Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Natural World Edit-a-thon 2015

Wikimedians in Bangalore with an interest in the natural world are getting together for an editathon to improve articles on the plants, animals, geology and other aspects of nature around them. The two day workshop will be aided by User:Chinmayisk and User:Shyamal.

Part of the facilitation will include helping identify and obtain reliable sources, learning to structure an article, paraphrase, cite and otherwise polish up articles that the participants choose to improve (we have a long menu of articles to choose from).

Partners: Wikimedia India

Date and Venue
Date: Saturday, 1-August-2015

Time: 10:00 AM IST to 05:00 PM IST

Date: Sunday, 2-August-2015

Time: 10:00 AM IST to 03:00 PM IST

Venue :  Jaaga Startup (map)

5/1, Penthouse 1,

Rich Homes Apartment,

Richmond Road,

Bengaluru - 25

Getting there
 Jaaga Startup is situated on Richmond Road next to Sonata Software building.

Self-learning links

 * A tutorial on Wikipedia
 * Create an account now
 * Evaluating Wikipedia articles
 * Wikipedia editing cheatsheet - PDF
 * Adding references in Wikipedia Help:Referencing_for_beginners
 * Some copyright basics slides Choosing a license

Agenda
Day 1 (1-August-2015) :

Morning :

Afternoon :
 * Session on history, philosophy and social dynamics of Wikipedia
 * Session on basics of researching and editing


 * Hands-on editing on a few topics we choose

Day 2 (2-August-2015) :


 * Short session on copyrights, licensing and Wikimedia commons
 * Uploading media based on certain topics


 * Editing based on the media uploaded

Working Lunch will be provided for confirmed participants on both the days.

Topics

 * Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary - Translated in Tamil at காவேரி காட்டுயிர் புகலிடம்
 * Dysphania_militaris - False Tiger Moth
 * Hardwickia
 * Red-naped ibis (Pseudibis papillosa) tragus (talk) - கருந்தலை அரிவாள் மூக்கன்
 * grey-breasted prinia
 * Acrocarpus fraxinifolius - அக்ரோகார்பஸ் ஃபெராக்சினிபோலியஸ்
 * Indian stone-curlew
 * Green shrike-babbler
 * Dacalana cotys
 * Horaga onyx
 * Red-necked falcon - செந்தலை வல்லூறு
 * Yellow-throated Bulbul
 * Nicobar shrew (Crocidura nicobarica) tragus (talk)
 * Soil Conservation - Citation
 * Nyctibatrachus - Image contribution
 * Polypedates - Image contribution, One eyed tree frog
 * Painted Snipe
 * Baya weaver - தூக்கணாங்குருவி
 * White-rumped munia
 * Hair-crested drongo
 * Indian Pond Heron - குளத்துக் கொக்கு
 * Desmodium oojeinense Created by Aarthi using sandbox and moved to live page now. - நரி வேங்கை Translated in Tamil

What to Bring Along

 * Your laptop
 * Any reference books relevant to the topics you want to edit
 * Photos / Media to upload to [commons.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Commons]

Intended Audience
Anyone with an interest in the natural world (the Earth, climate, plants, animals) around who routinely seeks information and reads up on the subject.

Registration
The event has limited seats for participation.Hence, attendees are requested to fill this registration page.

Update: Registration is closed and following is the list of registered participants:


 * 1) Madhushri Mudke
 * 2) J.N.Prasad
 * 3) Seshadri
 * 4) Vijay
 * 5) Kavitha Kannan
 * 6) Prabhakar Krishna
 * 7) Shikha
 * 8) Rupa Rao
 * 9) Jagadish Katkar
 * 10) Jagadeesh B S
 * 11) S Rajashekara
 * 12) Mohammed Rafiq
 * 13) Subramanian Sankar
 * 14) yukti
 * 15) subahu jain
 * 16) Sreesha
 * 17) S Chandrashekara
 * 18) Smitha K
 * 19) Tukaram Dokhale
 * 20) Deepali
 * 21) Vasim
 * 22) Rana
 * 23) Sugandhi
 * 24) Syed muzamil
 * 25) Anupama Hegde
 * 26) Ajit
 * 27) Nanda Ramesh
 * 28) Vijay

Participants
Participants - please register yourself on Wikipedia well in advance and enter yourself below. If you are logged in, you only need to click on the edit link next to this section and type  # ~  at the end of this list. Welcome to Wikipedia!
 * 1) Shyamal (talk) 16:29, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
 * 2) Chinmayisk (talk) 16:50, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
 * 3) Nanda ramesh (talk) 15:39, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
 * 4) Ravishankar (talk) 19:55, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
 * 5) Poornikannan (talk) 06:31, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
 * 6) Subramanian Sankar (talk) 08:36, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
 * 7) Dineshkumar Ponnusamy (talk) 14:22, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
 * 8) Mohammed Rafiq (talk) 11:08, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
 * 9) Gautamkrishnan (talk) 00:34, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
 * 10) JagadishKatkar (talk) 07:29, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
 * 11) Smithaskumar (talk) 08:26, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
 * 12) Dendronanthus (talk) 05:26, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
 * 13) sreesha 05:27, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
 * 14) Ahalyamandana (talk) 05:29, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
 * 15) Anupamaheg (talk) 05:50, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
 * 16) A4Aarthi (talk) 06:00, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
 * 17) Forestowlet (talk) 06:42, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
 * 18) Jnprasad2001 (talk) 08:26, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
 * 19) Kannan AS 08:43, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

Connect with us

 * Facebook page - Wikipedia and the Natural World
 * https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/wikipedia-editathon/article7487522.ece
 * Reports
 * http://blog.wikimedia.in/2015/08/09/natural-world-edit-a-thon-bangalore/
 * https://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/society/on-how-wiki-editathon-enhances-articles-related-to-nature/article7507471.ece