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User:Kwinkunks/AGS Wikithon 2014

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There's a proto-wikithon at the AGS Colloquium in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, on 9 February 2014.

Schedule

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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

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  • 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:

Relevant WikiProjects and Portals

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WikiProjects are for editors, Portals are for readers. Here are some regionally focused ones:

And some thematic ones:

Relevant categories

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Articles that may need editing

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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

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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

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Other types of articles from regions around the world:

Handy templates

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Other geoscience wikis

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Help

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Resources and ideas

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Two posts by Tim Sherry (PhD candidate at McGill) about improving Wikipedia as part of a classroom exercise: