Wikipedia:Meetup/CCA-CSDH Congress2017
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| Date | June 1, 2017 |
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| Time | 8:30 am - 12:00 pm |
| Location | POD-469 Arts Collaboratory, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada |
| Organised by | Communication & Culture Algorithmic Cultures Working Group |
Canada+ Communication
[edit]This Wikipedia Edit-a-thon is a joint effort with Canadian Communication Association / Association canadienne de communication and Canadian Society for Digital Humanities / Sociéte Canadienne des Humanités Numériques. It will be held on June 1, 2017, 8:30am to 12:00pm at Ryerson University concentrating on communication and digital humanities topics in Canada.
The purpose of this workshop is to encourage academic collaborative editing and to address the under-representation of Canadian communication and digital humanities topics on Wikipedia. Crucially, this area of knowledge has been poorly covered. For instance, a number of articles exist as starter pages: First Nations radio stations in Canada, the Advertising Standards Canada, and Digital divide in Canada. Even more worrisome is the absence of whole Canadian communication topics such as Radio in Canada, Telephony in Canada, and Digital Media in Canada. This short list is but a small handful of the numerous articles that could be addressed by workshop attendees.
Through this edit-a-thon, we hope to identify the current gaps in Canadian communication studies and digital humanities topics 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.
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
[edit]- Canadian Communication Association
- Advertising Standards Canada
- Board of Broadcast Governors
- Broadcasting Act
- Canadian Journal of Communication
- Canadian Society for Digital Humanities
- CKNN-FM
- Digital humanities
- Media ownership in Canada
- Simultaneous substitution
Details
[edit]- Date: June 1, 2017
- Time: 8:30 am - 12:00 pm
- Location: Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario. POD-469 Arts Collaboratory
- Hashtags: #CCA #CSDH #congreSSH #wikieditathon
- Food & Drink: Coffee and light snacks
- Etherpad: Wiki_CCA_CSDH
- Programs: CCA CSDH
- What to bring: Laptop
- Presentation: textaural.com/cplusc/
Agenda
[edit]- 8:30–9:15: Welcoming
- 9:15-9:35: Introduction & Editing Tutorial
- 11:50–12:00: Thanks
Support Organizations
[edit]We would like to thank all the organizations that have helped put this workshop together.
- Canadian Communication Association / Association canadienne de communication
- Canadian Society for Digital Humanities / Sociéte Canadienne des Humanités Numériques
- York & Ryerson Joint Graduate Program in Communication
- Comcult GSA
List of possible articles to edit
[edit]Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon. 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
[edit]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. Digital humanities ▆ related articles are in light pink. Communication ▆ related articles are in light blue.
| 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 |
Articles for Intermediate Users
[edit]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. Digital humanities ▆ related articles are in light pink. Communication ▆ related articles are in light blue.
| Article | Task | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Digital humanities | Links and new text | Canada's DH centers are missing, and then a link to Univeristy's page would be needed with some text about the center. |
| Digital history | Could be expanded | |
| Electronic literature | Could be expanded | |
| Social edition | Writing/Research | Needs a lot more information to make the article substantial |
| Media of Canada | Copyediting & References | |
| Media ownership in Canada | Add a section on media concentration (currently part of the general media concentration article) | |
| 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 |
| Competition bureau | Could be expanded | The branches portion of the article can be expanded on, especially compared to the current CRTC article |
| Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | Links missing | Needs to link to the CRTC and BBG pages. 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 | |
| FemTechNet | Could be expanded |
Articles for Established Users
[edit]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. Digital humanities ▆ related articles are in light pink. Communication ▆ related articles are in light blue.
| Article | Task | Possible Source for Info/Comments |
|---|---|---|
| First Nations radio stations in Canada | Research and writing | |
| Canadian Communication Association | Start article | http://www.acc-cca.ca/aboutus |
| Radio in Canada | Start article | 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. |
| Telegraphy in Canada | Start article | Babe, Robert E. Telecommunications in Canada: Technology, Industry, and Government. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 1990. |
| 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. |
| Queer Digital Humanities | Start article | |
| Indigenous Digital Humanities | Start article | |
| Internet in Canada | Expand article | |
| 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. |
| Society for Digital Humanities | Stub article | |
| 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 |
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