Grants:Project/FLG/History of Quebec and French-speaking North America 2020-2021/Timeline

This project is funded by a Project Grant

Timeline for FLG

Timeline	Date
Contribution & training event #1 - "Online training events as part of the Rendez-vous d'histoire de Québec 2020"	August 14 & 16, 2020
Contribution & training event #2	November 11, 2020
Contribution & training event #3	November 26, 2020
1st and 2nd short videos and 1st webinar	November 2020
Contribution & training event #4	December 3, 2020
Contribution & training event #5	February 2020
3rd and 4th short videos and 2nd webinar	February 2020
Contribution & training event #6	March 2020
Contribution & training event #7	April, 1 2020
Contribution & training event #8	April, 15 2020
5th and 6th short videos and 3rd webinar	May 2020
Contribution & training event #9	May, 10 & 12 2020
Contribution & training event #10	May, 25 2020
End of the contract of the wikimedian in residence	Jun, 8 2020

Monthly updates

Please prepare a brief project update each month, in a format of your choice, to share progress and learnings with the community along the way. Submit the link below as you complete each update.

June 2020

June 8 : official start date of grant project.
June 19 : Update of the Wikipedia page dedicated to the WIR. Adding of information concerning the first major training event of Grant 2020-2021 : creation of a visual to promote the event with our partners and on social media. Preparation of bibliographic resources that will be used during online trainings.

July 2020

July 3 : FLG closed for the whole month.

August 2020

August 3: FLG reopened.
August 3: our history promotion officer, Hamza Tabaichount, increases the assessment level of the article on "Louis-Joseph Papineau" from "bon début" (B-Class) to "bien construit" (C-Class) after several weeks for editing.
August 4: online meeting with Catherine Ferland (director of the event "Rendez-vous d'histoire de Québec"). Update about the attendance of the Fondation Lionel-Groulx during the event, details and specificities of our partnership regarding our online Wikipedia training.
August 6: email sent to Catherine Ferland (director of the "Rendez-vous d'histoire de Québec") in order to promote our online training and contribution events and gain registrations.
August 11: creation of three programs in the "Program and Event Dashboard" tools : https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/histoire_du_qu%C3%A9bec_et_de_lam%C3%A9rique_du_nord_francopone/programs
August 11 : online meeting with Serge Dupuis, independent researcher member of the CEFAN (research chair of Université Laval), future collaborator with the Foundation Lionel-Groulx in improving Wikipedia contents on North American French-speaking communities.
August 11-12: emails sent to event registrants including: login links to attend online trainings on JitSi Meet, pre-training materials based on our pre-event process.
August 14 & August 16: online training and contributions events: Friday 14, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday 16, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
August 18: creation by MathieuGP of a list of 20 articles to improve on the north-american French-speaking communities.
August 18: our history promotion officer, Hamza Tabaichount, increases the assessment level of the article on "Élections générales québécoises de 1960" from "ébauche" (Stub) to "bien construit" (C-Class) after several weeks for editing.
August 19: online survey sent to participants of the training events.
August 19: online meeting with Nathalie Léger of the Centrale des syndicats du Québec (CSQ) in order to present our online training offer and to discuss our project of a future partnership. Nathalie Léger will contact us by the end of september to give us feedback.
August 20: online meeting with several members of Federation Histoire-Québec. Early 2020, the organism created a dedicated group called C-Femmes which aims to improve articles on Wikipedia related to major female figures on the history of several regions in Québec.
August 21 : MathieuGP declares "good enough" the evaluation of WP contents on North-American Francophone groups he started in July.
August 25: meeting with Myriam D'Arcy (director of Fondation Lionel-Groulx) in order to present the planning of Wikipedia activities for fall 2020. The planning will be presented to the Board of Directors on September 17th.
August 25: finalization of the report of the online training event of August 14 and 16, 2020 : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Fondation_Lionel-Groulx/WeR/5

