User:Ethanbas/Kocherga edit-a-thon

Format
3 hours long, with the first 10 minutes being personal introductions, and then the next 15-20 minutes being the host introducing Wikipedia editing and answering audience questions, and then people start editing

How to run an edit-a-thon

How to run an edit-a-thon

Announcement
On Sunday November 17th Kocherga will be hosting a Wikipedia edit-a-thon! Everyone are welcome, whether you're a complete newcomer or a veteran Wikipedian. The edit-a-thon will be run in English, though you're welcome to edit articles in Russian. You must bring your own laptop in order to be able to edit.

An edit-a-thon is:


 * a scheduled time where people edit Wikipedia together
 * typically focused on a specific topic (in this case timelines)
 * a way to give newcomers an insight into how Wikipedia works

We'll focus on editing and creating timeline articles. For example:


 * Create timelines for the missing US presidents on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:US_Presidents
 * Timelines for world leaders like Putin or Suharto (the former president of Indonesia)
 * Timelines for academic fields (e.g. random subfields of math)
 * "timeline of X in country Y" where X could be things like healthcare, AI, industrialization, electricity, waste management, etc.
 * Translations of articles. For example, https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Дом_культуры is available in 16 languages, but not in English

We hope to see you at the edit-a-thon! We'll have snacks and drinks. Don't forget to bring your own laptops!