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The first Indian WikiMarathon is scheduled to be held on November 14. Read the announcement here. Essentially, a WikiMarathon is an event where editors get together and edit articles or perform other tasks on Wikipedia or other Wikimedia projects simultaneously. It provides an opportunity for real-time and location brainstorming and collaboration.

• Creating / improving pages of your interest / locality / native / *what ever*
• Adding references to unreferenced BLPs
• Collaborating in person with other editors towards FA/GA [i accept its more than 6 hours,but its unique opportunity having people together at same time]
• Arm chair flickr hunt to add media to commons
• Translation
• De-orphaning pages with links
• Creating templates / navboxes
• Running AWB tasks like fixing redlinks/typos
• Categorization cleanups
• Even "writing a bot" / code something like(for) Arjuna's gyanpad etc.
• Creating newsletter / video tutorials,etc

Help Information for newbies

• Basic policy: The Five Pillars of Wikipedia
• FAQs on editing Wikipedia
• Help:Contents/Resources and lists
• Using links

• Tamil Wikipedians from all over the World
• 2nd Chennai Wikipedia Meetup
• 21st Bangalore Wiki Meetup