Wikipedia:Meetup/IndigenousFilmandMedia

Event information

 * Date: Wednesday, November 23rd, 2016
 * Time: 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
 * Location: SFU: Surrey, Galleria 5, Rm 5080
 * Participants: No Wikipedia editing experience necessary. Tutoring will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers as needed throughout the event.
 * Registration: Registration information can be found on the SFU website.

'Please bring a laptop with you! ' (Please note SFU does not have a guest wireless network. For non-university guests, there is access to EduRoam.)


 * Before the event: Please select a minimum of THREE entries that interest you from the two lists below (Articles in draft and/or Articles needing expansion), and do some background research to find good sources/information to include on each page during our edit-a-thon. Doing this research prior to our event will help get things moving, so that we can spend our time during the workshop editing (rather than gathering sources). Remember that entries in Wikipedia must be about notable people/organizations, and must have good sources to verify this. Your entries must be neutral, establish notability, and must not be copy-pasted verbatim from another source.


 * Recommended reading: http://dhpoco.org/rewriting-wikipedia/

Participants

 * 1) KitchnerdHD
 * 2) Felix_felicis
 * 3) Trentprof
 * 4) Mme.Hansen
 * 5) Exitchasedbyabear
 * 6) Aennaed
 * 7) Lemnlemn

What can I work on?
The theme for this Edit-a-Thon is Indigenous Film and Media. The focus is on the Canadian context. There are a number of ways you can contribute to Wikipedia. You can create or enhance Wikipedia articles, add external links,  verify and update citations, provide resources to help those writing articles, and assist with research.

Articles in draft

 * Jolene Rickard (visual historian and artist)
 * Kevin Lee Burton (dir. of Writing the Land)
 * Danis Goulet (dir. of Barefoot, 2012)
 * Beat Nation (website)
 * Banchi Hanuse (filmmaker)
 * Neil Christopher (author at Inhabit Media)
 * Aalasi Joamie (author at Inhabit Media)
 * Mark Kalluak (author at Inhabit Media)
 * Anna Ziegler (author at Inhabit Media)
 * Jonathan Wright (illustrator at Inhabit Media)
 * Jo Rioux (illustrator at Inhabit Media)
 * Kim Smith (illustrator at Inhabit Media)
 * Corey Bulpitt (Beat Nation artist)
 * Andrew Dexel (Beat Nation artist)
 * Bracken Hanuse Corlett (Beat Nation artist)
 * Doreen Manuel (Beat Nation artist)
 * Jackson 2bears (Beat Nation artist)
 * Jordan Bennett (Beat Nation artist)
 * Kevin Lee Burton (Beat Nation artist)
 * Leena Minifie (Beat Nation artist)
 * Morgan Green (Beat Nation artist)
 * Rose Simpson (Beat Nation artist)
 * Native Youth Artist Collective
 * Miss Christie Lee Charles (a.k.a “Crunch”) (Beat Nation musician)
 * Rapsure Risin (Beat Nation musician)
 * Manik1derful a.k.a. Derek Edenshaw (Beat Nation musician)
 * JB the First Lady (Beat Nation musician)
 * Geoff Pranteau a.k.a. Daybi (Beat Nation musician)
 * Ron Harris (a.k.a. Ostwelve) (Beat Nation musician & writer)
 * Peter Morin (Beat Nation writer)
 * CyberPowWow (website)
 * machinimagraph
 * Jason Edward Lewis (Professor at Concordia U)
 * TimeTravellerTM (machinima series)
 * Ahasiw Maskegon-Iskwew (performance artist & writer)
 * Drumbeats to Drumbytes (Aboriginal media art)
 * cyberlibertarianism
 * God's Lake Narrows (film)

