Wikipedia:Meetup/EditingAcademia2019
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| Date | March 8, 2019 |
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| Time | 2:35pm – 6:00pm |
| Location | RCC 232K, 80 Gould St., Ryerson University |
| Organised by | Communication & Culture Algorithmic Cultures Working Group |
Editing Academia: A Wikipedia Workshop[edit]
This edit-a-thon will be held on March 8, 2019, from 2:30–6:00pm at Ryerson University concentrating on topics pertaining to Canadian communication and cultural studies.
The purpose is to inform and engage emerging scholars on an alternative mode of disseminating research, on the process of collaborative cultural production, and to engage with questions of academic authority.
Through this edit-a-thon, we hope to identify the current gaps in communication and cultural scholarship and enrich these gaps with information provided by emerging 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. In the context of the conference we want to aid scholars in sharing their expertise with Canadian topics to the broader Wikipedian community.
Articles Edited during Edit-a-Thon[edit]
Details[edit]
- Date: March 8, 2019
- Time: 2:30–6:00pm
- Location: RCC 232K, 80 Gould St., Ryerson University
- Hashtags: #EditingAcademia #wikieditathon]
- Etherpad: Wiki_EditingAcademia
- Program: [1]
- Preparations: Please bring a laptop and register for Wikipedia before time
- Presentation: textaural.com/2019editingacademia/
Agenda[edit]
Friday, March 8, 2019
- 2:30–2:40pm Welcoming
- 2:40–3:00pm Introduction & Editing Tutorial
- 3:00–4:30pm Guided editing
- 4:30–4:45pm Break
- 4:45–6:00pm Roundtable
Feel free to drop in at any time.
Support Organizations[edit]
We would like to thank the conference organizers of Intersections Cross-sections for the opportunity to bring this workshop to a new group of people.
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. They are not necessary to edit, but should give an idea of what can be done. 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!
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.
- Reflect on their experience of editing during the Roundtable.
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.
| Article | Task | Comments |
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| 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 | |
| Transgender rights in Canada | General proofreading | |
| Cinema of Canada | General proofreading | |
| Multiculturalism in Canada | General proofreading | |
| Canadian Nationalism | General proofreading | |
| Expo 67 | General proofreading | |
| Canadian identity | 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.
| Article | Task | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Media of Canada | Copyediting & References | |
| Rural Canada | Needs more content and requires substantial work on citation | Sandwell, R. W. (2016). Canada's rural majority : households, environments, and economies, 1870-1940. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0802086167. |
| Media ownership in Canada | ||
| Video gaming in Canada | Needs a lot more content and references | |
| 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 |
| Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | Links missing | Needs to link to the BBG page. 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 | |
| Architecture of Canada | Flagged for citation issues |
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.
| Article | Task | Possible Source for Info/Comments |
|---|---|---|
| First Nations radio stations in Canada | Research and writing | |
| Canadian Communication Association | This page is mostly sourced by the CJC, which is associated with the CCA, which can be seen as an issue of bias. Finding non-CJC sources would help. | |
| Radio in Canada | Article is currently just a list of radio stations. Needs new sections, facts, sources. | 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. Windover, Michael; MacLennan, Anne (2017). Seeing, selling, and situating radio in Canada, 1922-1956. Halifax, Nova Scotia: Dalhousie Architectural Press. ISBN 9780929112701. |
| Telegraphy in Canada | Start article | Babe, Robert E. Telecommunications in Canada: Technology, Industry, and Government. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 1990. |
| Energy in Canada | Start article | There is a Energy policy of Canada page and a History of the petroleum industry in Canada but not a general article on energy use in Canada.
Sandwell, R. W. (2016). Canada's rural majority : households, environments, and economies, 1870-1940. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0802086167. Sandwell, R. W. (2016). Powering up Canada : a history of power, fuel, and energy from 1600. Montreal Kingston London Chicago: McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 9780773547865. |
| 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. |
| Internet in Canada | Expand article | |
| Transportation in Canada | Is mostly statistical information. Add a history section or other non-statistical information | |
| 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. |
| 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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