Wikipedia:Meetup/Toronto/Wikipedia for Archivists April 30, 2016

Event details

 * Date: Saturday, April 30, 2016
 * Time: 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
 * Venue: University of Toronto, Faculty of Information
 * Cost: Free - Registration required
 * Participants: Basic Wiki editing skills required, though hands-on assistance (and encouragement!) will be available on-site.

Resources

 * The Wikipedia Library: Cultural Professionals
 * Beginner's guide to Wikipedia
 * Wiki markup cheatsheet
 * Conflict of interest guide
 * Working in a sandbox
 * Citing Sources video training (Part 1)(Part 2)

List of articles to work on
The following lists are not exhaustive and are intended only as a starting point for possible contributions. Feel free to add the names of notable people, organizations or events in need of better representation and reflected by the holdings of Ontario's archives.

Article improvement or expansion suggestions

 * Archives of Ontario
 * Caroline Armington
 * City of Toronto Archives
 * Austin Clarke (novelist)
 * Louise Bennett-Coverley
 * Basil H. Johnston
 * The Dini Petty Show
 * Eastview Birth Control Trial
 * Eaton's
 * Epitome Pictures
 * Jack McClelland (publisher)
 * Ontario Good Roads Association
 * Peter Robinson (Canadian politician)
 * Mazo de la Roche
 * Edith Finch Russell
 * Obsidian Theatre
 * Dorothea Palmer
 * William Parks (paleontologist)
 * Peel County, Ontario
 * Queen Victoria Park
 * Stelco
 * Category:Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners (NB: Sparseness of category)

Article or sub-section creation suggestions

 * Archives Association of Ontario
 * Canadian Coalition on Acid Rain
 * William Perkins Bull
 * Alice Riggs Hunt
 * Ulrich Leupold
 * A.R. Kaufman
 * Alvin D. McCurdy
 * NDWT Theatre Company
 * Desh Pardesh
 * Parents' Information Bureau
 * L. Bruce Robertson
 * Rhombus Media
 * Elizabeth Smith Shortt
 * St. Lawrence Starch Company
 * Women's Law Association of Ontario
 * Bernard Zukerman

Also see the red links for Ontario archives on the List of archives in Canada page.

Public domain

 * Canadian Libraries on the Internet Archive
 * OurOntario.ca public domain content
 * UTARMS Image Bank

List of articles improved
alpha by last name
 * 1) Capitol Theatre (Port Hope)
 * 2) Joyce Wieland (link to finding aid)
 * 3) John Kastner (link to finding aid)
 * 4) Theresa Burke (link to finding aid)
 * 5) Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario (note on archives)

List of new articles created

 * 1) GLAM/Ontario archives
 * 2) Helen Lucas
 * 3) Rhombus Media

Draft articles

 * 1) User:Anna St.Onge/York University Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections