Wikipedia:GLAM/YorkU

= York University Libraries GLAM Page = Welcome to the York University Libraries GLAM Page. This page brings together different Wiki programming, projects, and contributions by YUL librarians and archivists.

Upcoming events

 * Annual Black History Edit-a-thon.
 * Annual Ada Loveless Day Edit-a-thon

Instructional workshops

 * AP/CLTR3140 - Digital Culture in the Humanities, "Slow Violence dataset Edit-a-thon: Unmasking Violence: Artists Imagining Finer Futurities (by Kayla Saunders – Department of Gender and Women’s Studies), Introduction to Wikipedia and Data Visualization," 2022 and 25 October 2023
 * AP/HIST 4054 - Slavery, the Underground Railroad and Resistance: Ontario's African Canadian Past before 1918, "Introduction to editing Wikipedia," 6 February 2023

Archives and special collections
The Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections preserves more than 8,000 metres of archival records and 100,000 items in special collections. The holdings are strong in the areas of literature and fine arts, film and television, and politics, social reform, and labour movements.

Wikipedia
 * Goal: create pages for red linked donors and integrate information from holdings to related Wikipedia articles

Wikidata
 * Goal: "archives at" property added to donors Wikidata items
 * 400+ of 700+ completed (on pause)(see Item Quality Evaluator)
 * Dependencies: finalize migration of finding aids to AtoM



Wikimedia Commons
 * See Category:Images from the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections
 * Goal: Upload digitized material that is in the public domain
 * Dependencies: finalize migration of digitized material to Islandora 8

Government of Canada Wikipedia edits
Twitter bot @gccaedits automated by Nick Ruest
 * Git Hub: This repository contains the configurations for the IP ranges used for @gccaedits, and is the new home of the Gist file used for community contributions.
 * Dataset: This release contains the final Twitter archive requests of the @gccaedits account through April 18, 2023.

YUL Resources

 * York University Libraries website
 * York University Digital Library (digitized content)
 * York University Libraries at the Internet Archive (digitized content)
 * Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections descriptive database
 * Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections blog