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| 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.
| | The [http://www.bl.uk/ British Library] are further demonstrating their commitment to open knowledge later this month as they host a First World War editathon on 29 June. |
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| 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.
| | What will make this session so useful is the Library is making some of its material from the [http://www.europeana.eu/ Europeana] Collections 1914-1918 project publicly available. These collections, for the most part, are not yet online but a substantial number will be made available the day before the event. |
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| 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.
| | Many of these sources are extremely hard to find. These include many out of print books, official and unofficial trench journals, maps and photographs. |
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| The editathon is being organised by Rose Vickridge of the Royal Opera House and Andrew Gray, an experienced Wikimedian.
| | Spaces remain available for this free event and you're most welcome to attend what should be a very interesting day. You can find [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/British_Library/WWI more information and register your attendance here]. <span class="plainlinks">[http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/06/british-library-to-make-europeana-wwi-collection-available-at-workshop/ <nowiki>[</nowiki>...<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</span> |
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| 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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