Wikipedia:Meetup/CCA-CSDH Congress2017

=Canada+ Communication= This Wikipedia Edit-a-thon is a joint effort with Canadian Communication Association / Association canadienne de communication and Canadian Society for Digital Humanities / Sociéte Canadienne des Humanités Numériques. It will be held on June 1, 2017, 8:30am to 12:00pm at Ryerson University concentrating on communication and digital humanities topics in Canada.

The purpose of this workshop is to encourage academic collaborative editing and to address the under-representation of Canadian communication and digital humanities topics on Wikipedia. Crucially, this area of knowledge has been poorly covered. For instance, a number of articles exist as starter pages: First Nations radio stations in Canada, the Advertising Standards Canada, and Digital divide in Canada. Even more worrisome is the absence of whole Canadian communication topics such as Radio in Canada, Telephony in Canada, and Digital Media in Canada. This short list is but a small handful of the numerous articles that could be addressed by workshop attendees.

Through this edit-a-thon, we hope to identify the current gaps in Canadian communication studies and digital humanities topics and enrich these gaps with information provided by current scholars. In addition, we hope participants will reflect on being active agents in their own knowledge production and how this knowledge is distributed to other communities on a global scale.

We invite novice, beginner, intermediate, and expert Wikipedians interested in learning how to edit and circulate their own work. In this workshop, participants will:


 * Become familiar with the Wikipedia’s encyclopedic structure.
 * Identify articles that need improvement.
 * Execute basic editing such as fixing typos and formatting.
 * Execute more intermediate tasks such as adding citations and references.
 * Begun or have completed small, but meaningful, edits to a Wikipedia page in need of additions.

Articles Edited during Edit-a-thon

 * Canadian Communication Association
 * Advertising Standards Canada
 * Board of Broadcast Governors
 * Broadcasting Act
 * Canadian Journal of Communication
 * Canadian Society for Digital Humanities
 * CKNN-FM
 * Digital humanities
 * Media ownership in Canada
 * Simultaneous substitution

Details

 * Date: June 1, 2017
 * Time: 8:30 am - 12:00 pm
 * Location: Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario. POD-469 Arts Collaboratory
 * Hashtags: #CCA #CSDH #congreSSH #wikieditathon
 * Food & Drink: Coffee and light snacks
 * Etherpad: Wiki_CCA_CSDH
 * Programs: CCA CSDH
 * What to bring: Laptop
 * Presentation: textaural.com/cplusc/

Agenda

 * 8:30–9:15: Welcoming
 * 9:15-9:35: Introduction & Editing Tutorial
 * 11:50–12:00: Thanks

Support Organizations
We would like to thank all the organizations that have helped put this workshop together.
 * Canadian Communication Association / Association canadienne de communication
 * Canadian Society for Digital Humanities / Sociéte Canadienne des Humanités Numériques
 * York & Ryerson Joint Graduate Program in Communication
 * Comcult GSA

List of possible articles to edit
Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon. The categories are there just to be helpful, but you are welcome to work on anything you like on or off this list. '''Please note: This is a crowdsourced list. You can help us by adding to it!'''

Articles for New Users
These articles are useful for beginners as they are already well-established but might benefit from some easy proofreading or adding in additional information in the infoboxes. Digital humanities ▆ related articles are in light pink. Communication ▆ related articles are in light blue.

Articles for Intermediate Users
If you are comfortable with making substantial textual edits, adding images, and working with the reference section of articles, these might be good articles for you to edit. Digital humanities ▆ related articles are in light pink. Communication ▆ related articles are in light blue.

Articles for Established Users
If you are comfortable with starting a brand new page or setting up the main elements of an article, these articles might be for you. Digital humanities ▆ related articles are in light pink. Communication ▆ related articles are in light blue.

Sign up
How to sign up
 * 1) Click on the signup button below
 * 2) It will bring you to an edit page with: *~
 * 3) Just click "Save Changes" and you will be added.

Possible Attendees

 * Palmtrees177 (talk) 14:08, 26 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Textaural (talk) 14:10, 26 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Maumau888 (talk) 01:01, 2 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Sadwingsofdestiny (talk) 13:03, 5 May 2017 (UTC)


 * SheenaBruno (talk) 16:31, 25 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Jaobar (talk) 17:28, 25 May 2017 (UTC)


 * M9rcell9 (talk) 21:12, 25 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Jeandjinni (talk) 16:06, 30 May 2017 (UTC)