September 2020

September 10 : Online meeting with Martin Pâquet, full professor at Université Laval:We spoke with Martin Pâquet about a Wikipedia training as part of his graduate course at Université Laval. Probably in January 2021. Moreover, Martin Pâquet own the Chaire pour le développement de la recherche sur la culture d’expression française en Amérique du Nord (CEFAN) (Chair for the development of research on French-speaking culture in North America), he supervises the work of master's level students.
September 17 : Mathieu Gauthier-Pilote and Jérémy Bouchez gave an online training at Wikimedia Commons to Marc Comby and Nicolas Lefebvre-Legault (respectively archivist and information advisor) from the Central des syndicats du Québec, one of the major trade union in Québec.
Septembre 17 : Production by JBouchez of the first draft of the script for the online training tutorial on Wikipedia.
September 24 : MathieuGP declares "imperfect, but it will have to suffice" the global evaluation of WP contents on the History of Quebec he started in July (and mostyl wrote in August).
September 29 : Team meeting to discuss dates and partners for online training events in fall 2020.

October 2020

October 7 : attending La Grande Wikiphonie, which is the online version of an event which was supposed to take place at BAnQ (main public library of Montreal) during spring 2020.

October 7 : online meeting with Stéphane Savard, full professor at the department of history of Université du Québec à Montréal. Prof. Savard will help the Fondation Lionel-Groulx to organize one of our training event during fall 2020.

October 8 : creation of an online survey in order to find a suitable date for the training event with librarians and archivists from Université de Sherbrooke (UdeS).

October 9 : online meeting with Myriam D'Arcy, executive director of Fondation Lionel-Groulx and Frédéric Lacroix, Ph.D and independent researcher. Frédéric Lacroix is a specialist on the question of the defense of the French language in Québec and its history. During the meeting, we discussed about the organization of a training online event by the end of November of the topic of the history of the French language in Québec.

October 12 : Production by MathieuGP of the first draft of the script that will be used to produce the online training tutorial on Wikimedia Commons.

October 13 : online meeting with Martin Pâquet who holds the Chair for the Development of Research on Francophone Culture in North America (CEFAN) at Université Laval (Québec City). We followed up on the possibility of hosting an online Wikipedia training event on January 25, 2021.

October 13 : MathieuGP represents FLG to the first Mardi, c'est Wiki! workshop of the season. The event was fully online and focused on training for newbies.

October 14 : first reading and suggestions by MathieuGP of the script of the online tutorial on Wikipedia.

October 24 : MathieuGP declares "a mighty good start" the evaluation of WP contents on the History of the French language in Quebec he started in late September.

October 15 : online meeting with Patrick Taillon, full professor at the law faculty of Université Laval. We discussed the organization of an online training event by the beginning of 2021 on the topic of the constitutional history of Québec in Wikipedia. Patrick Taillon will help us finding specialists in law and political science (professors, lecturers and postgraduate students).

October 19 : first video capture test of the online tutorial on Wikipedia (first part of the three).

October 20 : as per the result of the consultation with Université de Sherbrooke, we will give an online training in partnership with Université de Sherbrooke on November 11, 2020.

October 22: our history promotion officer, Hamza Tabaichount, increases the assessment level of the article on "La Bolduc" from "bon début" (B-Class) to "bien construit" (C-Class) after several weeks for editing.

October 27 : creation of an online survey to obtain registrations of librarians and archivists working at Université de Sherbrooke (UdeS). Claire Lecompte, librarian at UdeS will send the survey to her colleagues.

October 28 : the date for the online Wikipedia training on the history of the French language in Quebec has been chosen. It will be held on November 26, 2020, during the afternoon.

November 2020

November 3 : the date for the online Wikipedia training on the history of Quebec's international relations has been chosen. It will be held on December 3, 2020, during the afternoon.
November 4 : sending of a PDF file in order to invite specialists and academics to register at the November 26 training event.
November 9 : sending of a PDF file in order to invite specialists and academics to register at the December 3 training event.
November 11 : online training event number #2 with librarians and archivists working at Université de Sherbrooke.
November 12 : first draft of the video editing for the first part of the tutorial including the introduction.
November 16 : online meeting with the C-Femmes comittee of Fédération Histoire Québec in order to prepare a training event at the beginning of 2021.
November 26 : online training event nunber #3 on the theme of the demolinguistic aspects of the French language in Quebec.
November 30 : finalization of the model of the tutorial which will be sent to the Fondation Lionel-Groulx's graphic designer.

