| Location |
Initiative |
Description |
Contact
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| University of British Columbia |
Honouring Indigenous Writers edit-a-thon |
In partnership with campus and community, including UBC’s iSchool and First Nations and Indigenous Studies, UBC Library runs an annual Honouring Indigenous Writers Wikipedia edit-a-thon. The organizers of Honouring Indigenous Writers also created an [1] excellent PDF toolkit on how to run your own event. |
Erin Fields
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| Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec |
Various |
The BANQ is a pioneer in university-based Wikipedia work. Their GLAM page hosts information about monthly Wiki Tuesday meetups and collaborative projects for uploading BANQ collections to Wikipedia and transcription work. The [Red Carpets Project] originated with BANQ. The project aims to improve the quality of photos in biographical articles on Wikipedia. |
TBC
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| University of British Columbia |
Pedagogy support |
A Liaison Librarian works with open pedagogy and supports several Wikipedia projects in the classroom each semester through the UBC Centre for Teaching and Learning. |
Erin Fields
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| Concordia University |
Wikipedian in Residence 2019-20 |
Concordia's WiR program is primarily focused on fostering digital literacy and informed engagement with Wikipedia on campus. Concordia's current Wikipedian in Residence is Amber Berson. |
Amber Berson https://osf.io/9kpws/
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| McGill University |
Wikidata, Linked Data, and Archives |
McGill Library has uploaded over 180 archival finding aids to the internet and has expanded discoverability beyond McGill’s systems through the use of the Wikidata site. |
TBD
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| McMaster University |
WikiEdu Visiting Scholar 2015-16 |
McMaster hosted a WikiEdu Visiting Scholar program in 2015-16 with a focus on improving the presence of McMaster’s archive collections on Wikipedia. The VS worked on using archival content as citation on Wikipedia and developed an archive citation template. Her work also included making improvements to Wikipedia using McMaster's archive collection. She focused on women’s biographies that could be expanded to include more than just who they were married to, including improving the pages for Lady Constance Malleson and Louise Bennett-Coverley. |
Danielle Robichaud
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| Independent |
Editing as an act of reconciliation |
Danielle Robichaud is a digital archivist at University of Waterloo. She has written and presented on many aspects of her Wikipedia work, including using archives as citations in Wikipedia and editing Wikipedia as an act of reconciliation. During her time as Visiting Scholar at McMaster University, Danielle began work on the Canadian Indian residential school system page. The article was featured on the front page of Wikipedia on December 26, 2017. The talk page for the article is an excellent example of the impact of editing Wikipedia. |
Danielle Robichaud
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| Independent |
Editing as an act of reconciliation |
Krista McKracken is an archivist at Algoma University. She worked with Danielle Robichaud to publish “Editing Wikipedia as an act of reconciliation” and does significant public outreach through her work on hacking Canadian history. |
Krista McKracken
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| Independent |
Queer Quebec history |
Michael is a liaison librarian at McGill focusing his editing work on queer history in francophone Wikipedia. He has helped to organize dozens of WikiLGBTQ+ community Contribution Events, which have resulted in the creation of 10 new articles and addition of ‘LGBT au Quebec’ category to 20 existing articles. Examples of added articles include: Quebec drag queens, historic places and timeline of the LGBTQ+ community in Montreal, and Quebec writers. The Contribution Events are not only about adding content but also about categorizing it so it can be brought together coherently on Wikipedia. |
Michael David Miller
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| University of Toronto |
Wikipedian in Residence |
The Wikipedian in Residence program ran at U of T in 2019. The residency work included:
- developing a Creative Commons Licensed slide deck “Crash course in Wikipedia”
- creating an FAQ about Wikipedia on the Library website
- focus on increasing discoverability of UofT’s Discovery of Insulin collection including creating an article from scratch about Connaught Laboratories and adding references to the collection across Wikipedia including the History of diabetes page
- helping facilitate edit-a-thons for Women in STEM, Indigenous language speakers, and the history of Toronto.
- creating documentation for the next Wikipedian, set up Wikipedia GLAM/U of T Libraries page.
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Alex Jung
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| Western University |
Wikipedia Tuesdays |
A group of librarians have run a Wikipedia Tuesdays series since 2019 that is open to campus, local community, editors of all levels. Each month they meet for short Wikimedia-related presentations, casual peer-to-peer learning, discussions of current or potential projects, and collaborative project work. Currently, they are tackling collaborative project work to add local Indigenous place names to relevant geography-based articles and add the London Historic Maps Collection to Wikimedia Commons. Participants can add ideas and resources to their GLAM page. |
Benoit Rochon
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| Wikipetia Atikamekw Nehiromowin |
Indigenous language Wikipedia |
The Wikipetia Atikamekw Nehiromowin is a joint initiative of members of the Atikamekw community, Wikimedia Canada, and academic researchers (Institut national de la recherche scientifique and Université du Québec en Outaouais). Atikamekw Nehiromowin means 'native language of Atikamekw'. Through the project, partners developed a Wikipedia in the Atikamekw language, and uploading documents such as archive pictures and maps about the Atikamekw culture and history on Wikimedia Commons. Participants shared the project at WikiMania in 2017 and are developing a toolkit to support reproduction and scaling for similar projects with other Indigenous communities. |
TBD
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| York University |
WikiData |
Stacy Allison-Cassin is an associate librarian at York University focused primarily on WikiData. She has published extensively. In 2017, Stacy organized a year-long campaign for Canada150 to organize music librarians across Canada to add content on Canadian music to Wikipedia and Wikidata (and published an article about the project). |
Stacy Allison-Cassin
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