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Wikipedia:GLAM/British Library/British wildlife edit-a-thon 2015

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Europeana Sounds (1) are organising several sound and music related edit-a-thons throughout Europe in 2015 and 2016. An edit-a-thon about wildlife sounds was held on the 7 November 2015 at the British Library.

See also the British wildlife edit-a-thon 2016

General information

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During this edit-a-thon wildlife lovers and Wikipedians enriched Wikipedia with field recordings of wildlife sounds from the British Library.

Location and time

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  • Location: British Library
  • Time: 10:00 - 16:00

Programme

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  • 10.00-10.30 Arrival and welcome coffee. Log on and computer checks.
  • 10.30-10.45 Introduction to BL, housekeeping. Introduction to Europeana Sounds.
  • 10.45-11.00 Introduction to BL Sounds and Wildlife collection from curator Cheryl Tipp
  • 11.00-11.15 Introduction to Wikimedia
  • 11.15-12.45 Hands on session, editing Wikipedia. Training available throughout.
  • 12.45-13.00 Recap and sharing
  • 13.00-14.00 Lunch
  • 14.00-15.45 Edits continue
  • 15.45-16.00 Recap of the day and work done
  • 16.00 End!

Wikimedia UK

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You might want to join Wikimedia UK

Edit-a-thon information

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Collections and media objects

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Files are in commons:Category:Wildlife Sounds in the British Library

Statistics on file usage will be at commons:Commons:British Library/Reports/Wildlife sounds shortly.

Guide

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Please log specific edits ("diffs") on non-English Wikipedias, then we can ask their editors to assist with translations.

Sister projects

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Video(s)

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How do you enrich a Wikipedia article with audio?

Training booklets

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Here are the Dropbox links

Mentors

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Participants

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Photos

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Are you taking photos during the event? Upload these to Wikimedia Commons and put the photos in the category Commons:Category:British Wildlife Edit-a-thon November 2015.

Evaluation of the event (to be filled in at the end of the day)

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Please fill in this survey at the end of the day, in order to help us improve future events.

Results

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Throughout the day we had a total of 506 edits in 40 different languages

Files

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Other languages

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Basque

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Bulgarian

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Catalan

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Cebuano

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Czech

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Danish

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Dutch

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Esperanto

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Estonian

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Faroese

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Finnish

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French

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Galego

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Gaeilge

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German

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Gujarati

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Germanic Frisian

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Greek

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Hungarian

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Italian

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Latin

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Latvian

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Lithuanian (Lietuviu)

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Macedonian

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Norwegian

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Norwegian nynorsk

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Picard

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Polish

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Portuguese

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Romanian

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Russian

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Scots

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Serbian

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Sicilian

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Slovakian

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Slovenian

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Spanish

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Swedish

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Turkish

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Welsh

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See also

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