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

What could I work on?

Wikipedia

Wikipedia is the world's most popular not-for-profit website and the world's largest encyclopedia. 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.

Articles needing citation or authority control

• Redpath Library
• Students' Society of McGill University
• Pine Avenue

Articles needing expansion, updating and/or cleanup

• McGill University Archives
• McGill University Library - Information on individual branches could be added
• Marvin Duchow
• Le Plateau-Mont-Royal
• Milton_Parc,_Montreal#Development_and_preservation

• 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 [1]
• Islamic Studies Library [2]
• Nahum Gelber Law Library [3]
• Marvin Duchow Music Library [4]
• Plumber's Philharmonic Orchestra

WikiProjects

A focused and often thematic area of collaboration among wikipedians.

• WikiProject_Open
• 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
• Creating or grouping images on a page in the commons like the Picturing Canada from the British Library

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.

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 reliable, published sources that have a neutral point of view

McGill

• McGill University Archives photo collection database
• Fontanus

Montreal

• Archives de Montreal
• Notman Photographic Archives or on | Flickr
• McGill Library - Sources of Montreal Municipal Documents & Information
• Heritage Montreal
• Frags on the Main
• Art Deco Montreal

Canada

• Canadian Art Database
• Picturing Canada by the British Library

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.
• Edgar C. The Fraser-Hickson Library: An Informal History. London: Bingley, 1977. Print.
• Continuity & Change: 175 Years of the Mcgill University Health Sciences Library. Montréal: The Library, 1999. Print.

Wikipedia editing

• Wikipedia markup cheatsheet
• Wikipedia Cheat Sheet (Bookshelf), another markup cheatsheet
• Training for Students, a tutorial for beginners
• Beginners' Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
• Five Pillars of Wikipedia, philosophical guidelines and best practices for editing
• Tutorial
• How to edit a page
• Wiki Markup Quick Reference, PDF version of printed handout
• Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger (applicable to any biography)
• Article development
• Your First Article (using the Article Wizard, if you wish)
• Manual of Style
• Citation templates
• Infobox templates
• Bookshelf, additional "getting started" resources

Wikipedia movement

• Wikipedia and Open Access LibGuide and Directory of GLAM-wiki and editing resources
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia for Libraries Archives Museums learning resources, training tools, guide for galleries, libraries, archives, museums
• Wikipedia:GLAM/US GLAM-Wiki (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) U.S. Consortium