On Octo­ber 19th, 2012 staff mem­bers of Mudd Man­u­script Library once again opened the doors and archives for the pur­pose of com­pos­ing and  edit­ing Prince­ton University-related arti­cles on Wikipedia.

For this third event of its kind, we decided to hold it dur­ing our nor­mal busi­ness hours dur­ing vol­un­teer week­end with the focus of enhanc­ing Princeton athletics information.

We had a total of 11 atten­dees with 3 new user names created.

Here a new user learns how to cre­ate and edit arti­cles from a Wikipedian

A num­ber of arti­cles were cre­ated and are still being edited.

1. Prince­ton Can­non Song
2. Class of 1952 Stadium
3. User:Undead q/Karl Langlotz
4. List of Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity Olympians
5. Hol­lie Donan
6. User:Lmd08/sandbox (Prince­ton Tiger Mascot)

1. Lisa Brown-Miller Coach­ing details added
2. The Prince­ton Tigers page gained the addition of:

• Women’s Golf
• Golf
• First foot­ball game

Two pho­tos from the edit­ing were also added to Wiki­me­dia Commons

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_editor_learning_Wikipedia.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EditathonMudd.jpg

We count this edit-a-thon as yet another suc­cess and plans are being made for future events that will include under­grad­u­ates in learn­ing more about Wikipedia and editing.

Prince­ton Alumni Weekly writer Brett Tom­lin­son was a par­tic­i­pant in our event and has also writ­ten here about his experience.