User:Kwinkunks/AGS Wikithon 2014
- Ben Bougher: Walton, Nova Scotia — Barite segment
- Evan Bianco and Fraser Keppie: Maritimes Basin
- Grant Wach and Matt Hall: Atlantic Geoscience Society
- Matt Hall: Bloody Creek crater, Atlantic Geology
- Elisabeth Kosters: Blue Beach
- Dewey Dunnington: Tantramar Marshes
There's a proto-wikithon at the AGS Colloquium in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, on 9 February 2014.
Schedule[edit]
This is completely flexible, and some of these things will run in parallel:
- What's a wiki? Why do we care? Are we just talking about Wikipedia?
- Creating a user account and your user page.
- How do you edit wikis? A 15 minute tutorial.
- A bit about copyright and licensing.
- Finding things to do.
- Actually doing it!
- Brainstorm some ways to improve geoscience articles related to Atlantic Canada.
Common editing tasks[edit]
- General gardening: typos, language, adding links, adding categories, adding relevant external links, etc.
- Refining or adding references to increase credibility.
- Adding photographs, which requires them to be openly licensed or public domain.
- Improve figures and diagrams, especially by creating SVG versions.
- Improving stubs.
- Substantial editing, or adding substantial new material.
Some editing activities tend to attract attention (not necessarily bad) and are perhaps not for noobs:
- Adding new articles. (See this handy template)
- Merging or splitting articles is hard work.
Relevant WikiProjects and Portals[edit]
WikiProjects are for editors, Portals are for readers. Here are some regionally focused ones:
- The list of all Canadian projects and portals: WikiProject Canada/List of Canadian WikiProjects
- WikiProject Geography of Canada — Geography of Canada
- WikiProject New Brunswick — Portal:New Brunswick
- WikiProject Nova Scotia — Portal:Nova Scotia
And some thematic ones:
Relevant categories[edit]
- Category:Geology of Canada
- Category:Geology of Canada by province or territory, e.g. Category:Geology of Nova Scotia, Category:Geology of New Brunswick
- Category:Geology
- Category:Landforms of Canada by province or territory, e.g. Category:Landforms of Nova Scotia, Category:Landforms of New Brunswick
- Category:Paleontology in Canada
- Category:Canadian geologists
Articles that may need editing[edit]
Start somewhere like Category:Geology of Canada by province or territory and follow links; look for stubs and red links.
More:
Articles that could be expanded or created[edit]
A good place to start: Category:Canadian geology stubs
Several Canadian geoscience organizations are missing from the list, List of geoscience organizations.
Examples of existing articles[edit]
Other types of articles from regions around the world:
- Siccar Point
- Geology of Great Britain
- Paleontology in Maine
- Frank Slide
- Book Cliffs, Devil's Slide (Utah)
Handy templates[edit]
- {{Ma}} — for geological ages
- {{Coord}} — for locations
- {{DOI}} — for digital object identifiers
- {{NovaScotia-geo-stub}} or {{geology-stub}}
Other geoscience wikis[edit]
- SubSurfWiki — mainly around subsurface geoscience
- SEG Wiki — petroleum geophysics
- Coming soon: AAPG Wiki — petroleum geology
Help[edit]
- Tutorial/Editing — nice tutorial
- Cheatsheet — handy editing cheatsheet
- Editing — general help
Resources and ideas[edit]
Two posts by Tim Sherry (PhD candidate at McGill) about improving Wikipedia as part of a classroom exercise: