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

Amy Tan, a Litquake Barbary Coast Award laureate   In the area? You're invited to    San Francisco Meetup # 22   Date: October 11, 2014   Time: 1-5 pm   Place: 149 New Montgomery Street, 6th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105   prev: Meetup 21 - next: Meetup 23 | All SF meetups & events The Litquake Edit-a-thon Create editors, create community, create content! 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] 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. Computers: Participants should bring their own laptop and power cords. Registration: Please RSVP below

RSVP

Will attend

1. Rosiestep (talk · contribs)
2. Kaitymh (talk) 18:20, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
3. Julia\^talk
4. Dreamyshade (talk) 05:28, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

May attend

1. Jooojay (talk) 06:12, 27 September 2014 (UTC)
2. Ozhu (talk · contribs)
3. Dcoetzee 15:45, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

Will attend remotely

• Will do my best to take care of clean up and Wikidataness. Missvain (talk) 23:33, 27 September 2014 (UTC)

Suggestions

Articles to create/translate

• List of women writer missing articles

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