Erna709

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Your editathon on 24 October

Hi there, Erna709. I've just seen you have arranged an editathon on Newfoundland and Labrador tomorrow. Hope it goes well. Perhaps you can encourage your participants to create or improve articles about women too, perhaps even starting one on Maria Lindsey Cobham (see here). As we're very much concerned with women's suffrage this year, you might also be inspired by this article which covers Armine Gosling and provides background on a number of women's organizations. I'm sure your library must also have interesting supporting information. If you need any assistance with new articles or anything else, please let me know. You and your participants may also be interested in Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red where we are trying to compensate for Wikipedia's gender bias. Good luck tomorrow and happy editing!--Ipigott (talk) 11:30, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

P.S. I've moved Kittiwake Dance Theatre to mainspace where it deserves to be. Well done! I look forward to more new articles now you are concentrating on Wikipedia.--Ipigott (talk) 12:09, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

Ipigott: Thank you so much for your kind words and helpful suggestions! The editathon tomorrow will focus on the arts, but I am planning to do one in the future about local women's history, with an emphasis on suffrage. I wrote the suffrage article you linked to in your above comment and I recently published a children's book about the women who spearheaded the Newfoundland suffrage movement, so it's a topic I'm looking forward to sharing with students and the general public. I wonder if I could coordinate with the Women in Red campaign on this? The Newfoundland suffrage movement has a very small presence on Wikipedia (not even a page of its own), so there is a lot of work to be done! Thanks again for your help and encouragement! Erna709 (talk) 13:45, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

If you become a member of Women in Red, I'm sure several of our participants would be happy to help you. I had not realized you were the one who wrote the article on suffrage. Great basis for Wikipedia articles. Let me know how things go tomorrow.--Ipigott (talk) 14:56, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

Ipigott: The event went well last night. Several people created new accounts and began to make small edits. We also had a couple of experienced Wikipedians join us. One of the problems we encountered was technical and I wonder if you could offer any advice... We held the event in a public library, which very generously let us use their computers and laptops. However, because all of the library's computers had the same IP address, only six of the participants could create new accounts before Wikipedia forbade any other new accounts from being created on the library's computers. Do you know if there is a way I can get short-term permission from Wikipedia to allow multiple new accounts to be created on the same IP address? It would just be for the few hours that an editathon would take place. Thanks again for reaching out to me and for your encouragement. Erna709 (talk) 13:07, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

I'm glad to hear your editathon went off well. Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help your participants with further editing. As for the IP problem, I know that in connection with many editathons, potential participants are encouraged to register on their own laptops before they attend the meeting. I think Rosiestep or Victuallers may be able to offer you additional advice. When are you planning your next editathon?--Ipigott (talk) 13:56, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

Hello, Erna709. I'm happy to meet you and to learn about your recent editathon. Is there a link to a wiki meetup page? Also, I was wondering if you have contact with the folks at Wikimedia Canada? --Rosiestep (talk) 15:34, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

Hello Rosiestep and Ipigott. Thanks to both of your for the excellent advice! I will look into all of this for future editathons. No date is set for the next one, but I am in preliminary talks with some folks at the local university to do an editathon about the women's suffrage movement in Newfoundland from the 1890s-1920s (Newfoundland didn't join Canada until 1949 and there is very little content on Wikipedia about Newfoundland's suffrage movement). We had asked participants to please bring their own laptops to last week's editathon, but of course do not want to exclude people who can't bring laptops either. Asking participants to create an account before attending might be the prefect workaround - thanks for the tip Ipigott. I've also heard from some libraries and archives who are curious about how to upload some of their images and other media to the Wikimedia Commons. That is another event I would like to plan down the road. My background is as a researcher and writer who specializes in Newfoundland and Labrador history, so I have a good grasp of topics we can contribute to Wikipedia and of quality reference materials we can use to create articles, but I am new to holding editathons - so all of your help is greatly appreciated! Erna709 (talk) 15:20, 26 October 2019 (UTC)

I think that it's great you are working in this area -women's suffrage movement in Newfoundland from the 1890s-1920s- as it seems to be poorly covered on Wikipedia. As I mentioned earlier, there is a caring and professional Affiliate organization in Canada who can lend local support. The president is Benoit Rochon, and JP Béland (WMCA) helps with establishing area "WikiClubs". I can provide email contact information if you wish. --Rosiestep (talk) 17:55, 26 October 2019 (UTC)

Thank you Rosiestep! I will keep this in mind when I plan the next editathon. Erna709 (talk) 20:38, 26 October 2019 (UTC)

New articles

Erna709 I greatly enjoyed the seminar last night.

