Canada+ Communication[edit]

CCA/CSDH Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Date	June 1, 2017
Time	8:30 am - 12:00 pm
Location	POD-469 Arts Collaboratory, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
Organised by	Communication & Culture Algorithmic Cultures Working Group

This Wikipedia Edit-a-thon is a joint effort with Canadian Communication Association / Association canadienne de communication and Canadian Society for Digital Humanities / Sociéte Canadienne des Humanités Numériques. It will be held on June 1, 2017, 8:30am to 12:00pm at Ryerson University concentrating on communication and digital humanities topics in Canada.

The purpose of this workshop is to encourage academic collaborative editing and to address the under-representation of Canadian communication and digital humanities topics on Wikipedia. Crucially, this area of knowledge has been poorly covered. For instance, a number of articles exist as starter pages: First Nations radio stations in Canada, the Advertising Standards Canada, and Digital divide in Canada. Even more worrisome is the absence of whole Canadian communication topics such as Radio in Canada, Telephony in Canada, and Digital Media in Canada. This short list is but a small handful of the numerous articles that could be addressed by workshop attendees.

Through this edit-a-thon, we hope to identify the current gaps in Canadian communication studies and digital humanities topics and enrich these gaps with information provided by current scholars. In addition, we hope participants will reflect on being active agents in their own knowledge production and how this knowledge is distributed to other communities on a global scale.

We invite novice, beginner, intermediate, and expert Wikipedians interested in learning how to edit and circulate their own work. In this workshop, participants will:

Become familiar with the Wikipedia’s encyclopedic structure.
Identify articles that need improvement.
Execute basic editing such as fixing typos and formatting.
Execute more intermediate tasks such as adding citations and references.
Begun or have completed small, but meaningful, edits to a Wikipedia page in need of additions.

Articles Edited during Edit-a-thon[edit]

Details[edit]

Date: June 1, 2017
Time: 8:30 am - 12:00 pm
Location: Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario. POD-469 Arts Collaboratory
Hashtags: #CCA #CSDH #congreSSH #wikieditathon
Food & Drink: Coffee and light snacks
Etherpad: Wiki_CCA_CSDH
Programs: CCA CSDH
What to bring: Laptop
Presentation: textaural.com/cplusc/

Agenda[edit]

8:30–9:15: Welcoming
9:15-9:35: Introduction & Editing Tutorial
11:50–12:00: Thanks

Support Organizations[edit]

We would like to thank all the organizations that have helped put this workshop together.

List of possible articles to edit[edit]

Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon. The categories are there just to be helpful, but you are welcome to work on anything you like on or off this list. Please note: This is a crowdsourced list. You can help us by adding to it!

Articles for New Users[edit]

These articles are useful for beginners as they are already well-established but might benefit from some easy proofreading or adding in additional information in the infoboxes. Digital humanities ▆ related articles are in light pink. Communication ▆ related articles are in light blue.

Article	Task	Comments
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation	General proofreading	A good example of how a Wikipedia article is organized and written
History of Canadian newspapers	General proofreading
Nortel	General proofreading
Simultaneous substitution	General proofreading

Articles for Intermediate Users[edit]

If you are comfortable with making substantial textual edits, adding images, and working with the reference section of articles, these might be good articles for you to edit. Digital humanities ▆ related articles are in light pink. Communication ▆ related articles are in light blue.

Article	Task	Comments
Digital humanities	Links and new text	Canada's DH centers are missing, and then a link to Univeristy's page would be needed with some text about the center.
Digital history	Could be expanded
Electronic literature	Could be expanded
Social edition	Writing/Research	Needs a lot more information to make the article substantial
Media of Canada	Copyediting & References
Media ownership in Canada	Add a section on media concentration (currently part of the general media concentration article)
Video gaming in Canada	Could be expanded
Bell Canada	Some citations needed, history could be expanded
Rogers Communications	Could be expanded
Corus Entertainment	Could be expanded
History of broadcasting in Canada	Expand article	News section has one sentence, Missing actual timeline and it stops in the 1930s
Competition bureau	Could be expanded	The branches portion of the article can be expanded on, especially compared to the current CRTC article
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation	Links missing	Needs to link to the CRTC and BBG pages. Maybe write something about their connection
Canadian Broadcast Standards Council	Could be expanded, some citations needed
Canadian online media	Could be expanded, some citations needed
Canadian intellectual property law	Could be expanded, some citations needed
FemTechNet	Could be expanded

