Minor request, can someone work on the Silk Road article itself where there's been a mess/conflict over the marine aspects of the Silk Road? I was partially to blame for it but never was able to fix it. Thanks Doug
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Andrew Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm currently working on fixing up some of the details for an event we > have running later in October with the International Dunhuang Project, > an international group working with a large collection of manuscripts > and artefacts from the eastern end of the Silk Road. > > http://idp.bl.uk/ & > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Dunhuang_Project > > The aim is to work on content related to the broad context of Central > Asian/Silk Road history and archaeology, using the resources and > expertise of the group to develop articles on topics such as: > > * major archaeological sites in the region > * history of the regions and periods covered > * key archaeologists, explorers, and scholars > * related ancient languages, art, and culture > > A number of IDP staff in the BL are commited to working on this over > several days, and we're also making arrangements for some groups of > postgraduate students in related fields to get involved. It'll run > over four days at the British Library in London - 23rd to 26th October > - and Wikimedians who'd like to get involved are welcome to come on > any of the days. It will be inside the staff areas at the library, so > we *will* be able to have reference books available, which has often > been a problem in the past with these events! > > If you're interested, please get in touch or sign up on the wiki - > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BL/IDP - and please do > forward this to anyone else who might be interested. IDP is a > multinational group, and we're keen to make sure some of this extends > beyond the English Wikipedia. > > Hope to see some of you there! > > -- > - Andrew Gray > Wikipedian in Residence, British Library > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- Doug Weller http://www.ramtops.co.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
