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Next date | Saturday, February 13, 2021 |
Time | 12:00 noon – 2.00 pm |
Location | Zoom! |
Repeats | The second Saturday of each month |
Philadelphia WikiSalon, February 13, 2021
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Agenda for WikiSalon, February 13, 2021: February's Philadelphia WikiSalon will work on identifying public domain images and uploading them to Wikimedia Commons. If you aren't sure what to look for, try Valentine's Day Cards!
WikiSalon is skills-oriented, and we alternate between monthly sessions where we demonstrate a new skill, and sessions where we develop previously introduced skills. Demonstrations generally involve a short 5-10 minute presentation (with an accompanying tutorial video and pdf) targeting a specific skill related to Wikipedia, Wikidata, or Wikimedia Commons. Attendees share what they are working on, ask questions, and get feedback and support.
Philadelphia's WikiSalon Online has its roots in the in-person WikiSalon at the Science History Institute and the former GLAM Cafe meetup as organized by the PhillyDH digital humanities group. Many of our regulars are librarians, archivists, professors or people interested in digital humanities and the sciences. Tasks and topics often focus on these areas, but you don't need to be a scientist or librarian to attend or to work on the tasks or articles that we suggest. Attendees can always work on topics of their own interest at any session.
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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!
This month we will work on skills introduced in last month's demonstration: Adding public domain images to Wikimedia Commons
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The finding aids in these lists have already been added to the external links section of relevant Wikipedia articles, where such articles exist.
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.
Please add your signature with 4 tildes ~~~~ under any article that you work on. Thank you!
The Calutron Girls were recruited by the Tennessee Eastman Company to monitor equipment for the isolation of uranium as part of the Manhattan Project. Barely a stub at present, needs expansion.
Among other things, Lochie Jo Allen was a pioneer in the scientific publication and inclusion of women in fisheries. Needs expansion.
Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey was an American ornithologist and nature writer. This article needs additional sourcing. Doreva has some scans for you to reference if you need.
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.
Verona Conway is a behavioral ecologist. Her article could use some formatting and more sources.
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.
Rosemary Gillespie is an evolutionary biologist. The page about her needs sources.
Hazel Henderson is an author, television producer, and environmental activist who focuses on ethical markets. Her page needs more inline citations. Doreva has at least one source that she can share. ( Dorevabelfiore ( talk) 03:49, 8 December 2020 (UTC))
Virginia Holsinger was a food scientist who helped develop Lactaid and Beano. Needs sources.
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.
Laura Huenneke, president of the Ecological Society of America. Needs expansion and sourcing.
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.
Amelia Laskey was an American amateur naturalist and ornithologist. Her article is sparse and could use some expansion and increased sourcing. Doreva has some scans to share.
Ann Haven Morgan was an American zoologist and ecologist. Her article could use some expansion and sourcing. Doreva has some scans to share.
Jan Nolta works on stem cell-related regenerative medicine. The page about her needs a careful review and better sourcing.
Agnes Pockels (1862–1935) was a pioneer in the study of surface tension. Her page needs a good read-through and the addition of sources.
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.
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.
Annie Trumbull Slosson was an American author and entomologist. The references need cleaning up and the article contents need better sourcing.
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.
Hazel Wolf was an American/Canadian environmental activist. Her article is a stub that needs sourcing and some expansion. Some sources are listed on the Talk page. Doreva also has at least one print source for a citation that she can share with anyone. ( Dorevabelfiore ( talk) 03:39, 8 December 2020 (UTC))
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))
Gas lighting desperately needs more inline citation of sources to confirm that what it says is true!
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)
The article for F. Stuart Chapin III needs some careful sourcing and detangling- from related generations. He is an Alaskan ecologist; his grandfather F. Stuart Chapin was a sociologist, and I believe his father was F. Stuart Chapin Jr. (1916–2016), a social scientist and urban planner.
William A. Haseltine is an HIV/AIDS and human genome researcher. The page about him is extensive but needs inline citations to support the information given. Medical information needs medically-credible sources.
William Jacob Knox Jr. and his brother Lawrence H. Knox were African American chemists who worked on the Manhattan Project. Their pages need some careful reading and reorganization. (I hear the voice of a high-school student when I read William's.)
Walter Lear. medical doctor and health activist. Lots of archives with info, but almost no text in the article so far.
Ralph E. Oesper was a chemist and historian of chemistry. The article about him needs sourcing.
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.
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.
Anita Cornwell wrote the first collection of essays by an African-American lesbian. Her article needs inline sources and expansion.
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.
Industrial artist Klaus Grutzka spent much of his working life in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The page about him has no sourcing. He may have a PACSCL entry (see below).
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.
Maria Martinez was a Native American artist who was known internationally for her pottery. There's a lot of unsourced information on her page, and a lot of quotations need to be checked against their sources if anyone has access to print copies.
Ealy Mays is an African-American artist based in Paris. The article about him has a lot of information and some good sources but lots of paragraphs need citations.
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).
Ada "Bricktop" Smith was an American dancer, jazz singer, and vaudevillian, who owned the nightclub Chez Bricktop in Paris. Lots of interesting material and possible sources, but it needs a good cleaning up and solid citations (as so many do...)
Sylvia Snowden is an African American abstract painter. The page about is written too much like a resume; it lists a lot of possible resources but doesn't say much. Searching google with the "Books" option suggests quite a few published sources that mention her.
Isabella Tree is a British author and travel journalist. Her page may have conflict of interest issues and needs sourcing.
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.
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.
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!
Yes, there are tools for uploading bulk data points to Wikidata. The WikiSalon will be working on these for presentation later in 2021 for those interested.
Here are SNAC and NAF examples if anyone wishes to add data manually to Wikidata. Those identifiers are then pulled automatically from Wikidata into Wikipedia when one enters the Authority Control template ({{authority control}}) on an article.
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