Articles needing expansion, updating and/or cleanup, adding categories

 * Robert Flaherty (dir. of Nanook of the North, 1922 documentary)
 * Chris Eyre (dir. of Smoke Signals, 1998)
 * Neil Diamond (dir. of Reel Injun, 2009 film)
 * Helen Haig-Brown (dir. of ?E?Anx/The Cave)
 * Alanis Obomsawin (filmmaker)
 * Never Alone (video game)
 * Mourning Dove (author of Cogewea: The Half-Blood)
 * Zacharias Kunuk (dir. of Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner)
 * Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers (filmmaker; dir. of A Red Girl's Reasoning, 2012 short film)
 * Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley (author at Inhabit Media)
 * Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley (author at Inhabit Media)
 * Bunky Echo-Hawk (Beat Nation artist)
 * Cheryl L’Hirondelle (Beat Nation artist)
 * Jolene Nenibah Yazzie (Beat Nation artist)
 * Nicholas Galanin (Beat Nation artist)
 * Sonny Assu (Beat Nation artist)
 * Kinnie Starr (Beat Nation musician/writer)
 * Eekwol (Beat Nation musician)
 * ImagineNATIVE (film & media arts festival)
 * Skawennati (multimedia artist)
 * machinima (animated filmmaking)

Articles needing creation
If you don't have time to create a full article make sure you mark it as a stub. You can also help out by categorizing existing stub articles.

Articles created/improved
Here is where we keep track of the edits we've made throughout our edit-a-thon. List the Wikipedia page name, and briefly describe your actions. Ex: Never Alone (video game) - added information about recent awards; corrected typos.


 * Inhabit Media (Nunavut publishing house)
 * Helen Haig-Brown (dir. of ?E?Anx/The Cave) - Added internal links to Tsilhqot'in, Secwepemc, and First Nations; added external links to IMDB page; added IIDF program at Capilano University
 * Mourning Dove (author) added information about Cogewea; corrected reservation name
 * CyberPowWow
 * God's Lake Narrows, Manitoba

Kevin Lee Burton - Add information about Writing the Land Alanis Obomsawin - Add information about The Diary of Richard Cardinal

Edited name of Pauline Johnson to E. Pauline Johnson where appropriate. E. Pauline_Johnson


 * renamed the Pauline Johnson page title to E. Pauline Johnson

SFU Resources (SFU computing ID required)

 * SFU First Nations Research Resources
 * SFU First Nations Databases
 * Canadian Newsstream
 * Music Index
 * Art Full Text

Research Portals

 * iPortal: Indigenous Studies Portal - University of Saskatchewan Library Guide
 * First Nations and Indigenous Studies Guide - UBC Library Guide
 * Aboriginal Publishers, Distributors & News Media - Xwi7xwa Research Guides
 * Aboriginal Filmmakers - Xwi7xwa Research Guides

Open Access (OA) resources

 * OPANEN - Open monographs
 * Directory of Open Access books
 * JURN - OA search engine (journals primarily and some theses)
 * ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

Resources for Editing
Wikipedia articles should be based on reliable, published sources that have a  neutral point of view

Helpful Wikipedia tools

 * Beginner Training Video Series
 * How to write a great article
 * The Five Pillars of Wikipedia
 * Standards and Principles
 * Tutorial
 * How to avoid conflict of interest
 * Neutral point of view policy
 * Dispute resolution
 * Wikipedia etiquette
 * Staying cool when the editing gets hot
 * Wikipedia Teahouse

Tutorials on Wikipedia editing

 * Visual Editor User Guide
 * Wikipedia cheat sheet (Bookshelf), another markup cheatsheet
 * Training for students, a tutorial for beginners
 * Tutorial
 * How to edit a page
 * Bookshelf, additional "getting started" resources
 * Biographies of Living Persons

The Wikipedia Adventure
The Wikipedia Adventure Learn to edit Wikipedia in under an hour. Interactive, "Choose Your Own Adventure" style learning adventure.

Best Practices

 * Include Category Codes to improve findability of Wikipedia content e.g. First Nations Filmmakers