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Brixton Wikimedia Meetup Number 1

6pm-8pm Tuesday 30th July 2024

Brixton Library, Brixton Oval, Brixton, London SW2 1JQ

This is the first of a monthly meetup at Brixton Library led by the librarians with Wikimedia editing experience. It is open to all editors established, slightly confident and even the very new.

This is the page for an event that has already happened, to find out about the next event see Wikimedia Brixton Meetup 2

Location

Brixton Library is on Windrush Square, in central Brixton, 2 minutes walk from Brixton tube station (Victoria line), Brixton mainline train line and also served by many buses.

We will meet on the ground floor of the library, near computers 5-8 and very close to the graphic novels.

How it works

If you've never been to a Wikimedia Meetup before, it's just a very friendly, casual get-together where we can talk about our shared hobby. If you're a total newcomer to the wiki world, or just curious, you're welcome to come and talk to experienced wiki contributors.

What to bring

You can bring your own laptop if you wish but we also will have library computers. If you want to bring some water (and ice!) or we can provide water in the library too - as it is a very hot day.

Future meetups

We will generally have a Wikipedia meetup at the library at the end of each month. Confirmed coming up we have:

• Tues 27 August 2024 6pm-8pm
• Tues 24 September 2024 6pm-8pm

Theme

You can edit anything you like in the session but if you need inspiration some of us will be looking at materials to celebrate South Asian Heritage Month.

Resources for editing

Editing resources

• Getting started
• Getting started quick reference
• Writing an article
• Biographies of living people
• Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
• Person infobox template
• Verifying reliable sources

Other useful links

• Library catalogue
• Lambeth Libraries online reference resources
• British Newspaper Archive - unlimited access on library computers

List of articles to edit/create

Add any articles here along the theme of South Asian Heritage Month, of local interest or to your own interest.

Articles to look at

• Farruk Dhondy (Race Today newspaper, had office in Brixton)
• Mala Sen (Race Today newspaper, had office in Brixton)
• Monica Ali (Author)
• Onjali Q. Raúf (Author)
• Brixton Library (Where we are!)

Relevant Wikiprojects and categories

• Wikipedia:WikiProject South Asia
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Nepal
• Wikimedia Commons - South Asia
• Women in red: missing articles about women from Sri Lanka

More information

If you would like more information about our Wiki meetups or using Lambeth Libraries email us at BrixtonLendingLibrary@lambeth.gov.uk

Attendees

Add your name to this list if you can make it. Note that people of all Wikimedia projects are welcome, or people just curious about Wikimedia! Please spread the word.

• Colette Lambeth
• MassiveEartha (talk)
• Should hopefully be able to attend! Suntooooth (talk) 01:42, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
• Hope to be there. WereSpielChequers (talk) 17:00, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

Can’t make it

• I can’t make this one but hope to come to another in future. Mccapra (talk) 05:34, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
• Apologies, but hoping to make it to a future one of these. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 02:22, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
• I am around at this time, but I don't think I can quite make it. Apologies. TheBritinator (talk) 16:50, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
• Can't make it to this, but thanks for organising! the wub "?!" 19:52, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
• Too hot! Hope it goes well. Johnbod (talk) 13:05, 30 July 2024 (UTC)