Wikipedia:Meetup/Adelaide/Edit-a-thon 12

Riverside Precinct Adelaide Meetup
Next: 4 December 2026
Last: 6 November 2026
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Date: Friday 4 December 2026
Time: 5–8 pm (arrive from 5 pm for setup; Zoom starts 6 pm)
Place: The Boardroom, The Exchange, 53–57 Exchange Place, Adelaide — the old Stock Exchange building between Grenfell and Pirie Streets, now home to the Conservation Council of SA. WiFi in the Boardroom is good.
Guest speaker: TBC
Zoom: Get the Zoom link sent to you by registering here or emailing staff@wikimedia.org.au and we'll send the link the day before.
The Exchange, between Grenfell and Pirie Streets

A workshop for new editors covering basic Wikipedia editing and how to upload images to Commons, focused on South Australia's environment and heritage — particularly our coastal and marine environment. Experienced editors will be on hand to help, and once you've picked up the basics, you're welcome to work on your own topics.

Bring a laptop if you can. Phone editing works but is fiddly for beginners. If your laptop hasn't been used in a while, update its software beforehand on home WiFi.

Topics you might like to work on: protected areas, flora and fauna, geology and palaeontology, Indigenous history and DEW park co-management, scientific biographies (Mawson, Sprigg, Cleland, Tyler), institutions (Royal Society of SA, SA Museum), volunteer groups, and issues such as the 2025 harmful algal bloom and feral species. See a list of article suggestions to work on.

Registering as a new editor

  1. Create an account using the "Create account" link at the top right of this page — see Wikipedia:Username policy before choosing a name. Your username will then appear at the top of the page as a red link.
  2. Click that red link to create your userpage, and add a short paragraph about your interests.
  3. Add yourself to the event statistics using the button below. This lets us count the articles improved on the night, so we can share the results with everyone afterwards. You can choose whether your participation is public or private.
    Add me to the event statistics
    The page may look like nothing happened after you save — it did save. Just return here to carry on.
  4. Now make your first real edit: come back to this page, click "Edit", and add your username to the "New editors" list below, noting if you're joining via Zoom.

Questions or comments? Use the talk page.

Background

This is one of a monthly series; see Edit-a-thon 4 for the rationale behind them. The event is auspiced by Friends of Parks and Nature Inc. and promoted to its ~150 member groups, the Friends of Parks newsletter, and WikiProject Adelaide.

Adelaide is home to two Wikimedia Australia staff members, Alison Smith (AlphaLemur) and Belinda Spry (BindiS). In 2025 they ran a WMAU Partner Project with the South Australian Museum — a workshop for local editors, staff training in Wikipedia and Wikidata, and a grant for a 100-hour paid Wikipedian in Residence (Laterthanyouthink). They're also building relationships with the State Library and the Art Gallery of SA.

Attendees

Attendees at Edit-a-thon 4

Facilitators / experienced editors

New editors

Apologies


Added your name above? One more click. Signing the list doesn't register you for the statistics — that's a separate step, and it's how we count what the group achieves on the night. Takes about five seconds, and you can choose whether your participation shows publicly.

Add me to the event statistics

If the page looks like nothing happened after you save — it did save.


What to work on

Suggestions for articles needing an update

A running list. To claim an article, click edit beside the section below, find your article, and type your username on the line marked being fixed by.

Parks and protected areas

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Wilpena Pound
Protected areas of South Australia

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Species and biodiversity

Marine

The algal bloom and its impacts.

Butterflies and their host plants

Each butterfly depends on a particular plant. The articles are listed in pairs because improving one usually means improving the other.

Orchids

Birds

DoneWP articlesBeing fixed byChecked byRefsNotes
Tree martin
  roosting at → Rundle Mall		 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Biographies

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Scoresby Shepherd 1, 2 3 4; see Ch 4 of Shepherd's autobiography for his collaboration with Sprigg
Reg Sprigg 1; Vol 2 of Sprigg's autobiography marine geology missing
Charles Hill (painter) Marsden, Susan (2026). Mr Hill's history painting: unpacking the histories in Charles Hill's The Proclamation of South Australia 1836. Wakefield Press. ISBN 978 1 92338 872 7 A very useful reference for additional details for bios listed in table below.

Events

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Nature Festival
  		 1 2 3

Heritage places

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Fort Largs
  		 1 2 3 4 5 6 Needs updating

Help and resources

Instruction sheets for the VisualEditor will be provided on the night, and the Boardroom has a small library that the Conservation Council is making available to participants. Have a look before the session if you like, or come along and we'll walk you through it. Nothing here is homework.

Video tutorials

Made by Wikimedia Australia, and a good place to start if you'd rather watch than read.

Written guides

Where to ask questions

Groups you can join

Editors who work on the same subjects, and a good way to find people who share your interests.

Adding photos

  • Upload Wizard — for putting your own photos onto Wikimedia Commons, where Wikipedia articles can use them.

From Wikimedia Australia News

Questions?

Ask on the talk page for this event — click the link, then "Add topic". Or email staff@wikimedia.org.au if you'd rather not post publicly.