Wikipedia:Meetup/Invasive Species WikiThon

The Krakow Invasive Species Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, 27th - 29th January 2020
An Alien-CSI event to teach and discuss the use of Wikimedia for the dissemination and awareness raising of invasive species.

This is an invitation only event

Goals:

 * Improving Wikipedia for the List of Invasive Alien Species of Union concern (https://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/invasivealien/list/index_en.htm)
 * Learning how to be better Wikipedians
 * Learning how we can teach Wikipedia to others at home
 * Learning what we can use Wikipedia for
 * Finding out how we can improve dissemination of knowledge on invasive species globally

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_run_an_edit-a-thon

Before arriving:

 * 1) Get a Wikipedia account.
 * 2) Get an iNaturalist account https://www.inaturalist.org/home
 * 3) Add the iNaturalist app to your mobile phone

Day 2: Tuesday 28th January 2020
A continuation of the editing from day one and learning how we can use iNaturalist to support us

Day 3: Wednesday 29th January 2020
For COST invitees only A roundup of what we've learned and how we can progress this further

Trying to resolve the questions such as...
 * What are the challenges in getting invasion biologists and managers to edit Wikipedia?
 * What are the solutions?
 * How do we resolve disagreements within Wikipedia on invasive species?
 * How important is language to successful communication on invasive species?