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Have you seen [ citation needed ] and wondered how you can fix it? Do you think Wikipedia know all they can know about poutine? Know some good sources about the history of the Redpath Library ?

Join us for the first McGill library wikipedia edit-a-thon and help us contribute to Wikipedia articles on McGill and Montreal. Drop in anytime during the day to learn how use open sources and support online scholarship by editing Wikipedia. We'll have librarians and other volunteers on site to help you access sources and editing.

Details

Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2014. 10am - 4pm.
Venue: David C. Edwards Cyberthèque Classroom, in the basement of the Redpath Library Building near the cafeteria
Participants: The event is open to everyone! We recommend you reserve your space but no one will be turned away.
- If you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia don't be shy! You can play around with a this tutorial module which will help explain a lot of things and we'll have volunteers and librarians on site to help as well.
- We've also got a bunch of links below in our resource section

What to Bring: The room is equipped with PC desktops accessible with your McGill login but we encourage people from outside the McGill community to bring their own laptops. McGill wifi passwords will be available for anyone outside the McGill community.
Twitter Hashtag: #wikimcgill

Sign in!

Whether you are participating remoting or on site - first sign in with your user name so we know who is participating.

Viola-Ness (talk) 15:17, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Ebembo (talk) 15:21, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
tsherryUSA (talk) 15:33, 26 Feb 2014 (UTC)
Khlood Al-sulami (talk) 15:40, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Gers897 (talk) 16:44, 26 February 2014 (UTC)Gers897[reply]
Jmcanada (talk) 16:44, 26 February 2014 (UTC)jmcanada[reply]
Pc315 (talk) 16:46, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Obershop (talk) 14:24, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Volunteers

Schedule of Librarian and Archivists that can help with questions about sources or wikipedia.

Name	Subject interests	Time available
Sarah	visual resources	10am to 4pm
amy	Copyright & Open Access	10am to 4pm
Lori	Archives	10am to 2pm
Deena	Maps	11am to 12pm
Giovanna	Engineering & Physical Sciences	2pm to 4pm
Jennifer	Architecture, Rare Books and Special Collections	2pm to 4pm
Sean	Islamic and Middle East Studies	2pm to 3pm

What could I work on?

Wikipedia

There is a number of ways you contribute to wikipedia . You can create or enhance Wikipedia articles, add external links, verify and update citations, provide resources to help those writing articles, and assist with research. See more at Editing ideas

Articles needing citation or authority control

Articles needing expansion, updating and/or cleanup

McGill University Archives
McGill University Library - Information on individual branches could be added
Marvin Duchow
add more buildings to the Percy_Erskine_Nobbs_buildings
Le Plateau-Mont-Royal
Milton Parc, Development and Preservation section
List of Montreal related stub articles
List of Montreal Geography stub articlces

Articles needing creation

If you don't have time to create a full article make sure you mark it as a stub. You can also help out by categorizing existing stub articles

WikiProjects

A focused and often thematic area of collaboration among wikipedians.

Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons is the free media repository used by Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. You can contribute images, video, and other media, as well as meta-data and media descriptions.

Ways to contribute

Adding public domain images to the Commons
Contributing your own photography to the Commons using a free content license (which allows everyone to use, modify and redistribute your work for any purpose).
Adding links to image resources repositories
Grouping images on a page in the commons like the Picturing Canada from the British Library
Help identify or catalogue images on the commons
Make a category page for McGill University Archives like Library and Archives Canada or like McCord
Add representative images to McGill University page
Create category pages for Historic McGill and McGill University Libraries

Resources : I need information

Wikipedia articles should be based on reliable, published sources that have a neutral point of view

McGill

Montreal

Archives de Montreal
Notman Photographic Archives or on | Flickr
McGill Library - Sources of Montreal Municipal Documents & Information
McGill Library - Montreal Architecture Resources (print and online)
Heritage Montreal
Frags on the Main
Art Deco Montreal
BaNQ
Bosworth, Newton. Hochelaga Depicta or a New picture of Montreal. Montreal: R.W.S. MacKay, 1846.
Continuity & Change: 175 Years of the Mcgill University Health Sciences Library. Montréal: The Library, 1999. Online exhibition.

Canada

Canadian Architect and Builder : A Journal of Modern contruction methods includes a searchable subject index to the full text 22-volume journal including illustrations and advertisements.
Canadian Art Database
Picturing Canada by the British Library
Top 25 downloaded datasets from Canadian Government

Print sources

Gray, Charlotte. Canada: A Portrait in Letters, 1800-2000. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2003. Print.
Gubbay, Aline. A Street Called the Main: The Story of Montreal's Boulevard Saint-Laurent. Montreal: Meridian Press, 1989. Print.
Martins-Manteiga, John. Metro: Design in Motion = Métro : Le Design En Mouvement. Toronto: Dominion Modern, 2011. Print.
Moodey, Edgar C. The Fraser-Hickson Library: An Informal History. London: Bingley, 1977. Print.

Wikipedia editing

Philosophy & Policies

Five Pillars of Wikipedia philosophical guidelines and best practices for editing
Core content policies

Account creation

Markup help

General tutorials & guides

Editing and creating pages

How to edit a page
Your First Article
Article Wizard
Article development
Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger applicable to any biography

Templates and Styles

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 *'''Twitter Hashtag:''' #wikimcgill
+==Sign in! ==
+Whether you are participating remoting or on site - first sign in with your user name so we know who is participating.
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+# [[User:Viola-Ness|Viola-Ness]] ([[User talk:Viola-Ness|talk]]) 15:17, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
+#[[User:Ebembo|Ebembo]] ([[User talk:Ebembo|talk]]) 15:21, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
+#[[User:tsherryUSA|tsherryUSA]] ([[User talk:tsherryUSA|talk]]) 15:33, 26 Feb 2014 (UTC)
+#[[User:Khlood Al-sulami|Khlood Al-sulami]] ([[User talk:Khlood Al-sulami|talk]]) 15:40, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
+#[[User:Gers897|Gers897]] ([[User talk:Gers897|talk]]) 16:44, 26 February 2014 (UTC)Gers897
+#[[User:Jmcanada|Jmcanada]] ([[User talk:Jmcanada|talk]]) 16:44, 26 February 2014 (UTC)jmcanada
+#[[User:Pc315|Pc315]] ([[User talk:Pc315|talk]]) 16:46, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
+#[[User:Obershop|Obershop]] ([[User talk:Obershop|talk]]) 14:24, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
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 | [[User:Lori 085| Lori ]] || Archives || 10am to 2pm
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-| Deena || Maps || 11am to 1pm
+| Deena || Maps || 11am to 12pm
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-| [[User:Mcgillitalianlibrarian | Mcgillitalianlibrarian]] ||  ||  2pm to 4pm
+| Giovanna || Engineering & Physical Sciences ||  2pm to 4pm
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 | [[User:Obershop | Jennifer]]|| Architecture, Rare Books and Special Collections || 2pm to 4pm
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 | Sean || Islamic and Middle East Studies || 2pm to 3pm
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-==Sign in! ==
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 ==What could I work on?==
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-*[[Redpath Library|Redpath Library]]
 *[[Students' Society of McGill University]]
 *[[Pine Avenue]]
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-*[[Schulich Library of Science and Engineering]] [https://www.mcgill.ca/library/branches/schulich]
+*[[Schulich Library of Science and Engineering]] [https://www.mcgill.ca/library/branches/schulich Schulich branch library page]
+*[[Macdonald Physics Building|Macdonald-Stewart Library Building (formerly Macdonald Physics Building)]] [http://cac.mcgill.ca/campus/buildings/macdonald-stewart_library.html] [http://www.mcgill.ca/maps/macdonald-stewart-library-building]
-*[[Islamic Studies Library]] [http://www.mcgill.ca/library/branches/islamic]
+**[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Montreal_-_McGill_Physics.jpg Photo of original entrance]
-*[[Nahum Gelber Law Library]] [http://www.mcgill.ca/library/branches/law/about]
-*[[Marvin Duchow Music Library]] [http://www.mcgill.ca/library/branches/music/about]
+*[[Islamic Studies Library]] [http://www.mcgill.ca/library/branches/islamic Islamic branch library page]
+*[[Nahum Gelber Law Library]] [http://www.mcgill.ca/library/branches/law/about Law library branch page]
+*[[Marvin Duchow Music Library]] [http://www.mcgill.ca/library/branches/music/about Music library branch page]
 *[[Plumber's Philharmonic Orchestra]]
 *[[Palace Theatre (1896), Montreal]]
+*[[The history of Emily Montague / by the author of Lady Julia Mandeville.]]
+**Full text [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001691162]
+** [http://canlit.ca/reviews/emily_montague  Fiamengo, Janice. Emily Montague. canlit.ca. Canadian Literature, 8 Dec. 2011. Web. 25 Feb. 2014.]
+**[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.30000115393179?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 The history of Lady Julia Mandeville : in two volumes by Brooke, Frances, 1724?-1789.] Full text
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 === WikiProjects===
 A focused and often thematic area of collaboration among wikipedians.
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 *[[WikiProject_Open]]
 *[[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Digital_Preservation]]
 *[[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Libraries]]
 *[[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Montreal]]
 *[[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Canada]]
 *[[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory | Directory of Wiki projects]]
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 === [[commons:|Wikimedia Commons]] ===
