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Science Literacy Week Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
When and Where
DateWednesday, September 21, 2016
AddressSFU Burnaby, Bennett Library
AddressUBC Woodward Library
AddressBCIT Library


Join us at the SFU, UBC, BCIT Libraries during Science Literacy Week on Wednesday September 21st, 2016. This inclusive, hands-on, drop-in event will show you how to create your own Wikipedia account and edit articles related to science, and more. The theme is Local Women in Science.

2016 is the Wikipedia Year of Science[1].

The drop-in event will take place at across three institutions in Metro Vancouver: BCIT, SFU and UBC.

Event information

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  • Date: Wednesday, September 21st, 2016 (and continuing through week of Sept 19-25)
  • Time: (different at each campus)
  • Location: SFU: Bennett Library room 3008 (10:00am-2:00pm), UBC Woodward Library - entrance (11:00am-3:00pm), BCIT Library room 312 (1:00-3:00 pm).
  • Participants: No Wikipedia editing experience necessary. Tutoring will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers as needed throughout the event.
  • Twitter hashtags: #Scilit16 #womensciwiki

Please bring a laptop with you! (Please check with each institution about the availability of wireless for non-university guests. If you have EduRoam, that should do the trick!)

For more information, go here: [1].

Participants

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  1. KitchnerdHD
  2. Jennathomson
  3. Bloodredruby
  4. Iredred
  5. Katherine Miller
  6. Erin Fields
  7. Will Engle
  8. Sally Taylor

What can I work on?

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The theme for this Edit-a-Thon is Local Women in Science, and more specifically, female scientists at BCIT, SFU, and UBC. There are a number of ways you can 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. Having this research can help people understand the article and realize the need for this Edit-a-Thon. This event feeds into the WikiProject: Women Scientists.

Articles needing citation or authority control

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Articles needing expansion, updating and/or cleanup, adding categories

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Articles needing creation

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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

  • Anne Salomon (SFU REM faculty)
  • Malgorzata Dubiel (SFU Mathematics faculty)
  • Nadine Schuurman (SFU Geography professor)
  • Valentina Savo (SFU associate, Hakai Network, FN + climate change researcher)
  • Christy Morrissey (science medallist, SFU alumna, now University of Saskatchewan)
  • Rosemary (Rosie) Redfield (UBC Professor: Cell and Developmental Biology) – Katherine Miller confirmed permission to add article with Dr. Redfield by phone on August 25th.
  • Maja Krzic (UBC Professor: Forestry, Land and Food Systems, 3M Teaching Fellow) - Katherine Miller confirmed permission to add article with Dr. Krzic by email September 16, 2016. Katherine is currently creating this article. Katherine, where is your creation? JudyCChan (talk) 20:35, 21 September 2016 (UTC) Article created at Meetup Sept 21, 2016: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maja_Krzic[reply]
  • Sarah Harris (UBC Instructor, Earth, Ocean, Atmosphere Science, 3M Teaching Fellow) Maja is currently creating this article
  • Vivien Srivastava (first woman to receive a PhD in Zoology at UBC in 1964 [2]
  • Kathleen Cole (UBC Past Professor: Botany)
  • Sally Aitken (UBC Professor: Forestry) - Sally Taylor confirmed permission
  • Lacey Samuels (UBC Professor: Botany) - Sally Taylor confirmed permission
  • Beverley Green (UBC Professor Emeritus: Botany) - Sally Taylor confirmed permission
  • Gina Ogilvie (UBC SPPH, OBGYN, BC Women's Hospital)
  • Nancy Paris (BCIT Director, MAKE+ Product and Process Applied Research Team)
  • Jennie Moore (BCIT, Associate Dean, Building Design and Construction Technologies)
  • Colleen Chan (BCIT, Instructor, Civil Engineering)

Articles created/improved

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List or Wikipedia articles attendees have worked to improve.

  1. Lynne Quarmby (SFU Faculty - added info about Sterling Award)
  2. Maryam Sadeghi (SFU Alumna) (draft submitted for review)
  3. Jennifer Gardy - (SFU Alumna) added some information, including UBC professorship, children's book authorship, etc.
  4. Gail Anderson - (SFU Faculty) Added selected publications
  5. Marina Elliott (SFU Alumna) (draft submitted for review)
  6. Erin Fields (UBC Librarian) Drafting and article in sandbox on Rosemary Redfield
  7. Sara Harris (Scientist) (UBC Faculty)
  8. Maja Krzic (UBC Faculty) - created article
  9. Kathy Martin (scientist) (UBC Faculty) - created article
  10. Nadine Caron - added information
  11. Drafting and article in sandbox on Nancy Paris
  12. Drafting and article in sandbox on Jennie Moore

Resources for Research

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Canadian female scientists

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Open Access (OA) resources

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Women in STEM fields

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Resources for Editing

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

Helpful Wikipedia tools

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Tutorials on Wikipedia editing

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Art+Feminism video tutorials

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The Wikipedia Adventure

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The Wikipedia Adventure Learn to edit Wikipedia in under an hour. Interactive, "Choose Your Own Adventure" style learning adventure.

Best Practices

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References

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  1. ^ "Wikipedia Year of Science 2016". 2015-06-19. Retrieved 2016-06-30.
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