Wikipedia:Meetup/ConnectingCanada2017

=Connecting Canada Edit-a-thon= This Wikipedia Edit-a-thon will be held on December 8, 2017, 11:30am to 12:30pm and December 9, 2017, 11:00am to 1:00pm at York University concentrating on topics pertaining to Canada.

The purpose is to inform Canadian scholars on an alternative mode of disseminating research, on the process of collaborative cultural production, and to engage with questions of academic authority.

Through this edit-a-thon, we hope to identify the current gaps in scholarship concerning Canada 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. In the context of the conference we want to aid scholars in sharing their expertise with Canadian topics to the broader Wikipedian community.

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 identity
 * Canadian online media
 * Daggering
 * Media of Canada
 * Simultaneous substitution
 * Transgender rights in Canada

Details

 * Date: Friday December 8 and Saturday 9, 2017
 * Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm, 11:30am – 12:00pm
 * Location: York University, Toronto, Ontario. DB (formerly TEL) 3001
 * Hashtags: #ConnectingCanada #wikieditathon
 * Etherpad: Wiki_ConnectingCanada
 * Program:
 * Preparations: Please bring a laptop and register for Wikipedia before time
 * Presentation: textaural.com/2017connectingcanada/

Friday

 * 11:30–11:35: Welcoming
 * 11:35-11:45 Introduction & Editing Tutorial
 * 11:45–12:30: Guided editing

Saturday

 * 11:30–11:35: Welcoming
 * 11:35-11:45 Recap
 * 11:45–1:00: Guided editing

Support Organizations
We would like to thank the conference organizer Anne MacLennan for the opportunity to bring this workshop to a new group of people.

List of possible articles to edit
Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon. They are not necessary to edit, but should give an idea of what can be done. 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.

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.

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.

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

 * Maumau888 (talk) 15:48, 4 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Textaural (talk) 15:49, 4 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Thepentser (talk) 17:22, 8 December 2017 (UTC)


 * CreativAge (talk) 14:40, 9 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Adhanjal (talk) 16:31, 9 December 2017 (UTC)


 * 198.96.37.15 (talk) 16:42, 9 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Jana Tayfour (talk) 16:43, 9 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Thelawfulgood (talk) 16:48, 9 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Heatherff (talk) 16:50, 9 December 2017 (UTC)