Nice idea Ravi, Tinu.
I would suggest lets not stick to a theme. Let people choose tasks for themselves. For people who dont have specific tasks(read newcomers), we could offer some from list of tasks. I say this because not everyone have same level of ease with task like article creation / particular subject(which i think led to decline of Collab Of Month in en.wiki) .Some of you guys are too good at article creation, some like me are not so good at it. I certainly have a block of writing anything more than a 2 line stub or take days to complete an writing an article. There can are tasks like
* Creating / improving pages of your interest / locality / native / *what ever*
* Adding references to unreferenced BLP
* Collaborating in person with other editors towards FA/GA [i accept its more than 6 hours,but its unique oppurtunity having people together at same time]
* Arm chair flickr hunt to add media to commons
* Translation
* De-orphaning pages with links
* Creating templates / navboxes
* Running AWB tasks like fixing redlinks/typos
* Categorization cleanups
* Even "writing a bot" / code something like(for) Arjuna's gyanpad etc.
* Creating newsletter / video tutorials,etc
* <INSERT YOUR IDEA OF CONTRIBUTION>
We could add more on a task page. The motto should be "creating / doing" something for wikipedia (however small it could be) instead of talking / listening. Of course if there are bunch of you who share a common interest (like CWG), they can always collaborate
We could have a page on meta on the day of the meet and have everyone update a page "What they are upto" and how they are going about it, and if they could get help from fellow wikipedians.
I would prefer to call it Wiki Marathon / WikiParty [like openstreetmap mapping parties].
Tinu, IMHO "Shut up and Edit" doesnt sound inclusive and might offend some speakers.We need them!,love all :) . I guess it might have come from "shut up and hack". Not sure if you know bunch of people flamed against it (ex:-
here just read the last para first line. "nuff said")
Regards
Srikanth.L
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On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:10, CherianTinu Abraham
<tinucherian@gmail.com> wrote:
Nice idea.. I was thinking the same for some time ..
I was planning to call it " Shut up & Edit" :)
Bangalore meetups happens second sunday of every month. So the next one will be November 14.
How about a theme like " 2010 Commonwealth games" ?
We will create articles for all Indian medal winners in english and indic languages ( which ever is missing).
Regards
Tinu Cherian
Hi,
An idea / proposal for the next Wiki meetups:
There has been lot of talk. So would like to see some action :)
Can we decide a Sunday in next month and call for meetups in all cities at the same time? This time can be a bit extended the usual duration. Say, 4-6 hours?
During this time, all of us can sit down and do edits in Indian language Wikis, Indian topics in English Wiki? This way we can engage the onlookers and convert them to real Wikians. We can also ask people world over to edit Wiki at the same time. We can see what we have achieved at the end of the day !
Hope this will be fun and can be done every 3 months.
Regards,
Ravi
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