Wikipedia:Meetup/Montreal/McGill/CrowdsourcingSocialJustice

Join us at McGill University Library's Crowdsourcing Social Justice edit-a-thon. This inclusive, hands-on event will show you how to create your own Wikipedia account and edit articles related to social justice and gender equality. No Wikipedia editing experience necessary. Twitter hashtag: #McGillCSJ

Participants

 * 1) Ebembo (talk)
 * 2) SoyBibliotecaria (talk)

What can I work on?
There are a number of ways you 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 needing citation or authority control

 * Bertha Wilson
 * Suzanne Côté
 * Patricia Rozema - information from this ebook or this Open Access thesis or this Open Access thesis can be added
 * Prudence Heward - information from this ebook or this Open Access thesis or this Open Access thesis can be added
 * Anne Savage (artist) - information from this ebook can be added
 * Dionne Brand - information from this encyclopedia or this Open Access thesis or this Open Access thesis can be added
 * Lorena Gale - information from this encyclopedia or this Open Access thesis can be added
 * Jackie Richardson - information from this encyclopedia can be added
 * Amelia Bloomer Project
 * Sikh feminism

Articles needing expansion, updating, and/or cleanup

 * R v Lavallee
 * Marcelle Ferron - information from this ebook can be added
 * Gathie Falk - information from this ebook can be added
 * Colette Whiten - information from this ebook or this Open Access thesis can be added
 * Andrea Dorfman - information from this ebook can be added
 * Lynne Stopkewich - information from this ebook can be added
 * Léa Pool - information from this ebook can be added
 * Nora Collyer - information from this ebook can be added
 * Emily Coonan - information from this ebook can be added
 * Mabel Lockerby - information from this ebook can be added
 * Lilias Torrance Newton - information from this ebook or this Open Access thesis can be added
 * Sarah Robertson - information from this ebook can be added
 * Ethel Seath - information from this ebook can be added
 * Lucy Qinnuayuak - information from this print book can be added
 * Lillian Allen - information from this encyclopedia or this Open Access thesis or this Open Access thesis can be added
 * d'bi Young - information from this encyclopedia or this Open Access thesis or this Open Access thesis can be added
 * Margaret Watkins information from this ebook can be added
 * Florence Carlyle information from this print book or this Open Access thesis or this Open Access thesis can be added
 * Bang (magazine)
 * Adelaïde Ehrnrooth
 * Engender
 * The American Jewess
 * Social justice feminism
 * Feminist businesses
 * Gender budgeting
 * Ligue Féminine d'Action Sociale
 * National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women

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.
 * Marilyn Barnett - American advertising pioneer, obituary
 * Kaye Fox - American transgender activist, obituary
 * Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence - Organization website
 * Feminism and pragmatism
 * Feminism in Korea
 * Feminist philosophy of science
 * Feminist science and technology studies
 * Feminist social and political philosophy

Articles created/improved
List of Wikipedia articles attendees have worked to improve.

Resources for editing
Wikipedia articles should be based on reliable, published sources and written from a  neutral point of view.

Open Access (OA) resources

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

Helpful Wikipedia tools

 * Citation Hunt game
 * 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