Tell participants about your collections and what makes them special.

Of course, this can be approximate.

• Locations, directions, maps
• Twitter: Hashtag #OAMass13, plus your own institution's Twitter, or any participants.
• WiFi: Tell participants which wireless networks they should use
• What to Bring: Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords. Tell them if they will need any ID or special process to enter the library. If you are having food, definitely let folks know!
• Contact the organizers: Give participants a person and a name, and make sure that person can check their email the day of the event, for last-minute questions. If possible, include a phone number for day-of questions -- maybe just your front desk who can direct people to time and place.

Leave space here for sign-ups. This format is somewhat standard for Wikipedia meetups.

Based on your collections, enter a list of suggestions. Wikipedia GLAM folks have suggested starting with simple types of info, outlined below. Jumping immediately to editing a well-established article might be overwhelming for new editors. Previous edit-a-thons have done well with creating introductory stub pages in the following categories.

In other words, updating a well-established article about a controversial concept is not certainly not verboten, but might take some back-and-forth with existing editors. Adding new basic facts, or expanding on existing articles about basic facts is often an easier place to start. You are, of course, free to do what you like! These are just a few suggestions to smooth the way for beginning editors.

This Meetup at UNC-Chapel Hill is a nice example page, as well as this To Do List from a Luce Lunder Meetup.

Enter a list of useful secondary sources on our topic/collections here. The Luce/Lunder Meetup has a nice example list.

These are just to get you started -- feel free to add to this list.

• GLAM Beginners Guide
• Wikipedia Tutorial
• Starting an Article
• Citation Guide
• Five Pillars of Wikipedia
• Formatting Shortcuts -
  • Text Formatting
  • Section Headers, Indents, and Lists
  • Links

This is the exciting part! Leave a half hour at the end of your edit-a-thon to collect and admire all of the work you've done, as well as take a few photos.

Delete this section when you are done, but leave the Meetup category code below.

Once you've created your event page, link to it from the following places. Feel free to contact the organizers for help with any of this.

• On the schedule on the main Open Access to Mass History page
• On the Wikipedia Loves Libraries - Northeast events schedule
• On the Wikipedia Boston Meetup page, under upcoming meetups
• On the Wikimedia New England page

And of course, please publicize your event as you see fit! We ask that you just include two sentences saying something like "This edit-a-thon is part of Open Access to Mass History, a planned series of edit-a-thons during Open Access Week; if you can't make this event, please see our main schedule for more."

Delete this section when you are done, and add [[Category:Wikipedia meetups in 2013]] , [[Category:Wikipedia meetups in Boston, Massachusetts]] , and [[Category:Wikipedia Loves Libraries 2013]] to the bottom of the page. This will automatically list you on some Wikipedia Meetup pages.