Wikipedia:McGill Poetry Matters: Editing on Wikipedia: January 2021

Please join Poetry Matters this coming Wednesday, January 13, 6:30-7:45pm (ET), for a virtual seminar on editing Wikipedia entries, with a spotlight on entries for modern poets Mina Loy and E.E. Cummings.

The session offers a brief introduction to editing on Wikipedia, intended to demystify the process and prepare people to engage in editing themselves. The tour will be facilitated by Nathan Drezner, whose Fall 2020 paper on Wikipedia editorial communities is available here. Poetry Matters will contextualize with current work on representing the careers and lives of modern poets such as Cummings and Loy.

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Articles of focus[edit]

Event Details[edit]

WHO: Poetry Matters, with Nathan Drezner

WHAT: introductory session on editing Wikipedia entries

WHEN: January 13, 2021, 6:30-7:45pm (ET)

WHERE: link to be sent to registrants

OTHER: Session will focus on Wikipedia entries for modern poets Mina Loy and E.E. Cummings

How-To's[edit]

Resources[edit]

Art+Feminism schedule/information: [1]
Data Feminism book/information: [2]
Do Wikipedia Editors Specialize: [3]
It's a Man's Wikipedia: [4]
The Evolution of Wikipedia's Norm Network: [5]
The Rise and Decline: [6]
The Wikipedia gender gap: [7]
Invisible Women: [8]
"Howard University Fills in Wikipedia’s Gaps in Black History": [9]

Wikipedia specific resources[edit]

List of edit-a-thons, which often provide excellent resources and recommendations for articles to contribute to: Category:Wikipedia_edit-a-thons
Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith
Wikipedia:Why_create_an_account?
Help:Editing
Wikipedia:User pages
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red
Wikipedia:Wikipedians
Should Stanley Kubrick have an infobox? More info: Talk:Stanley_Kubrick/Archive_9#Lack_of_infobox
Steven_Pruitt (and his user page: User:Ser_Amantio_di_Nicolao)

Userboxes[edit]

All userboxes (use the search bar to find some for specific topics): Wikipedia:Userboxes/Galleries
Some specifically related to "books": Wikipedia:Userboxes/Media/Books

Lighthearted resources[edit]

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SiliconRed (talk) 22:47, 5 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]