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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

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 1pm
Mcgillitalianlibrarian		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.

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

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

Montreal

Canada

Print sources

Wikipedia editing

Markup help

Wikipedia markup cheatsheet
Wikipedia Cheat Sheet (Bookshelf), another markup cheatsheet

Account creation

General tutorials & guides

Training for Students, a tutorial for beginners
Beginners' Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
Tutorial

Philosophy

Five Pillars of Wikipedia philosophical guidelines and best practices for editing

Editing and creating pages

How to edit a page
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)

Templates and Styles

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

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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]
-*[http://fontanus.mcgill.ca/issue/current Fontanus]
+*[http://www.archives.mcgill.ca/resources/guide/vol2_3/main2_3.htm McGill University Archives - Private Paper]
+*[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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