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Bay Area Wikipedia Women's Edit-a-Thon 3! You are invited!
The San Francisco Bay Area Wikipedia Women's Edit-a-Thon 3 will be hosted by the California League of Women Voters, Wiki Strategies, and Tech Liminal. It will be at Tech Liminal's co-working space in Oakland on the afternoon of Saturday, December 15, 2012. Wikipedians of all experience levels are welcome to join us! There will be a workshop for beginners from 1–2pm; more experienced editors should join us from 2–5pm. We will focus on women and democracy, but you are welcome to work on any wiki articles you like. Come one, come all!
Wikipedians, old and new, hard at work

Event details

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  • Date: Saturday December 15, 2012
  • Time: Beginners' workshop: 1–2 pm; general editing session 2–5pm.
  • Location: Tech Liminal co-working space (268 14th St., Oakland), near the 12th St. BART station
  • Event: An edit-a-thon! Learn how to contribute to Wikipedia and collaborate with others to write about whatever interests you!
  • Hashtag: The Twitter and social hashtag is #wikiathon

Come meet your fellow editors and help improve Wikipedia articles! Don't know how to edit Wikipedia? That's ok, friendly, experienced editors will be here to help!

Everyone is welcome to come edit Wikipedia with us at this event. Women, men, new editors, archivists and librarians who have resources to share about much needed coverage areas in Wikipedia (women's history, Bay Area history & culture, contemporary culture), those who want to learn how to edit or can teach others how, and anyone with an interest having a great time & editing collaboratively are encouraged to attend!!

What to bring

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  • a laptop
  • 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.)
  • or, if you don't have any of the above, just bring yourself :-)
  • any digital photos you've taken that you would like to use on Wikipedia.

To-do list

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Have an idea what you want to work on? Or, seeking inspiration? Please edit this section!

Sign up

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I = (Simply click the edit button, add your name and hit save page. Or have a friend or Wikipedian sign you up!)

Just click on the edit button to your right, add a * and your name above this line, and then and click on the Save page button below!

Maybe attending

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Outcomes

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Participant comments

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  • This was one of the funnest meet-ups yet, and I'm very thankful toward Tech Liminal for providing us with the space in which to do this. The women I met from the League of Women Voters were on fire! Everyone I met from the organization had a can-do/Do-ocratic attitude toward editing that held an underlying thoughtfulness toward ethical editing. I helped a couple of groups navigate the MediaWiki markup, questions regarding ethical editing, and interarticle linking and categorization, and found that my support was readily embraced and put into action by this very constructive group of people. Eekiv 21:04, 17 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

New user accounts

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New articles

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Expanded articles

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Copyedited/cleaned up articles

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Tips for new editors

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Check out the Wikipedia Cheatsheet for tips on how to edit using Wikipedia's editing code (Mediawiki markup).

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