Wikipedia:GLAM/Balboa Park/Wiki Culture Crawl

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Wiki Culture Crawl at Balboa Park
 * at WikiConference North America


 * The Wiki Culture Crawl will occur on October 7, 2016. The event precedes the upcoming WikiConference North America, which will be held during October 8–10, and is dedicated to GLAM-Wikipedia activities at Balboa Park, an historic San Diego hub that is home to more than 15 museums and cultural institutions.


 * Members of the public, novices, experienced Wikipedia editors, and cultural/museum professionals are all welcome. It is designed to be the largest one-day collaboration ever between Wikipedia contributors and the GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) community. This page is for showcasing newly-created and improved content, including photographs, and facilitating article collaboration.


 * Wiki Culture Crawl is free to the public and professionals, but registration is required to participate.

when


 * Friday, October 7, 2016, 9:30am to 5pm

where
 * Balboa Park, San Diego, California
 * Registration: Hattox Hall patio, Old Globe Theatre
 * Venue: Hattox Hall, Old Globe Theatre

Participation
There are a number of ways to participate, from simple to more advanced:
 * Provide a reference material list, that would help Wikipedia editors improve the article
 * Provide the reference books, artifacts, or other support material in the meeting room
 * Identify necessary improvements to articles, and if not fixing them yourself, add appropriate cleanup tags
 * Make a curator, expert or experienced docent available for assistance in critiquing or over the shoulder co-editing the Wikipedia articles in question with experienced editors
 * Work with Wikipedia editors to video or audio record a review of the Wikipedia article by a curator or staff member, which can be saved and referred to later
 * What to bring: A laptop, a tablet, an advanced cell phone with a web browser. The entire park has free high speed Wi-Fi Internet.



Art, architecture, and archaeology

 * Aim I (Alexander Liberman, 1980), San Diego Museum of Art
 * Big Open Skull (Jack Zajac), San Diego Museum of Art
 * Border Crossing, also known as Border Crossing / Cruzando el Rio Bravo (Luis Jimenez, 1989), San Diego Museum of Art
 * California State Building Frontispiece
 * Casa del Prado
 * Cubi XV (David Smith), San Diego Museum of Art
 * El Cid Campeador
 * Figure for Landscape (Barbara Hepworth), San Diego Museum of Art
 * May S. Marcy Sculpture Garden
 * Mother and Daughter Seated (Francisco Zúñiga), San Diego Museum of Art
 * Museum of Photographic Arts
 * Night Presence II (Louise Nevelson, 1976)
 * Night Visions
 * Odyssey III (Tony Rosenthal, 1973), San Diego Museum of Art
 * Reclining Figure: Arch Leg, also known as Reclining Figure, Arched Leg (Henry Moore), San Diego Museum of Art
 * Solar Bird (Joan Miró), San Diego Museum of Art
 * Sonata Primitive (Saul L. Baizerman), San Diego Museum of Art
 * Spinal Column (Alexander Calder, 1968), San Diego Museum of Art
 * San Diego Convention Center
 * Starlight Bowl (San Diego) amphitheater in Balboa Park
 * The Prodigal Son (Auguste Rodin), San Diego Museum of Art
 * The Watchers (Lynn Chadwick, 1960), San Diego Museum of Art
 * The Youthful Diana
 * Two Lines Oblique: San Diego (George Rickey, 1993), San Diego Museum of Art


 * Art, architecture, and archaeology biographies


 * Jack Welpott (1923–2007) California photographer
 * James Arthur O'Connor (1792–1841) Irish painter, one of whose works can be seen at the San Diego Museum of Art
 * Juan de Valdés Leal (1622–1690) Spanish painter whose "The Visitation" was acquired by the San Diego Museum of Art in 2014
 * Linda Connor (born 1944) California photographer whose work is in the Museum of Photographic Arts' permanent collection
 * Robert Mosher (1920–2015) San Diego architect, work includes west wing of San Diego Museum of Art


