Opening Access to SF: City Tech Science Fiction Edit-a-thon 2021
Dates: Monday, December 6 to Friday, December 10 at midnight (asynchronous, online)
The 6th Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium, organized by the archivists of CUNY's New York City College of Technology, commemorates the growing City Tech Science Fiction Collection. In the spirit of the 2021 conference theme of open access, the keynote presenters and Wikipedians (Mozucat and Doctorxgc) have asked that online participants take an active role in increasing access to science fiction and science fiction scholarship to the world. Wikipedia is a noncommercial, open access place where readers might learn about paywalled scholarly content from those with academic library database privileges.
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Opening Access to SF: City Tech Science Fiction Symposium 2021 Edit-a-thon
editDates: Monday, December 6 to Friday, December 10 at midnight (asynchronous, online)
Please before editing for this event. Thanks!!
The 6th Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium, organized by the archivists of CUNY's New York City College of Technology, commemorates the growing City Tech Science Fiction Collection. In the spirit of the 2021 conference theme of open access, the keynote presenters and Wikipedians (Mozucat and Doctorxgc) have asked that online participants take an active role in increasing access to science fiction and science fiction scholarship to the world. Wikipedia is a noncommercial, open access place where readers might learn about paywalled scholarly content from those with academic library database privileges.
Your mission: During the second week of December, we ask you to edit the content of a Wikipedia entry for your favorite SF author; add a citation to a scholarly work to the entry of one of their novels; add information about the archives or special collections; or choose a quote from a writer's work to illustrate a theme (see: a quote added by students to Butler's Kindred here).
We also welcome and encourage translations of existing articles or additions of needed Wikidata.
But how? Perhaps you have some information that could improve an already established SF article.[1] Or you recently stumbled on an SF article that could use some copyediting.[2] Or you visited Wikipedia only to find that your beloved SF author/text has no article yet.[3] If so,
Be bold! Join us in making one change, large or small, to “the encyclopedia that anyone can edit.” Here are two short videos explaining how to create a Wikipedia account (not a requirement to edit Wikipedia) and how to edit Wikipedia (it’s easy!):
Want to learn more about the editathon? Chat online with us on the Wikimedia NYC #citytech-scific Discord channel--you can ask any questions at any time during the week. Just click the above link, enter in your email, and click on the #citytech-scifi channel on the left sidebar! Or direct your questions to Ann Matsuuchi (amatsuuchi@lagcc.cuny.edu) and Ximena Gallardo C. (xgallardo@lagcc.cuny.edu)
Social Media: #CityTechSF
There is no experience required, and Wikipedia newbies are encouraged!
All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct.
How to join us
edit- Attend the Sixth Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium on Access and Science Fiction on Thursday, December 9, 2021 from 9:00am-5:00pm EST. Dr X and Mozucat's keynote will be from 4:00-5:00pm EST. Register for the Zoom link here.
- If you are new to Wikipedia editing, create your own account and check out the many guides and quick online tutorials. Take a look at the short YouTube videos linked to above, or look in the Resources section below for more options.
- Create a Wikipedia account and join our team - When creating an account, we recommend choosing a username that is personal to you, but doesn't personally identify you, as edits are publicly tied to your username. If you already have an account, please sign-up via the blue Dashboard button. This helps us track everyone who edits with us and see how many pages we add to and create!
- Join the Wikimedia NYC #citytech-scific Discord channel so you can ask questions at any time during the week. Just click the above link, enter in your email, and click on the #citytech-scifi channel on the left sidebar.
Suggested articles to create or edit
editFor more ideas:
edit- WikiProject: Science Fiction
- Links and recommended online SF sources
- Past editathon pages have many suggestions for needed entries and additions: AfroCROWD task list, WikiAPA, LatinX Art, Wiki Loves Pride, Art+Feminism
- For ideas of biographical entries to work on, there are many lists like these: List of Science Fiction Writers; List of Asian-American Writers; List of writers from peoples indigenous to the Americas
- New York City College of Technology - add info about the Archives and SF collection
- Analog Science Fiction and Fact, please add info about the Analog Award for Emerging Black Voices, and also about its history, reputation, and impact on the larger sf community
- Feminist science fiction
- Important publications like Dangerous Visions, Asimov's Science Fiction... - have brief entries that need more about their history, impact
- Talk to us via Discord if you have questions or need suggestions.
Resources
edit- More Wikipedia tutorials: Our friends at AfroCROWD have made some wonderful multilingual step-by-step YouTube how-to videos: creating citations, adding images, or a longer overall introduction to Wikipedia editing.
- Kundiman's Wikipedia Editing Guide is a great one page starter.
- Notability guidelines for people
- Notability guidelines for books
- Notability guidelines for organizations
- Your local Wikipedians!
- Join our mailing list
- Check out our calendar of events
Notes
edit- ^ See, for instance, the entry for Pat Cadigan, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Cadigan or for Pamela Sargent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Sargent
- ^ See, for example, the article for Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild and Other Stories”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodchild_and_Other_Stories
- ^ See, for instance, the missing article (red link) for the novel The Shadowed Sun at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._K._Jemisin or the missing biography for Carlos Hernandez in the article for Sal and Gabi Break the Universe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sal_and_Gabi_Break_the_Universe (as well as the missing article for Hernandez’s short-story collection The Assimilated Cuban's Guide to Quantum Santeria)