Wikipedia:Meetup/WetʼsuwetʼenSolidarity

About
This event is connected to the Wet'suwet’en Solidarity Event and Legal Defense Fundraiser held at York University on March 11th, 2020. We are working on Wikipedia pages, and looking for image donations to support the Wet'suwet’en peoples, as well as pages connected to land defence, Indigenous leaders and activists, as well as human rights, Indigenous governance and sovereignty.

Wikipedia is one of the most frequently accessed website in the world. The Wikipedia Foundation is a not-for-profit organization and Wikipedia articles are written by volunteers. However, volunteers tend to be white, male, and from the global north. This means the content tends to be biased toward a "majority" viewpoint.

Photo donations
Images are a really effective way of illustrating a story. However, images cannot be reused unless the copyright and usage rights are clearly stated. An important action for boosting the presence of Indigenous peoples online is the practice of "image donation" to Wikimedia Commons. Images could be of protests, solidarity actions, people, territory, and so on. The easiest way to donate images is via Flickr. A Creative Commons license should be applied. This give legal permission for your image to be shared.

Resources for editing

 * Beginner's Guide to editing Wikipedia
 * How to maintain a Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
 * How to avoid conflict of interest
 * How to ensure Wikipedia:Verifiability including what does and does not count as a reliable source
 * Wikipedia:Notability guidelines
 * Citing sources
 * Using the free citation management software Zotero to cite sources
 * How to use images in articles
 * Video on adding images to Wikmedia Commons

Suggested articles

 * Coastal_GasLink_Pipeline see the section on consultations
 * Unistʼotʼen_Camp
 * Wetʼsuwetʼen
 * Wetʼsuwetʼen_First_Nation
 * Canadian_Aboriginal_law
 * Indigenous_land_rights
 * 2020_Canadian_pipeline_and_railway_protests
 * Timeline_of_the_2020_Canadian_pipeline_and_railway_protests
 * Office_of_the_Hereditary_Chiefs_of_the_Wetʼsuwetʼen
 * Hereditary_chiefs_in_Canada
 * Water_protectors
 * Land_defender