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Europeana Sounds (1) are organising several sound and music related edit-a-thons throughout Europe in 2015 and 2016. An edit-a-thon about wildlife sounds was held on 8 October 2016 at the British Library.

See also the British wildlife edit-a-thon 2015

General information edit

During this edit-a-thon wildlife lovers and Wikipedians enriched Wikipedia with field recordings of wildlife sounds from the British Library.

A similar event ran in 2015.

Location and time edit

  • Location: British Library
  • Start: 10.00 am
  • Finish: 4.00 pm

Programme edit

  • 10.00-10.30 Arrival and welcome coffee. Log on and computer checks.
  • 10.30-10.45 Introduction to the British Library and an introduction to Europeana Sounds.
  • 10.45-11.00 Introductions to British Library Sounds and Wildlife collection from curator Cheryl Tipp
  • 11.00-11.15 Introduction to Wikimedia
  • 11.15-12.45 Hands on session editing Wikipedia and training available throughout.
  • 12.45-13.00 Recap and sharing
  • 13.00-14.00 Lunch
  • 14.00-15.45 Edits continue
  • 15.45-16.00 Recap of the day and work done
  • 16.00 End!

Wikimedia UK edit

You might want to join Wikimedia UK

Edit-a-thon information edit

Collections and media objects edit

Files are in commons:Category:Wildlife Sounds in the British Library

Statistics on file usage are at:

Guide edit

Video(s) edit

How do you enrich a Wikipedia article with audio?

Training booklets edit

Here are the Dropbox links

Mentors edit

Participants edit

Photos + Video edit

Photos taken at the event are in the category Commons:Category:British Wildlife Edit-a-thon October 2016.

A video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8OyGOCBzjI

Did you take photos during the event? Please upload them to Wikimedia Commons using the above category.

Evaluation of the event (to be filled in at the end of the day) edit

Please fill in this survey at the end of the day, in order to help us improve future events.

Results edit

Throughout the day we had a total of X edits in Wikipedias in over 60 different languages (including English, Simple English and Old English) as well as Wikidata and Wikispecies.

Files edit

Other languages edit

Afrikaans edit

Assamese edit

Asturian edit

Azerbaijani edit

Bahasa Indonesia edit

Basque edit

Belarussian edit

Belarusian (classical orthography/ Taraškievica) edit

Bislama edit

Breton edit

Bulgarian edit

Bengali edit

Catalan edit

Cebuano edit

Chinese (putonghua) edit

Corsican edit

Croatian edit

Czech edit

Danish edit

Dutch edit

Emiliano Rolognolo edit

English (Old) edit

English (Simple) edit

Esperanto edit

Estonian edit

Faroese edit

Farsi edit

Finnish edit

French edit

German edit

Greek edit

Hindi edit

Hungarian edit

Irish Gaelic edit

Icelandic edit

Italian edit

Japanese edit

Karbardian edit

Kurdish edit

Latin edit

Latvian edit

Lithuania edit

Navajo edit

Nigeria edit

Hausa

Norwegian (bokmal) edit

Norwegian (nynorsk) edit

Occitan edit

Polish edit

Portuguese edit

Romanian edit

Russian edit

Sardinian edit

Scottish Gaelic edit

Slovenian edit

Slovak edit

Spanish edit

Swedish edit

Thai (ภาษาไทย) edit

Tongan edit

Ukrainian edit

Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt) edit

Walloon edit

Waray edit

Welsh (Cymraeg) edit

West Flemish edit

Western Frisian edit

Winaray edit

Commons edit


Category and creator template applied to every file.

Wikidata edit

  • Lots! (details tbc)

Wikispecies edit

New Articles edit

See also edit

 
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