Wikipedia:Meetup/Berkeley/2013/Nov16

{{Berkeley meetup | date=Saturday, November 16, 2013 | time=1:00 PM | place=[http://berkeleypubliclibrary.org/about_the_library/neighborhood_branches/south_branch.php Public Library/South Branch]
  1901 Russell Street at MLK, Berkeley, CA [http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?BFCat=&Pyt=Tmap&newFL=Use+Address+Below&addr=1901+Russell+Street&csz=94703&country=us&Get%C2%A0Map=Get+Map Map]}}

File:Berkeley Public Library South Branch, 2013.jpg

Event Details

  • Event: Meetup for editing the Berkeley Wikipedia
  • Date: Saturday, November 16, 2013
  • Time: Intro to Wikipedia Editing for beginners: 1pm-1:30pm, Edit-a-thon: 1:30pm-5pm. Come when you can and stay for as long as you wish.
  • Location: Community Meeting Room, Berkeley Public Library/South Branch, [https://maps.google.com/?q=1901%20Russell%20Street 1901 Russell Street, Berkeley, CA]

:Transit Info

:[http://bart.gov BART] Ashby Station. Walk northwest to the corner of Ashby and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, continue walking North one long block on the East side of MLKJ. The South Branch is the building on the northeast corner of MLKJ and Russell.

  • Event summary: 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 :-)

Ideas for editing

Image:Berkeley_edit-a-thon_editors.jpg

{{commons|Category:Berkeley Wikipedia edit-a-thon September 2013}}

;Plenty of Berkeley-related articles that need creation/improvement:

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=

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

=Articles created=

=Articles improved=

=Other things=

Sign up

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 [http://www.meetup.com/Berkeley-WP/ Meetup] for the edit-a-thon.

=Attendees=

=Maybe=

  • Ijon (talk) 23:43, 5 November 2013 (UTC) schedule unclear
  • Ford MF (talk) 07:03, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
  • Dan
  • Aaronco36 --Aaronco36 (talk) 21:28, 15 November 2013 (UTC) Will maybe try to drop by 16:30+. W/o the other pre-reqs to bring, will "just bring [my]self :-)" A future sun-thu session of Intro to Wikipedia Editing for Beginners would be most helpful here
  • Giovanni_Re (or whatever other handle he goes by these days) *might* be attending this as well
  • your name here

=Not this time=

  • I'm out of town again. Drats! SarahStierch (talk) 22:37, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
  • Unfortunately won't be able to make it this time. →ozhu (talk·contribs) 00:00, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
  • your name here - but we'll meet up again!

Notes

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

Category:Wikipedia meetups in Berkeley, California

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