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 *Grouping images on a page in the commons like the [[Commons:British_Library/Picturing_Canada | Picturing Canada from the British Library ]]
 *Help [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Unidentified_subjects identify or catalogue images on the commons]
-*Make a category page for McGill University Archives [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Library_and_Archives_Canada like Library and Archives Canada]
+*Make a [https://commons.wikimedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Category:Images_from_McGill_University_Archives&action=edit&redlink=1 category page] for McGill University Archives [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Library_and_Archives_Canada like Library and Archives Canada] or like [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_McCord_Museum McCord]
+*Add representative images to [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/McGill_University McGill University] page
+*Create category pages for [https://commons.wikimedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Category:Historic_McGill&action=edit&redlink=1 Historic McGill] and [https://commons.wikimedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Category:McGill_University_libraries&action=edit&redlink=1 McGill University Libraries]
-=== [[s:|Wikisource]] ===
-Wikisource is a free library of primary sources, featuring transcribed manuscripts. Your institution can provide manuscripts for scanning and uploading, as well as assistance with transcription.
+==Resources : I need information ==
-=== [[Wikidata]] ===
-Wikidata is a free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike. It is for data what Wikimedia Commons is for media files: it centralizes access to and management of structured data, such as interwiki references and statistical information.
-==Resources : I need information! ==
 Wikipedia articles should be based on [[Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources | reliable, published sources]] that have a [[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view | neutral point of view]]
 ===McGill===
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 *[http://www.archives.mcgill.ca/resources/db/photosearch.htm McGill University Archives photo collection database]
 *[http://www.archives.mcgill.ca/resources/guide/vol1/main1.htm McGill University Archives - The Archival Records of McGill University]
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 *[http://www.archives.mcgill.ca/resources/guide/update/mainupdate.htm McGill University Archives - Private Fonds, 1985-1995]
 *[http://fontanus.mcgill.ca/issue/current Fontanus: from the collections of McGill University - annual scholarly publication edited and produced by McGill Librarians]
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 ===Montreal===
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 *[http://artdecomontreal.com/buildings/ Art Deco Montreal]
 *[http://www.banq.qc.ca/accueil/ BaNQ]
+*Bosworth, Newton. [https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-125960-2994 Hochelaga Depicta or a New picture of Montreal]. Montreal: R.W.S. MacKay, 1846.
+*[http://osler.library.mcgill.ca/exhibits/175th/conti-toc.htm Continuity & Change: 175 Years of the Mcgill University Health Sciences Library]. Montréal: The Library, 1999. Online exhibition.
 {{Div col end}}
 ===Canada===
+{{Div col|cols=2}}
+*[http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/cab/about.htm Canadian Architect and Builder : A Journal of Modern contruction methods] includes a searchable subject index to the full text 22-volume journal including illustrations and advertisements.
 *[http://ccca.concordia.ca/start.html?languagePref=en& Canadian Art Database]
 *[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:British_Library/Picturing_Canada Picturing Canada by the British Library]
 *[http://data.gc.ca/eng/facts-and-figures#top10 Top 25 downloaded datasets from Canadian Government]
+{{Div col end}}
 ====Print sources====
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 * Martins-Manteiga, John. [http://mcgill.worldcat.org/oclc/760863189 Metro: Design in Motion = Métro : Le Design En Mouvement.] Toronto: Dominion Modern, 2011. Print.
 *Moodey, Edgar C. [http://mcgill.worldcat.org/oclc/3481863 The Fraser-Hickson Library: An Informal History.] London: Bingley, 1977. Print.
-*[http://mcgill.worldcat.org/oclc/46581120 Continuity & Change: 175 Years of the Mcgill University Health Sciences Library]. Montréal: The Library, 1999. Print.
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 '''Philosophy & Policies'''
-*[[Wikipedia:Five_pillars Five|Pillars of Wikipedia]] philosophical guidelines and best practices for editing
+*[[Wikipedia:Five_pillars |Five Pillars of Wikipedia]] philosophical guidelines and best practices for editing
 *[[Wikipedia:Core_content_policies|Core content policies]]
 '''Account creation '''
 *[[Special:ListUsers | Check if a user name is taken]]
-*[[Username_policy#Real_names | Username policy about real names]]
+*[[Wikipedia:Username policy#Real_names | Username policy about real names]]
 '''Markup help'''