M3P:Editathon-2 2013
The M3P Foundation will hold its second edit-a-thon on Saturday 19 October 2013 at Radju Kottoner, Dar it-Tama in Bormla.
The event starts at 9:30am and ends formally at noon but further casual editing may go on after that.
Attendees to editathons are always asked to bring their own laptop with them to participate fully. Free wifi available at the venue.
What is an editathon?
The word "editathon" or "edit-a-thon" is a portmanteau of the words "edit" and "marathon".
In this case, "edit" is used in the sense of contributing edits to the M3P wiki.
Attendees
The event is free and open to all but registration before Wednesday 16 October 2013 is required. Registration can be achieved simply by entering your name below.
- Steve Borg
- Lito Micallef
- Mario Axiaq
- Dorian Cassar
Outline of activities at this event
Steve Borg provides an overview of where the M3P wiki stands after three years since the official launch. This introduction will be followed by a hands-on Q&A session leading to one-to-one editing assistance on pages and entries of specific interest to each attendee.
Page names
- How do you decide what to call a page?
- What is page disambiguation? examples: Joe Grech - Kantilena - Stephen Borg
- How does DEFAULTSORT work? See: Help on sort order + Category:A-Z of the Malta Music Scene
Page tags
- What is a stub? See Help:Stub
- What does a page clean-up involve? See Help:Contents#Cleanup
- Why are category tags important?
- Which categories do we use? And how?
- Why use the edit summary field?
File uploads
- How do you upload images to display on the M3P wiki?
- How do you display images as a gallery on the M3P wiki? exampes: Malta Song Festival (D'Anastas_2013) + Xtreme Metal Assault
- How do you embed audio files on specific pages? examples: Bletchley Park + Is-Siegħa tal-Kittieba + ROCKNA Live & Unplugged
Help
- I'd like to help...what can I do?
- Asking for help
- * Expanding the help section