Wikipedia:GLAM/University of Western Ontario/FIMS Graduate Library

WikiClub: Lunch & Learn

Brought to you by the FIMS Graduate Library, the special library of the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at Western University

Have you ever thought about becoming a Wikipedia editor? The FIMS Graduate Library is hosting a monthly Wikipedia meetup focused on the overlapping connection between information professionals – librarians, journalist, media providers – and Wikipedia editorship.

This is a space for future information professionals (librarians, journalists, etc.) to learn the skills they need to successfully incorporate Wikipedia editorship into their practice.

Food and refreshments provided through a Wikimedia Grant from Wikimedia Canada

Goals

Teach Wikipedia and Wikidata editing skills
Inspire a habit of contributing to open information systems among future information professionals
Enrich open information through Wikimedia initiatives

Details

When:

Third Monday of every month (September 16, October 21, November 18)

Who:

All skill levels are welcome

Where:

FIMS Graduate Library

Join our Dashboard as a participant

Meetup schedule

December 16, 2024

TBD

November 18, 2024

Topic of focus for this meeting is Wikidata.

Introduction to Wikidata
Introduction to Scholia
Concept of data modelling
Exercise in Wikidata using ELIP journal articles

Resources for Wikidata exercise

Scholia for ELIP
Example Item
ELIP articles spreadsheet

October 21, 2024

Pizza lunch will be served. We will get into it and edit Wikipedia, adding citations to improve the verifiability of open information in the encyclopedia. New members will have 1-1 support in getting started with editing.

September 16, 2024

The Power of Wikimedia, basics of editing, help with sign up

Wikipedia: finding articles to edit

There are select articles listed on our Dashboard
You may also want to use these tools:

Wikidata: data model for article description

Property	Qualifier	Usage note
Label	The article's title	language = English
Instance of (P31)	Scholarly article (Q13442814)
title (P1476)	The article's title
Language of work or name (P407)	English (Q1860)
publisher (P123)	University of Western Ontario Libraries (Q57939861)	You can add more than one publisher
publication date (P577)	Add the date of publication
published in (P1433)	Emerging Library & Information Perspectives (Q96698145)
Volume (P478)	Enumerating volume information
Issue (P433)	Enumerating issue information
Author name string (P2093) OR Author (P50)		serials ordinal (P1545) needed for name string. If Wikidata item for author exists, its use is preferred
Main subject (P921)		These supply information for the 'topics' section in Scholia
Cites Work (P2860)		can add articles with Wikidata instances that have been cited
DOI (P356)		DOI information for article
copyright status (P6216)	copyrighted (Q50423863)