December 2020

December 1 : online meeting with Myriam D'Arcy, director of the Fondation Lionel-Groulx in order to prepare the training events of the beginning of 2021.
December 3 : online training event #4 on the theme of history of international relations of Quebec.
December 7 : online surveys sent to participants of the training events #3 and #4.
December 8 : online meeting with Martin Pâquet, full professor at Université de Laval. We talked about the planning of the online training event of January 25 with students of two courses (undergraduate and postgraduate levels).
December 10 : video recording of the introduction of the tutorial to Wikipedia (in the premises of the Fondation Lionel-Groulx).
December 18 : FLG closed until January 4th, 2021.

January 2021

January 4 : Confirmation of the willingness of Ivan Carel, professor at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières to organize a training course on Wikipedia

to his students.

January 4 : Online meeting of the Fondation Lionel-Groulx's team. Several major points and important deadlines discussed during the meeting.
January 5 : Online meeting with lecturer Ivan Carel in order to organize the training event with its students at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières on January 18.
January 7 : Online meeting with Martin Pâquet & Alain Laberge, professors at Université Laval. We discussed about the common training event that will occur on January 25 with 30-35 students of their courses.
January 14 : Finalization of video editing of the 1st and 2nd part of the online tutorial on Wikipedia.
January 14 : Online meeting with Ivan Carel in order to choose 30 articles to improve or create following the training event of January 18.
January 18 : Training event #5 of the project "History of Quebec and French-speaking North America 2020-2021". The training lasted 3 hours with 30 university students and is part of the course Political History of Canada and Quebec, 1867 to the present day (HST1108) given by Professor Ivan Carel of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR).
January 25 : Submission of the midpoint report for reviewing.
January 25 : Training event #6 of the project "History of Quebec and French-speaking North America 2020-2021". The training lasted 3 hours with 16 university students and is part of two courses of Université Laval : CEFAN Seminar: Public Uses of the Past in North American Francophonies given by Professor Martin Pâquet(GPL-7900/7901, postgraduate level) and Population and society in Quebec, 17th-19th century (HST 2426, graduate level) given by Professor Alain Laberge.

February 2021

February 4 : online meeting with Gilles Herman, chief executive officer of Éditions Septentrion, a major publishing editor in the field of history in Québec. We plan to organize a training event with Septentrion which will involve several key historians and specialists.
February 4 : online meeting with Alain Laberge, full professor at Université Laval. We discussed the list of topics proposed to his students which is composed of 16 articles on the history of social groups in New France.
February 4 : phone discussion with Matt Mick, Public Information Officer at the Codofil, the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana. We plan to organize an online training in partnership with Codofil and the Centre de la francophonie des Amériques (CFA).
February 8 : online meeting with the C-Femmes, a special committee of Fédération histoire Québec. The goal of the meeting was to discuss the organization of a two training events with the C-Femmes. As of February 9, the date has still to be chosen but it will be for sure during the second week of May.
February 12 : phone call with Émile Grenier-Robillard who assisted our training event in January and who will improve several articles on the history of Québec in Wikipedia.
February 15 : online meeting with Éloise Vennes, a bachelor student who assisted our training event in December 3 and who will improve several articles on the history of Québec in Wikipedia.
February 15 : online meeting with Astrid Hédou and Jean-Sébastien Marsan from Union des écrivains et des écrivaines du Québec (Quebec Writers Union) in order to organize a training event in April.
February 18 : online meeting with Marianne Laroche from Centre de la francophonie des Amériques in order to organize a training event to Wikipedia in April, in parternship with the Codofil (Council for the Development of French in Louisiana).

March 2021

March 2 : Creation of the final versions of the Wikipedia tutorials, including the new section presentation thumbnails.
March 8 : Confirmation of the two dates for training and contribution events to Wikipedia with the Fédération histoire Québec.
March 9 : Uploading of the three parts of the wikipedia tutorial on Wikimedia Commons.
March 9 : Confirmation of May 10 and 12 as respectively online training and online contribution events to Wikipedia in partnership with the C-Femmes committee of Fédération histoire Québec.
March 10 : April 15 is the date that has been chosen for the online training on the theme of the history of Quebec literature, in partnership with Union des écrivains et des écrivaines du Québec (UNEQ).
March 11 : Uploading of the three parts of the wikipedia tutorial on Fondation Lionel-Groulx's Youtube channel.
March 15 : Start of the promotion campaign for the Wikipedia tutorial in three parts (on social media and with the help of Fondation Lionel-Groulx major partners).
March 16 : Follow-up email sent to Ivan Carel in order to have feedback about the level of progress of its students.
March 29 : sending the of the pre-training email to registered people of the training event on April 1st.

