Wikipedia:GLAM/UAlbertaLibrary/DivingDeeper

Diving Deeper into Wikipedia Speaker Series
In fall 2020, the University of Alberta Library and Digital Scholarship Centre ran a speaker series to draw back the curtain on Wikipedia. There were three-afternoon talks structured as a “fireside chat” between UAL’s Wikipedian in Residence and special guest speakers.

This page contains the links to recordings of these talks, with transcripts. One of the most popular features of the series was the links shared in the chat throughout the discussion, so we've included those here as well.

Public accountability and transparency
Date: September 29 Guest: Dr. Hannah McGregor Guest bio: Dr. Hannah McGregor is an Assistant Professor of Publishing at Simon Fraser University, where her research focuses on podcasting as scholarly communication, systemic barriers to access in the Canadian publishing industry, and magazines as middlebrow media. She is the co-creator of Witch, Please, a feminist podcast on the Harry Potter world; the host of The SpokenWeb Podcast, a collaborative research-creation podcast; and the creator of the podcast Secret Feminist Agenda, which is currently undergoing an experimental peer review process with Wilfrid Laurier University Press. She is also the co-editor of the book Refuse: CanLit in Ruins (Book*hug 2018). Talk recording: https://era-av.library.ualberta.ca/media_objects/w95051798 (CC BY-NC 4.0).


 * Research on citations in Wikipedia: https://medium.com/@thisismattmiller/analyzing-books-cited-in-english-wikipedia-d7520b7838f3
 * The WikiCred project https://www.wikicred.org/#projects
 * Art+Feminism has launched a research project around reliable sources (announced today and funded by WikiCred!): https://misinfocon.com/reading-together-reliability-and-multilingual-global-communities-3c7e9bc4af03
 * Excellent read about emotional architecture and Wikipedia - https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedia-online-encyclopedia-best-place-internet/
 * The September 2019 proposal for Wikipedia Universal Code of Conduct https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct(you can leave comments and recommendations via the talk page)
 * The conversation about changing "Canada's Indigenous Peoples" to "Indigenous Peoples in Canada" mentioned in our talk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Canada#Text_revisions_required
 * The Scots Wikipedia scandal of a few weeks ago: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-aw-us-teenager-wrote-huge-slice-of-scots-wikipedia
 * Two tweets about exhaustion and care work required of editors working on progressive improvements: https://twitter.com/deantiquate/status/1298077012830101504 & https://twitter.com/danielleganza/status/1279038287877980161
 * Wikipedia's promised redesign https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/23/21453300/wikipedia-desktop-redesign-2021
 * WikiEdu training modules https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/training
 * This is another great resource / series at UBC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/HonouringIndigenousWriters and their organizing kit is here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e2oYSV2vfAJbx77VyZXEvGaYwEV-Othe/view

Indigenizing Wikipedia
Date: October 19 Guest: Heather Steinhagen Guest bio: Homegrown from Whitehorse with German and Cowessess Nation roots, Heather Steinhagen is a practising artist and art educator. Although Heather hasn't grown up surrounded by her Cree First Nations culture, she embraced her culture and is always prepared to help others and share her knowledge through mentorship and program development. Heather has worked on projects such as Indigenize Wikipedia, the Red Dress project and the Emerging North exhibition. She is a trained facilitator for the Art of Managing your Career - Indigenous Perspectives and was the first Indigenous Executive Director for the Yukon Art Society. Talk recording: https://era-av.library.ualberta.ca/media_objects/cz30pt78x (CC BY-NC 4.0).


