Dear Colleagues,

As you may know, National Science Literacy Week is Sept 18-24, 2017. Libraries, museums, schools and community science groups will be celebrating Canadian science and scientists through a number of events. One of the events to start things off will be libraries at BCIT, Douglas College, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Simon Fraser University, University of British Columbia and perhaps others…. will be hosting Wikipedia edit-a-thons starting on September 18th.

A Wikipedia edit-a-thon is an event where new and experienced writers and editors come together to make edits, add citations and create new content in Wikipedia. Wikipedia is everywhere. Google searches bring up Wikipedia articles often as the first result; and Wikipedia is a reference source frequently used by students and the public. Learning about how to edit and add content to Wikipedia provides many relevant learning experiences for students, staff and researchers covering areas as varied as open access, scholarly communication, copyright, construction of information, evaluation and situating information in context, wikis, peer-review, and more. Wikipedia edit-a-thons offer a practical, hands-on experience of writing and collaborating on research. It is also a way to engage faculty in thinking about the potential value of Wikipedia for creating learning activities in their courses.

Last year, BCIT Library, SFU Library & UBC Library partnered on a Wikipedia edit-athon for Science Literacy Week. Our theme was local women and science. Here was our meetup page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Vancouver/LocalWomeninScience#Event_information and a research guide we created to advertise the event: http://guides.library.ubc.ca/scilit16/wiki It was a fun event and we learned a few things.

This year our theme is more broadly Canadian science and scientists. We are also expanding the partnership with Kwantlen Polytechnic University Library, Douglas College Library, BCCampus and possibly others.

For more information and to read how you can participate, please see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/BC/SciLit17. Interested in learning more or holding an edit-a-thon at your campus? BCcampus will also be hosting an informational webinar with some of the organizers on August 28^th. Join us from 10-11 am to learn more about the event and how to participate. We would like to extend a warm invitation to you and your library to join the event!

If no edit-a-thons are happening on your own campus, you’re more than welcome to join us at Woodward Library at UBC on September 18th for the edit-a-thon and I’m sure other institutions would feel the same. It could be a great opportunity to work with a faculty member and explore another campus.

Please do not hesitate to contact me, if you have any questions.

Kind regards,

Katherine

Katherine Miller MLIS
Nursing Librarian | Physical Therapy Librarian (July-Dec 2017) and

Faculty of Land and Food Systems Librarian: Agricultural Economics, Agriculture, Agroecology, Animal Science, Animal Welfare, Human Nutrition, Food Science, Global Resource Systems, Plant Science, Soil Science, Wine Research

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Hi All,

First, as a brief correction, the edit-athon has been a partnership with UBC Library, SFU, and BCIT for two years and mainly has been the brain child of Katherine Miller from Woodward Library - UBC with the help of myself and Will Engle from CTLT. The credit for planning really should fall with Katherine Miller and the other libraries involved. However, we are really thankful for the support from BCcampus this year.

As for the subject material, last year there was a focus on Canadian female scientists at your institution. I believe this year it is more broadly about Canadian scientific activity/invention/ or scientists generally. It is best to keep a broad theme so people will connect with an area of interest.

Best,

Erin

Erin Fields MLIS, BEd, BA
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I’ll see if I can generate interest here at UFV. Any word on:

What specific disciplinary areas are being considered/included as “science”?

Is there a theme?

Thanks.

-Martin

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Hello all,

I’m keen to organize a satellite event at Langara. Like Debra, I’d like to attend another institution’s Edit-athon if we can’t drum up enough interest here. I’ve also asked our new Science librarian, Corrie Playford, if she’d be interested in participating.

All the best,

Lindsay

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Subject: [Bcoelsteering] Join the Wikiedithon for Science Literacy Week Sept.18 -24?

Hi all,

A number of institutions are planning a Wikiedithon this September and Katherine Miller(UBC) Will Engle (UBC) and Lucas Wright (BCcampus)have the planning underway. Here’s a link to last year’s advertising UBC’s event last year - http://guides.library.ubc.ca/scilit16/wiki

The idea would be that those who want to participate , there will be an opportunity to watch a webinar (although not necessarily needed) and they register for a wiki account. BCcampus will be providing pizza for each institution

This is the beginning of the planning and a dashboard has just gone up with some initial information https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/BC/Science_Literacy_Week_BC_Edit-athon_(September_18-24,_2017)

BCIT, KPU and SFU are also participating. Douglas is listed but I have as yet to solicit interest here. I want to participate personally so I will go to another institution’s Wikiedithon if one doesn’t pan out here.

Let us know if you would like to participate, either individually or institutionally. Katherine and Lucas are part of this listserv and I’ve added Will to this email as well in case you have any questions for them.

Debra,

Debra Flewelling

Open Education & Emerging Technologies Librarian

T 604.527.5190 F 604.527.5193

Debra.Flewelling@douglascollege.ca

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