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

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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[edit]

  • 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![edit]

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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  3. tsherryUSA (talk) 15:33, 26 Feb 2014 (UTC)
  4. Khlood Al-sulami (talk) 15:40, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Gers897 (talk) 16:44, 26 February 2014 (UTC)Gers897[reply]
  6. Jmcanada (talk) 16:44, 26 February 2014 (UTC)jmcanada[reply]
  7. Pc315 (talk) 16:46, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Obershop (talk) 14:24, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Volunteers[edit]

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?[edit]

Wikipedia[edit]

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[edit]

Articles needing expansion, updating and/or cleanup[edit]

Articles needing creation[edit]

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[edit]

A focused and often thematic area of collaboration among wikipedians.

Wikimedia Commons[edit]

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

Resources : I need information[edit]

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

McGill[edit]

Montreal[edit]

Canada[edit]

Print sources[edit]

Wikipedia editing[edit]

Philosophy & Policies

Account creation

Markup help

General tutorials & guides

Editing and creating pages

Templates and Styles


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