Welcome to the Wiki Tuesday Meetup at GIS Day 2019! This is a drop-in event for Wiki editors of all skill levels.
Event Information
editWiki Tuesday Western is joining in to celebrate Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Day at Western Libraries!
When: November 13, 2019
Location: The The Map & Data Centre (Ground level of the D. B. Weldon Library)
For more information, see Western Libraries GIS Day schedule.
Place names project
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Working in partnership with Cortney Dakin (Sâkihitowin Awâsis), a Phd student in Geography, we are preparing to add Wikidata for Indigenous language place names and the English translations to the info boxes in Wikipedia articles about local waterways.
To contribute to this project at GIS Day 2019:
- Help gather coordinate data and other information for the project in this spreadsheet, which includes a READ ME tab with instructions.
London Historic Maps Collection
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This project focuses on adding the London Historic Maps Collection and its corresponding metadata to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.
The collection has its own gallery on Wikimedia Commons that links to the collection on Scholarship@Western. All maps will also be listed in the Wikimedia Commons category, Maps of London, Ontario.
Some useful links:
- Wikidata properties for maps
- Wikidata map types
- London Historic Maps - metadata file
- Examples of uploaded maps in the London Historic Maps Collection gallery
