Wikipedia:Meetup/Berkeley Edit-a-thon

Wikipedia takes Berkeley! You are invited!

An edit-a-thon for Berkeley - as a part of Wikipedia Loves Libraries 2013! The event will be held at the Berkeley Public Library in downtown Berkeley on Saturday, September 21, 2013 from 1:00pm-5pm. Wikipedians of all experience levels are welcome to join us! There will be an intro to editing for beginners session from 1:00–1:30pm. We will focus on topics related to Berkeley, but you are welcome to work on any wiki articles you like. Come one, come all!

Event Details

• Date: Saturday September 21, 2013
• Time: Intro to Wikipedia Editing for beginners: 1pm-1:30pm, Edit-a-thon: 1:30pm-5pm
• Location: Central Community Meeting Room, Berkeley Public Library, 2090 Kittredge Street, Berkeley, CA

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

• 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

Berkeley Edit-a-thon at the Berkeley Public Library Community Meeting Room

Plenty of Berkeley-related articles that need creation/improvement

• Campbell Hall (home of the UC Berkeley Astronomy Department)
• Etcheverry Hall (home of Nuclear Engineering Department, that once housed a complete nuclear reactor)
• Henry Durant (first president of the University of California)
• Chancellor Edward Strong and Dean Katherine Towle (key university figures during the Free Speech Movement of 1964-65)
• Nalanda Hostel on Center Street (home of Indian revolutionary Har Dayal while he stayed in Berkeley around 1913)
• How Berkeley Can You Be Parade (this was a thing between 1996 and 2008)
• See this list of notable Berkeleyeans, with accompanying works in the library
• University of California Botanical Garden and Blake Garden (Kensington, California) could both probably use some more info. Walter Alvarez's article is pretty barebones for how accomplished he is.
• You could always write about missing women philosophers.
• Lead contamination in Oakland doesn't cover stuff regarding urban gardening yet.
• Many of Berkeley's neighborhoods are only sparsely covered.
• Many prominent figures involved with the Peralta Land Grant that once covered most of the East Bay, including Vicente Peralta, are covered poorly or not at all
• The Berkeley Student Cooperative's article is disorganized, and few houses have their own pages, although most could warrant one.
• your suggestions here...

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

New user accounts

• User:Alifujiapple
• User:Javp87

Articles created

• Sarangadhar Das (Indian revolutionary, Berkeley alum)
• Edward Strong (Former Chancellor of UC Berkeley)
• Jiřina Šiklová, Czech feminist sociologist
• Spenger's Fresh Fish Grotto, A landmark Berkeley restaurant
• Campbell_Hall_(UC_Berkeley), a building on the UC Berkeley campus

Articles improved

• James Furman -- references added with the International Dictionary of Black Composers (taking advantage of the art & music collection); also Bob Cole (composer), Margaret Bonds, Ayo Bankole
• Cota, Colombia and Colegio San Carlos -- added images
• Ohlone people added note on the talk page about population using bay area history book
• Claire Austin
• Jerome C. Davis

Other things

• 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

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

• SPat ^talk (find me on Facebook)
• Ijon (talk) 17:38, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
• I'll be there. Let me know if you need any help with planning stuff beforehand. Kevin Gorman (talk) 01:58, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
• CELINE LIELLE
• Steven Walling • talk 00:51, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
• Accedie^{talk to me} 00:55, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
• マイキ (talk)
• Evelyn Hammid
• Erhan Berber
• ChesPal and Cullen328 (Debra & Jim Heaphy) will attend. Alas our delightful canine friend Dexter will stay at home.ChesPal (talk) 06:10, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
• Karen Coyle - I'll bring copies of editing cheat sheets and as many extension cords as I can muster.
• Saehrimnir (talk) 15:09, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
• JVargas (WMF) (talk) 00:22, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
• Gnom (talk) 17:55, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
• phoebe / (talk to me) 15:54, 19 September 2013 (UTC) I'll be there for the first part; I need to leave early. Will probably get to the library a little early to explore. I can help with new editors etc.
• Kaitymh (talk) 21:27, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
• Kenanwang (talk) 18:43, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

Maybe

• →ozhu量 (talk·contribs) 18:14, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
• malcolm
• Lesser Cartographies (talk)
• King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 03:56, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
• Wikfr (talk) 17:33, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
• Merrilee (talk) 23:03, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
• Hispalois (talk) 07:27, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
• your name here

Not this time

• Travel there is going to be a massive pain due to BART delays and the rain. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 20:00, 21 September 2013 (UTC)

Notes

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