 * Draft:Jen Trute (1960–2011) San Diego painter
 * Draft:Jonathan Segal (fl. 1988–present) San Diego architect, Woodbury University faculty member


 * Arthur Lavine (1922–2016) photographer who retired to San Diego
 * Arthur Ollman (born 1947) founding director of Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego State University professor
 * Don Bartletti (born 1947) Southern California photographer, Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography (2003)
 * Duncan McCosker (born 1944) San Diego photographer, University of San Diego professor
 * Giuseppe de Gobbis (1730 – after 1787) Italian painter whose work is in the San Diego Museum of Art's permanent collection
 * Margaret Noble (artist) (born 1972) San Diego sound artist and educator
 * Robert Weingarten (born 1941) Southern California photographer
 * Susan Rankaitis (born 1949) Southern California photographer, Fletcher Jones Chair in Studio Art at Scripps College
 * Resources
 * "100 Works of Art to See Before You Die in San Diego"
 * Smithsonian Institution's Save Outdoor Sculpture! Program (Balboa Park)
 * References

Biology

 * Plants


 * Acer paxii or evergreen maple Camera-photo Upload.svg
 * Afrocarpus gracilior or yellowwood
 * Butia capitata or jelly palm
 * Calodendrum capense or Cape chestnut Camera-photo Upload.svg
 * Cassia leptophylla or gold medallion tree
 * Erythrina caffra or African coral tree
 * Erythrina falcata or Brazilian coral tree Camera-photo Upload.svg
 * Erythrina humeana or Natal coral tree
 * Livistona chinensis or Chinese fan palm
 * Markhamia lutea (Markhamia hildebrandtii is a synonym)
 * Paulownia kawakamii or sapphire dragon tree
 * Ravenea rivularis or majesty palm


 * Brahea brandegeei or San Jose Hesper palm


 * Animals


 * Arboreal salamander or Aneides lugubris
 * Coast horned lizard or Phrynosoma coronatum
 * Crotalus cerastes laterorepens or Colorado Desert sidewinder Camera-photo Upload.svg
 * Crotalus oreganus helleri or Southern Pacific rattlesnake
 * Desert night lizard or Xantusia vigilis
 * Garden slender salamander or Batrachoseps major
 * Granite night lizard or Xantusia henshawi
 * Orange-throated whiptail or Aspidoscelis hyperythra
 * Sceloporus occidentalis longipes or western fence lizard
 * Switak's banded gecko or Coleonyx switaki Camera-photo Upload.svg
 * Texas spiny softshell turtle or Apalone spinifera emoryi Camera-photo Upload.svg
 * Two-striped garter snake or Thamnophis hammondii
 * Urosaurus nigricaudus or black-tailed brush lizard
 * Western yellow-bellied racer or Coluber constrictor mormon


 * Chionactis occipitalis annulata or Southern Pacific rattlesnake
 * Hypsiglena torquata ochrorhyncha or spotted night snake
 * Masticophis fulginosus or Baja California coachwhip
 * Peninsular leaf-toed gecko or Phyllodactylus xanti nocticolus
 * Pituophis catenifer annectens or San Diego gopher snake
 * Sceloporus vandenburgianus or southern sagebrush lizard
 * Western leaf-nosed snake or Phyllorhynchus decurtatus
 * Uma notata or Colorado Desert Fringe-toed Lizard

Legend: image requested
 * Biology biographies
 * Ethel Bailey Higgins (1866–1963) San Diego botanist ,
 * Resources
 * WikiProject Tree of Life
 * WikiProject Plants
 * WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles
 * The book describes 106 of the 348 species of trees in the park, and contains maps and photographs to aid in locating one specimen of each - especially useful for photographers.
 * References
 * References

Culture and society

 * Cultural institutions
 * Museum of Photographic Arts
 * San Diego Automotive Museum - in Balboa Park just off above map to SW; their library is closed stack, but extensive and open without an appointment
 * San Diego History Center - their library, adjacent to the Model Railroad Museum, is closed stack, and only open until 1 p.m., but key material is online
 * San Diego Model Railroad Museum - their library is large, open stack, open without an appointment, and, because San Diego is a popular place to retire to, geographically diverse in its holdings
 * Culture and society biographies
 * Gloria Johnson (activist) (1937–2013) San Diego women's rights and LGBT activist
 * Rita Sanchez (born 1937) Chicano studies academic at San Diego Mesa College

