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WikiConference North America has two great edit-a-thons planned during Wednesday's [[2017/Wiki_Culture_Crawl|Culture Crawl]] on August 9, 2017. These edit-a-thons are hosted with our Culture Crawl partners, McGill University Libraries and the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ).

If you have a laptop, be sure to bring it!

== McGill University Edit-a-thon ==
Starting at 10 AM, McGill University is opening up its Data Visualization Room to Wikipedians for an edit-a-thon! The focus is to improve a list of Wikipedia articles curated by McGill's faculty. Participants will have access to on-site physical resources, as well as McGill's [http://libraryguides.mcgill.ca/az.php electronic subscription resources].

In addition to the Data Visualization Room, participants are welcome to explore and work in other areas of the library - for example, there will be open access to the Rare Books collection.

== Canadian Women Edit-a-thon at the BAnQ-Vieux ==
[[:wikipedia:Wikipedia:Women in Red|Women in Red]] will be hosting a Canadian Women Edit-a-thon in the Jodain rooms of the [https://www.google.com/maps/place/BAnQ+Vieux-Montr%C3%A9al/@45.5131764,-73.5546547,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x4cc91bb2d78e4b39:0x3d5af04ee01c2a48!8m2!3d45.5131764!4d-73.5546547 BAnQ-Vieux].