Wikipedia:Meetup/Berkeley/2013/Nov16


  In the area? You're invited to
    The Berkeley Wikipedia Meetup
  Date: Saturday, November 16, 2013
  Time: 1:00 PM
  Place: Public Library/South Branch
  1901 Russell Street at MLK, Berkeley, CA Map
  


Berkeley Public Library, South Branch, renovated in 2013

Event Details

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  • 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, 1901 Russell Street, Berkeley, CA
Transit Info
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

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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 or one of the three Getting Started tasks.

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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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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Notes

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