Introduction[edit]
The first Indian WikiMarathon is scheduled to be held on November 14. Read the announcement here. Essentially, a WikiMarathon is an event where editors get together and edit articles or perform other tasks on Wikipedia or other Wikimedia projects simultaneously. It provides an opportunity for real-time and location brainstorming and collaboration.
Tasks[edit]
- Creating / improving pages of your interest / locality / native / *what ever*
- Adding references to unreferenced BLPs
- Collaborating in person with other editors towards FA/GA [i accept its more than 6 hours,but its unique opportunity 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
Help Information for newbies[edit]
- Basic policy: The Five Pillars of Wikipedia
- FAQs on editing Wikipedia
- Help:Contents/Resources and lists
- Using links