Connecting Canada Edit-a-thon

Connecting Canada Edit-a-thon
Date	December 8 and 9, 2017
Time	11:30 am – 12:30 pm & 11:30 am – 1:00pm
Location	DB (formerly TEL) 3001, York University, Toronto, Canada
Organised by	Communication & Culture Algorithmic Cultures Working Group

This Wikipedia Edit-a-thon will be held on December 8, 2017, 11:30am to 12:30pm and December 9, 2017, 11:00am to 1:00pm at York University concentrating on topics pertaining to Canada.

The purpose is to inform Canadian scholars on an alternative mode of disseminating research, on the process of collaborative cultural production, and to engage with questions of academic authority.

Through this edit-a-thon, we hope to identify the current gaps in scholarship concerning Canada and enrich these gaps with information provided by current scholars. In addition, we hope participants will reflect on being active agents in their own knowledge production and how this knowledge is distributed to other communities on a global scale. In the context of the conference we want to aid scholars in sharing their expertise with Canadian topics to the broader Wikipedian community.

We invite novice, beginner, intermediate, and expert Wikipedians interested in learning how to edit and circulate their own work. In this workshop, participants will:

Become familiar with the Wikipedia’s encyclopedic structure.
Identify articles that need improvement.
Execute basic editing such as fixing typos and formatting.
Execute more intermediate tasks such as adding citations and references.
Begun or have completed small, but meaningful, edits to a Wikipedia page in need of additions.

Articles Edited during Edit-a-Thon

Details

Date: Friday December 8 and Saturday 9, 2017
Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm, 11:30am – 12:00pm
Location: York University, Toronto, Ontario. DB (formerly TEL) 3001
Hashtags: #ConnectingCanada #wikieditathon
Etherpad: Wiki_ConnectingCanada
Program: [1]
Preparations: Please bring a laptop and register for Wikipedia before time
Presentation: textaural.com/2017connectingcanada/

Agendas

Friday

11:30–11:35: Welcoming
11:35-11:45 Introduction & Editing Tutorial
11:45–12:30: Guided editing

Saturday

11:30–11:35: Welcoming
11:35-11:45 Recap
11:45–1:00: Guided editing

Support Organizations

We would like to thank the conference organizer Anne MacLennan for the opportunity to bring this workshop to a new group of people.

List of possible articles to edit

Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon. They are not necessary to edit, but should give an idea of what can be done. The categories are there just to be helpful, but you are welcome to work on anything you like on or off this list. Please note: This is a crowdsourced list. You can help us by adding to it!

Articles for New Users

These articles are useful for beginners as they are already well-established but might benefit from some easy proofreading or adding in additional information in the infoboxes.

Article	Task	Comments
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation	General proofreading	A good example of how a Wikipedia article is organized and written
History of Canadian newspapers	General proofreading
Nortel	General proofreading
Simultaneous substitution	General proofreading
Transgender rights in Canada	General proofreading
Cinema of Canada	General proofreading
Multiculturalism in Canada	General proofreading
Canadian Nationalism	General proofreading
Expo 67	General proofreading
Canadian identity	General proofreading

Articles for Intermediate Users

If you are comfortable with making substantial textual edits, adding images, and working with the reference section of articles, these might be good articles for you to edit.

Article	Task	Comments
Media of Canada	Copyediting & References
Rural Canada	Needs more content and requires substantial work on citation	Sandwell, R. W. (2016). Canada's rural majority : households, environments, and economies, 1870-1940. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0802086167.
Media ownership in Canada	Is being merged into Media of Canada. Help bring some of that information over.
Video gaming in Canada	Could be expanded
Bell Canada	Some citations needed, history could be expanded
Rogers Communications	Could be expanded
Corus Entertainment	Could be expanded
History of broadcasting in Canada	Expand article	News section has one sentence, Missing actual timeline and it stops in the 1930s
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation	Links missing	Needs to link to the BBG page. Maybe write something about their connection.
Canadian Broadcast Standards Council	Could be expanded, some citations needed
Canadian online media	Could be expanded, some citations needed
Canadian intellectual property law	Could be expanded, some citations needed
Architecture of Canada	Flagged for citation issues

Articles for Established Users

If you are comfortable with starting a brand new page or setting up the main elements of an article, these articles might be for you.

