Wikipedia:Meetup/Berkeley/2014/Feb9

In the area? You're invited to
The Berkeley Wikipedia Meetup

	Date: Saturday, Feb. 9, 2014
	Time: 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
	Place: Berkeley Public Library Main Branch 2090 Kittredge Street, Berkeley, CA map

Event Details

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, 2090 Kittredge Street, Berkeley, CA

Transit Info

BART:Downtown Berkeley

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.

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

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 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.

Outcomes

New user accounts

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

Articles created

Articles improved

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!

Individual accomplishments

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 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

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 Meetup for the edit-a-thon.

Attendees

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)

Maybe

— 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)

Not this time

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!

Notes

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