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Indigenous Storytellers WikiThon
When and Where
DateApril 4, 2017
Time3:00-7:00 PM PT
AddressUBC Buchanan B-126, Vancouver
TimeApril 4th, 6:00-9:00 PM EDT
AddressRoom FB 250, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Montreal
You can also participate remotely from anywhere!



Event information[edit]

  • Date: April 4, 2017
  • Time: 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm (PST) / 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm (EDT)
  • Location:Buchanan B-126, University of British Columbia, Vancouver & Room FB 250, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal. This event takes place on the traditional, unceded, occupied territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) & the Haudenosaunee.
  • Participants: Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University, FMST 620 (Global Indigenous Cinema and Media); First Peoples Studies (Concordia University); First Nations and Indigenous Studies, FNIS 401T (Indigenous Theatre and Film); UBC Department of Film and Theatre FIPR 436B (Documentary Production); general students and the public. No Wikipedia editing experience necessary. Tutoring will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers as needed throughout the event. There are PC workstations at the UBC site, but please bring a laptop with you if you like! At Concordia, we'll all need to bring laptops.
  • Organizing departments: UBC Department of Theatre and Film, First Nations & Indigenous Studies (UBC) & Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema (Concordia)
  • Description:This event is an edit-a-thon to create, revise and add to entries on Wikipedia for Indigenous storytellers, specifically those working in film and theatre and situated in the country known as Canada.
  • Before the event: Please select entries that interest you from the lists below (Articles in draft and/or Articles needing expansion), and do some background research to find good sources/information to include on each page during our edit-a-thon. Doing some research prior to our event will help get things moving, so that we can spend our time during the workshop editing (rather than gathering sources). Remember that entries in Wikipedia must be about notable people/organizations, and must have good sources to verify this. Your entries must be neutral, establish notability, and must not be copy-pasted verbatim from another source.

Participants[edit]

  1. Ezra Winton
  2. Shannon Walsh
  3. Dory Nason
  4. L_c_m_2017
  5. Sasha Lipskaia
  6. Jessica Legault
  7. Julie Brousseau
  8. Lola Remy
  9. Theresa Warbus
  10. Heather James
  11. Marco Fratarcangeli
  12. Melissa Webb
  13. Maggie Cummings
  14. Olivia Santacroce
  15. Melissa M
  16. Victor Arroyo
  17. Ellen Freeman
  18. Zoé Gonzalez
  19. Sarah Teixeira St-Cyr
  20. Mweeks
  21. Samantha Myran
  22. Mathew Andreatta
  23. Kate Bonser
  24. Shannon Robinson
  25. CCardinal
  26. Nikita Weiss Day
  27. Zeesy Powers - I will be joining remotely. Please let me know about draft articles, I can help with the approval process. Also happy to help with adding categories, and other post-event clean-up.
  28. Erin Fields
  29. D Kraichy
  30. Pedro José Frias
  31. Sami Zenderoudi
  32. Masoumeh Hashemi
  33. Travis Wysote
  34. Muhammad ElKhairy

What can I work on?[edit]

The theme for this edit-a-thon is Indigenous Storytellers, specifically in film and theatre, situated in the country known as Canada. There are a number of ways you can contribute to Wikipedia . You can create or enhance Wikipedia articles, add external links, verify and update citations, provide resources to help those writing articles, and assist with research.

Articles in need of creation[edit]

If you don't have time to create a full article make sure you mark it as a stub. You can also help out by categorizing existing stub articles.

Articles to be translated[edit]

  • Alanis Obomsawin (Abenaki filmmaker) - translated into Farsi, Russian and Spanish by FMST 620 students
  • Ivan Sen (Australian Aboriginal filmmaker) - translated into Portuguese by FMST 620 students

Articles in draft as stubs (to be completed)[edit]

Articles needing expansion, updating and/or cleanup, adding categories[edit]

Articles created/improved[edit]

Here is where we keep track of the edits we've made throughout our edit-a-thon. List the Wikipedia page name, and briefly describe your actions. Ex: Never Alone (video game) - added information about recent awards; corrected typos. 

Nyla Innuksuk draft was created and additional sources were added
Joseph Lazare article was created
Michelle St. John article was created
Kelvin Redvers article was created
Kevin Papatie article was created
Roxann Whitebean article was created + photo uploaded from the Cinema Politica Flickr.
Alanis_Obomsawin_(español) was created
Ivan Sen article was improved
Elle-Maija Tailfeathers was improved
Kamal Aljafari was created
Victor Masayesva, Jr. was created
Sonia Boileau was expanded upon (accolades, education, expanded biography, external links, filmography and themes added, categories expanded)
Ivan Sen article was translated into Portuguese:pt:Ivan Sen (and en/pt pages linked)
Amanda Strong was created
Alanis Obomsawin article in Farsi was created
Alanis Obomsawin article was translated into Russian:ru:Аланис Обомсавин  (and en/ru pages linked)
Alanis_Obomsawin was improved
Tracey Deer was improved

Resources for Research[edit]

UBC Resources[edit]

Concordia/Montreal Resources[edit]

Other Research Portals[edit]

Resources for Editing[edit]

Wikipedia articles should be based on reliable, published sources that have a neutral point of view

The Wikipedia Adventure[edit]

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Tutorials on Wikipedia editing[edit]


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