Wikipedia:Meetup/Canada Wide History

Canada Wide Canadian History Edit-A-Thon

When and Where
Date	October 18, 2017
Time	TBA
Address	Across Canada - see listing below for regional hosts.
You can also participate remotely from anywhere!

This event will take place on October 18, 2017 at locations across Canada. A list of local host locations can be found below. This event is focused on improving Wikipedia content related to Canadian history - be that national, regional, or local history. It is free and open to the public. Details on specific supports available at local locations can be found below.

Event information

• Date: October 18, 2017
• Times: See location listings for regional event times.
• Locations :
  • Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, 1:00-4:00pm ET in the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre
  • Canada's National History Society, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 10:00am-8:00pm
  • History 325 (101) class at University of British Columbia, taught by Andrea Eidinger.
  • Historical GIS Lab at the University of Saskatchewan, hosted by the History Graduate Student Committee.
  • W.D. Jordan Rare Books and Special Collections, Queen's University Kingston, 11:00-2:00pm, located in Douglas Library, 2nd floor
  • University of New Brunswick Fredericton Wed Oct 18 1-5pm Tilley 028.
• Description:This event is an edit-a-thon to create, revise and add to entries on Wikipedia relating to Canadian history.
• Before the event: Please select entries that interest you from the lists below (Articles in draft and/or Articles needing expansion), and do some background research to find good sources/information to include on each page during our edit-a-thon. Doing some research prior to our event will help get things moving, so that we can spend our time editing (rather than gathering sources). Remember that entries in Wikipedia must be about notable people/organizations, and must have good sources to verify this. Your entries must be neutral, establish notability, and must not be copy-pasted from another source.

Day of the event

If you haven't already, please sign in to the event dashboard.

To being contributing, click on 'Join program' in the Actions box, on the bottom right hand side of the page. The passcode to join the event is 'CdnHist'. Once you have joined the event, assign yourself a page to improve or create and start editing! Signing into the Dashboard helps up keep track of all the edits made during this event!

Participants

Please add your Wikipedia username to list below if you plan on participating:

1. Krista McCracken
2. Stormkateri92
3. Jessica Knapp
4. Dnllnd
5. Russ Chamberlayne
6. Jillian Sparks
7. Kim Bell
8. Maddy Bifano
9. Emelie Perron-Clow
10. Andrea Eidinger
11. Joseph Fitkowski
12. Noodin Shawanda
13. Erich Otten
14. Rory Cuthbert
15. User:alemichx
16. AmyTriplett
17. ssnape19
18. Muradster

What can I work on?

The theme for this edit-a-thon is Canadian history. 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. Please add articles in need of improvement or creation to the lists below.

Articles in need of improvement

• Admiralty House, Mount Pearl
• Anna Jameson - info box needed, connection to Sault Ste. Marie/heritage plauque
• Anglican Diocese of Algoma - add info about Algoma Missionary Newspaper and Algoma Anglican publications
• Archives of Ontario
• Elizabeth LaPensée [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
• Canada Science and Technology Museum
• Canadian Historical Association
• Canadian Museums Association - needs citations.
• Expand any of the articles listed in Category:Canadian history stubs
• Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
• National Marine Conservation Area - expansion, citations
• Oronhyatekha - expansion, section creation, material culture.
• Project of Heart
• Shingwauk
• Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig - citations and expansion
• Thelma Chalifoux [6] [7]
• Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs [8] [9] [10] - add logo and info box. Expand and citations

Articles in need of creation

Organizations

• Archives Association of Ontario [11][12]
• Ontario Museums Association [13] [14]
• Canadian Women's Movement Archive [15] [16]
• Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives [17] [18] [19]
• Newfoundland and Labrador Historic Trust [20] [21]
• Treaty Relations Commission of Manitoba [22] [23] [24] [25]
• National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31]
• North American Indian Brotherhood [32] [33] [34] [35]
• Graphic History Collective [36] [37] [38] [39] [40]
• Woodland Cultural Centre [41] [42]
• Canadian Penal Press [43] [44]
• Mother Earth Water Walk

People

• Josephine Mandamin [45] [46] [47]
• Jane Constance Cook (Ga'axstal'as) [48] [49]
• Martha Troian [50] [51]
• Susan Blight [52] [53] [54] [55]
• Virgil Burnett [56][57][58][59][60][61][62]
• Arthur Bear Chief [63] [64] [65] [66] [67]
• Doreen Manuel [68] [69]

Events

• 1981 Canada Summer Games [70][71][72][73][74][75]
• Orange Shirt Day [76] [77] [78] [79]
• Chicora Incident [80] [81]

Heritage Sites

• Ermatinger Clergue National Historic Site [82] [83] [84] [85]

Resources for Research

Main articles: Bibliography of Canadian history and Bibliography of Canada

Government of Canada

• Canada Year Book (CYB) annual 1867-1967
• Historical Statistics of Canada
• Events of National Historic Significance
• National Historic Sites of Canada
• Persons of National Historic Significance in Canada
• The Dictionary of Canadian Biography
• The Canadian Museum of History
• Statistics Canada Telling Canada's Story in Numbers project

Other

• Canadian Studies - Guide to the Sources
• History of Canadian immigration by Marianopolis College
• The Historica-Dominion Institute

Resources for Editing

Wikipedia articles should be based on reliable, published sources that have a neutral point of view

Templates

• Place {{New page}} at the top of a new article to protect it from undue speedy deletion - remember to remove it when you are finished. For more info:Template:New_page
• Place {{In use}} at the top of an article if you are editing on your own in order to avoid editing conflicts - remember to remove it when you are finished: Template:In_use
• Placing {{Inprogress}} next to a name on the list of artist suggestions will generate an  In progress note next to the entry to help avoid editing conflicts.
• Template:Infobox person

Helpful Wikipedia tools

• Beginner Training Video Series
• How to write a great article
• The Five Pillars of Wikipedia
• Standards and Principles
• Tutorial
• How to avoid conflict of interest
• Neutral point of view policy
• Dispute resolution
• Wikipedia etiquette
• Staying cool when the editing gets hot
• Wikipedia Teahouse

Tutorials on Wikipedia editing

• Visual Editor User Guide
• Wikipedia cheat sheet (Bookshelf), another markup cheatsheet
• Training for students, a tutorial for beginners
• Tutorial
• How to edit a page
• The Wikipedia Adventure Learn to edit Wikipedia in under an hour. Interactive, "Choose Your Own Adventure" style learning adventure.
• Bookshelf, additional "getting started" resources
• Biographies of Living Persons