Wikipedia:Meetup/Ryerson University Library/IndigenizingWikipedia July 2020



Wikipedia Edit-a-thons are hosted by Ryerson University Library, with different themes from month to month. Ryerson Library Edit-a-thons are for beginners and novices, experts, and everyone in between. Join us in our wiki-editing quest to to lift voices, raise knowledge, and improve representation.

Who is this for?
This is a Ryerson-wide event. All members of the Ryerson community are welcome, as are all levels of experience with Wikipedia - from novices to experienced users. This is for anyone who is interested in learning how to edit Wikipedia, and for anyone interested in Indigenous cultures and histories.


 * Dates: Wednesday, July 22, 2020
 * Time: 3:00 - 4:30pm
 * Location: Online, of course! Register here to get the link.

Theme
This event is themed Indigenizing Wikpedia, building upon the [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LsBS6qZ0vLCWRJezm5CJi7Y9pkqRiG-ex80b27ttM9s/edit?usp=sharing Indigenizing Wikipedia. . . An Introduction] panel at RASS Indigenous Week 2020. This event is to keep building on the Indigenous presence on Wikipedia, as inspitred by the iSchool's imagineNATIVE 2019 Edit-a-thon and UBC's Honouring Indigenous Writers' Meetup.

Participants are free to chat, breakout into virtual rooms to work on a page together, or just quietly work away on their own with quick assistance available in the zoom window. A quick crash course for those new to Wikipedia will be provided in a breakout room.

Registration
Let us know you're coming! Register here at Eventbrite.

We encourage participants to create an account ahead of time! You can get started now by clicking "Create account" in the top right corner of the page, or by following this link.

Purpose: Why Edit?
Wikipedia is the largest and most popular general reference work on the internet with over 40 million articles in 301 languages. With about 500 million visits a month, it is important that we work together to fix the critical gaps in Wikipedia’s coverage of knowledge when it comes to marginalized groups. Edit-a-thons are organized events which participate in this larger process. https://whoseknowledge.org/issues/public-online-knowledge/

"Our purpose is to contribute and amend meaningful content while closing the gaps and increasing visibility of underrepresented/marginalized communities."

Provide an opportunity for community engagement, promoting diversity and inclusion of both Wikipedia’s content and it’s contributors. The knowledge of marginalized communities is the knowledge of the majority of the world. How can we best support these communities to bring their knowledge onto Wikimedia projects? Learning patterns for centering marginalized knowledge: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Learning_patterns/Centering_Marginalised_Knowledge

Articles Requiring Updates, Fixes and Creation
[Follow this link | link forthcoming] and put your name in the column next to the articles you're interested in.
 * Green is an easy fix and best for beginners getting their feet wet. Here is a [quick guide link forthcoming] to spotting and making easy fixes that still make meaningful improvements in small ways.
 * Yellow is for users who have a little more experience and are comfortable with going a little deeper. These articles are most often stubs, too short, or need additional citations and a neutral point of view.
 * Red indicates articles that have yet to be created. You're starting from scratch here, so this is meant for more seasoned Wikipedia editors who are diving into creating something from nothing, and turning red links into blue.

Guidance and Resources
Check out the handy dandy beginners guide to Wiki editing: Ryerson University Library Wikipedia Beginner's Guide. This guide will take you through the process of creating an account, will explain the key concept of notability, in addition to other basics, etiquette and protocols. There are other useful tutorials and guides listed in Wikipedia Help below.

The Ryerson University Library Collaboratory also offers weekly drop-in hours for Wikipedia editing tutorials on Wednesdays from 3:00 - 4:00pm. Follow this link for more information.

Here is an introduction to the world of Wikipedia editing.

Learning to Edit
The Art+Feminism Organization has put together some brief videos to walk you through the basics of Wikipedia editing.
 * Basic Videos = 23mins total (8 videos)
 * Intermediate Videos = 6.5mins total (2 videos)
 * Advanced Video = 3mins total (1 video)

Background

 * Five pillars of Wikipedia, philosophical guidelines and best practices for editing
 * Tutorial
 * Beginners' guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
 * Training for students, a tutorial for beginners
 * Bookshelf, additional "getting started" resources

Using the Wikipedia Editor

 * Your first article (using the Article Wizard, if you wish)
 * Visual Editor User Guide
 * Wiki markup quick reference, PDF version of printed handout
 * Wikipedia cheat sheet (Bookshelf), another markup cheatsheet
 * Manual of style
 * How to edit a page

Additional Help

 * The Wikipedia Adventure
 * Wikipedia Essentials
 * GLAM Beginner's Guide
 * The Missing Manual
 * Creating Your First Article
 * How to Upload Images

Useful Templates

 * Citation templates
 * Infobox templates
 * Artist template that you can use to structure your article.

Search Template A comprehensive search template can be added to the talk page of any article related to Indigenous Literature topics by pasting the following template code at the top of the article's talk page:, which stands for Friendly search suggestions. This template will also search for free, appropriately-licensed images. It looks like this:

Writing Biographical Articles

 * Writing about women
 * Biographies of Living Persons
 * Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger (applicable to any biography)
 * Article development

FAQs

 * FAQ on Conflict of Interest Editing
 * FAQ on paid contributions without disclosure

Indigenous WikiProjects you can also contribute to

 * Indigenous Women in Red

Friendly Space Policy
This event is following the Wikimedia friendly space policy and attendees are expected to follow this policy. Please read it here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Friendly_space_policies

Hosts
Jeremie Caribou Trina Grover Bethany Paul Cristina Pietropaolo

Past Events

 * No Theme Edit-a-thon, July 8, 2020
 * Trans Awareness Month, November 28, 2019
 * Hacking History 3.0, October 23, 2019
 * Queering Canadian Wikipedia, August 22, 2019
 * Ryerson Library Wiki Training for Librarians, August 8, 2019
 * Ryerson Library Wiki Training for Librarians, July 16, 2018
 * Ryerson Library Meetup, August 22, 2018
 * NIKLA-ANCLA Meetup, January 28, 2018