A meetup to create, edit and maintain Wikipedia pages that support and pertain the South African metal community. We extend invite to any members of the public, including photographers, writers and contributors from other publications who share our interest of archiving all things metal. People are welcome to come and go as they see fit, with an hour or two lunch break in between.

First edit-a-thon[edit]

• Date: Saturday, May 21, 2016
• Time: 09:00 am - 16:00 pm CAT
• Hosts: Wikimedia ZA - (Discott (talk) and Metal4Africa

Second edit-a-thon[edit]

• Date: Saturday, July 16, 2016
• Time: 10:00 am - 16:00 pm CAT

Third edit-a-thon[edit]

• Date: Saturday, 14 November, 2016
• Time: 10:00 am - 16:00 CAT
• Location: American Corner, Central Library, Drill Hall, Darling Street, Cape Town, South Africa

• Location phone number: 021 444 0997

• Hosts: Wikimedia ZA - (Discott (talk) and Metal4Africa

There is a parking bay on the corner of Caledon and Harrington St, not far from the library. When you enter the library, the American Corner is situated to your left. You're encouraged to bring your own laptop, but there will be a limited number of laptops provided by the American Corner for those that do not have. WiFi provided for use by the American Corner. We have a lot of vouchers available for coffee at Truth Coffee Roasting up the road.

Hopefully this develops into a series of Wikipedia edit-a-thons.

Steve's pictures

Participants focused on editing the African heavy metal article

In the process of making a new draft article.

Dumbassman answering some editing questions.

We should focus on the culture and bureaucracy of Wikipedia and South African metal music, but the prime motive should be to make additions to Wikipedia and registering Creative Commons licenses!

Suggested articles to improve[edit]

• African heavy metal
• Bulletscript
• Junkyard Lipstick
• Kobus!
• List of heavy metal festivals in Africa
• Mind Assault
• Music of South Africa
• Zombies ate my Girlfriend
• Wrust

Suggested new articles to create[edit]

• Botswanan heavy metal
• South African heavy metal
• Metal4Africa

Suggested new articles about bands to create[edit]

• Boargazm
• Desolation (band)
• ING (band)
• Killatoria
• Megalodon (band)
• Octainium
• Riddlebreak
• Subject to Slaughter
• Theatre Runs Red
• Vulvodynia (band)

Articles edited or created[edit]

21 May 2016[edit]

• Infanteria
• Boargazm (draft article created)
• African heavy metal (expanded and improved)
• Mind Assault (improved and cleaned up)
• Kobus! (cleaned up)

16 July 2016[edit]

• Qumbu, additional information about the town added

Suggested new articles to create[edit]

Bands Playing at Metal4Africa Winterfest

• Echoes Through Eternity
• The Alpha Sequence
• Ohgod
• The Fallen Prophets
• Thread Of Omen
• Strident (band)

There are limited resources to use for South African metal music, we will use Metal4Africa as a focal point for resources and should aggregate further resources here:

• African heavy metal
• List of heavy metal festivals in Africa
• Music of South Africa

• Cape Town's Online Library Service
• Creative Commons
• Metal4Africa

21 May

Participants at the Cape Town metal edit-a-thon being shown the basics of editing.

Participants at the Cape Town metal edit-a-thon socialising during the lunch break.

Organisers[edit]

1. Discott (talk)
2. Dumbassman (talk)

Attended[edit]

• LiebeB (talk)

• Nicole Zas Sanz (talk) 08:23, 21 May 2016 (UTC) - 11 edits (first time editor)[reply]

• Dan (talk) 09:10, 21 May 2016 (UTC) - 13 edits (first time editor)[reply]

• Olivertwisted1 (talk) 10:24, 21 May 2016 (UTC) - 5 edits (first time editor)[reply]

• RifqahFataar (talk) 10:25, 21 May 2016 (UTC) - 5 edits (first time editor)[reply]

• Paddy McDee (talk) 10:27, 21 May 2016 (UTC) - 13 edits (first time editor)[reply]

• Distortrait - 4 edits (first time editor)

• Megaultrapython500 (talk) 12:51, 21 May 2016 (UTC) - uploaded 4 photographs to commons, 2 edits (first time editor)[reply]

Organisers[edit]

1. Discott (talk)
2. Dumbassman (talk)

Attended[edit]

• Discott (talk) 11:31, 14 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Dumbassman (talk) 12:42, 14 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Maura assam (talk) 09:58, 16 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Phelokaziemraji (talk) 09:58, 16 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Mzosiyabulela
• William.mngomezulu
• Paddy McDee
• Banele01 (talk) 11:59, 16 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

19 November 2016

The 3rd Wikimedia ZA Cape Town edit-a-thon on the 19th November 2016 at the American Corner at Cape Town Central Library, South Africa.

Participants having lunch during the edit-a-thon.

Participants editing Wikipedia.

This edit-a-thon also focused on Wikipedia Asian Month in addition to metal music in Africa.

Organisers[edit]

1. Discott (talk)
2. Dumbassman (talk)

Attended[edit]

• Discott
• Orrmar
• Dumbassman
• Eugene Cupido 47
• Damiano247

Prior to the event:

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2. Sign up! Add your Wikipedia User Name to this section by clicking the blue button below (follow instructions). Your name will be added to the bottom of this page
   

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• Orrmar (talk) 09:10, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Dumbassman (talk) 09:12, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Eugene Cupido 47 (talk) 09:14, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Discott (talk) 09:15, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Damiano247 (talk) 09:23, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]