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Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia/WikiSalon 2022-03-12

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Philadelphia WikiSalon
When and Where
Next dateSaturday, March 12, 2022
Time12:00 noon – 2.00 pm
LocationZoom!
RepeatsThe second Saturday of each month.

Philadelphia WikiSalon, March 12, 2022 This page archives a past event. Do not edit the contents of this page.

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Zoom call link: Join the Zoom Meeting for WikiSalon If you are asked for an ID or password, use Meeting ID: 819-4956-6322 Password: 12345

Agenda for WikiSalon, March 12, 2022: This month will feature a demonstration. Bring your questions or something you want to work on!

WikiSalon is skills-oriented, and monthly sessions alternate between demonstrations of new skills and work sessions to practice skills. Demonstrations are 5-10 minutes long (with an accompanying tutorial video and pdf) and target a specific skill related to Wikipedia, Wikidata, or Wikimedia Commons. Attendees share what they are working on, ask Questions, and get feedback and support.

Many of our regulars are librarians, archivists, professors or people interested in digital humanities and the sciences, but you don't need to be a scientist or librarian to attend or to work on the tasks or articles that we suggest. You can always work on topics that interest you.

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Attendees edit

List your name by adding the following line. * ~~~~

Demonstration edit

This month will feature a demonstration on Creating new Wikidata Entries, with a special focus on entity and property data for Wikipedia:WikiProject Craft.

  • Link to Demonstration Video in Commons:
  • Link to PDF tutorial in Commons:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiSalon_Wikidata_Creating_New_Entries.pdf

  • Resource Materials for Editing Wikidata Entries for WikiProject Craft
    • WikiSalon WikiProject Craft - Key Statements: [1], Reference sheet of key statements you can edit or add to Wikidata entries for WikiProject Craft. (Helpful to print out)
    • WikiSalon WikiProject Craft Worksheet January 2022 [2] Working spreadsheet for WikiSalon WikiProject Craft - Practice your Wikidata skills by helping to edit Wikidata pages for artists, crafters, art organizations and craft techniques. Feel free to edit Wikipedia articles as you wish.

Special mentions edit

If you want to talk about something that you're working on, or you've created a new article or had a "Did You Know" featured lately, add that here!

Projects edit

Did You Know's edit

Articles (new and updated) edit

Images edit

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    Leasure K. Darbaker, ca. 1930 (no renewal)
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    Figures from United States Patent 644,244
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    First page of musical score of "Romance" by Giuseppe Ferrata

Events edit

Questions edit

Add questions that you have about Wikipedia or Wikipedia projects (Encyclopedia articles, Wikimedia Commons images, Wikidata) either here or in the Chat. Also feel free to suggest resources in response, and discuss during WikiSalon. Answers to previous questions can be found in our Question archive.

  • How do you use and when do you use the "Add a Note" feature on Wikimedia Commons.
  • I'd appreciate having an on-going discussion of Wikipedia's sister projects during the WikiSalon meetings.
  • Regarding sister projects, I'd be interested in learning how to use the "sister links" tag in Wikipedia articles, for example: {{sisterlinks|auto=1|d=Q169943|wikt=y|n=y}}
  • I'd be interested in a short refresher on how to use the WikiLibrary. It's an important topic and seems non-intuitive, at least to me. (Maybe a cheat sheet would be a useful thing.)
  • How are modules used in infoboxes? Under what circumstances should they be used?

Suggested topics for future sessions: If you are interested in hearing about a particular project, or can talk about one, sign here to let us know!

  1. Wikivoyage - User:Jim.henderson ?
  2. Wiki Loves Monuments - Kevin Payravi, User:SuperHamster?
  3. WikiQuotes - ?
  4. Wiki newspapers -- Pete Forsyth?
  5. Wikisource, Jim Hayes?
  6. Project, speaker ~~~~

Work To Do! edit

You can use some of the following lists to identify articles to work on, or look at our suggested articles below. We note what needs to be done for each article.

Finding articles that need work edit

Please add your signature with 4 tildes ~~~~ under any article that you work on. Thank you!

Women Scientists edit

Sheila Minor edit

Sheila Minor had a 35-year-long career at various federal agencies and was responsible for assessing environmental impact statements. The article is a bit messy and doesn't follow Wikipedia style in formatting.

Mária Telkes edit

Mária Telkes was an early innovator in engineering solar heating for homes, known as the "Sun Queen". The cited Distillations article could be used for fact-checking and further expansion.