Earth sciences

 * Geology


 * Brawley Formation
 * Cabrillo Formation
 * Elsinore Fault Zone
 * La Jolla Formation
 * Ocotillo Formation
 * Point Loma Formation
 * Rose Canyon Fault
 * San Diego Formation


 * Earth sciences biographies
 * Ian Eisenman climate scientist, Jerome Namias Chair at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
 * Mark Thiemens geochemist at UCSD, elected to National Academy of Sciences in 2006
 * Shang-Ping Xie (born 1963) climate scientist, Roger Revelle Chair at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
 * William R. Young (fl. 1982–present) oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, elected to National Academy of Sciences in 2012
 * Resources
 * WikiProject Geology
 * References

Education

 * NewSchool of Architecture and Design
 * Educators
 * Mary Chase Walker (1828–1899) San Diego's first schoolteacher
 * References

Engineering and technology

 * Flash (photography) - early history of magnesium wire, flash powder, and flash-lamps is weak
 * Engineering and technology biographies
 * Edgar Schmued (1899–1985) designer of North American P-51 Mustang and other aircraft, retired to Oceanside

History

 * Chips (dog) (born 1939 or 1940; died 1946) the Veterans Museum and Memorial Center has a small exhibit about Chips
 * San Diego History Center
 * History biographies
 * Sybil Stockdale (1924–2015) Coronado advocate for prisoners of war, co-founded National League of Families
 * Walter Carl Simon (1890–1971) World War I flying ace

Language and literature

 * Language and literature biographies
 * Draft:Valerie Sutton (born 1951) San Diego dancer who developed movement notations for dance (DanceWriting) and sign language (SignWriting)

Law

 * Edward J. Schwartz United States Courthouse
 * Law biographies
 * Gordon Thompson, Jr. (1929–2015) federal judge in San Diego
 * J. Lawrence Irving (born 1935) former federal judge in San Diego

Media

 * Media biographies
 * Draft:José Santiago Healy Loera (born 1957) Tijuana journalist and publisher
 * Neil Morgan (journalist) (1924–2014) editor of The San Diego Union-Tribune, author of San Diego-related books
 * References

Politics and government

 * Politics and government biographies
 * Sherri Lightner (born 1950) councilmember for San Diego City Council District 1, retiring in November due to term limits

Sport and recreation

 * Lipton Cup (San Diego) Southern California's oldest sailing trophy
 * Over-the-line - beach variation of softball created in San Diego in 1953
 * Sport and recreation biographies
 * Gene Richardson (1928–1997) San Diego baseball player, played for Kansas City Monarchs
 * John Ritchey (1923–2003) San Diego Padres baseball player, first African American to play in the Pacific Coast League
 * Neale Henderson (born 1930) San Diego baseball player, played for Kansas City Monarchs
 * Skip Calkins (born 1912 or 1913; died 1978) San Diego naval architect
 * References

Transport

 * California State Route 163
 * Narwhal (ship) (built 1883) steam whaler with long and storied career, scrapped in San Diego Bay in 1933
 * San Diego Automotive Museum - in Balboa Park just off above map to SW; their library is closed stack, but extensive and open without an appointment
 * San Diego Model Railroad Museum - their library is large, open stack, open without an appointment, and, because San Diego is a popular place to retire to, geographically diverse in its holdings
 * Transportation in San Diego
 * Transportation in San Diego County
 * Transport biographies
 * Lillian Boyer (1901–1989) 1920s wing walker who settled in San Diego
 * Resources
 * WikiProject U.S. Roads
 * WikiProject U.S. Roads/California


 * Add your suggestion(s) here!

WikiThree options for institutions
WikiThree: a project to have cultural institutions focus on three articles related to their collections to improve.


