Wikipedia:Meetup/Berkeley Edit-a-thon

Event Details

 * Date: Saturday September 21, 2013
 * Time: Intro to Wikipedia Editing for beginners: 1pm-1:30pm, Edit-a-thon: 1:30pm-5pm
 * Location: Central Community Meeting Room, Berkeley Public Library, 2090 Kittredge Street, Berkeley, CA
 * Transit Info
 * BART:Downtown Berkeley
 * AC Transit:Shattuck at Kittredge


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

(Details being worked out - feel free to add any ideas)

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 :-)
 * If you don't have a laptop to bring, please make a note when you sign up, and we will try to arrange a loaner!

To-do list



 * 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.
 * You could always write about missing women philosophers.
 * 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.
 * your suggestions here...


 * Other non-Berkeley specific (but library-related) tasks
 * The BPL has a particularly good music reference department; try adding references to an article about an album, artist or genre. There is also a good art reference department. Visit the Art & Music room on the 5th floor for more!
 * 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)

If you really don't know what to do, try a random Berkeley article or one of the three Getting Started tasks.

New user accounts

 * User:Alifujiapple
 * User:Javp87

Articles created

 * Sarangadhar Das (Indian revolutionary, Berkeley alum)
 * Edward Strong (Former Chancellor of UC Berkeley)
 * Jiřina Šiklová, Czech feminist sociologist
 * Spenger's Fresh Fish Grotto, A landmark Berkeley restaurant
 * Campbell_Hall_(UC_Berkeley), a building on the UC Berkeley campus

Articles improved

 * James Furman -- references added with the ''International Dictionary of Black Composers (taking advantage of the art & music collection); also Bob Cole (composer), Margaret Bonds, Ayo Bankole
 * Cota, Colombia and Colegio San Carlos -- added images
 * Ohlone people added note on the talk page about population using bay area history book
 * Claire Austin
 * Jerome C. Davis

Other things

 * Lots of small tutorials were offered and given over the course of the afternoon
 * Wikidata tutorial
 * Wikivoyage tutorial
 * Image uploading & fair use
 * Visual editor reference-adding
 * Searching & using BPL databases
 * STiki was demonstrated

Sign up
Simply click the edit button, add your name and hit save page. Or have a friend or Wikipedian sign you up!

You can also RSVP at the public Facebook event for the edit-a-thon.

Attendees

 * S Pat  talk (find me on Facebook)
 * Ijon (talk) 17:38, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I'll be there. Let me know if you need any help with planning stuff beforehand. Kevin Gorman (talk) 01:58, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
 * CELINE LIELLE
 * Steven Walling &bull; talk   00:51, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Accedie talk to me  00:55, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
 * マイキ (talk)
 * Evelyn Hammid
 * Erhan Berber
 * ChesPal and Cullen328 (Debra & Jim Heaphy) will attend.  Alas our delightful canine friend Dexter will stay at home.ChesPal (talk) 06:10, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Karen Coyle - I'll bring copies of editing cheat sheets and as many extension cords as I can muster.
 * Saehrimnir (talk) 15:09, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
 * JVargas (WMF) (talk) 00:22, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Gnom (talk) 17:55, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
 * phoebe / (talk to me) 15:54, 19 September 2013 (UTC) I'll be there for the first part; I need to leave early. Will probably get to the library a little early to explore. I can help with new editors etc.
 * Kaitymh (talk) 21:27, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Kenanwang (talk) 18:43, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

Maybe

 * → 量 (talk·contribs) 18:14, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
 * malcolm
 * Lesser Cartographies (talk)
 * King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 03:56, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Wikfr (talk) 17:33, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Merrilee (talk) 23:03, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Hispalois (talk) 07:27, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
 * your name here

Not this time

 * Travel there is going to be a massive pain due to BART delays and the rain. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 20:00, 21 September 2013 (UTC)