Wikipedia:Meetup/Hamilton

Hi! This is a page for the upcoming #HamOntMusic Wikipedia editing party, October 19th, from 11am to 5pm.

There's a Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/488380638213466/?__mref=mb

If you're participating, add your Wikipedia account to the project dashboard here: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Hamilton_Public_Library/Hamilton_Music_Wikipedia_Editing_Party?enroll=cbaqvzdt

This one-day event will teach local music enthusiasts how to improve coverage of the Hamilton music scene and history on Wikipedia, and connect Wikipedia editors and enthusiasts with resources and experts in the scene. If you don't know what an edit-a-thon is, read this page!

If you can't make it to the event, you can still join us virtually and track your progress! Sign up at the virtual project link and let us know which articles you're working on throughout the day: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/York_University/Music_in_Canada_Virtual_edit-a-thon?enroll=oygpxact

This is part of the Music in Canada @ 150 project.

October 19th schedule
We'll be ready for attendees to arrive around 11am. There will be coffee and snacks available! Please bring your own laptop or digital device.

There will be a short introduction at 11am and then we'll start training beginners. There will be experts on hand to help out people at all skill levels, whenever you arrive - so don't be shy!

Around 2pm, attendees are welcome to take a break and tour the HPL Makerspace on the 4th floor of the Central branch. An HPL staffer will show us the audio equipment and other creative tools, and talk about their investment in the music industry in the city.

We'll aim to wrap up and pack our possessions away around 5pm. We'll need to be completely out of the room by 6pm.

Getting Started
If you're interested in Hamilton's music culture and history, but don't know anything about Wikipedia, you may want to start by creating an account, or reading some of the Hamilton-related articles below. You can get some practice in by making your very first edit on an article that interests you. I suggest adding a piece of latest news about a tour, album release, or award to an existing article, or adding a helpful category to a page.

Also look at the Wikipedia guides: About and About and Your_first_article.

If you don't want to write, but have photos of concerts, festivals, storefronts and interiors of venues, record shops, record label offices, or other non-copyright-infringing music-related stuff, share it by uploading it to Wikimedia Commons and adding the link to it here.

There's also lots of opportunity to do fact-checking and adding names and dates to Hamilton-related entities on Wikidata - metadata about people, places, and things.

Categories to add to:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Music_festivals_in_Canada

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Music_festivals_in_Ontario

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Festival_of_Friends

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Music_venues_in_Ontario

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Events_in_Hamilton,_Ontario

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Concerts_in_Hamilton,_Ontario

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Hamilton,_Ontario

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Buildings_in_Hamilton,_Ontario

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:People_of_Hamilton,_Ontario

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Shops_in_Hamilton,_Ontario

Resources for the October 19th Wikipedia Editing Party
This is a collection of relevant pages and categories, which could probably be improved, and places to get citable information for Wikipedia. Please add your ideas and suggestions!

Portals and communities:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Hamilton,_Ontario

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Music_of_Canada

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Canadian_music

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contribution_Month_in_Canada_2017

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Canadian_music/Members#Participants

Categories to use and improve:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Musicians_from_Hamilton,_Ontario

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Musical_groups_from_Hamilton,_Ontario

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Music_of_Hamilton,_Ontario

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Hamilton,_Ontario#Music

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Festivals_in_Hamilton,_Ontario

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Radio_stations_in_Hamilton,_Ontario

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Hamilton,_Ontario

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Companies_based_in_Hamilton,_Ontario

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Neighbourhoods_in_Hamilton,_Ontario

Pages to improve:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Philharmonic_Orchestra

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFMU-FM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Unyon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Unyon#Selected_artists - for some artists

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercrawl

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Street_(Hamilton,_Ontario)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_attractions_in_Hamilton,_Ontario#Music

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Hamilton,_Ontario#Music

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Public_Library_(Ontario)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Lanois

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dundas_Cactus_Festival

Pages to add:
Steel City Jazz Festival

B.A. Johnston

Emay

Recording studios in Hamilton

Record labels in Hamilton

Music stores in Hamilton - Dr Disc, Cheapies, Revolution Records, Stardust Records, Hammer City Records

Music venues in Hamilton - This Ain't Hollywood, Baltimore House (RIP), Casbah, Absinthe, Pearl Theatre, Sousbas, Mill's Hardware, HPL Concerts in the Round

Grant Avenue Studios (Daniel Lanois)

Seven Sundays in Gage Park

HAVN

Strangewaves

Fort Elgin

Basement Revolver

Safer Gigs Hamilton

Zula Presents

Something Else Fest + Creative Music Series

Hamilton Conservatory for the Arts

Hamilton Arts Council

Other ideas:
Canadian Music Hall of Fame inductees

Juno Award winners and nominees from Hamilton

Order of Canada recipients from Hamilton

Governor Generals Award recipients

Polaris Prize winners and nominees

Music research (e.g. from McMaster)

Music writing & critics

Places to get citations from:
https://www.thespec.com/whatson-story/7046263-highs-and-lows-of-the-2016-hamilton-music-scene/

http://www.hamiltonstories.ca/music-lives-here

http://thespec-stories.com/2015/03/06/hamilton-music-through-the-ages/

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/m/article/hamilton-ont-emc/

http://theinletonline.com/http:/theinletonline.com/topics/uncategorized/music/

http://www.chartattack.com/features/2015/03/19/personal-views-a-ground-level-guide-to-hamilton-ontarios-music-scene/

True Resident

View Hamilton

CBC Hamilton

Spectator

http://exclaim.ca/music/hamilton

Weird Canada

This Must Be The Place

Hamilton Arts & Letters

Raise the Hammer

http://www.hamiltonmagazine.com/sitepages/?cid=125&cn=ARTS%20&%20ENTERTAINMENT

https://www.thespec.com/news-story/6851879--colonel-kudlets-a-giant-of-hamilton-music-history/

http://www.chch.com/restoring-grant-avenue-studio/

http://lha.hpl.ca/articles/short-history-music-and-music-education-hamilton

https://maisonneuve.org/post/2017/04/13/evenings-and-weekends-hamiltons-music-scene-interv/

http://nationalpost.com/entertainment/books/book-reviews/andrew-baulcombs-documentary-of-hamilton-music-is-a-promising-story-left-unfinished

Hamilton Music Strategy: https://www.hamilton.ca/city-initiatives/strategies-actions/hamilton-music-strategy

http://tourismhamilton.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/PED14001-Appendix-B.pdf

https://www.thespec.com/news-story/6954409-branding-hamilton-as-a-music-city/

https://www.hamilton.ca/hamilton-music-film-office/music-in-hamilton/music-in-hamilton