Articles for Established Users[edit]

If you are comfortable with starting a brand new page or setting up the main elements of an article, these articles might be for you. Digital humanities ▆ related articles are in light pink. Communication ▆ related articles are in light blue.

Article	Task	Possible Source for Info/Comments
First Nations radio stations in Canada	Research and writing
Canadian Communication Association	Start article	http://www.acc-cca.ca/aboutus
Radio in Canada	Start article	Murray, Robert P., ed. The Early Development of Radio in Canada, 1901-1930: An Illustrated History of Canada's Radio Pioneers, Broadcast Receiver Manufacturers, and Their Products. Chandler, AZ: Sonoran Publishing, 2005. Murray, Gil. Nothing on but the Radio: A Look Back at Radio in Canada and how it Changed the World. Toronto, ON: Dundurn Press, 2003.
Telegraphy in Canada	Start article	Babe, Robert E. Telecommunications in Canada: Technology, Industry, and Government. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 1990.
Canadian magazines	Start article	There is no article specifically about magazines in Canada, only a List of Canadian magazines.
Timeline of broadcasting in Canada	Start article
Telephony in Canada	Start article	MacDougall, Robert. The People's Telephone: The Politics of Telephony in the United States and Canada, 1876-1926. Enterprise & Society 6.4 (2005): 581-587.
Digital Humanities in Canada	Start article	There may not be a need, per se, to add a DH page for Canada as the DH page already has a global focus. There would likely have to be substantial amounts of information about a Canadian specific article to warrant this creation. http://www.universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/parsing-the-digital-humanities/ Terras Melissa, Julianne Nyhan, Edward Vanhoutte, eds. Defining digital humanities: a reader. Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2013.
Queer Digital Humanities	Start article
Indigenous Digital Humanities	Start article
Internet in Canada	Expand article
Canadian Television Fund	Expand article	No citations, not organized encyclopaedically.
Fee-for-carriage	Expand Article	Oddly written
Canadian Media Guild	Stub article	No citations
Timeline of the Canadian Broadcast Corporation	Start article	Needs citations and more information
Timeline of Broadcasting in Canada	Start article	Rowland, Wade. Canada Lives Here: The Case for Public Broadcasting. Westmount, QC : Linda Leith Publishing, 2015.
Society for Digital Humanities	Stub article
Telecommunications in Canada	Stub article	Competing with Media of Canada
Canadian Communications Foundation	Stub article	Notability issues, needs citations
Canadian Association of Broadcasters	Stub article	http://www.cab-acr.ca/english/about/default.shtm
Radiocommunication Act	Stub article	Grant, Peter. Communications law and the courts in Canada : an annotated guide to judicial decisions relating to the regulation of communications and copyright in Canada. Toronto, ON: McCarthy Tétrault, 2010.
Advertising Standards Canada	Stub article	http://www.adstandards.com/en/Standards/theCode.aspx
Board of Broadcast Governors	Stub article	Stewart A, Hull WH. Canadian television policy and the board of broadcast governors, 1958-1968. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1994.
Community Radio Fund of Canada	Stub article	http://www.crfc-fcrc.ca/en/about-the-fund
First Nations radio stations in Canada	Stub articles
Community radio stations in Canada	Stub articles
Canadian news websites	Stub articles
Digital newspapers published in Canada	Stub articles
Telecommunications companies of Canada	Stub articles
Canadian television stubs	Stub articles

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Possible Attendees[edit]

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