Wikipedia:Meetup/Ryerson University Library/NoTheme July8 2020

Wikipedia Edit-a-thons are hosted by Ryerson University Library, with different themes from month to month.
Ryerson Library Edit-a-thons are for beginners and novices, experts, and everyone in between. Join us in our wiki-editing quest to to lift voices, raise knowledge, and improve representation.

Event Information

Who is this for?

This is a Ryerson-wide event. All members of the Ryerson community are welcome, as are all levels of experience with Wikipedia - from novices to experienced users.

Dates: Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Time: 3:00 - 4:00pm
Location: Online - we will post a meeting link, soon

Theme

The July 8 event provides time for those interested in learning to edit, as well as anyone looking to renew rusty editing skills. Participants are free to chat, breakout into virtual rooms to work on a page together, or just quietly work away on their own with quick assistance available in the zoom window. A quick crash course for those new to Wikipedia will be provided in a breakout room.

Registration

Let us know you're coming!

If you have a Wiki account, you can register by adding your User Signature to the list of Attendees below.

We encourage participants to create an account ahead of time! You can get started now by clicking "Create account" in the top right corner of the page, or by following this link.

You can also sign up here at Eventbrite.

Attendees

Add your name and user name below, or follow this link to register on Eventbrite

Cristina Pietropaolo, Crishti (talk) 19:25, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Organizers

Trina Grover, Grovertrina
Cristina Pietropaolo, Crishti

Purpose: Why Edit?

Wikipedia is the largest and most popular general reference work on the internet with over 40 million articles in 301 languages. With about 500 million visits a month, it is important that we work together to fix the critical gaps in Wikipedia’s coverage of knowledge when it comes to marginalized groups. Edit-a-thons are organized events which participate in this larger process. https://whoseknowledge.org/issues/public-online-knowledge/

Our purpose is to contribute and amend meaningful content while closing the gaps and increasing visibility of underrepresented/marginalized communities.

Provide an opportunity for community engagement, promoting diversity and inclusion of both Wikipedia’s content and it’s contributors. The knowledge of marginalized communities is the knowledge of the majority of the world. How can we best support these communities to bring their knowledge onto Wikimedia projects? Learning patterns for centering marginalized knowledge: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Learning_patterns/Centering_Marginalised_Knowledge

Guidance and Resources

Check out the handy dandy beginners guide to Wiki editing: Ryerson University Library Wikipedia Beginner's Guide.
This guide will take you through creating an account, explaining the concept of notability, in addition to other basics, etiquette and protocols.
There are other useful tutorials and guides listed in Wikipedia Help below.

The Ryerson University Library Collaboratory also offers weekly drop-in hours for Wikipedia editing tutorials on Wednesdays from 3:00 - 4:00pm. Follow this link for more information.

Here is an introduction to the world of Wikipedia editing.

Learning to Edit

The Art+Feminism Organization has put together some brief videos to walk you through the basics of Wikipedia editing.

Basic Videos = 23mins total (8 videos)
Intermediate Videos = 6.5mins total (2 videos)
Advanced Video = 3mins total (1 video)

Background

Five pillars of Wikipedia, philosophical guidelines and best practices for editing
Tutorial
Beginners' guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
Training for students, a tutorial for beginners
Bookshelf, additional "getting started" resources

Using the Wikipedia Editor

Your first article (using the Article Wizard, if you wish)
Visual Editor User Guide
Wiki markup quick reference, PDF version of printed handout
Wikipedia cheat sheet (Bookshelf), another markup cheatsheet
Manual of style
How to edit a page

Useful Templates

Citation templates
Infobox templates
Artist template that you can use to structure your article.

Search Template A comprehensive search template can be added to the talk page of any article related to Indigenous Literature topics by pasting the following template code at the top of the article's talk page: {{FSS}}, which stands for Friendly search suggestions. This template will also search for free, appropriately-licensed images. It looks like this:

Writing Biographical Articles

Writing about women
Biographies of Living Persons
Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger (applicable to any biography)
Article development

FAQs

What Else Can I Do?

Wikipedia articles are also in need of typo and copy editing - these are valuable contributions. If this interests you, check out the following project pages:

Guild of Copy Editors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Guild_of_Copy_Editors
Typo Team: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Typo_Team

Friendly Space Policy

This event is following the Wikimedia friendly space policy and attendees are expected to follow this policy. Please read it here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Friendly_space_policies