 * San Diego Natural History Museum
 * Ecology of California
 * Citizen science
 * Water in California
 * Mingei International Museum
 * Japanese lacquerware
 * Mingei
 * Japanese pottery and porcelain
 * San Diego Museum of Man
 * Kumeyaay astronomy
 * History of beer
 * Amarna
 * Cannibalism (smaller articles: Endocannibalism and Exocannibalism)
 * Reuben H. Fleet Science Center
 * Nathan Sawaya
 * San Diego County Water Authority
 * San Diego Gas & Electric
 * Museum of Photographic Arts
 * Yōsuke Yamahata
 * Nature photography
 * Stereoscopy
 * San Diego Air & Space Museum
 * Consairways
 * Ryan Aeronautical Company
 * Rohr Inc.
 * 90th Operations Group
 * Apollo 9
 * Science and inventions of Leonardo da Vinci
 * Ninety-Nines
 * Fran Bera (born 1924 or 1925) American aviator


 * San Diego History Center
 * Irving Gill (1870–1936) American architect
 * History of San Diego
 * Category:Ethnic groups in San Diego (e.g. Jewish history of San Diego)
 * San Diego Museum of Art
 * Arthur Putnam
 * Juan Sánchez Cotán (1560–1627) Spanish painter
 * Dye-transfer process
 * Ruknuddin (17th century) Indian painter

Outcomes
After you've created or improved an article, please list your contributions below and add Template:Wiki Culture Crawl 2016 to article talk pages.

New content

 * 1)  Botanical Building
 * 2)  Big Open Skull, San Diego Museum of Art
 * 3)  Consairway
 * 4)  El Cid Campeador (sculpture), Plaza de Panama
 * 5)  House of Pacific Relations International Cottages
 * 6)  May S. Marcy Sculpture Garden, San Diego Museum of Art
 * 7)  Odyssey III, San Diego Museum of Art
 * 8)  Mother and Daughter Seated, San Diego Museum of Art
 * 9)  San Diego History Center
 * 10)  Solar Bird, San Diego Museum of Art
 * 11)  Spanish Village Art Center
 * 12)  Spinal Column (sculpture), San Diego Museum of Art
 * 13)  The Prodigal Son (sculpture), San Diego Museum of Art
 * 14)  Mary Chase Walker
 * 15)  Fran Bera

Categories: San Diego Museum of Art

Improved content

 * 1) California State Route 163
 * 2) San Diego Natural History Museum
 * Add your work here!

Follow up

 * 1)  Bea Evenson Fountain
 * 2)  Woman of Tehuantepec
 * Add your work here!

Gallery

 * Add your images to the gallery below!

I am still in the process of uploading and categorizing the several hundred photographs I took during my time in San Diego, and I won't add them all here, but folks are welcome to view my gallery at Commons. --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 04:11, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

Remote participants

 * Remote attendees are welcome to participate in adding and improving content, but will not have access to the on-site resources. Please enter your Wikipedia user name below.


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On-site participants

 * 1)  Sounder  Bruce  17:26, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 2) 98.174.142.53 (talk) 16:56, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 3)  Another Believer  ( Talk ) 18:33, 13 September 2016 (UTC)
 * 4) Artoria2e5 emits crap 17:20, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 5) BlkMtn (talk) 19:11, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 6) Ckoerner (talk) 16:53, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 7) Cullen328   Let's discuss it  16:54, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 8) Dominic·t 18:26, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 9) A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 17:02, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 10) Frankcjones (talk) 17:13, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 11) Fuzheado &#124; Talk 16:53, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 12) Geraldshields11 (talk) 18:30, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
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 * 14) James F. (talk) 19:32, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
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 * 31) Wildtoast (talk) 18:44, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 32) Worldbruce (talk) 15:12, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
 * 33) (t)  Josve05a  (c) 18:26, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 34)  Imzadi 1979   →   16:54, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 35) v/r - TP 16:55, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 36) &mdash;  Rhododendrites  talk  \\ 05:25, 8 October 2016 (UTC)