Wikipedia:GLAM/UniversityofVictoriaLibraries

Join University of Victoria Libraries and the Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory for a wikipedia edit-a-thon and help us contribute to Wikipedia articles on the Social Justice collections from Special Collections and University Archives.

Want to learn more about how to use Wikipedia? Join us, along with librarians, archivists, and UVic Libraries' resident Wikipedian Dr. Christian Vandendorpe, to learn how to use and create Wikipedia entries, particularly as it relates to issues of social justice, and using materials from the University of Victoria's Archives and Special Collections. Free. All welcome!

This event is part of a SSHRC-supported speaker series Unravelling the Code(x): History of the Book, an interdisciplinary series that explores book history scholarship and the creation, circulation, and reception of knowledge.

For more information: uvic.ca/library/codex

Details

 * Date: Thursday, May 5, 2016. 10:30am - 12pm.
 * Venue: McPherson Library-Mearns Centre for Learning, UVic Libraries
 * Participants: The event is open to everyone
 * What to Bring: The room is equipped with PC desktops accessible with your UVic NetID and Password but we encourage you to BYOD ("bring your own device").
 * Twitter Hashtag: #wikiUVic

Volunteers
Librarians, Archivists, Postdoctoral Fellows, and the Project Manager of the Transgender Archives will be available to help with questions about sources or wikipedia.

What could I work on?
There are a number of ways you to contribute to wikipedia. You can create or enhance Wikipedia articles, add external links,  verify and update citations, provide resources to help those writing articles, and assist with research. See more at Editing ideas. Interested in working on something not listed below? Let us know and we can help you find a project that matches your interests.

Articles needing citation or authority control

 * University of Victoria

Resources : I need information
Wikipedia articles should be based on reliable, published sources that have a  neutral point of view

Special Collections

 * Homepage
 * List of Collections

University Archives

 * Homepage
 * List of Collections
 * Historical Photographs

Wikipedia editing
Philosophy & Policies Account creation 
 * Five Pillars of Wikipedia philosophical guidelines and best practices for editing
 * Core content policies
 * Check if a user name is taken
 * Username policy about real names

Markup help
 * Wikipedia markup cheatsheet
 * Wikipedia Cheat Sheet (Bookshelf)

General tutorials & guides
 * Training for Students
 * Beginners' Guide to Wikipedia

Editing and creating pages 
 * How to edit a page
 * Your First Article
 * Article Wizard
 * Article development
 * Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger applicable to any biography

Templates and Styles
 * Manual of Style
 * Citation templates
 * Infobox templates
 * Library Resource box

January 2015
Join University of Victoria Libraries and the Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory for a wikipedia edit-a-thon and help us contribute to Wikipedia articles on collections from Special Collections and University Archives. We'll have librarians and other volunteers on site to help you with research and editing. Participants will have an opportunity to hear a talk by Honorary Resident Wikipedian Dr. Christian Vandendorpe.

Details

 * Date: Friday, January 23, 2015. 10am - 3pm.
 * Venue: McPherson Library-Mearns Centre for Learning, UVic Libraries
 * Participants: The event is open to everyone but space is limited. Please RSVP to Special Collections: speccoll [at] uvic.ca.
 * What to Bring: The room is equipped with PC desktops accessible with your UVic NetID and Password but we encourage you to BYOD ("bring your own device").
 * Twitter Hashtag: #wikiUVic

Volunteers
Schedule of Librarian and Archivists that can help with questions about sources or wikipedia.

What could I work on?
There are a number of ways you to contribute to wikipedia. You can create or enhance Wikipedia articles, add external links,  verify and update citations, provide resources to help those writing articles, and assist with research. See more at Editing ideas. Interested in working on something not listed below? Let us know and we can help you find a project that matches your interests.

Articles needing citation or authority control

 * University of Victoria

Articles needing expansion, updating and/or cleanup

 * George Cuomo
 * Dolmen Press
 * Chester Peter "Chess" Lyons

Articles needing creation
If you don't have time to create a full article make sure you mark it as a stub. You can also help out by categorizing existing stub articles. Below are links to descriptions of the archives at UVic Libraries.

Art History:
 * Robert Amos
 * Limners (Group of artists)
 * Margaret Peterson
 * Jack Wise
 * Herbert Siebner
 * John Di Castri (Architect)
 * Wade Williams (Architect)

B.C. History:
 * Herbert Geddes
 * Archie H. Wills

Gender and Women's Studies:
 * Transgender Archives
 * Victoria Status of Women Action Group
 * Rikki Swin

Literature:
 * Gray Campbell
 * Kelly Covin
 * Fireweed Press
 * Margaret Hollingsworth
 * Alexander Hutchison

Military History:
 * William Okell Holden Dodds
 * J.A. Millar

Resources : I need information
Wikipedia articles should be based on reliable, published sources that have a  neutral point of view

Special Collections

 * Homepage
 * List of Collections

University Archives

 * Homepage
 * List of Collections
 * Historical Photographs

Wikipedia editing
Philosophy & Policies Account creation 
 * Five Pillars of Wikipedia philosophical guidelines and best practices for editing
 * Core content policies
 * Check if a user name is taken
 * Username policy about real names

Markup help
 * Wikipedia markup cheatsheet
 * Wikipedia Cheat Sheet (Bookshelf)

General tutorials & guides
 * Training for Students
 * Beginners' Guide to Wikipedia

Editing and creating pages 
 * How to edit a page
 * Your First Article
 * Article Wizard
 * Article development
 * Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger applicable to any biography

Templates and Styles
 * Manual of Style
 * Citation templates
 * Infobox templates
 * Library Resource box