Wikipedia:Meetup/UTorontoInfo/NIHM 2021

University of Toronto Faculty of Information National Indigenous History Month Wikimedia Campaign
This virtual campaign supports a series of events and activities to honour and celebrate Indigenous peoples, knowledge, cultures, and histories. The activities are focused across the Wikimedia platforms, including Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons.

Why contribute to Wikimedia?
Wikipedia continues to be one of the most-visited websites in the world. However, content in uneven, frequently biased, and content related to Indigenous peoples, cultural expression, and histories are underrepresented. Further, Wikipedia content can be written in many Indigenous languages. By editing content, creating new content, adding images, and using Wikidata to add citations to Indigenous research and cultural expression amplifies the visibility of Indigenous peoples and cultures.

Adding content to the "sister projects" of Wikidata, an openly licensed structured data repository, and Wikimedia Commons, an openly licensed image repository, increases visibility and also helps to add content anyone can use.

Who can participate?
Anyone can participate! Workshops will be offered to help build skills and drop-in session will provide space for collaborative editing.

You will need to create a username and password. The same username can be used across Wikimedia projects. Please follow the instructions here for more information.

Workshop times

 * Wikidata Tutorial and drop-in session #1: Friday, June 25th, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
 * Wikipedia Tutorial and drop-in session #2: Monday, June 28th, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
 * https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/86931888581 Meeting ID: 869 3188 8581 Passcode: 436715
 * Wikimedia Commons Tutorial and drop-in session #3: July 5th, 10:00 am - 11:00 am, 2 -3 pm
 * https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/81668855400 Meeting ID: 816 6885 5400 Passcode: 497720

Tutorials will take place in the first hour. Open editing / drop-in time are open to any form of editing. Questions on any of the projects are welcome.

Wikidata

 * Adding content to Wikidata can help boost visibility of content on the web.
 * When adding content practice care in adding identity markers. Only add when content can be found in reliable sources.
 * Add Wikidata items for published works (literature, articles, music albums) and individuals (writers, researchers, musicians).

Images
Wikimedia Commons is an openly-licensed digital repository. Many libraries, archives, and museums contribute images to Wikimedia Commons. It helps individuals illustrate articles and also allows for image integration into other digital projects.


 * As found by the Whose Knowledge Project, the majority of images on the internet are not reflective of the majority of people in the world. *Donating images to Wikimedia Commons can help document Indigenous presence in Tkaronto, on campus, and elsewhere.
 * Because photos in Wikimedia Commons have an open licence they can be integrated into digital projects, such as Open Street Map.
 * Improving descriptions on existing images can help make images more findable and can also assist with providing more culturally-appropriate language.