World Mime Day Wiki edit-a-thon

World Mime Day Wiki edit-a-thon is an international event that should be organised by a local person or institution involved in mime and by a local Wikimedia chapter. The goal is to enrich the content regarding mime on Wikipedia in different languages symbolically on 22nd of March - World Mime Day. The idea came up cooperation between Wikimedia Serbia and Serbian actor Marko Stojanović (President of World Mime Organisation).

What does a local organiser need to do?

• Agree to organise the event and coordinate all parties during preparation period and realization
• Make contact with relevant institution
• Find few volunteers - they could be students of mime, theatre, film, languages, journalism, history of art, computer sciences or any others who know how to write and have an interest in mime
• Find a space with internet where you and your volunteers can come on the World Mime Day, March 22nd. That can be in your theatre, (mime) studio/school, university, (public) library, co-working space, cafe, park…
• Organizer and volunteers should find relevant sources of information on mime (books, web sites, theatre programs, post-doctoral/PhD/Master research documents, all kind of official documents)

Topics

You can write about mime in the world and/or mime in your country and/or mime in your city and/or mime in your school/university and/or mime in your theatre/film/TV/web/media and/or in your festival… You can write about mime in general, mime history, mime theatres/groups/companies formal and informal, mime shows, mime artists, mime schools/universities/departments, mime festivals, mime projects.

Photo release

Make contact with relevant institution who can provide free photos of mime artist/teacher/researcher/director/organiser (etc…), images from your shows, theatre, films, videos, school/university, festivals, artwork with mime as a topic/theme... You can do the same for other mime artists and institutions.

Time plan

• 4 - 12th of March - application for local organizers
• 12 - 22nd of March
  • creating local project page and list of articles
  • contacting relevant institution (theatre, studio, university...)
  • announcing call for participants
  • media promotion
• 22nd of March - World Mime Day Wiki edit-a-thon
• Beginning of April - edit-a-thon evaluation

Aims

Quantitative

• at least one excellent article created or significantly edited during the edit-a-thon per country on average
• at least three articles created or significantly edited during the edit-a-thon per community on average
• Total number of participants: 75 (15 participants per country - Serbia, Bulgaria, Armenia, Georgia, Macedonia confirmed)

Strategic

• Developing strong relations between chapters
• Building partnerships with relevant institutions through networking

Participating countries and organizers

Duties

• Share information about World Mime Day Wiki edit-a-thon with you community.
• Create local wiki page for the event.
• Define a list of at least 30 articles about by 17 March.
  • mime artists
  • mime festivals
  • mime shows
  • mime theatres
• Put the lists on your local wiki page.

Local organizers

Contact person name	Contact person username	Country	Affiliation	Local page
Ivana Madžarević	IvanaMadzarevic	Serbia	Wikimedia Serbia	Уређивачки маратон - Светски дан пантомиме 2016
Kiril Simeonovski	Kiril Simeonovski	Macedonia	Shared Knowledge	Светски ден на пантомимата 2016
Vassia Atanassova	Spiritia	Bulgaria	Wikimedians of Bulgaria User Group
Susanna Mkrtchyan	SusikMkr	Armenia	Wikimedia Armenia

Interested in participating

Countries / affiliations / communities interested in participating but without final decision. If you are interested, please list at least one contact person, who can provide more details on state of your decision.

Contact person name	Contact person username	Wiki community	Affiliation

Will not participate

Countries / affiliations / communities who decided not to participate.

Name	Username	Country	Affiliation

Blog and social media

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