 * The Indigenize Wikipedia project with the Yukon Art Centre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/IndigenizeWikipedia
 * Heather's personal pages: https://www.heathersteinhagen.ca/ and https://twitter.com/HeatherVonArt
 * Indigenous Languages and Knowledge on Wikipedia Toolkit: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Languages_and_Knowledge_on_Wikimedia_Projects_Toolbox
 * Decline of Wikipedia article mentioned in our discussion: https://www.technologyreview.com/2013/10/22/175674/the-decline-of-wikipedia/
 * Wikipedia policy about citing sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources and verifiability and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability
 * Wikipetcia Atikamekw Nehiromowin: https://atj.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otitikowin
 * Conference presentation (French) about the Wikipetcia: https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Indigenous_Knowledge_on_Wikipedia:_Lessons_Learned_from_the_Project_Wikipetia_Atikamekw_Nehiromowin
 * Nastasia Herold and Thérèse Ottawa also presented on this project in July: abstract + recorded presentation here: https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:31635/ (Thanks Alyssa for this link!)
 * Decolonizing Digital: https://www.animikii.com/news/decolonizing-digital-the-future-is-indigenous
 * On Colonial Archives, Digitization, and Ethics of Care in the Cultural Commons: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/710062
 * UBC Honoring Indigenous Writers has an excellent resource on consent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/HonouringIndigenousWriters/UBC_2020/Principles
 * Art+Feminism Brave/Safe Space policy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtandFeminism/Safespacepolicy
 * Wikipedia Centering Marginalised Knowledge. project: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Learning_patterns/Centering_Marginalised_Knowledge

Information Activism
Date: November 19 Guest: Kira Wisniewski Guest bio: Kira Wisniewski is the Executive Director of Art and Feminism. She has a can-do attitude and passion for community, capacity building, and the arts with expertise in non-profit structures, operations, and events. Outside of Art+Feminism, Kira is the host and co-organizer of CreativeMornings/Baltimore, co-founded the non-profit 826DC, is an Awesome Foundation Baltimore co-dean, and volunteers with Fluid Movement and Special Olympics DC. Born in South Korea and raised on Florida sunshine (where she earned her degree at the University of Miami), she has proudly been calling Baltimore home since 2012. Talk recording: https://era-av.library.ualberta.ca/media_objects/cr56n211f (CC BY-NC 4.0).
 * Art + Feminism's beautiful new website: https://artandfeminism.org/
 * Art + Feminism's Community Care resources: https://artandfeminism.org/about/communitycare/
 * Art + Feminism's Safe / Brave Space policy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtandFeminism/Safespacepolicy
 * Art + Feminism's YouTube channel, including the breathwork sessions they did: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHqmal0m7QGOTQkHfewQl7Q/videos
 * Some of the excellent A+F resources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Resources
 * Wikimedia Foundation has released a number of reports documenting the gender gap - https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/tag/gender-gap/
 * If you want to read the chapter Kira mentioned, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Community," it is online here https://wikipedia20.pubpub.org/pub/llx97ml5/release/2
 * Controversy in Argentina where the first lady is suing Wikipedia https://www.latercera.com/la-tercera-pm/noticia/misoginas-maliciosas-y-difamantes-la-primera-dama-de-argentina-fabiola-yanez-en-guerra-contra-google/R7B5EVYZJNANVAXB7QZ7EMSNGY/
 * Reliable Sources policy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources
 * Notability policy -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability
 * A great read on the notability issue https://www.wired.com/story/the-senate-race-that-could-be-pivotal-for-america-and-wikipedia/
 * Another good notability read: https://slate.com/technology/2019/03/wikipedia-women-history-notability-gender-gap.html
 * More information on the “Reading Together” research project https://misinfocon.com/reading-together-reliability-and-multilingual-global-communities-3c7e9bc4af03
 * About WikiCred: WikiCred got its start at WikiConference North America 2019, a "WikiCredcon" that explored themes of information reliability and credibility. https://www.wikicred.org/
 * Established last fall the Anti-Harassment Working Group - addressing concerns about safety and harassment (micro to macro) and toolkit is developed on the website. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Art%2BFeminism_Community_Hours_-_Anti-Harassment_Working_Group_Toolkit_presented_by_Melissa_Tamani,_Mohammed_Sadat_Abdulai_and_Amber_Berson.webm
 * Wiki Universal Code of Conduct -> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct
 * The last wiki insight report for those interested https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Insights/2018_Report
 * Humaniki diversity data tools: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/09/15/humaniki-wikimedia-diversity-data-tools/
 * Information activism book mentioned in the chat: https://www.dukeupress.edu/information-activism (also available as free ebook for UAlberta folks: https://search.library.ualberta.ca/catalog/9114286)
 * If anyone wants to know about more using Wikipedia in education we have a page with some information here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/UAlbertaLibrary/Pedagogy#Activity_and_assignment_examples and Wikipedia Education is an excellent resource https://wikiedu.org/