I only quite recently realized that editors were supposed (encouraged?) to submit new articles for a review. I have always just posted new articles. The first article I created appears to have been one on the writer Gerald Hanley and here I followed the model of the article on his brother, James Hanley, created by a friend. The latter was the first article that I edited. I suggest is that I could, either formally (within the system), or informally (better?), review new articles for you, following which you could post it This would probably speed up matters for you. My articles, when reviewed after they were posted, were accepted with minor emendation at most. However, User:Sadads, who I had worked with on various novel related articles, generously commented very thoroughly on the Talk page of the article, Porius: A Romance of the Dark Ages.

Despite your advice, and my years of editing Wikipedia, I added material, last night, on the nineteenth century fires to the St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador article, without citations and was promptly reverted. Hope you have fun in your new job! Rwood128 (talk) 12:03, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

Rwood128: I was happy to see you at the event last night and I'm glad you enjoyed it! I think it went well. Thanks for your offer to help with future efforts. The next time I create an article or host another editathon, I can let you know in advance so you can review articles if you are available. I am looking forward to our paths crossing again in the future! Erna709 (talk) 12:55, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

J are you aware of this list, List of Wikipedians in residence? I would have added your residency to this but personal names are used. R

Rwood128: Thanks for letting me know about this ... I will look into creating a page for this residency. I have been pleased with the interest in this project over such a short period of time and am already scrambling to fit in all the requests and questions I've been getting from the public. A happy problem! Erna709 (talk) 12:40, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

I've just been working on the Canadian literature article, which is in a sorry state. Are NL within Canadian articles included in your mandate? NL is ahead of most Canadian Provinces and Territories with regard to discussing its literature, but there are some obvious gaps which I'll try and fix. Rwood128 (talk) 15:11, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

Rwood128: NL literature is on my list! I am in the preliminary stages of planning an edit-a-thon about it for late January. I will keep you posted. The next edit-a-thon will be in late November (we are now figuring out the date and time - likely Sunday November 24) and it will be about women's suffrage in Newfoundland. There is hardly any mention of the Newfoundland suffrage movement on Wikipedia. I'll let you know when we have a date for that, too. Erna709 (talk) 15:25, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

That's great Erna709. Rwood128 (talk) 16:21, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

Rwood128: The date has been set for the suffrage editathon: November 24 from 2-5 in the Centre for Newfoundland Studies. News will begin to circulate on social media soon. If you want me to add you to my email list, send me a message at jhiggins AT mun.ca. Erna709 (talk) 17:57, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

Basil Gotto

Morning, I've noticed you've created red links for Basil Gotto. Do you have an intention of creating an article for him in the near future? --Labattblueboy (talk) 09:55, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

Labattblueboy: Hello. Be my guest if you would like to create an article. I am also interested, but probably won't get to it in the near future. I uploaded a photo of one of his caribou statues to the Wikimedia Commons yesterday and was surprised to learn that he does not have an article on Wikipedia, so I figured it would be a good idea to flag him in the three articles where I did see his name. Are you planning to create an article about him? There's a neat photo of him in The Veteran Magazine from 1921 - I can give you the link if you are interested. Erna709 (talk) 16:10, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

I follow the articles where the red links were inserted and was simply curious if you were taking action. I don't personally intend to create an article for him but I'm sure one would be welcomed. If the image is in the public domain (that is to say copyright expired - will be if taken in 1921) you could upload it to the commons, There is already a category for him established there and I note his wikidata profile does not currently contain an image of him.--Labattblueboy (talk) 01:09, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for the excellent suggestion, Labattblueboy. I just uploaded the photo to the Wikimedia Commons here.. Best, Erna709 (talk) 13:05, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

Request for article creation

I am not sure if here is the right place to do so, but I would like to request that this project write an article regarding the public inquiry (Inquiry into Treatment of Innu Children in Care) that the Newfoundland and Labrador government is planning to call on Innu children in foster care. https://www.releases.gov.nl.ca/releases/2017/exec/0731n13.aspx
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/ottawa-joins-innu-children-inquiry-1.4631576
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/tsakapesh-inquiry-delayed-1.4330358
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/innu-nation-calling-for-inquiry-1.5597959
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/innu-inquiry-children-care-update-1.5363896
https://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/uprooted/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/ottawa-out-innu-foster-care-inquiry-1.4401558
--User19004 (talk) 19:52, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

User19004: Hello and thank you for getting in touch with this request. It's encouraging to see such early interest in the project! I have sent your message to the organizers of the All Hands Wiki Edit-A-Thon for NL. They are in the process of setting up a dedicated email address for this project - an official place where people can submit their suggestions and questions. Once I know that address, I will post it in this thread for you. I also want to thank you for including links to research materials which writers can consult and cite. Best, Erna709 (talk) 14:27, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

Here is the email address for the All Hands Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon: allhandsinfo@mun.ca Erna709 (talk) 14:08, 2 July 2020 (UTC)