Hello everyone,
Wikimedia South Africa will be hosting an edit-a-thon to encourage people
to use the photographs take during Wiki Loves Monuments over the years on
Wikipedia. As you might well know the Wiki Loves Monuments competition has
generated thousands of pictures of South African heritage locations and
hundreds of thousands of pictures of heritage sites around the world. Very
few of them are currently used on Wikipedia.
As such we created a special prize for "best use on Wikipedia" for a site
anywhere in South Africa this year totalling R3,000 and the same prize
category for a site in the Western Cape totalling R4,000. The cut off
deadline to apply this this prize category is the 7th November 2015. The
edit-a-thon is a great opportunity to enter this event and learn more about
how to maximise your contributions to Wikipedia using Wiki Loves Monuments
photographs.
Both existing Wikipedia editors and people who are new to editing or have
never edited before are invited to join us.
*Details*:
Date: *Saturday, 24th October 2015*
Time: * 10:00 - 15:00 *(people are free to come and go at any time
between 10am and 3pm)
Location: *TwentyFifty <http://twentyfifty.co/>, 2nd Floor, 8 Spin Street,
Cape Town*.
You will need to* bring your own computer*/notebook/device to edit
Wikipedia on. Unfortunately the host site does not offer free standing
computers.
We will be serving food and refreshments on the day. It important to keep
Wikipedia editors well fed.
Cheers,
Douglas.
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Douglas Ian Scott
司道格
Skype: douglas0scott
South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727