Below you will find a number of articles, videos, and other resources to help you plan an assignment for your course or teach you how to create your very own edit-a-thon. These resources range from practical guides to pedagogical methods to academic talks. Information is categorized as follows:
Belkin Art Gallery: Art + Feminism Edit-a-thon (2021)
CTLT Workshop (2016): https://wiki.ubc.ca/Documentation:Teaching_With_Wikipedia
Guide for creating through the UBC Wiki platform, which is powered by the MediaWiki platform
Honoring Indigenous Writers on Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/HonouringIndigenousWriters/UBC_2021
Learning Commons: Wikis
UBC Library Research Commons: Working With Wikipedia and Wikidata (Digital Toolkit Series)
UBC Wiki Instructor Guide: https://lthub.ubc.ca/guides/ubc-wiki-instructor-guide/
Art+Feminism: a community of activists committed to closing information gaps related to gender, feminism, and the arts, beginning with Wikipedia.
WikiEdu: “Editing Wikipedia: a guide for student editors supported by the Wiki Education Foundation.”
WikiEdu: “Teach with Wikipedia”
WikiEdu: Training Library. Includes guides and online courses for instructors and students to learn how to edit on Wikipedia.
Art+Feminism: Reading Together: Reliability and Multilingual Global Communities
WikiMedia Foundation: Community Insights Report 2020
Project Grants program supports Wikipedia projects, at a minimum of $2000 USD, awarded to 4 categories: 1) Software; 2) Research; 3) Online organizing; 4) Offline outreach
Rapid Grants program supports Wikipedia projects between $500 to $2000 USD. Eligible expenses include food for community-organized events, expenses for hosting edit-a-thons, and prizes.
Wikimedia Canada Grants Request offers funding for activities organized by members of Wikimedia Canada and other members (contact Sarah Severson sarah.severson@wikimedia.ca with grant questions).
WikiCred offers microgrants between $250 to $10,000 (USD) “to individuals and teams for pilot projects on how to support credibility on the internet using Wikimedia, and from insights from the Wikimedia community.”