve collection-related content. Engaging with the Wikipedia community seemed like a great way to put the Journals material to use as well as to help us develop relationships with Wikipedians in the area, and we decided to run a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_University_of_Oxford/%20QueenVictoriasJournals Queen Victoria’s Journals editathon] to coincide with the anniversary of Queen Victoria’s birthday on 24 May.
The editathon is being organised by Rose Vickridge of the Royal Opera House and Andrew Gray, an experienced Wikimedian.


The project’s timing meant that we had a very short window in which to organise an event, but we went ahead. We quickly pulled together some promotional material and got curators lined up for the day, then spent about two and half weeks promoting the event. The help of Wikimedia UK was crucial in getting the word out and making sure everything was set up correctly, but we also advertised within the University and to various Victorian research groups. <span class="plainlinks">[http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/06/one-is-most-amused-queen-victorias-journals-editathon/ <nowiki>[</nowiki>Continues ...<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</span>
You can [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ballet/Royal_Opera_House_editathon learn more, and sign up for the event, here]. <span class="plainlinks">[http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/06/royal-opera-house-to-host-an-editathon/ <nowiki>[</nowiki>...<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</span>


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