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2017 BC Science Literacy Week Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
Locations
DateSeptember 18-21, 2017
BCITBCIT Library
DouglasDouglas College Library
KPUCoast Capital Savings Library
SFUSFU Burnaby, Bennett Library
UBCWoodward Library branch at UBC Library

September 18-25, 2017 is National Science Literacy Week. Libraries and other organizations will be highlighting Canadian Science and Scientists with a variety of events. In BC, in partnership between academic libraries and BCcampus, librarians and other educators are partnering on a Wikipedia Edit-athon. On Monday Sept 18th - you can learn how to edit and join other editors at any of the following libraries: BCIT Library, Douglas College Library, Kwantlen Polytechnic University Library, SFU Library, Woodward Library at UBC and more!

Join the conversation by Twitter #scilit17 and #bc


Event information

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  • Date: Monday, September 18, 2017 (and continuing through week of Sept 18-25)
  • Time: (different at each campus)
  • Locations: TBD
  • Participants: Anyone is welcome to attend one of the edit-a-thons! No Wikipedia editing experience necessary. Tutoring will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers as needed throughout the event.
  • Twitter hashtags: #Scilit17 #bc

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!)

How to Participate

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Planning on attending an event? Here's some steps you may want to take beforehand:

  1. Don't have a Wikipedia Account? Create one!
  2. Register for the event via the dashboard.
    1. If you get prompted for an enrollment code it is: iugqfnhx
  3. Join us on September 18th!

Important: Do not worry if you’ve never edited a Wikipedia entry before! There will be training and support, and a range of different kinds of edits available for you to work on (ranging from very simple to more complex in the list below):

  • Minor edits - typo corrections, formatting and presentational changes, rearranging of text without modifying content, etc.
  • Major edits – adding/deleting page content, new sections, etc.
  • Add references – inline citations and footnotes
  • Add images, sounds, videos (this is a great opportunity for those of you with great photo libraries)
  • Add an infobox to a page
  • Create a new page from scratch

Edit-a-thons improve the encyclopedia and can be a great way to help new “Wikipedians” learn to edit and give them insight in to how Wikipedia works.

What can I work on?

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The theme for this Edit-a-Thon is Canadian Science and Scientists, and more specifically, science and scientists from British Columbia. 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 needing expansion, updating and/or cleanup, adding categories

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Please add your suggestions here!

Articles needing photos

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Articles needing creation

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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)
  • 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)
  • Mark T. Maclean (UBC Professor: Math)
  • Kent Mullinix (KPU: Director, Institute for Sustainable Food Systems (ISFS))
  • Deborah Henderson (KPU: Director, Institute for Sustainable Food Systems (ISFS))

Science Stubs

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