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Event Information

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Who is this for?

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This is a Ryerson-wide event. All members of the Ryerson community are welcome, as are all levels of experience with Wikipedia - from novices to experienced users.

Upcoming Events

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Please check back later!

TMU Libraries provides participants with guidance, resources and reference materials, and a comprehensive lists of the articles needing attention.

Past Events

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Purpose: Why Edit?

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Wikipedia is the largest and most popular general reference work on the internet with over 40 million articles in 301 languages. With about 500 million visits a month, it is important that we work together to fix the critical gaps in Wikipedia’s coverage of knowledge when it comes to marginalized groups. Edit-a-thons are organized events which participate in this larger process. https://whoseknowledge.org/issues/public-online-knowledge/

Our purpose is to contribute and amend meaningful content while closing the gaps and increasing visibility of underrepresented/marginalized communities.

Provide an opportunity for community engagement, promoting diversity and inclusion of both Wikipedia’s content and it’s contributors. The knowledge of marginalized communities is the knowledge of the majority of the world. How can we best support these communities to bring their knowledge onto Wikimedia projects? Learning patterns for centering marginalized knowledge: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Learning_patterns/Centering_Marginalised_Knowledge

Guidance and Resources

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Check out the handy dandy beginners guide to Wiki editing: Ryerson University Library Wikipedia Beginner's Guide.
This guide will take you through creating an account, explaining the concept of notability, in addition to other basics, etiquette and protocols.
There are other useful tutorials and guides listed in Wikipedia Help below.

The Ryerson University Library Collaboratory also offers weekly drop-in hours for Wikipedia editing tutorials on Wednesdays from 3:00 - 4:00pm. Follow this link for more information.

Here is an introduction to the world of Wikipedia editing.

Friendly Space Policy

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This event is following the Wikimedia friendly space policy and attendees are expected to follow this policy. Please read it here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Friendly_space_policies