Wikipedia:Meetup/Toronto/Bi Arts Festival

Event details

 * Date: Sunday, September 24, 2017
 * Time: 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
 * Venue: Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives 34 Isabella Street, Toronto, Ontario CANADA M4Y 1N1
 * Cost: Free
 * What to Bring: Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords.
 * Accessibility: A volunteer will be stationed at the door to assist with wheelchair access to the first floor. The washroom is not fully accessible.
 * Participants: No Wikipedia editing experience necessary; mentors will be available to assist newcomers!

Getting started
Want to get a head start? You can:
 * RSVP on Facebook
 * Create an account and set up a  user page
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 * You’ll be able to edit Wikipedia without creating an account, but you must be signed in to create articles
 * Please sign in with your username below. If you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia, you might start with this training module which explains some basics, including how to add your signature.
 * Read about Wikipedia’s core content policies and  five pillars
 * Learn about wiki markup

Or just wait for the event, and we’ll walk you through it!

Confirmed attendees
(sign up by editing the page and entering four tildes ~. This will automatically put in your username.)


 * PricklyCactus (talk) 07:40, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
 * AlwaysAlice (talk) 16:19, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Bygul (talk) 19:53, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

Tools and templates
The following are some templates and tools that you may want to use to help you create or improve the articles you are working on.

Tools

 * Intro to Wikipedia - The Five Pillars
 * A primer for newcomers
 * Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
 * Writing an article
 * About the Sandbox
 * Introductory Training Lesson Plan
 * Advanced Training Lesson Plan
 * File Upload Wizard for images, video and sound files
 * Wikipedia Teahouse
 * Dispute Resolution
 * Etiquette
 * Staying cool when the editing gets hot

Templates

 * Place at the top of a new article to protect it from undue speedy deletion: Template:New_page
 * Place next to a name on the list of topics below to avoid editing conflicts: Template:inprogress
 * Wikipedia Infobox template Template:Infobox person
 * Wikipedia artist Infobox template Template:Infobox_artist
 * Biographies of living persons

Articles to work on
This is a suggested list of topics to work on. You are welcome to write on other topics too, and please feel free to add to this list. Links in blue are existing articles which can be improved and/or expanded. Links in red are articles that do not yet exist and can be created.


 * Toronto Bisexual Network
 * Ontario Bisexual Network
 * Bisexual Women of Toronto
 * 9th International Conference on Bisexuality: Toronto
 * 1st North American Conference on Bisexuality, Gender and Sexual Diversity (NACB 2001)
 * Risk and Resilience Project
 * Fire Song
 * BYKES
 * Bisexuality in Canada
 * LGBT in Canada
 * LGBT history in Canada
 * LGBT parenting in Canada
 * List of LGBT-related organizations and conferences
 * The Fence (Zine)
 * Basil Papademos
 * Pearl Luke
 * Rupert Raj
 * Timeline of LGBT history in Canada
 * Lynx Sainte-Marie
 * Alec Butler
 * Cheryl Dobinson
 * Margaret Robinson (activist and scholar)
 * Vivek Shraya
 * Colin Campbell
 * Karen Connelly
 * Pamela Bentley
 * Jess Salomon
 * Franny McCabe-Bennett
 * Margaret Christakos
 * Karol Steinhouse
 * Ryan Kamstra
 * Dorianne Emmerton
 * Katie Sly
 * Jaene Castrillon
 * Too Queer: A Bi Visbility Cabaret
 * Michael Erickson

See also WP:CANQUEER, Wikipedia's internal project page for LGBT topics in Canada, where several additional artists are listed under "Potential new articles" and several who need improved sourcing are listed under "Sourcing issues".