MyWiki:Meetup/Adelaide/Edit-a-thon 4

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Edit-a-thon 4 - January 2026

Time: T.B.A. - probably later in January

Location: "The Exchange", 53-57 Exchange Place, Adelaide. (The old Adelaide Stock Exchange building, which is now occupied by the Conservation Council of South Australia.)

Agenda: Edit-a-thon - a workshop to help new editors acquire basic editing skills, and how to upload images to Wikimedia Commons for use in Wikipedia articles, especially those on SA's coastal and marine environment, as well as on other SA environment and heritage topics.

Background

Adelaide is the hometown of two Wikimedia Australia staff members, Alison Smith (AlphaLemur) and Belinda Spry (BindiS), who in 2025 facilitated a WMAU Partner Project with the South Australian Museum. This involved a workshop for local editors, training SAM staff in Wikipedia and Wikidata editing, as well as providing a grant for the SAM to host a paid Wikipedian in Residence (Laterthanyouthink) for 100 hours.

Alison and Belinda subsequently organised another edit-a-thon with the Art Gallery of South Australia, for new editors, focussing on improving WP articles on the artists featured in the AGSA exhibition, Dangerously Modern: Australian Women Artists in Europe 1890–1940.

The scale and duration of the 2025 algal bloom in South Australia is having a huge impact on the local marine environment, fisheries, and coastal tourism and amenity. There has been a strong response from members of community groups, including surfers, scuba divers, and regular beach-goers, and inspired interest in citizen science monitoring of the bloom.

The WP article on the bloom (started by Laterthanyouthink, and added to by Bahudhara), has in turn stimulated a lot of interest in participating in WP editing, and Belinda has offered to run this workshop for beginners. She has suggested having around 10 new participants; so far 6 people have indicated a strong interest, including members of the Marine Life Society of SA, the Great Southern Reef Foundation, the Friends of Patawalonga Creek, and the National Trust of SA.

The Exchange has excellent facilities, and is currently going through a WiFi upgrade. To enable free use of this space, the event is being auspiced by the Friends of Parks and Nature Inc., and will be advertised to FoPN's ~150 member groups, as well as others with an interest in the marine environment.

This event is being run as a pilot, and numbers will be capped, with the possibility of additional sessions being run if there is sufficient interest.

To register for this event as a new editor

1. If you don't already have a user account, right click on the "Create account" link in the upper RHS corner of this page to open it in a new tab, and follow the prompts. (After you've done this, whenever you log in, your username will appear at the top of the page as a redlink to your userpage.)

Hint: Before choosing a username for yourself, see Wikipedia:Username policy.

2. Create your userpage by clicking on the redlink and following the prompts to open it for editing. Add a short paragraph, outlining your interests. (This will turn the redlink blue.)

3. Return to this event page, open it by clicking the "Edit" link near the RHS corner of the page, and add your username to the "New editors" list.

Once a sufficient number of people have registered, we will commence a discussion on the event's Talk page to find a date/time for the event that is most suitable for participants.

Attendees

Facilitators / experienced editors

• AlphaLemur (talk)
• BindiS (talk)
• Bahudhara (talk)
• Alex Sims (talk)

New editors

• Robertino2 (talk)
• Steve Reynolds (talk)
• KSonKI (talk)
• MargAdelie (talk)
• WombatsSA (talk)
• Veganblue (talk)

Apologies:

Outcomes

Articles and lists created: