Wikimedians in Bangalore with an interest in the natural world are getting together for an editathon to improve articles on the plants, animals, geology and other aspects of nature around them. The two day workshop will be aided by User:Chinmayisk and User:Shyamal .
Part of the facilitation will include helping identify and obtain reliable sources, learning to structure an article, paraphrase, cite and otherwise polish up articles that the participants choose to improve (we have a long menu of articles to choose from).
Partners : Wikimedia India
Date: Saturday, 1-August-2015
Time: 10:00 AM IST to 05:00 PM IST
Date: Sunday, 2-August-2015
Time: 10:00 AM IST to 03:00 PM IST
Venue :
Jaaga Startup (map )
5/1, Penthouse 1,
Rich Homes Apartment,
Richmond Road,
Bengaluru - 25
Jaaga Startup is situated on Richmond Road next to Sonata Software building.
Day 1 (1-August-2015) :
Morning :
Session on history, philosophy and social dynamics of Wikipedia
Session on basics of researching and editing Afternoon :
Hands-on editing on a few topics we choose Day 2 (2-August-2015) :
Short session on copyrights, licensing and Wikimedia commons
Uploading media based on certain topics
Editing based on the media uploaded Working Lunch will be provided for confirmed participants on both the days.
Topics
What to Bring Along
Your laptop
Any reference books relevant to the topics you want to edit
Photos / Media to upload to [commons.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Commons] Anyone with an interest in the natural world (the Earth, climate, plants, animals) around who routinely seeks information and reads up on the subject.
Registration
The event has limited seats for participation.Hence, attendees are requested to fill this registration page .
Update: Registration is closed and following is the list of registered participants:
Madhushri Mudke
J.N.Prasad
Seshadri
Vijay
Kavitha Kannan
Prabhakar Krishna
Shikha
Rupa Rao
Jagadish Katkar
Jagadeesh B S
S Rajashekara
Mohammed Rafiq
Subramanian Sankar
yukti
subahu jain
Sreesha
S Chandrashekara
Smitha K
Tukaram Dokhale
Deepali
Vasim
Rana
Sugandhi
Syed muzamil
Anupama Hegde
Ajit
Nanda Ramesh
Vijay Edit-a-thon participants Participants - please register yourself on Wikipedia well in advance and enter yourself below. If you are logged in, you only need to click on the edit link next to this section and type # ~~~~ at the end of this list. Welcome to Wikipedia!
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