Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/AmericanArt COMM535



=American Art Editathon, February 11, 2014=

Work with students, curators, Wikipedia editors and newbies to improve articles related to American art. This is the first edit-a-thon for the class "Wikipedia and Public Knowledge" class and the general public is invited.

When

 * Tuesday, February 11th, 2014
 * 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Who

 * Students from Wikipedia & Public Knowledge (COMM 535), American University (professor Andrew Lih User:Fuzheado)
 * Wikimedia DC Community and the general public

What to bring

 * Laptop computer

Where

 * Smithsonian American Art Museum, McMillan Education Center
 * (1st Floor, east end of the building, near F Street entrance)
 * 9th & F Street NW, Washington, DC
 * Etherpad notes: http://notes.wikimediadc.org/p/AAM-editathon-2014

QUESTIONS? Contact snyders (@) si.edu or check out WikiProject Smithsonian

Attendees

 * 1) Fuzheado | Talk 21:45, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
 * 2) Callahanb (talk) 18:06, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
 * 3) 19 students from American University class
 * 4) Mark Christal and Holly Stewart from NMAI
 * 5) Dena Levitz, American University MAME
 * 6) Mackenzie Hill, American University Mlhill23
 * 7) Bailey Edelstein, American University Bailey614
 * 8) Duckduckstop (talk) 18:46, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
 * 9) chandler wiland
 * 10) Courtney O'Callaghan and Liz Cheng from Freer | Sackler

Maybe

 * 1) Geraldshields11 (talk) 23:22, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Women Artists

 * Women artists need your help! See "To Do" list from a prior meetup:  Women in the Arts - To Do List
 * User:Gobonobo/Gender Gap red list "To Do" list addressing gender gap

Additional articles that needs fixes or expansion

 * Nancy Grossman - needs infobox,
 * John Valentine Haidt - orphan, needs expansion and wikilinks -
 * Ferdinand Pettrich - stub, needs expansion and citations -
 * Paul Cadmus - bio needs expansion - mostly just list of works -
 * José Campeche - needs better citations, stylistic cleanup, ,
 * Arline Fisch - needs cleanup, expansion
 * John William "Uncle Jack" Dey - orphan
 * Beverly Pepper - needs additional sources, more information in info box
 * Bessie Callender - orphan
 * Will Barnet - needs infobox

Additional articles to be created

 * Robert Sperry - Sperry, Robert H., b. 1927 d. 1998 Ceramicist, Active in Seattle, Wash. , , , , ,
 * Nicholas Herrera -, ,
 * Bruce Moore -, a.k.a. E. Bruce Moore
 * John R. Grabach -, ,
 * Natalie Smith Henry - ,
 * Felipe Archuleta - Miamiller (talk) 03:06, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Excellent examples

 * Romaine Brooks

Reference generators
Can help you save time!
 * NY Times reference generator
 * Google Books reference generator
 * DOI reference generator (for journals)

Smithsonian databases and websites

 * Smithsonian Libraries Tools for the Researcher - links to resources, both free and subscription only
 * Smithsonian Collections Search Center - database of Smithsonian collection holdings
 * Archives of American Art collection descriptions, oral history interviews, & Journal articles: use the search box at aaa.si.edu

Artist infoboxes
The template for artist infoboxes is here: Template:Infobox artist

Artist stub templates

 * Template:US-artist-stub
 * American artist stub templates

Articles created

 * Natalie Smith Henry, Ctufarolo (talk) 16:44, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Felipe Archuleta - Miamiller (talk) 03:06, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Articles improved

 * Will Barnet, added infobox, by Geraldshields11 (talk) 21:10, 11 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Bessie Callender, no longer an orphan and removed tag, by Geraldshields11 (talk) 21:15, 11 February 2014 (UTC), added information about early career in painting and sculpting and added field to information box, by CMSnow14 (talk)
 * Beverly Pepper, added cite and removed tag, by Geraldshields11 (talk) 21:28, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
 * José Campeche, reordered cites, Geraldshields11 (talk) 21:33, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Paul Cadmus expanded biography- education & early career, 11 February 2014
 * Nancy Grossman completed infobox, expanded biography and added citation, Llljoyce (talk) 20:50, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Pamela Shields created page/ added citations- not a lot of info on her though. Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie added educational info/ links to universities/added citation Hufsakamal (talk) 17:15, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Felipe Archuleta created page, added references, picture of his exhibit at the American Art museum, added background information. Miamiller (talk) 03:10, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
 * John William "Uncle Jack" Dey, no longer an orphan and removed tag, by C meindl (talk) 04:05, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Bessie Callender, no longer an orphan (linked to from Wichita, Kansas page), added dates in bio, added citations by ArielEBarry (talk) 19:38, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Uploaded photos using the Wikimedia commons app. Contribution page can be seen here by Bailey614 (talk)
 * Joseph Mozier added photo of II Penseroso sculpture, by Mlhill23 (talk)Mlhill23Mlhill23 (talk)
 * Elaine de Kooning added photo of Merce Cunningham, by Mlhill23 (talk)Mlhill23Mlhill23 (talk)
 * Laura Wheeler Waring added photo of Marian Anderson, by Mlhill23 (talk)Mlhill23Mlhill23 (talk)
 * Louis Briel added photo of Arthur Ashe, by Mlhill23 (talk)Mlhill23Mlhill23 (talk)
 * José Campeche added sources, a gallery, and list of Campeche's artwork housed in the American Art Museum, Merimoocoww (talk)
 * Arline Fisch added birthdate to information box and information about schooling, by CMSnow14 (talk)
 * Arline Fisch added info box, added reflist, added citations, fixed references, added links to page in other articles BillOldham (talk) 01:33, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Arline Fisch, added info box, by wl3517a (talk)