Wikipedia:Meetup/EditingAcademia2019

=Editing Academia: A Wikipedia Workshop= This edit-a-thon will be held on March 8, 2019, from 2:30–6:00pm at Ryerson University concentrating on topics pertaining to Canadian communication and cultural studies.

The purpose is to inform and engage emerging 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 communication and cultural scholarship and enrich these gaps with information provided by emerging 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.

Details

 * Date: March 8, 2019
 * Time: 2:30–6:00pm
 * Location: RCC 232K, 80 Gould St., Ryerson University
 * Hashtags: #EditingAcademia #wikieditathon]
 * Etherpad: Wiki_EditingAcademia
 * Program:
 * Preparations: Please bring a laptop and register for Wikipedia before time
 * Presentation: textaural.com/2019editingacademia/

Agenda
Friday, March 8, 2019 Feel free to drop in at any time.
 * 2:30–2:40pm Welcoming
 * 2:40–3:00pm Introduction & Editing Tutorial
 * 3:00–4:30pm Guided editing
 * 4:30–4:45pm Break
 * 4:45–6:00pm Roundtable

Support Organizations
We would like to thank the conference organizers of Intersections Cross-sections 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!'''

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.
 * Reflect on their experience of editing during the Roundtable.

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

 * Textaural (talk) 19:28, 8 March 2019 (UTC)