Wikipedia:Meetup/Chennai/Ornithology editathon 2018

Wikimedians in Chennai are getting together for an editathon to improve articles in ornithology and other aspects of nature around them. The two day workshop will be aided by User:Shyamal User:Shankar_Raman User:PJeganathan Neethidoss (For Tamil Wikipedia) The workshop will be both in English and Tamil.

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: WikiProject Nature and conservation in India   Madras Naturalists' Society

Date and Venue
Date: Saturday, 27-January-2018

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

Date: Sunday, 28-January-2018

Time: 07:00 AM IST to 03:00 PM IST

Venue :  Post Graduate Research Institute in Animal Sciences (map)

Kattupakkam,

Konathi Village Main Road,

Potheri, Kattankulathur,

Tamil Nadu 603203

Getting there
 Post Graduate Research Institute in Animal Sciences  is situated in Kattankalathur and near to Potheri Railway Station

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 Using Zotero
 * Some copyright basics slides Choosing a license

Agenda
Day 1 (27-January-2018) :

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 (28-January-2018) :


 * Short session on copyrights, licensing, Wikidata 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

 * To be decided
 * Suggested by Tamil Wikipedians - remove red links from list

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]
 * Camera

Intended Audience
Anyone with an interest in birds and natural history 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.

Participants
Participants - please register yourself on 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 !


 * 1) Shyamal (talk) 07:21, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
 * 2) Subbush (talk) 07:22, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
 * 3) PJeganathan (talk) 08:03, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
 * 4) Shankar Raman (talk) 12:53, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
 * 5) Raghu-bhanu (talk) 06:35, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
 * 6) Alpharajarajan (talk) 12:21, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
 * 7) Neethidoss (talk) 12:35, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
 * 8) Venkyvet (talk) 07:09, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
 * 9) Arunprasath G (talk) 07:14, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
 * 10) Arun46564 (talk) 07:21, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
 * 11) Romiomoirangthem (talk) 07:33, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
 * 12) Sajithamahendran (talk) 05:05, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
 * 13) Sreekumar Chirukandoth (talk) 09:04, 28 January 2018 (UTC)