World Mime Day Wiki edit-a-thon 2018

World Mime Day Wiki edit-a-thon 2018 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. The event was successfully organized in 2016 and 2017, and this year is a part of the First World Mime Conference.

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

8 - 18th of March - application for local organizers
18 - 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

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 18 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 Guslarević	Ivana Guslarevic	Serbia	Wikimedia Serbia	Уређивачки маратон - Светски дан пантомиме 2018
Kiril Simeonovski	Kiril Simeonovski	Macedonia	Shared Knowledge	Светски ден на пантомимата 2018

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 media

World Mime Day 2017 - Blog in Serbian