Article	Task	Possible Source for Info/Comments
First Nations radio stations in Canada	Research and writing
Canadian Communication Association	This page is mostly sourced by the CJC, which is associated with the CCA, which can be seen as an issue of bias. Finding non-CJC sources would help.
Radio in Canada	Article is currently just a list of radio stations. Needs new sections, facts, sources.	Murray, Robert P., ed. The Early Development of Radio in Canada, 1901-1930: An Illustrated History of Canada's Radio Pioneers, Broadcast Receiver Manufacturers, and Their Products. Chandler, AZ: Sonoran Publishing, 2005. Murray, Gil. Nothing on but the Radio: A Look Back at Radio in Canada and how it Changed the World. Toronto, ON: Dundurn Press, 2003. Windover, Michael; MacLennan, Anne (2017). Seeing, selling, and situating radio in Canada, 1922-1956. Halifax, Nova Scotia: Dalhousie Architectural Press. ISBN 9780929112701.
Telegraphy in Canada	Start article	Babe, Robert E. Telecommunications in Canada: Technology, Industry, and Government. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 1990.
Energy in Canada	Start article	There is a Energy policy of Canada page and a History of the petroleum industry in Canada but not a general article on energy use in Canada. Sandwell, R. W. (2016). Canada's rural majority : households, environments, and economies, 1870-1940. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0802086167. Sandwell, R. W. (2016). Powering up Canada : a history of power, fuel, and energy from 1600. Montreal Kingston London Chicago: McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 9780773547865.
Canadian magazines	Start article	There is no article specifically about magazines in Canada, only a List of Canadian magazines.
Timeline of broadcasting in Canada	Start article
Telephony in Canada	Start article	MacDougall, Robert. The People's Telephone: The Politics of Telephony in the United States and Canada, 1876-1926. Enterprise & Society 6.4 (2005): 581-587.
Digital Humanities in Canada	Start article	There may not be a need, per se, to add a DH page for Canada as the DH page already has a global focus. There would likely have to be substantial amounts of information about a Canadian specific article to warrant this creation. http://www.universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/parsing-the-digital-humanities/ Terras Melissa, Julianne Nyhan, Edward Vanhoutte, eds. Defining digital humanities: a reader. Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2013.
Internet in Canada	Expand article
Transportation in Canada	Is mostly statistical information. Add a history section or other non-statistical information
Canadian Television Fund	Expand article	No citations, not organized encyclopaedically.
Fee-for-carriage	Expand Article	Oddly written
Canadian Media Guild	Stub article	No citations
Timeline of the Canadian Broadcast Corporation	Start article	Needs citations and more information
Timeline of Broadcasting in Canada	Start article	Rowland, Wade. Canada Lives Here: The Case for Public Broadcasting. Westmount, QC : Linda Leith Publishing, 2015.
Telecommunications in Canada	Stub article	Competing with Media of Canada
Canadian Communications Foundation	Stub article	Notability issues, needs citations
Canadian Association of Broadcasters	Stub article	http://www.cab-acr.ca/english/about/default.shtm
Radiocommunication Act	Stub article	Grant, Peter. Communications law and the courts in Canada : an annotated guide to judicial decisions relating to the regulation of communications and copyright in Canada. Toronto, ON: McCarthy Tétrault, 2010.
Advertising Standards Canada	Stub article	http://www.adstandards.com/en/Standards/theCode.aspx
Board of Broadcast Governors	Stub article	Stewart A, Hull WH. Canadian television policy and the board of broadcast governors, 1958-1968. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1994.
Community Radio Fund of Canada	Stub article	http://www.crfc-fcrc.ca/en/about-the-fund
First Nations radio stations in Canada	Stub articles
Community radio stations in Canada	Stub articles
Canadian news websites	Stub articles
Digital newspapers published in Canada	Stub articles
Telecommunications companies of Canada	Stub articles
Canadian television stubs	Stub articles