If you are new to Wikipedia, we hope you will
create an account and make at least one edit during this session. If you have experience already, we hope you will share what you're doing or learn something new. Let us know in the Zoom Chat or during introductions what your goals are.
For next month, I have been working on
Ynes Mexia and can talk about my experience removing copyright violations from this page. I will be done with the work next month.
The following articles could use work: feel free to edit any that catch your interest. You can add your name after something to show that you are working on it, and add if you feel the article is sufficiently improved to be taken off next month's worklist. You can also suggest new ideas.
Lochie Jo Allen
Among other things,
Lochie Jo Allen was a pioneer in the scientific publication and inclusion of women in fisheries. Needs expansion.
Margarita Colmenares is an American environmental engineer and activist and the first woman to serve as President of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, More could be said about her and her work using the sources currently cited on the Wikipedia page. Newer sources would also be helpful.
Nancy Hopkins is a molecular biologist at MIT who has worked on gene expression, viruses, and zebrafish. The article has a lot of unsourced sections and there are materials available.
Mexican-American botanist
Ynes Mexia collected at least 145,000 plant specimens during her career, 500 of which were new species. Most were from Mexico, Peru, and Colombia. Her Wikipedia article needs a lot of help, both organizationally and due to copyright issues. You can see possible copyright violations needing rephrasing at this
Copyvio detection report.
Jan Nolta works on stem cell-related regenerative medicine. The page about her needs a careful review and better sourcing.
Annie Trumbull Slosson
Annie Trumbull Slosson was an American author and entomologist. The references need cleaning up and the article contents need better sourcing.
Do you think it would be possible to find a photograph or other image of Slosson that could be used on the Wikipedia? She died in 1926.
Nolabob (
talk)
14:51, 10 October 2020 (UTC)reply
I found this one from 1926. In January 2021 someone could add
this one to Commons as it will then be in the public domain. The photo was taken in 1913, and if we could find it published elsewhere in 1925 or prior, then we can release it sooner.
Elke U. Weber is a Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University where she studies the ways in which we think about risk. Stubby article needs a little love.
Evelyn J. Fields
Evelyn J. Fields was a hydrographer and a leader in NOAA and with the NOAA Corps. Her page is not cited well and her accomplishments need clarification and to be listed in chronological order.
American author
Richard Wright (author) has an extensive article but it is missing a lot of citations. Plenty of material is available, someone just needs to do some searching for sources.
Got to this list of
Women scientists by nationality and look at the subcategories of nationalities. Click through to find articles of interest. Open the article and look for red links and search for the red-linked text on Wikidata or google to see if there are Wikipedia articles in English or other languages. Add ills as needed.
Go to almost any list of foreign-language writers (c.f.
List of Spanish women writers) and click on an article. Look for red links and search for the red-linked text on Wikidata or google to see if there are Wikipedia articles in English or other languages. Add ills as needed.
Example: {{ill | La sonrisa vertical |ca| Premi La Sonrisa Vertical |es| Premio La sonrisa vertical}}
Example: {{ill |Andityas Soares de Moura |WD=Q98276700}}
Library Resources Templates
Consult this
list of women science writers and add a library resources box to their page. Use the author namestring (e.g. Faye Flam) to look up the appropriate viaf ID (e.g. VIAF ID: 6861455) on viaf and fill it in.
Many of the editions at
A Celebration of Women Writers were created before there were Library Resources Templates. You can search
Wikipedia for articles about these authors and add {{Library resources box|by=yes |onlinebooksby=yes|others= |lcheading= |viaf= }}. Use the author namestring (e.g. Adami, J. George (John George), 1862-1926) to look up the appropriate viaf ID (e.g. VIAF ID: 62289315) on
viaf and fill it in.
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.
I'd appreciate having an on-going discussion of Wikipedia's sister projects during the WikiSalon meetings.
If you're interested in learning (or talking about) a particular
project, let us know!
Proper citations are indispensable to any good Wikipedia article. However, with the decline of print media, citations in Wikipedia articles are more dependent on on-line citations which may not be permanent. How does Wikipedia manage the transient nature of these citations? How should Wikimedians manage citations in this regard?
The issue of whether any lasting record of electronic media will continue to exist, comparable to printed media, has relevance far beyond Wikipedia. A number of archiving projects attempt to record electronic publications and capture the ephemeral nature of the internet. One of the best known is
archive.org whose Wayback Machine has been used for decades to store copies of electronic pages from websites.
Wikipedia has the capability of
Help:Using the Wayback Machine to do lookups of no-longer-available urls and to serve pages that no longer exist. However, this will only work if the page has previously been archived. It is possible to request the archiving of existing pages on archive.org and to look up urls that no longer appear to work, and add template code that will retrieve archive.org's stored value.
How do you know a permanent url when you see it?
Permanent urls (PURLS or permalinks) are urls that are written in a way that is supposed to remain usable even if underlying computer systems or sites change their link structure. Non-permanent urls can change over time, even from one session to the next. The url that is shown in your browser may not be the permanent url; it may be a temporary form that the permanent url has been converted to by the computer software.
It is desirable to use a permanent url in a Wikipedia citation or a Wikidata reference because it is more likely to continue to work and to be verifiable by someone else.
A finding aid or other web page may explicitly state its permanent url in the page's text. The easiest way to find it is to search for "http". You can also search for URL, PURL, permalink or permanent link. There is no standard for what term is used: some sites may simply cite it: e.g.
Alan G. MacDiarmid, interviewed by Cyrus Mody in University of Pennsylvania on December 19, 2005. Philadelphia: Science History Institute, n.d. Oral History Transcript 0325.
https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/z316q261v
If you see a
handle (url containing hdl)that is a permanent URL. DOI's or
Digital Object Identifiers are also examples of handles and are permanent links.
In Wikidata, is there a way to import any existing data such as NAF / SNAC or has that already been done as baseline bio data?
Wikidata has an item Library of Congress Name Authority File (
Q18912790). It also has a property Library of Congress authority ID (
P244) which is accepted as an identifier on Wikidata items.
In Wikidata, is there a controlled list of "types" for archives, such as finding aid, digital collection, online exhibition? What are the type choices?