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.
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 can 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 sources, 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
Le Plateau-Mont-Royal
Milton_Parc,_Montreal#Development_and_preservation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Montreal_stubs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Montreal_geography_stubs

Articles needing creation

If you don't have time to create a full article make sure you mark it as a stub.

WikiProjects

WikiProject_Open

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 images to the Commons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_uploading_images
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). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Contributing_your_own_work
Adding links to image resources in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Free_media_resources
Creating a page on the commons for an existing collection like the Picturing Canada from the British Library https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:British_Library/Picturing_Canada
Help identify or catalogue images https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Unidentified_subjects

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.

I need information!

Wikipedia articles should be based on reliable, published sources, making sure that all majority and significant minority views that have appeared in those sources are covered (see Wikipedia:Neutral point of view).

Open and online scholarly sources on McGill

Open and online scholarly sources on Montreal

Open and online scholarly sources on Canada