Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/Wildfire Edit-a-thon at the Hammer Museum

In response to the January 2025 Southern California wildfires, the Wikimedians of Los Angeles User Group (WikiLA) is organizing a series of edit-a-thons to help document and preserve the story of Los Angeles, especially that of areas in the fire zone, for posterity.

Wildfire Edit-a-thon at the Hammer Museum

When and Where
Date	Sunday, February 2, 2025
Time	11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Address	Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd.
City, State	Los Angeles, CA 90024

So many structures with historical, cultural, and architectural significance were lost in the Los Angeles wildfires. Wikipedia articles and our library of freely licensed images on Wikimedia Commons document history and help to preserve legacies for future generations. The edit-a-thon at the Hammer will be devoted to creating and improving articles about landmarks that were destroyed, and the people and organizations that stepped up to help during and after the wildfires.

Every Wikipedia article started with an idea and an editor; every photo was donated by someone who believed that an image should be available. Anyone can edit Wikipedia, and we’ll have experienced editors on site to help people learn the ropes. Please bring a laptop/tablet as there are no computers available to borrow. Sign up on our event dashboard here.

Please join us on Sunday. Bring your ideas and your photos and help us ensure that some of what was lost is not forgotten.

• Date: Sunday, February 2, 2025
• Time: 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
• Location: Hammer Museum, Bay-Nimoy Studio
• Who should participate:
  • Everyone! No Wikipedia editing experience is necessary; there will be tutorials and experienced editors who will be happy to help. (If you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia, it's easy to get started with this guided tutorial.)
• Cost: Free (please register below!)
• Hosts: WikiLA, Hammer Museum

A special thank-you to the staff of the Hammer Museum for hosting us.

Free parking is limited - get here early or explore public transport options below.

• The Hammer has a paid parking garage with the entrances on Westwood Boulevard and Glendon Avenue. Parking is $8. If the garage is full, the Hammer has a map with alternative parking options on its website.
• Limited metered street parking is available along Lindbrook Drive at the back of the Hammer, as well as within Westwood Village. Unlike other parts of the City of Los Angeles, street parking here is NOT free on Sundays.
• Limited metered street parking is also available east of the Hammer along Wilshire, and south of Wilshire on Glendon Avenue and Westwood Boulevard. Street parking here IS free on Sundays.

• Metro Local bus 20 and Metro Rapid bus 720 stop in front of the Hammer at Wilshire and Westwood.
  • Note that due to construction work on the D Line Extension, westbound buses currently do NOT stop at Wilshire and Westwood. Metro Local bus 20 stops 0.4 miles (0.64 km) east of the Hammer at Wilshire and Selby, while Metro Rapid bus 720 stops 0.3 miles (0.48 km) west of the Hammer at Wilshire and Veteran. Eastbound buses do stop at Wilshire and Westwood.
• Metro Local buses 233 and 602 stop on the west side of the Hammer at Westwood and Lindbrook.
• Big Blue Buses 8 and Rapid 12 stop south of the Hammer at Westwood and Wilshire.

NOTE: there is NO Metro Rail service to the Hammer. If taking Metro Rail, get off at Westwood/Rancho Park (on the E Line) and transfer to Big Blue Bus 8 or Rapid 12.

• 708 House by architect Eric Owen Moss
• Altadena Town & Country Club
• Andrew McNally House
• Calfire - Needs rework, sourcing and expansion
• California Conservation Camp Program (incarcerated firefighters)
• Camp Josepho - part of Western Los Angeles County Council#Camps
• Christmas Tree Lane
• Community United Methodist Church of Pacific Palisades
• Corpus Christi Catholic Church, Pacific Palisades
• Eaton Canyon - notably including Eaton Canyon Nature Center
• Friends of Nature - specifically the Nature Friends Los Angeles Clubhouse
• Gen. Charles S. Farnsworth County Park - including the William D. Davies Memorial Building / Davies Community Center
• Keeler House
• Los Angeles Fire Department - bloated and needs sources
• Los Angeles County Fire Department - needs expansion
• Masjid Al-Taqwa (Altadena, California) - see also Al Taqwa Mosque
• Yvonne Cole Meo - neeeds cleanup
• Mount Lowe Railway - shelter at Inspiration Point (1996 reconstruction)
• Murphy Ranch - "Nazi Camp" in Pacific Pallisades, needs cleanup/sourcing and has probable conflict-of-interest
• Pacific Palisades Business Block aka Pacific Palisades Building Block
• Pacific Palisades Bowl Mobile Estates
• Palisades Charter Elementary School
• Palisades Charter High School
• Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center
• Pauline Lowe Residence
• Reel Inn
• Robert Bridges House
• Scripps Hall (California)
• St. Matthew's Episcopal Church and School (Pacific Palisades, California)
• The Bunny Museum
• Theosophical Library Center
• Topanga Ranch Motel
• Topanga State Park
• Walter D. Valentine Cottage B
• Will Rogers State Historic Park
• Zane Grey Estate
• Zorthian Ranch

Anything on the National Register of Historic Places. Check out National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles, National Register of Historic Places listings in Pasadena, California, and/or the National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles County, California.

These articles urgently need sources and content establishing notability to avoid deletion.

• Altadena Community Church

• Malibu Feed Bin

• Draft:Side Pie
• Draft:St. Mark's Episcopal Church (Altadena, California) - potential sources:

• Timeline of the 2025 Palisades Fire - being merged

Notability may be difficult on the below. Adding information to an existing article may be easier. Do some research and get creative! Maybe add something to the architect or the cities page. Or go even more abstract and add information/images to a more general article.

• Altadena Golf Course Clubhouse
• Altadena Hardware
• Altadena Public Library (Original WPA-era Building) - Altadena Library District article already exists
• Altadena United Methodist Church
• Eliot Arts Magnet School
• Henry Dart Greene House
• Hiram Wadsworth House
• Jane's Cottage / Jane's Village
• Little Red Hen Coffee Shop
• Loma Alta Elementary (Oak Knoll Montessori & Pasadena Rosebud Academy)
• Oh Happy Day Vegan Cafe
• Park Planned Homes
• Rancho Bar
• Rayuela Spanish Immersion School
• Sahag-Mesrob Armenian Christian School
• UEDF Fish & Chips

• Cholada Thai
• Culbert House
• Endless Summer Malibu Beach House
• Moonshadows Malibu
• Paradise Cove Beach Café

• Benedict and Nancy Freedman House
• Theater Palisades, Pierson Playhouse
• Vittorio's

• Carl Curtis Ranch House
• Mortensen House

Some sources for the above lists

Wikipedia has inclusion criteria, and not every building (or entity) impacted by the wildfires will meet it. To ensure publication, confirm that the subject of the article you plan to write will meet the notability requirements. See WP: Building Notability, WP:Notability_(events), WP:Businesses with a single location and WP:Notability for the specifics.

• Getting started
• Getting started quick reference
• Writing an article
• Biographies of living people
• Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
• Person infobox template
• Verifiability

• California Digital Newspaper Collection
• Calisphere.org

Anyone with an interest is welcome. RSVP below. Please create an account using the “log in” button at the top if the page if you don’t have one already.

Please be aware that attendance is subject to the Wikimedia friendly space policy.

Please add yourself to our event tracking dashboard by clicking here

• –Novem Linguae (talk) 10:12, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Ellyjonez (talk) 05:53, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Ninpc (talk) 07:20, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• HistorianL (talk) 19:00, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Wobblymolly (talk) 00:50, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Jumplike23 (talk) 04:36, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• jengod (talk) 15:47, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Yes, I am attending! Will be glad to help newcomers too. --Sky Harbor ^(talk) 00:56, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Definitely attending, will help out where I can. -- Kylara (talk) 01:52, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• JSFarman (talk) 18:14, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Remote participant - Wil540 art (talk) 02:07, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• I am organizing and will be there! Blervis (talk) 03:03, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• BESS74 (talk) 10:34, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• ShticktatorTal I should also be there! 07:35, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Sylvia Lawler Rabinowitz (talk):I am Sylvia and I am looking forward to learning to edit and write from the Wiki team. I am just trying to register for the Wiki Meet Up group at the Hammer but it keeps taking me to this page.

