Wikipedia:Meetup/Berkeley/2014/Feb9


  In the area? You're invited to
    The Berkeley Wikipedia Meetup
  Date: Saturday, Feb. 9, 2014
  Time: 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
  Place: Berkeley Public Library Main Branch [1]
2090 Kittredge Street, Berkeley, CA map
  


Event Details

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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

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  • 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

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Berkeley Edit-a-thon at the Berkeley Public Library Community Meeting Room
Plenty of Berkeley-related articles that need creation/improvement

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

Outcomes

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New user accounts

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Work-in-progress how to best signup for this.

Articles created

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Articles improved

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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

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from --Sfgiantsace36 (talk) 00:19, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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


Other things

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Sign up

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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

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Maybe

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Not this time

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

Notes

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This event is not officially sponsored by the Berkeley Public Library.