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Indigenous Film and Media Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
When and Where
AddressSFU Surrey



Event information

  • 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.

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!)

Participants

  1. KitchnerdHD


What can I work on?

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

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

Articles needing creation

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)[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 [1]
  • Kathleen Cole (UBC Past Professor: Botany)
  • Sally Aitken (UBC Professor: Forestry) - Sally Taylor confirmed permission
  • Kathy Martin (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

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)
  8. Drafting and article in sandbox on Nancy Paris
  9. Drafting and article in sandbox on Jennie Moore

Resources for Research

Canadian female scientists

Open Access (OA) resources

Women in STEM fields

Resources for Editing

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

Helpful Wikipedia tools

Tutorials on Wikipedia editing

Art+Feminism video tutorials

The Wikipedia Adventure

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

Best Practices

References

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