Hi Sylvia! This is where you register. So glad you can make it. See you next week! JSFarman (talk) 16:57, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Hi, I am new to this but would love to help out, thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mghprov31 (talk • contribs)

• PhantomAGW (talk): [Will attend, thank you!] 10:07, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• JC Bride (talk) 10:10, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Summerlobster (talk) 19:34, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• SweetWheats (talk) 20:28, 27 January 2025 (UTC): I would like to attend Meetup/LA/Wildfire Edit-a-thon at the Hammer Museum this Sunday, February 2, 2025. We have original videotape and stills from a 2007 UCLA Extension film project of Sunset Blvd. including Pacific Palisades. Looking forward to this....[reply]

• Laggycomputer (talk) 06:19, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Sigil738 (talk) 18:15, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• EeeDeeGee (talk) 20:15, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Angelica1111 (talk) 03:38, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Dcschuele (talk) 06:25, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• How does one sign up? This is strange. Holties (talk) 09:57, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  @Holties. Your edit added your name to the attending list. You are all signed up. Should be all set. –Novem Linguae (talk) 10:05, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• LAJessica369 (talk) 18:46, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Natural Born Citizen of Los Angeles County. 34 year Resident, and counting. Only Ever lived in the Southern California Region.

• SometimesDancing (talk): I've wanted to dip my toes into Wikipedia editing for a while - can't wait to stop by on Sunday! 19:52, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Blueberry-Jamster (talk) 21:05, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• KaiIin (talk) 21:44, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Akanda.mi (talk) 00:21, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Rennanbc (talk) 00:26, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Azususy (talk) 11:18, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Gigi pace (talk):19:10, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Marksaeed2024 (talk) 20:49, 30 January 2025 (UTC) will try to go[reply]

• Dontwannabeapie (talk) 04:02, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Hi I am trying to sign up my name is dontwannabeapie
    • Hello Dontwannabeapie! You are officially on the RSVP list. Look forward to seeing you. JSFarman (talk) 18:45, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Matchasoftserve (talk) 04:14, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Finewine49 (talk) 08:40, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• I will be there! - Talulagosh (talk) 16:24, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Schuguchi (talk) 18:42, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Ashizower (talk) 22:17, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• BubbazooOnline (talk) 22:33, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Alladode (talk) 04:24, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'll be late, but will be there!

• GetEllaVated (talk): [I don’t know anything at all about editing, but I can’t wait to try and help!] 10:50, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Voidaere (talk): I'll probably be late but I'd love to come and see how it's done! 21:31, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Kcrews107 (talk) 23:13, 1 February 2025 (UTC):I will be there! I work with copyright issues and have helped Wikipedians on many occasions. I expect to arrive in the afternoon. Thanks! Kenny Crews23:13, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Historiene (talk) 00:17, 2 February 2025 (UTC):Tomorrow morning, I will submit some of my photos of the commercial buildings along PCH that were demolished. I am not able to attend tomorrow's event at the Hammer Museum, but please keep me postedHistoriene (talk) 00:17, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Historiene (talk) 00:21, 2 February 2025 (UTC)Unable to attend this Sunday, but have photos to submitHistoriene (talk) 00:21, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• JTauso (talk) 01:35, 2 February 2025 (UTC) : I'll be there early.[reply]

• Rasheed Shabazz

• CaliforniaFoghorn (talk):

• Auxygn (talk) 20:01, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Primapomegranate (talk) 20:09, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ill be there :)

• Adanehy333 (talk) 20:13, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

me too!

• Jack Fangles (talk) 22:40, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]