Wikipedia:Meetup/Berkeley/2013/Nov16

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, 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

• 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

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Category:Berkeley Wikipedia edit-a-thon September 2013.

Plenty of Berkeley-related articles that need creation/improvement

• Berkeley_Public_Library#Tool_lending_library - since the library renovation, the Tool Lending Library, co-located with the South Branch, may have expanded. It would be great to add a photo or two.
• Wat Mongkolratanaram - This is the small Thai Buddhist temple next door to the South Branch Library. The article needs citations.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 or one of the three Getting Started tasks.

Outcomes

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 Meetup for the edit-a-thon.

Notes

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