Isobel Wylie Hutchison edit

Isobel Wylie Hutchison was an early arctic explorer, botanist and painter! Her page is fairly long but needs a good read-through and lots more citations.

Ellen Schulz Quillin edit

The botanist and museum director Ellen Schulz Quillin already has a decent article, but more sources are available to expand it. While no images are obvious to use, there may be some public domain images to be found with research.

Althea Rosina Sherman edit

Althea Sherman was an educator, illustrator and ornithologist. She created the Chimney Swifts' Tower to study the lifecycle of chimney swifts. Her article could use some love and additional sources. Doreva has scans to share. Dorevabelfiore (talk) 17:56, 3 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ruth Miriam Siems edit

Ruth Miriam Siems invented Stove Top Stuffing, getting the crumb size just right so it would be neither hard nor soggy. This article needs more sources and expansion.

Joan Luedders Wolfe edit

Joan Luedders Wolfe was an American environmental activist. Her article is a stub that needs sourcing and some expansion. Doreva has at least one print source for a citation that she can share with anyone. (Dorevabelfiore (talk) 03:39, 8 December 2020 (UTC))[reply]

 Y Bob Burch is working on this one. Nolabob (talk) 14:35, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

More Science edit

Film preservation edit

Film preservation is a long complicated article which started out with little sourcing. I've worked on the first four sections so far, and found that careful fact checking is needed: some statements appear to be incorrect. Lots more work needs to be done. Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 14:59, 6 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  • I'm up for the challenge. This is a great and worthy topic for archivists. Dorevabelfiore (talk) 00:54, 16 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Gas lighting edit

Gas lighting desperately needs more inline citation of sources to confirm that what it says is true!

This is certainly an important topic, and it has 44 references as is. But many statements are unsupported by references. Perhaps it would be worth discussing how to handle this article. Nolabob (talk) 00:14, 13 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Per discussion at the February 2022 WikiSalon, I've started working on this one. While this has the makings of a high quality article, there's a long way to go. Assistance or further suggestions would be more than welcome. Nolabob (talk) 13:05, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Edgar Anderson edit

The American botanist Edgar Anderson has a stubby article that could use some expansion and citation, and perhaps a public domain image might be found.

 Y Mary will adopt this one.

Women Artists and Writers edit

Barbara Chase-Riboud edit

 
Malcolm X Complete by Barbara Chase-Riboud

Barbara Chase-Riboud is an African-American visual artist, sculptor (The Malcolm X Steles), novelist (Sally Hemings: A Novel), and poet. There's a lot of unsourced information on the page about her, and a long list of further readings that are potential sources.

Iole de Freitas edit

Iole de Freitas is a Brazilian sculptor, engraver, and installation artist. The page about her has quite a lot of information but desperately needs sources. There do seem to be online sources available, but most are in Spanish. This could be a good candidate for testing the interlanguage links as demonstrated in the session.

Harriet Jacobs edit

Harriet Jacobs wrote an influential account of slavery after her escape. Formerly a B-class article, this has been tagged as having inappropriate tone; it needs a thoughtful read-through for possible tone and bias. Then we can take off the flags.

workin on this - I remember reading this memoir in college. I look forward to helping rewrite to article!

Josefina Plá edit

Josefina Plá had an amazingly diverse and influential career as an artist and writer in Paraguay. A fraction of her life is represented on the Wikipedia page, which needs expansion and citations. Watch out for errors: whoever wrote it initially equated "artist" (she was) and "painter" (she wasn't).

Doreva is working on this one. Dorevabelfiore (talk) 13:51, 8 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

More Artists and Writers edit

Corning Museum of Glass edit

 
Glass pumpkins

In the Corning Museum of Glass art and science meet as equals. The museum is absolutely stunning, but the Wikipedia page about it needs a bit of help -- and lots of citations.

Provincetown Art Association and Museum edit

 
The Art Student

Provincetown Art Association and Museum needs citations and could use better images, possibly including this portrait of an art student.

The Southside Writers' Group edit

The South Side Writers Group is an important part of the black renaissance and the Great Migration. Founded in part by Richard Wright, I discovered in my previous editing that this page is merely a "stub" and there is so much that can be said on the group! *NMcNinney (talk) 18:19, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Suggested articles edit

Wrap Up: Thanks and praise edit

What did you work on today?

Thank you everyone!

References mentioned edit

  1. ^ Calarco, Tom (2008). People of the Underground Railroad: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 120-122. ISBN 978-0313339240.
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