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 :-)
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)
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)
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.
Aaronco36 --
Aaronco36 (
talk) 21:28, 15 November 2013 (UTC) Will maybe try to drop by 16:30+. W/o the other pre-reqs to bring, will "just bring [my]self :-)" A future sun-thu session of Intro to Wikipedia Editing for Beginners would be most helpful herereply
Giovanni_Re (or whatever other handle he goes by these days) *might* be attending this as well
your name here
Not this time
I'm out of town again. Drats!
SarahStierch (
talk) 22:37, 5 November 2013 (UTC)reply
Unfortunately won't be able to make it this time. →
ozhu量 (
talk·
contribs) 00:00, 6 November 2013 (UTC)reply
your name here - but we'll meet up again!
Notes
This event is not officially sponsored by the Berkeley Public Library.