Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco/Litquake Edit-a-Thon

The Litquake Edit-a-thon

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San Francisco Meetup #22, the first ever Litquake Edit-a-Thon will occur in parallel with Litquake, the San Francisco Bay Area's annual literature festival. Writers from all over the Bay Area and the world will be in town during the nine day festival, so the timing is just right for us to meet, create and improve articles about literature and writers. This event will include new editor training. All levels of Wikipedia editing experience are welcome.

Event details

Date: Saturday, October 11, 2014
Time: 1–5pm
Location: Wikimedia Foundation offices (149 New Montgomery Street, 6th Floor San Francisco, CA 94105) – Google Maps view
What is this event?: This Edit-a-Thon will focus on creating, expanding, translating, and improving articles related to literature and writers.
What it isn't: This event is not officially sponsored by Litquake. Check out their schedule for official Litquake activities!
Cost: Free, of course!
Twitter: #editlitquake
Facebook: [1]
Computers: Participants should bring their own laptop and power cords.
Participants: Anyone can edit Wikipedia, including you! No wiki editing experience is necessary, and support will be on hand to help you out. Can't be there the whole time? No worries; join us as long as you can.
Username: Please register an account prior to the event if you do not have one yet. There are many benefits to having an account, such as selecting a personalized username and tracking your contributions.
Questions?: Feel free to use the talk page to ask any questions about the event.
RSVP: See below for registration.

RSVP

Will attend

Rosiestep (talk · contribs)
Kaitymh (talk) 18:20, 23 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Julia\^talk Unfortunately I will only be able to join in remotely now. Julia\^talk 17:26, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Dreamyshade (talk) 05:28, 30 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
SPat^talk 22:39, 5 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
phoebe / (talk to me) 15:22, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Dialectric (talk) 23:36, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

May attend

Jooojay (talk) 06:12, 27 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Ozhu (talk · contribs)
Dcoetzee 15:45, 3 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
ɱ (talk) 15:57, 5 October 2014 (UTC) - If anyone's coming from Napa County and has an extra seat, I'd be very glad and be more likely to make it to this one. Please let me know ASAP if you're able to.[reply]
--Jasper Deng (talk) 00:11, 6 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
(ʞɿɐʇ) ɐuɐʞsǝp 01:53, 7 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Will attend remotely

Will do my best to take care of clean up and Wikidataness. Missvain (talk) 23:33, 27 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Will do my best to find time! :) --Mssemantics (talk) 17:38, 4 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Doubtful (I'll be spending the afternoon in a movie theater watching Macbeth), but I'll try and do some support stuff if I can. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 08:28, 5 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Am attending remotely - well, have created Ravinder Randhawa from Wikipedia:WikiProject Women writers/Missing articles, anyway. It's 11.20pm here in UK but I think it's 3.20pm with you in California so you're in the midst of the Edit-a-thon. Sisterly greetings from this side of the big pond. PamD 22:22, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestions

Articles to create/translate

List of women writer missing articles
devorah majors, San Francisco Poet Laureate (2002-2004) 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, radio interview

Articles to expand/improve

Litquake Barbary Coast Award laureates:

2007: Armistead Maupin
2008: Tobias Wolff
2009: Amy Tan
2010: Lawrence Ferlinghetti/City Lights Books
2011: Ishmael Reed
2012: Poetry Flash
2013: Ron Turner & Last Gasp Comics

Resources

Help:Cheatsheet - quick guide to Wiki markup
Basic tutorial

Results / Outcomes

Articles created

Elizabeth Azcona Cranwell, Argentine poet
simple:Elizabeth Azcona Cranwell
Mary Beckett, Irish author

simple:Mary Beckett

Maryam Mahboob, (Afghan novelist)

simple:Maryam Mahboob

Ravinder Randhawa, British Asian writer
William Shand, Scottish-Argentine writer

simple:William Shand

Holly Smale, British writer (still working on it!)
Wang Qinghui, Song dynasty poet
User:Jasper Deng/Freedom's Orator Biography of Mario Savio (still working on it!)
George Treat, Gold Rush-era pioneer in San Francisco

Articles improved

Amy Tan: expanded and improved -- phoebe / (talk to me) 23:24, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The Bean Trees -- Kaitymh (talk) 00:10, 12 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Duet -- Kaitymh (talk) 00:10, 12 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
John M. Horner, Gold Rush-era California pioneer Jooojay (talk) 00:16, 12 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Draft:GNOME Outreach Program for Women (still working on it) Dreamyshade (talk) 00:18, 12 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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