11:42 a.m.
For the past several years UBC Library, the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program,
and event sponsors (see below) have organized the Honouring Indigenous Writers Wikipedia
Edit-a-thon<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/HonouringIndi…rs>.
This edit-a-thon event, inspired by Daniel Heath
Justice’s<https://fnis.arts.ubc.ca/persons/daniel-justice/> Twitter campaign of the
same name, seeks to bring community editors together to work on editing Wikipedia entries
for Indigenous authors in an attempt to tackle the systemic bias of Wikipedia while also
trying to raise the profile of Indigenous writers.
Instead of the annual in-person event this year the organizing team has put together a
schedule of free events and Wikipedia-related activities designed for virtual
participation throughout the month of March 2021. The events include:
* Author readings <https://hiw.open.ubc.ca/events> by Smokii Sumac, Richard Van
Camp, Tenille Campbell, Marilyn Dumont and more
* Self-paced Weekly Wikipedia Challenges <https://hiw.open.ubc.ca/activities>
with prize draws
* Wikipedia training and drop-in Zoom sessions<https://hiw.open.ubc.ca/events>
* <https://hiw.open.ubc.ca/events> A panel
discussion<https://hiw.open.ubc.ca/events> from the UBC Vancouver Public Humanities
Hub on Wikipedia as public scholarship
* And a social media campaign on Twitter<https://twitter.com/HIW_Wiki>
These events and activities are free and open to anyone to participate. Please join us at
our kickoff event and reading with Smokii Sumac on February 24th at 7:00pm PST, and learn
more about the other events we have planned! You can also read more at the HIW home
page<https://hiw.open.ubc.ca/>, and at the HIW Wikipedia Meetup
Page<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/HonouringIndigenousW…21>.
We would also appreciate your support of the event by helping to promote it through your
listservs, social media accounts, and other spaces to help raise awareness of Indigenous
literature and engage in open community knowledge creation.
The event team has developed a number of social media assets in a variety of sizes for
ease of sharing. The assets can be downloaded here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JjUP3kuTsogRBLXv4HF7c281MXLu0x_y?us…
Please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions and thank you in advance for
any support you can give in making this event a success. Thank you to event sponsors, the
Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies<https://cis.arts.ubc.ca/>, Iron Dog
Books<https://irondogbooks.com/>m/>, BCcampus<https://bccampus.ca/>, and the UBC
Bookstore<https://bookstore.ubc.ca/>.
Best,
Erin Fields on behalf of the Honouring Indigenous Writers Event Team
#HonouringIndigenousWriters
Erin M.E. Fields BA, BEd, MLIS (She, Her,
Hers<https://equity.ubc.ca/resources/gender-diversity/pronouns/>)
Open Education and Scholarly Communications Librarian
UBC Library | Scholarly Communications and Copyright Office
The University of British Columbia | Walter C. Koerner Library | Musqueam Traditional
Territory
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