Wikipedia:Meetup/India/Marathon1

Introduction
The first Indian WikiMarathon is scheduled to be held on November 14. Read the announcement here. Essentially, a WikiMarathon is an event where editors get together and edit articles or perform other tasks on Wikipedia or other Wikimedia projects simultaneously. It provides an opportunity for real-time and location brainstorming and collaboration.

Tasks

 * Creating / improving pages of your interest / locality / native / *what ever*
 * Adding references to unreferenced BLPs
 * Collaborating in person with other editors towards FA/GA [i accept its more than 6 hours,but its unique opportunity having people together at same time]
 * Arm chair flickr hunt to add media to commons
 * Translation
 * De-orphaning pages with links
 * Creating templates / navboxes
 * Running AWB tasks like fixing redlinks/typos
 * Categorization cleanups
 * Even "writing a bot" / code something like(for) Arjuna's gyanpad etc.
 * Creating newsletter / video tutorials,etc

Help Information for newbies

 * Basic policy: The Five Pillars of Wikipedia
 * FAQs on editing Wikipedia
 * Help:Contents/Resources and lists
 * Using links

Participants

 * Tamil Wikipedians from all over the World
 * 2nd Chennai Wikipedia Meetup
 * 21st Bangalore Wiki Meetup