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Indigenous Film and Media Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
When and Where
DateNovember 23, 2016
AddressSFU Surrey

Event information edit

  • Date: Wednesday, November 23rd, 2016
  • Time: 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
  • Location: SFU: Surrey, Galleria 5, Rm 5080
  • Participants: No Wikipedia editing experience necessary. Tutoring will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers as needed throughout the event.
  • Registration: Registration information can be found on the SFU website.

Please bring a laptop with you! (Please note SFU does not have a guest wireless network. For non-university guests, there is access to EduRoam.)

  • Before the event: Please select a minimum of THREE entries that interest you from the two lists below (Articles in draft and/or Articles needing expansion), and do some background research to find good sources/information to include on each page during our edit-a-thon. Doing this research prior to our event will help get things moving, so that we can spend our time during the workshop editing (rather than gathering sources). Remember that entries in Wikipedia must be about notable people/organizations, and must have good sources to verify this. Your entries must be neutral, establish notability, and must not be copy-pasted verbatim from another source.

Participants edit

  1. KitchnerdHD
  2. Felix_felicis
  3. Trentprof
  4. Mme.Hansen
  5. Exitchasedbyabear
  6. Aennaed
  7. Lemnlemn

What can I work on? edit

The theme for this Edit-a-Thon is Indigenous Film and Media. The focus is on the Canadian context. 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.

Articles in draft edit

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

Articles created/improved edit

Here is where we keep track of the edits we've made throughout our edit-a-thon. List the Wikipedia page name, and briefly describe your actions. Ex: Never Alone (video game) - added information about recent awards; corrected typos.

Kevin Lee Burton - Add information about Writing the Land Alanis Obomsawin - Add information about The Diary of Richard Cardinal

Edited name of Pauline Johnson to E. Pauline Johnson where appropriate. E. Pauline_Johnson

Resources for Research edit

SFU Resources (SFU computing ID required) edit

Research Portals edit

Open Access (OA) resources edit

Resources for Editing edit

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

Helpful Wikipedia tools edit

Tutorials on Wikipedia editing edit

The Wikipedia Adventure edit

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

Best Practices edit

References edit

External links edit

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