Wikipedia:Meetup/Indigenous Storytellers WikiThon

Event information

 * Date: April 4, 2017
 * Time: 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm (PST) / 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm (EDT)
 * Location:Buchanan B-126, University of British Columbia, Vancouver & Room FB 250, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal. This event takes place on the traditional, unceded, occupied territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) & the Haudenosaunee.
 * Participants: Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University, FMST 620 (Global Indigenous Cinema and Media); First Peoples Studies (Concordia University); First Nations and Indigenous Studies, FNIS 401T (Indigenous Theatre and Film); UBC Department of Film and Theatre FIPR 436B (Documentary Production); general students and the public. No Wikipedia editing experience necessary. Tutoring will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers as needed throughout the event. There are PC workstations at the UBC site, but please bring a laptop with you if you like! At Concordia, we'll all need to bring laptops.
 * Organizing departments: UBC Department of Theatre and Film, First Nations & Indigenous Studies (UBC) & Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema (Concordia)
 * Description:This event is an edit-a-thon to create, revise and add to entries on Wikipedia for Indigenous storytellers, specifically those working in film and theatre and situated in the country known as Canada.
 * Before the event: Please select entries that interest you from the 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 some 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.

Participants

 * 1) Ezra Winton
 * 2) Shannon Walsh
 * 3) Dory Nason
 * 4) L_c_m_2017
 * 5) Sasha Lipskaia
 * 6) Jessica Legault
 * 7) Julie Brousseau
 * 8) Lola Remy
 * 9) Theresa Warbus
 * 10) Heather James
 * 11) Marco Fratarcangeli
 * 12) Melissa Webb
 * 13) Maggie Cummings
 * 14) Olivia Santacroce
 * 15) Melissa M
 * 16) Victor Arroyo
 * 17) Ellen Freeman
 * 18) Zoé Gonzalez
 * 19) Sarah Teixeira St-Cyr
 * 20) Mweeks
 * 21) Samantha Myran
 * 22) Mathew Andreatta
 * 23) Kate Bonser
 * 24) Shannon Robinson
 * 25) CCardinal
 * 26) Nikita Weiss Day
 * 27) Zeesy Powers - I will be joining remotely. Please let me know about draft articles, I can help with the approval process. Also happy to help with adding categories, and other post-event clean-up.
 * 28) Erin Fields
 * 29) D Kraichy
 * 30)  Pedro José Frias
 * 31) Sami Zenderoudi
 * 32) Masoumeh Hashemi
 * 33) Travis Wysote
 * 34) Muhammad ElKhairy

What can I work on?
The theme for this edit-a-thon is Indigenous Storytellers, specifically in film and theatre, situated in the country known as Canada. 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 need of 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.


 * Nyla Innuksuk (Inuit filmmaker) (will be done by FNIS 401T students)- Draft can be found at this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Nyla_Innuksuk
 * Ashes on the Water (Indigenous podplay project by Quelemia Sparrow) (will be done by FNIS 401T students)
 * Elizabeth LaPensée (Anishinaabe/Métis/ Game developer) (will be done by FNIS 401T students)
 * Patrick Shannon (Haida/Media & film artist) (will be done by FNIS 401T students)
 * Rosemary Georgeson (Sahtu Dene & Coast Salis/Storyteller, filmmaker, writer) (will be done by FNIS 401T students)
 * Cara Mumford (Métis / Chippewa Cree filmmaker)
 * Darryl Nepinak (Saulteaux filmmaker)
 * Scott Benesiinaabandan (Anishinabe intermedia artist)
 * Roxann Whitebean (Mohawk filmmaker) (will be done by FMST 620 students)
 * Rena Point Bolton (Artist) (will be done by FMST 620 students)
 * Kelvin Redvers (Filmmaker) (will be done by FMST 620 students)
 * Michelle St. John (Filmmaker) (will be done by FMST 620 students)
 * Amanda Strong (Filmmaker & Director) (will be done by FMST 620 students)
 * Joseph Lazare (Mohawk Filmmaker) (will be done by FMST 620 students)
 * Jesse Wente (Ojibwe broadcaster and Director of Film Programmes for TIFF Bell Lightbox)
 * By The Rapids (draft) (Animated comedy series, APTN)
 * Doreen Manuel (Documentary film maker)
 * Patti Shaughnessy (actor, arts performer, founder of O'Kaadenigan Wiingashk Aboriginal Women's Arts Collective)
 * Bird Runningwater (Programmer for Native American Initiatives at the Sundance Institute)
 * Victor Masayesva, Jr. (Filmmaker) (will be done by FMST 620 students)
 * Kevin Papatie (Filmmaker) (will be done by FMST 620 students)
 * Raymond Caplin (Mi'gmaq Animator, Filmmaker) (will be done by FMST 620 students)
 * Madison Thomas (Filmmaker) (will be done by FNIS 401T student)

Articles to be translated

 * Alanis Obomsawin (Abenaki filmmaker) - translated into Farsi, Russian and Spanish by FMST 620 students
 * Ivan Sen (Australian Aboriginal filmmaker) - translated into Portuguese by FMST 620 students

Articles in draft as stubs (to be completed)

 * Danis Goulet (dir. of Barefoot, 2012)
 * Kevin Loring (playwright & actor) (will be done by FNIS 401T students)
 * Banchi Hanuse (filmmaker)
 * Ahasiw Maskegon-Iskwew (performance artist & writer)
 * Drumbeats to Drumbytes (Aboriginal media art)
 * God's Lake Narrows (film)
 * Sonia Boileau (filmmaker) (will be done by FNIS 401T students)
 * Draft:TimeTraveller™

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

 * Alethea Arnaquq-Baril (filmmaker)
 * Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers (filmmaker and actor; dir. of A Red Girl's Reasoning, 2012 short film)
 * Lisa Jackson (Anishnaabe filmmaker and artist)
 * 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)
 * ImagineNATIVE (film & media arts festival)
 * Skawennati (multimedia artist)
 * machinima (animated filmmaking)
 * Jeff Barnaby (Mi'gMaq filmmaker)(will be done by FNIS 401T students)
 * Indigenous Futurism (Indigenous media & criticism)(will be done by FNIS 401T students)
 * Adam Garnet Jones (Cree and Métis filmmaker)
 * Tracey Deer
 * Mourning Dove (author of Cogewea: The Half-Blood)
 * Zacharias Kunuk (dir. of Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner)
 * Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley (author at Inhabit Media)
 * Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley (author at Inhabit Media)
 * Ivan Sen (Australian Aboriginal filmmaker) - by FMST 620 students

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. Nyla Innuksuk draft was created and additional sources were added Joseph Lazare article was created Michelle St. John article was created Kelvin Redvers article was created Kevin Papatie article was created Roxann Whitebean article was created + photo uploaded from the Cinema Politica Flickr. Alanis_Obomsawin_(español) was created Ivan Sen article was improved Elle-Maija Tailfeathers was improved Kamal Aljafari was created Victor Masayesva, Jr. was created Sonia Boileau was expanded upon (accolades, education, expanded biography, external links, filmography and themes added, categories expanded) Ivan Sen article was translated into Portuguese:pt:Ivan Sen (and en/pt pages linked) Amanda Strong was created Alanis Obomsawin article in Farsi was created Alanis Obomsawin article was translated into Russian:ru:Аланис Обомсавин (and en/ru pages linked) Alanis_Obomsawin was improved Tracey Deer was improved

UBC Resources

 * Aboriginal Research at UBC Vancouver
 * The Xwi7xwa Library
 * Aboriginal Filmmakers Database, Xwi7xwa Library The collection includes more than 900 films, of which at least 300 are by Aboriginal film makers.
 * Aboriginal Publishers, Distributors & News Media - Xwi7xwa Research Guides
 * Indigenous Foundations Arts UBC
 * First Nations and Indigenous Studies Guide - UBC Library Guide

Concordia/Montreal Resources

 * First People, First Screens (Cinema Politica)
 * First Peoples Studies at Concordia

Other Research Portals

 * Aboriginal Peoples Television Network
 * iPortal: Indigenous Studies Portal - University of Saskatchewan Library Guide
 * Indigenous Film Database

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

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

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

Best Practices

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