Wikipedia:Meetup/Berkeley/2014/Feb9

Event Details

 * Event: Wikipedia edit-a-thon. Beginners welcome! Experienced editors will help you get started on a Wikipedia editing project.
 * Date: Sunday, Feb. 9
 * Time: 1:00 - 4:30 PM. Drop in/Drop out
 * Location: Central Community Meeting Room, Berkeley Public Library, 2090 Kittredge Street, Berkeley, CA
 * Transit Info
 * BART:Downtown Berkeley
 * AC Transit:Shattuck at Kittredge


 * Event summary: An Edit-a-thon! Get together with Wikipedians from Berkeley and around the Bay Area and learn to contribute to Wikipedia in whatever you find interesting.

What to bring

 * a laptop/tablet/smartphone (laptops preferred as you will be doing a lot of typing!)
 * ideas for topics or articles you might want to work on (see below)
 * any relevant reference materials you might have
 * a friend – we love to meet new would-be-editors! (you can also bring your spouse, kids, family, etc.)
 * any digital photos you've taken that you would like to use on Wikipedia.
 * or, if you don't have any of the above, just bring yourself :-)

Ideas for editing



 * Plenty of Berkeley-related articles that need creation/improvement:
 * Campbell Hall (home of the UC Berkeley Astronomy Department)
 * Etcheverry Hall (home of Nuclear Engineering Department, that once housed a complete nuclear reactor)
 * Henry Durant (first president of the University of California)
 * Chancellor Edward Strong and Dean Katherine Towle (key university figures during the Free Speech Movement of 1964-65)
 * Nalanda Hostel on Center Street (home of Indian revolutionary Har Dayal while he stayed in Berkeley around 1913)
 * How Berkeley Can You Be Parade (this was a thing between 1996 and 2008)
 * See this list of notable Berkeleyeans, with accompanying works in the library
 * University of California Botanical Garden and Blake Garden (Kensington, California) could both probably use some more info. Walter Alvarez's article is pretty barebones for how accomplished he is.
 * Lead contamination in Oakland doesn't cover stuff regarding urban gardening yet.
 * Many of Berkeley's neighborhoods are only sparsely covered.
 * Many prominent figures involved with the Peralta Land Grant that once covered most of the East Bay, including Vicente Peralta, are covered poorly or not at all
 * The Berkeley Student Cooperative's article is disorganized, and few houses have their own pages, although most could warrant one.
 * online resources at the BPL -- could be good resources for sourcing biographies, art & music articles, and local/California history (with full text access to newspapers)
 * your suggestions here...

If you really don't know what to do, try a random Berkeley article.

New user accounts
Work-in-progress how to best signup for this.

Articles improved
SPat and LaMona completed a review of the page for the Dewey Decimal Classification which is on its way to achieve Good Article status! Yeah!

Individual accomplishments
--- from --Sfgiantsace36 (talk) 00:19, 10 February 2014 (UTC) 1. Minor edits to Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California Botanical Garden, and Dewey Decimal Classification Wikipedia articles. 2. Now following @wikidata on Twitter 3. Learned how to use Wikipedia Sandbox for major edits that can optionally merged at later times 4. Suggestion to create and significantly edit http://guide.localwiki.net/berkeley/; map South Berkeley using www.openstreetmap.org, add Elmwood neighborhood category to section The Neighborhoods of Berkeley, do a "walking tour" of South Berkeley, create issue page of "gentrification" of South Berkeley as part of Real Estate marketspeak NOBE ---

Sign up
Simply click the edit button, add your name and hit save page. Or have a friend or Wikipedian sign you up! Come even if you didn't sign up, but signups help us plan.

You can also RSVP on Meetup for the edit-a-thon.

Attendees

 * Karen Coyle - I'll bring lots of extension cords! And snacks.
 * Ivan - i'll be ready to edit localwiki as well!
 * Despite the rain (finally!) I'll be there. Kevin Gorman (talk) 07:01, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Plan to slosh through to get there to; <=14:00PST at this pt(?) --Sfgiantsace36 (talk) 19:02, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

Maybe

 * &mdash; iFaqeer (talk to or email me)
 * S Pat  talk (hope to drop in for at least part of the time)
 * SarahStierch (talk) 17:05, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Not this time

 * your name here - but we'll meet up again!


 * not this time -- I'm getting over a cold -- but I will be editing at home along with y'all! Have fun! -- phoebe / (talk to me) 16:49, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Dreamyshade (talk) - I've ended up with other plans, but next time!