{"id":2689,"date":"2018-09-14T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T17:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/dsc\/?p=2689"},"modified":"2021-03-12T16:35:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T00:35:18","slug":"betterweb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/dsc\/2018\/09\/14\/betterweb\/","title":{"rendered":"Public lecture, \u201cMaking a Better Web,\u201d Free Lunch, & Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon (October 22; 11am)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Photo<\/a>Free, Public Talk, Lunch & Wikipedia Edit-a-thon with Dr. Constance Crompton, University of Ottawa<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Register Now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

To celebrate Open Access Week, Dr. Constance Crompton (University of Ottawa), 2017-18 Honorary Resident Wikipedian at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL<\/a>) and the University of Victoria Libraries<\/a>, will give a free, public talk. \u201cDonating and Developing: Contributing to Wikipedia to Make a Better Web\u201d takes place on Monday October 22nd<\/strong> from 11am-12pm in the Digital Scholarship Commons, Mearns Centre for Learning, McPherson Library. Following the talk, participants are invited to learn how to edit the global, online encyclopedia Wikipedia in order to put their personal knowledge to work online.<\/p>\n

Many still wonder whether Wikipedia is a legitimate source for finding information. Can a free, \u201camateur\u201d encyclopedia be trusted? We think so. Wikipedia attracts 70,000 active contributors who work on 41,000,000 articles in 294 languages. Dr. Crompton speaks on the relationship between Wikipedia and academia and how it can be harnessed by academics to provide a well-researched, free resource to the public.<\/p>\n

This event is free of charge and open to UVic students, staff, faculty, librarians, administrators, and the general public. Edit-a-thon participants are kindly asked to bring a laptop (laptops may be borrowed from Music & Media in the library) and to register via https:\/\/wiki2018.eventbrite.com<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Participants are welcome to bring their own material to contribute to Wikipedia, or else to draw resources from the UVic Libraries. Please let us know if there is a specific subject matter or artifact from Special Collections and University Archives that you would like to work with so that the archivists may have it on hand for you on the day of. We will also have some material from Special Collections on hand should you choose to work with it.<\/p>\n

Abstract<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cDonating and Developing: Contributing to Wikipedia to Make a Better Web\u201d<\/p>\n

Have you ever wished you could sit down with a computer to tell it how the world really works? The Wikimedia Foundation projects give you a way to do it. Whether you fix a typo in Wikipedia, help students and friends publish through Wikibooks, or add a few facts to Wikidata, you are giving computers the power of what you know to be important about history, culture, art, and literature. Tell it like it is — join us for the \u201cDonating and Developing: Contributing to Wikipedia to Make a Better Web\u201d lecture and edit-a-thon.<\/p>\n

Schedule<\/h2>\n