Wikipedia:GLAM/UniversityofVictoriaLibraries

Join University of Victoria Libraries and the Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory for a wikipedia edit-a-thon and help us contribute to Wikipedia articles on the Social Justice collections from Special Collections and University Archives.

Want to learn more about how to use Wikipedia? Join us, along with librarians, archivists, and UVic Libraries' resident Wikipedian Dr. Christian Vandendorpe, to learn how to use and create Wikipedia entries, particularly as it relates to issues of social justice, and using materials from the University of Victoria's Archives and Special Collections. Free. All welcome!

This event is part of a SSHRC-supported speaker series Unravelling the Code(x): History of the Book, an interdisciplinary series that explores book history scholarship and the creation, circulation, and reception of knowledge.

For more information: uvic.ca/library/codex

Details edit

Date: Thursday, May 5, 2016. 10:30am - 12pm.
Venue: McPherson Library-Mearns Centre for Learning, UVic Libraries
Participants: The event is open to everyone
What to Bring: The room is equipped with PC desktops accessible with your UVic NetID and Password but we encourage you to BYOD ("bring your own device").
Twitter Hashtag: #wikiUVic

Volunteers edit

Librarians, Archivists, Postdoctoral Fellows, and the Project Manager of the Transgender Archives will be available to help with questions about sources or wikipedia.

What could I work on? edit

There are a number of ways you to 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. Interested in working on something not listed below? Let us know and we can help you find a project that matches your interests.

Articles needing citation or authority control edit

University of Victoria

Resources : I need information edit

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

Special Collections edit

University Archives edit

Wikipedia editing edit

Philosophy & Policies

Five Pillars of Wikipedia philosophical guidelines and best practices for editing
Core content policies

Account creation

Markup help

General tutorials & guides

Editing and creating pages

How to edit a page
Your First Article
Article Wizard
Article development
Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger applicable to any biography

Templates and Styles

January 2015 edit

Join University of Victoria Libraries and the Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory for a wikipedia edit-a-thon and help us contribute to Wikipedia articles on collections from Special Collections and University Archives. We'll have librarians and other volunteers on site to help you with research and editing. Participants will have an opportunity to hear a talk by Honorary Resident Wikipedian Dr. Christian Vandendorpe.

Details edit

Date: Friday, January 23, 2015. 10am - 3pm.
Venue: McPherson Library-Mearns Centre for Learning, UVic Libraries
Participants: The event is open to everyone but space is limited. Please RSVP to Special Collections: speccoll [at] uvic.ca.
What to Bring: The room is equipped with PC desktops accessible with your UVic NetID and Password but we encourage you to BYOD ("bring your own device").
Twitter Hashtag: #wikiUVic

Itinerary edit

**Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon Schedule**
Time	Activity	Location	Led by
10:00am	Welcome and Introductions	Room 210, McPherson Library-Mearns Centre for Learning	Jonathan Bengtson, University Librarian
10:15am	Orientation	Room 210, McPherson Library-Mearns Centre for Learning	Library Staff
11:00am	Edit-a-thon	Room 209, McPherson Library-Mearns Centre for Learning	Library Staff
12:00pm	Lunch and Talk by Honorary Resident Wikipedian Dr. Christian Vandendorpe: "Wikipedia and the Ivory Tower"	Room 210, McPherson Library-Mearns Centre for Learning	Dr. Christian Vandendorpe
1:00pm	Edit-a-thon	Room 209, McPherson Library-Mearns Centre for Learning	Library Staff
2:00pm	Wrap-up	Room 209, McPherson Library-Mearns Centre for Learning	Library Staff
2:15pm	Tour of Special Collections and University Archives	Special Collections and University Archives	Library Staff

Volunteers edit

Schedule of Librarian and Archivists that can help with questions about sources or wikipedia.

Name	Subject interests	Time available
Christine	20th Century Poetry	12pm to 2pm
Heather	Special Collections	10am to 2pm
Lara	University Archives and Special Collections	10am to 2pm
Matt	Modernism, Periodical Studies, Writing for the Web	10am to 2pm

What could I work on? edit

There are a number of ways you to 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. Interested in working on something not listed below? Let us know and we can help you find a project that matches your interests.

Articles needing citation or authority control edit

University of Victoria

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. Below are links to descriptions of the archives at UVic Libraries.

Art History:

B.C. History:

Gender and Women's Studies:

Literature:

Military History: