User:Verbistheword

Hi, I'm Veronica Erb. I am a researcher and information architect at NPR. Previously, I have worked at EightShapes and at AED, which is now a part of FHI 360.

Events
I occasionally organize and attend edit-a-thons. An edit-a-thon is when Wikimedians and people new to Wikipedia get together to edit Wikipedia, usually on a specific topic. I have participated in the following events:
 * Organizer, Rare Disease Day edit party, February 2019
 * Attendee, Music Library Association edit party, February 2019
 * Attendee, Wikipedia Day in St. Louis, January 2019
 * Attendee, Meetup/St. Louis/17, October 2018
 * Volunteer, 2016 St. Louis Wiknic, July 2016
 * Organizer, Rare Disease Day Edit-a-thons in St. Louis, MO and Washington, DC, February 2016
 * Co-organizer, Black History Month First Edit at NPR, February 2016
 * Co-organizer, Hispanic Heritage First Edit at NPR, October 2015
 * Participant, Wiki Loves Pride DC 2015 at the National Museum of American History, June 2015
 * Participant, Women in STEM Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon at the DC Public Library, March 2015
 * Organizer, first edit event for NPR's Black History Month celebrations, 28 Feb 2015
 * Co-organizer, My First Wikipedia Edit: DC Neighborhoods with Wikimedia DC and the DC Public Library, November 2014
 * Remote participant, Ada Lovelace Edit-a-thon 2013: Brown and Brussels, October 2013

Contributions
I may want to remember or reference these edits in the future. For a list of all my Wikipedia edits, see my contributions page.
 * Veronica Chambers: Started adding citations after I looked her up wondering why her name seemed familiar when I got the jump rope book (it's because she edited Meaning of Michelle)
 * Flounder house: First article created by me. Inspired by a clipping shown to me by a family member.
 * Marni Nixon: Swapped in infobox of her profession, after learning about her death from Vox Sentences.
 * Mary Bowser: Added verified information and documented unsubstantiated claims in their own section. Edits in honor of 4th of July 2016.
 * Sara Josephine Baker: Replaced 9 of 11 "citation needed" notices with appropriate citations, among other text improvements, in honor of Pride 2016. (Diff)
 * Amyloidosis: Added community support to Treatment in memorial of Peggy Girshman, a newsroom dynamo at NPR.
 * Osteogenesis imperfecta: Added community support to Treatment in honor of Gaelynn Lea, the 2016 Tiny Desk Contest winner.
 * Cri du chat: Added citations in honor of a family member.
 * Atira: Added citations and information about items named for and mentioning her. For Thanksgiving 2015.
 * Inspired DES to create a new template with a Teahouse question
 * Cucumis_metuliferus: Specified where in Africa it originates.
 * Eslanda Goode Robeson: Added seven sources, more information about her accomplishments, and more common order and title of list sections.
 * Ella Baker, Madam C. J. Walker, Ida B. Wells, William H. Carney, Henriette DeLille: Citations, primarily
 * Bill Pickett: Citations and information about the Legends of the West stamps.
 * Sarah Andrews (author): Tidying and adding citations
 * ENIAC: Overhauled article structure to be more scannable, and made edits along the way.
 * Neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., Massachusetts Heights, Anacostia, Capitol View (Washington, D.C.): Various small edits
 * Dana Ulery: Citation improvements, initial infobox, initial publications list

Other fun milestones

 * Moved first article—Flounder house—into the main namespace! 20:45, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Reached Novato! Yesterday, I think. 03:26, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 * The first (project) page that I've made: Wikilinks needed by Wikiproject (based off of the Orphaned articles list). 01:59, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Awarded the 2015 Distinguished Service Award from Wikimedia DC
 * Voted in a Wikipedia election for the first time, for ArbComm. 22:07, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Help for editing Wikipedia
Find articles
 * What Links Here
 * Orphaned articles by WikiProject
 * Wikilinks needed by WikiProject
 * WikiProject Directory by WikiProject X
 * Wikipedia edits by hashtag
 * Black Lunch Table's Lists of Articles

Protecting articles Write better articles Understand Wikipedians Communicate with Wikipedians
 * Semi-protection
 * Pending changes
 * Writing about women
 * Your first article
 * So you made a userspace draft
 * Medical Wikipedia: Article sections for diseases, disorders, syndromes
 * Conflicting Wikipedia philosophies on MetaWiki
 * Template:Done and all its related visual markers for use on Talk Pages
 * Archiving talk pages
 * About user pages
 * User page design center

When good faith edits are reverted


 * Relevant policy documents
 * Edit warring
 * Assume good faith
 * Relevant essays
 * Reverting
 * Revert only when necessary
 * Regarding "In popular culture" sections
 * WikiProject Popular Culture
 * "In popular culture" content
 * Advice out in the world (not in Wikimedia space)
 * Top ten reasons why your Wikipedia edits get reverted, post by a Wikimedia in Residence at the Physiological Society

To Do
(Listed in reverse chronological order of thinking of them)
 * Check and add redirects for Resources for Infant Educarers, including "RIE" and "RIE method" ?
 * Consider writing an article about native people in MIssouri or St. Louis. Example existing articles:
 * https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_tribes_in_Massachusetts
 * https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_Florida https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_California?searchToken=bpqyg1hpxne8qa2ucuzzm95fk
 * Add citations to Veronica Chambers article (possible articles to use)
 * Look at Multiple system atrophy article for edits to make
 * Consider revising the structure of Relaxation (psychology); it currently (13:36, 11 March 2019 (UTC)) has redundant sections.
 * ENIAC, which was in this version before these edits
 * Look at this: http://ds.haverford.edu/bitbybit/bit-by-bit-contents/chapter-four/4-9-eniacs-hydrogen-bomb-calculations/
 * Possibly, mention the advent of the software engineer in the lead section, naming Kathleen Antonelli, Jean Bartik, Betty Holberton, Marlyn Meltzer, Frances Spence, Ruth Teitelbaum
 * Look at: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Volunteers
 * Consider making barnstars for Wikimedia DC's awards
 * Add info to
 * Elizabeth Wright Ingraham
 * Look at coverage of people and topics from Hidden Figures
 * Mary Jackson (engineer)
 * Dorothy Vaughan
 * Katherine Johnson
 * Mercury-Atlas 6
 * John Glenn
 * Resource: http://margotleeshetterly.com/hidden-figures-nasas-african-american-computers/
 * Learn more about this: Request an account. How does this relate to the difficulty of creating multiple accounts on Wikipedia event days?

Subpages

 * Meetup how-to: Notes on resources and potential processes for hosting meetups and the organization around them
 * Friends: Wikipedians I've met on- and offline.
 * Done: Archive of things that have been to-done.
 * Charles E. LeGrand: My grandfather. Creating this subpage to help me learn about him through Wikimedia.
 * Dyslexia archive of todos, sitemap, and papers to read
 * Interacting with Wikimedians: Listing ways to get to know and thank other Wikimedians
 * Sources For Veronica Chambers: To do and sources for Veronica Chambers article