April 2021

April 1st : Training event #7 of the project "History of Quebec and French-speaking North America 2020-2021". The event lasted 3 hours with 27 attendants from Éditions du Septentrion (a major publishing house on the history of Québec) and Union des écrivains et des écrivaines du Québec(UNEQ), a major writers union.
April 8 : Online survey sent to participants of the April 1st training event.
April 15 : Online meeting with Pr. Alain Laberge (Univerité du Québec à Trois-Rivières) to review the situation of its students works on Wikipedia.
April 15 : Training event #8 of the project "History of Quebec and French-speaking North America 2020-2021". The event lasted 3 hours with 23 attendants, members of Union des écrivains et des écrivaines du Québec (UNEQ), a major writers union and Productions Rhizomes, a publishing house specialized in artistic projets related to literature.
April 21 : Discussion by email with Marti Johnson about our options to publicize our online tutorials with the French-speaking community. Marti suggested to contact WikiFranca, which is, according to her, "the best and most effective means of sharing resources with the francophone communities in the Wikimedia movement".
April 21 : Following a huge work from Hamza Tabaïchount, wikipedia editor at Fondation Lionel-Groulx, the article on Maurice Duplessis has been proposed to the vote to reach the highest level in the French version of Wikipedia, which is "Article de qualité (AdQ) : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussion:Maurice_Duplessis/Article_de_qualit%C3%A9
April 22 : Message sent via Telegram to the WikiFranca community in order to publicize our tutorials.
April 22 : Online meeting with Pr. Martin Pâquet (Univertsité Laval). Unfortunately, due to difficulties related to the pandemic, his few students preferred to abandon the project to publish their work on Wikipedia.
April 23 : Email sent to Adélaïde Calais, manager of the mailing list wikifranca(_AT_)lists.wikimedia.fr - Adélaïde will give us a temporary access to this list in order to promote our tutorials (Wikipedia + Commons).
April 26 : Online meeting with Matt Mick of Codofil in Louisiana. Due to the lack of registrations for the training event of April 29, we decided to postpone it on May 20.

May 2021

May 10 : Communication with Matt Mick from the Codofil (Louisiana) in order to do a follow up regarding the registrations for the training event postponed on May 20. Due to the lack of registrations, we suggested to try a "last call" until Thursday May 13.
May 10 : Training event #9 of the project "History of Quebec and French-speaking North America 2020-2021". The event lasted 3 hours and was organized in partnership with Fédération histoire Québec, a major organization specialized on the history of Québec.
May 12 : Contribution event following the training event on May 12. More than 20 people attented this contribution event in order to apply the learnings of Monday 10.
May 14 : Matt Mick informed the Fondation Lionel-Groulx that despite their efforts, only 4 people registered to the online training event. We decided to cancelled this event.
May 18 : Corrections and ratings by JBouchez and MathieuGP of 18 draft articles written by students of Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières.
May 25 : Training event #10 of the project "History of Quebec and French-speaking North America 2020-2021". The event lasted 3 hours with 9 attendants, members of Réseau du patrimoine franco-ontarien (Ontario, Canada).

June 2021

June 3 : finalization of the recording and editing of the video brief on how to create an infobox in Wikipedia.
June 7 : end of grant project.
June 8 : Finalization of the final report.

Is your final report due but you need more time?

Extension request

New midpoint report submission date

January 25, 2021.

Rationale

We would like to request a delay of 17 extra days for the submission of our midpoint report.

With the current schedule, we are set to submit it at the latest on January 8, 2021. However, the 30 days before that date include a full 17 days of Christmas and New Year break, which cuts in half the time we have to produce the report. Submitting on January 25 (8 + 17) at the latest would solve the problem.

Request approved

Your extension request is approved. Your new Midpoint Report due date is January 25, 2021.

--Marti (WMF) (talk) 06:13, 19 December 2020 (UTC)