Edit-a-thon - Outreach Wiki
Jump to content
From Outreach Wiki
Translate this page
Other languages:
Bahasa Melayu
Kadazandusun
Kreyòl ayisyen
Nederlands
dansk
italiano
polski
português
português do Brasil
română
български
русский
עברית
বাংলা
中文
This is a photo of a Wikipedia edit-a-thon in Mexico. Edit-a-thons may be conducted in diverse languages. There are over 100 language editions of Wikipedia, and some Wikimedia projects are multilingual.
An
edit-a-thon
(alternatively spelled "editathon") is one or more
events
in which people work together in person or online to build content on a wiki. Edit-a-thons can be very informal or very structured; they can be designed as primarily outreach events (to draw in new contributors) or they can be set up more to meet the needs of longtime contributors.
How can I get started?
edit
Take the training on the Programs and Events Dashboard
. Learning how to run Editathons can be complicated, especially the first couple times you do it! However, the training should get you thinking about what the best practices, and often unanticipated opportunities are for improving editathons.
Further reading
edit
There are so many ways to plan and run an edit-a-thon, depending on the audience, the intended outcome, how much effort you want to put in, etc. Here are pages with more detailed outlines of how to do an edit-a-thon:
How to run an edit-a-thon
Some of the resources on the Outreach wiki regarding
GLAM
projects may also apply to non-GLAM edit-a-thons, including this
GLAM/Model projects/Edit-a-thon How-To
Introductory edit-a-thons
Edit-a-thon case studies category
List of editing workshops on English Wikipedia
Wikimedia Commons has a category of media regarding edit-a-thons, which includes PDFs, at
Commons:Category:Wikimedia edit-a-thons
As mentioned above, see
this training on the Outreach Dashboard
Questions
edit
You may contact your local
Wikimedia affiliate organization
with questions. Questions about GLAM edit-a-thons may be directed to
User:Astinson (WMF)
(no longer active as of September 2025).
See also
edit
Wikidojo
WikiSalon
Retrieved from "
Categories
Edit-a-thon
Events
Edit-a-thon
Add topic