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Wikipedia takes Berkeley! You are invited!

Event Details

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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

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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 :-)
  • 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

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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
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.

Outcomes

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New user accounts

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Articles created

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Articles improved

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Other things

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  • 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

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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!

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

Attendees

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Maybe

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Not this time

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Notes

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