Raise awareness around the diversity of Indigenous literature by placing an author’s article in one of Wikipedia’s Indigenous Writer categories.
Categories and sub-categories are the way that Wikipedia groups similar content together for people who are interested in specific topics. Articles can belong to many different categories depending on their content, and can help give a snapshot to readers about the different areas where they have made an impact.
Adding a category about an Indigenous author’s writing can help connect readers with new authors they might not know about yet, and bring awareness around the diversity of Indigenous authors in these writing spaces.
Wikipedia Categories are found at the bottom of an article and provide a link to where readers can go to see other articles in that subject.
Instructions
- Browse the HIW Author List and find an author whose article lists “Category needs to be added” among the work needed. Alternatively, you can choose another Indigenous writer who already has a Wikipedia page.
- Scroll down the HIW Author List page to find a list of potential Indigenous Writers categories available on Wikipedia.
- Choose the appropriate category to add to the article
- Go to the article and click “Edit source”
- Scroll to the bottom of the page where categories are located
- If the article already has other categories
- Click on the categories box
- In the Options window that pops up, scroll to the bottom of the list of already-applied categories
- There will be an empty box where you can type in the category you wish to add
- Click “Apply Changes” in the upper right hand corner
- If the article does not have any other categories
- On the top right hand side of the page there is an icon with three horizontal lines. Click that icon and choose “Categories” from the dropdown menu [screenshot]
- There will be an empty box where you can type in the category you wish to add
- Click “Apply Changes” in the upper right hand corner
- If the article already has other categories
- Scroll to the top of the page and click “Publish Changes.” In the edit summary box, let other editors know that you added a category to the page, and then click the new “Publish Changes” button.
Resources
Example
- Listed categories include “Native American novelists”
- Potential additional categories could be Native American children’s writers, First Nations literature, or Inuit poets
Complete this Activity
After you have added the category to the author page, let us know by tweeting out the link to the Author page using the hashtag #HonouringIndigenousWriters.
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