User talk:Zara.palevani

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Hello, Zara.palevani, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Note
Hi! Your contribution to the open data in Canada page is a really great idea (can't believe it wasn't there already!) - I have some notes. The first is to just to be careful of how grammar and date. When mentioning a specific video or speech, always make sure to note when it occurred (in this case in 2017) and to get the wording tense right. The other note is that the remaining two sentences in the section are a choppy. It jumps from an official stating that Nova Scotia will participate in the open data movement to mention of a portal and a contest. Basically I'd just flesh this out with a couple more sentences, so I'd maybe tweak this to something along these lines:


 * In 2017 the Premier of Nova Scotia, Steven McNeil, announced that the providence would join the open data movement across the country by creating a data portal, data.novascotia.ca. Data sets hosted on the portal focus on topics such as business and economy, communities and social services, government administration, and nature and environment. To encourage the use of open data, the province's Open Data team partnered with Dalhousie University in Halifax, NS to offer an event where students used the public data sets in a contest to create data products.

You can definitely use this if you like - it's pretty much your work, just tweaked a little for flow. You definitely had some great work here, it just needed a little finessing. On a side note, I removed the mention of how many data sets are featured on the website since it looks like it's constantly growing and the number would be obsolete within a few weeks or months. Exact numbers are rarely maintained for articles in general, but especially for ones like this, unfortunately.

I hope this helps! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:55, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

I appreciate your feedback. I have made a few minor edits and published. I am excited that there is a reference to our provinces open data efforts on Wikipedia. Thank you!