Wikipedia:Meetup/Toronto/Wikipedia Wednesday Recap (June 21, 2017)
| When and Where | |
|---|---|
| Date | Wednesday, June 21, 2017 |
| Time | 5:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tutorial from 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm |
| Address | Art Gallery of Ontario E.P. Taylor Library & Archives 317 Dundas Street West Toronto, Ontario CANADA M5T 1G4 |
Event details
[edit]- Date: Wednesday, June 21, 2017
- Time: 5:30 pm – 9:00 pm (Tutorial from 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm)
- Venue: Art Gallery of Ontario E.P. Taylor Library & Archives, 317 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario CANADA M5T 1G4
- Cost: Free
- Participants: No Wikipedia editing experience necessary; as needed throughout the event, tutoring will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers.
- Please sign in with your username below! If you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia, you might try this training module which will help explain a lot of things, including how to add your signature.
- What to Bring: Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords.
Confirmed attendees
[edit]Sign in below by entering four tildes (~~~~), which will display as your Wikipedia signature and time stamp
- the artchivist (talk) 19:18, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
- Jlozanolorza (talk) 21:22, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
- Dogmatodisco (talk) 21:47, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
- Mikehoolboom (talk) 22:05, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
- Tatyana Shmatlay (talk) 22:17, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
Tools and templates
[edit]The following are some templates and tools that you may want to use to help you create or improve the articles you are working on.
Tools
[edit]- Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
- Writing an article
- About the Sandbox
- Introductory Training Lesson Plan
- Advanced Training Lesson Plan
- Upload Wizard for images, video and sound files - File_Upload_Wizard
- Wikipedia Teahouse
- Dispute Resolution
- Etiquette
- Staying cool when the editing gets hot
- Notability guidelines for creative professionals
Templates
[edit]- Place at the top of a new article to protect it from undue speedy deletion: Template:New_page
- Place next to a name on the list of artists to avoid editing conflicts: Template:inprogress
- Wikipedia Infobox template Template:Infobox person
- Wikipedia artist Infobox template Template:Infobox_artist
- Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons
Research resources
[edit]Articles to work on
[edit]This is a brief list of suggested list of topics to work on. You are welcome to write on other topics too, and please feel free to add to this list. Links in blue are existing articles which can be improved and/or expanded. Links in red are articles that do not yet exist and can be created.
- Draft:Karen Miranda Augustine Lots of content. Citations need to be refined to help demonstrate notability before article can be resubmitted for publication.
- Cecilia Berkovic Created at Wikipedia:Meetup/Toronto/LGBTQ+_Artists_(September_21,_2016). Would benefit from additional citations
- Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan needs additional citations, add infobox
- Evergon needs links from other Wikipedia pages, additional citations, add infobox
- Draft:Johanna Householder needs additional citations, particularly art reviews to establish notability per flag
- Diane Landry expand stub
- Tangled Art + Disability Sources at Canadian Art, Akimbo, major news articles on web. Link to Disability Art, Persimmon Blackbridge, other pages
- Fatimah Tuggar refine citations
- Stacey Tyrell expand stub, add additional citations
- Syrus Marcus Ware needs updating with recent projects, additional links, fix citation in subtitle
Topic lists from past events this season
[edit]- Wikipedia:Meetup/Toronto/LGBTQ+_Artists_(September_21,_2016)
- Wikipedia:Meetup/Toronto/Black_Arts_History_Reading_Group_(January_11,_2017)
- Wikipedia:Meetup/Toronto/ArtAndFeminism