Wikipedia:Meetup/Berkeley/2014/Feb9

• Event: Wikipedia edit-a-thon. Beginners welcome! Experienced editors will help you get started on a Wikipedia editing project.
• Date: Sunday, Feb. 9
• Time: 1:00 - 4:30 PM. Drop in/Drop out
• Location: Central Community Meeting Room, Berkeley Public Library, [https://maps.google.com/?q=2090%20Kittredge%20Street 2090 Kittredge Street, Berkeley, CA]

:Transit Info

:[http://bart.gov BART]:Downtown Berkeley

:[http://www.actransit.org 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.

• 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 :-)

Image:Berkeley_edit-a-thon_editors.jpg

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;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 [http://berkeleypubliclibrary.libguides.com/content.php?pid=379734 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.
• 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.
• [http://www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org/services_and_resources/online_resources.php 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)
• your suggestions here...

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

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

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!

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

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 [http://www.openstreetmap.org 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

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

• Karen Coyle - I'll bring lots of extension cords! And snacks.
• Ivan - i'll be ready to edit localwiki as well!
• Despite the rain (finally!) I'll be there. Kevin Gorman (talk) 07:01, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
• Plan to slosh through to get there to; <=14:00PST at this pt(?) --Sfgiantsace36 (talk) 19:02, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

• — iFaqeer (talk to or email me)
• SPat ^talk (hope to drop in for at least part of the time)
• SarahStierch (talk) 17:05, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

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

• not this time -- I'm getting over a cold -- but I will be editing at home along with y'all! Have fun! -- phoebe / (talk to me) 16:49, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
• Dreamyshade (talk) - I've ended up with other plans, but next time!

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

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