Wikipedia:GLAM/McGill/2014 Edit-a-thon

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.

1. Viola-Ness (talk) 15:17, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
2. Ebembo (talk) 15:21, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
3. tsherryUSA (talk) 15:33, 26 Feb 2014 (UTC)
4. Khlood Al-sulami (talk) 15:40, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
5. Gers897 (talk) 16:44, 26 February 2014 (UTC)Gers897
6. Jmcanada (talk) 16:44, 26 February 2014 (UTC)jmcanada
7. Pc315 (talk) 16:46, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
8. Obershop (talk) 14:24, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

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

• Students' Society of McGill University
• Pine Avenue
• Jewish_Public_Library_(Montreal)
• 24 Hours Newspapers
• William Osler

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

• Schulich Library of Science and Engineering Schulich branch library page
• Macdonald-Stewart Library Building (formerly Macdonald Physics Building) [1] [2]
  • Photo of original entrance
• Islamic Studies Library Islamic branch library page
• Nahum Gelber Law Library Law library branch page
• Marvin Duchow Music Library 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 [3]
  • Fiamengo, Janice. Emily Montague. canlit.ca. Canadian Literature, 8 Dec. 2011. Web. 25 Feb. 2014.
  • The history of Lady Julia Mandeville : in two volumes by Brooke, Frances, 1724?-1789. Full text

WikiProjects

A focused and often thematic area of collaboration among wikipedians.

• WikiProject_Open
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Digital_Preservation
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Libraries
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Montreal
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Canada
• Directory of Wiki projects

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

• McGill University Archives photo collection database
• McGill University Archives - The Archival Records of McGill University
• McGill University Archives - Private Paper
• McGill University Archives - Private Fonds, 1985-1995
• Fontanus: from the collections of McGill University - annual scholarly publication edited and produced by McGill Librarians

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

• Check if a user name is taken
• Username policy about real names

Markup help

• Wikipedia markup cheatsheet
• Wikipedia Cheat Sheet (Bookshelf)

General tutorials & guides

• Training for Students
• Beginners' Guide to Wikipedia

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

• Manual of Style
• Citation templates
• Infobox templates
• Library Resource box