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International Francophone Contribution Month
The International Francophone Contribution Month will be held from March 1st to 31st. It is an international campaign comprising a series of workshops hosted throughout the worldwide francophonie with the goal to improve the Wikimedia projects in French.
This year, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, several of those workshops will be hosted online. Already two workshops are planned in Canada in collaboration with Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ):
If you wish to organize workshops, mention your interest on the talk page of the International Francophone Contribution Month 2021.
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Art+Feminism is an annual international campaign aiming at adding and improving content on Wikipedia about female artists. Each year, several workshops are hosted in Canada as part of this campaign.
This year, YWCA Canada is organizing for the first time a workshop as part of its project called “YWCA 150: Look Back, Push Forward”. This workshop aims at improving and creating Wikipedia articles about women and gender diverse folks as well as organizations and events that have been changemakers in Canadian history pertaining to the progression of women’s rights and gender equity. The workshop is running from 13 February to 8 March 2021. This project is funded by the Government of Canada. To participate >
A series of three online events as part of Art+Feminism is also organized in Edmonton with a focus on queer art history on Wikipedia:
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Honouring Indigenous Writers on Wikipedia
The University of British Columbia is hosting for the third year a community event aiming at contributing to Wikipedia in order to improve the articles about Indigenous authors, called “Honouring Indigenous Writers on Wikipedia”, in an effort to tackle the systemic bias on Wikipedia while also working to raise the profile of Indigenous writers.
The kick-off event will be on 24 February with a reading by Smokii Sumac followed by a conversation with Daniel Heath Justice. To participate >
Throughout the event, participants are invited to contribute to Wikipedia at their own pace. There are challenges and prize draws. To participate >
On 4 March, a training session on how to contribute to Wikipedia will be hosted. To participate >
A series of three sessions on Zoom are hosted to allow participants to meet and ask questions: 10 March, 17 March, and 23 March. Furthermore, on 12 March, a panel discussion is hosted. To participate >
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Quebec literature, Wikimedia, and discoverability
On Wednesday 24 February, Lëa-Kim Châteauneuf, President of Wikimedia Canada and professional librarian at the Direction des bibliothèques de Montréal, will give a talk in French on “Quebec literature, Wikimedia, and discoverability” live on the Facebook page of Rhizome moderated by Simon Dumas, chief executive of Rhizome, and Mériol Lehmann, artist and consultant.
This event is part of the series “de la virtualité - chantiers sur la littérature (québécoise) numérique” of the Practice Community on the Place and Posture of Quebec Literature Online which Rhizome is the instigator.
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#1Lib1Ref
The campaign #1Lib1Ref was hosted from 15 January to 5 February. It was the fourth year that this annual international campaign was organized, and it was the second edition of the friendly competition in Canada. Indeed, as part of the international #1Lib1Ref campaign aiming at adding references to Wikipedia, Wikimedia Canada organizes a friendly competition between the Canadian institutions such as libraries, archives, galleries, museums, and universities.
This year, the competition was divided by provinces and territories. Participants from four provinces took part in the competition (in order of the number of references added): Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, and Manitoba.
In sum, 77 people participated in the campaign in Canada. Together, they added more than 1,530 references to Wikipedia in English and French. A total of 420 articles were edited, and 21 new articles were created by the participants during the campaign.
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100 years of meteorological data in free access
Wikimedia Canada is conducting a project called “Weather Data of Environment and Climate Change Canada on Wikimedia Commons” funded by Environment and Climate Change Canada aiming at importing on Wikimedia Commons a century of weather data collected from the 8,756 weather stations of the Meteorological Service of Canada throughout the country.
The goals of the project include to reuse and valorize our meteorological heritage on the Wikimedia projects, to influence the rest of the world to import similar data in free access on Wikimedia Commons, and to help to solve certain issues related to climate change that affect us.
Ha-Loan Phan, director of Wikimedia Canada, gave an interview in French about this project to the podcast Mon Carnet of Bruno Guglielminetti. You can listen to it online.
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A few news from the Wikimedia Movement
The Wikimedia Foundation published a blog post in which we can see the list of the articles of Wikipedia in English that were the most read or the most edited every year from 2001 to 2020.
On February 2nd, the Wikimedia Foundation officially launched its new Universal Code of Conduct that applies to all Wikimedia projects. It is a set of standards aiming at countering negative behaviours.
Katherine Maher, CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, announced that she will be stepping down from her position as of April 15, 2021.
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