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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 8 October 2016 at the British Library.

See also the British wildlife edit-a-thon 2015

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.

A similar event ran in 2015.

Location and time

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  • Location: British Library
  • Start: 10.00 am
  • Finish: 4.00 pm

Programme

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  • 10.00-10.30 Arrival and welcome coffee. Log on and computer checks.
  • 10.30-10.45 Introduction to the British Library and an introduction to Europeana Sounds.
  • 10.45-11.00 Introductions to British Library Sounds and Wildlife collection from curator Cheryl Tipp
  • 11.00-11.15 Introduction to Wikimedia
  • 11.15-12.45 Hands on session editing Wikipedia and 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 are at:

Guide

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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 + Video

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Photos taken at the event are in the category Commons:Category:British Wildlife Edit-a-thon October 2016.

A video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8OyGOCBzjI

Did you take photos during the event? Please upload them to Wikimedia Commons using the above category.

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 X edits in Wikipedias in over 60 different languages (including English, Simple English and Old English) as well as Wikidata and Wikispecies.

Files

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Other languages

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Afrikaans

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Assamese

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Asturian

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Azerbaijani

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Bahasa Indonesia

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Basque

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Belarussian

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Belarusian (classical orthography/ Taraškievica)

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Bislama

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Breton

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Bulgarian

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Bengali

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Catalan

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Cebuano

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Chinese (putonghua)

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Corsican

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Croatian

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Czech

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Danish

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Dutch

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Emiliano Rolognolo

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English (Old)

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English (Simple)

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Esperanto

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Estonian

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Faroese

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Farsi

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Finnish

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French

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German

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Greek

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Hindi

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Hungarian

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Irish Gaelic

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Icelandic

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Italian

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Japanese

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Karbardian

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Kurdish

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Latin

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Latvian

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Lithuania

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Nigeria

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Hausa

Norwegian (bokmal)

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Norwegian (nynorsk)

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Occitan

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Polish

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Portuguese

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Romanian

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Russian

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Sardinian

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Scottish Gaelic

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Slovenian

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Slovak

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Spanish

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Swedish

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Thai (ภาษาไทย)

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Tongan

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Ukrainian

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Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt)

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Walloon

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Waray

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Welsh (Cymraeg)

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West Flemish

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Western Frisian

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Winaray

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Commons

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Category and creator template applied to every file.

Wikidata

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  • Lots! (details tbc)

Wikispecies

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New Articles

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See also

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wildlife Sounds in the British Library.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wikimedia UK training booklets.
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