Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/NMAH COMM535 2015

National Museum of American History An Edit-a-Thon

The Smithsonian National Museum of American History, will be working with Wikipedia and American University class COMM535 and journalism professor Andrew Lih


 * When
 * Tuesday, February 10, 2015
 * 2:30 - 5:30pm


 * Who
 * Invited participants from the American University class and Smithsonian Institution. Unfortunately, because of the limited space in the reference library, the general public will be limited. Contact Andrew Lih or Diane Shaw (Smithsonian, ShawD at si dot edu) if you'd like to attend.
 * This gathering is part of a communications/journalism course taught by Andrew Lih at the American University on Wikipedia & Public Knowledge.


 * Where
 * National Museum of American History; phone (202) 633-3865
 * 14th St and Constitution Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20001 (directions here)
 * Fifth floor, reference library
 * Because the library is located in an area that is not open to the public, all visitors without Smithsonian i.d. will need to have a staff escort and will need to provide a picture i.d. and sign in with the guard at the main museum entrance to get a visitor's pass. The group will assemble just inside the Constitution Avenue main entrance, next to the Conestoga Wagon.
 * Early arrivees (by 2:30) can get a tour of the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, which houses the Smithsonian Libraries' collections of rare books and manuscripts on the history of science and technology, as well as a collection of international World's Fairs publications from the 19th and 20th centuries


 * What to bring
 * A fully charged laptop computer with charger (and extension cord if you have one!)
 * A picture i.d.


 * RSVP Required
 * Please sign up below if you plan on joining us. Space limited due to small venue.


 * Etherpad shared notes for today's event

Questions? Add your own

 * How do I RSVP?
 * Add your name to the list below if you plan on joining us remotely.


 * Can I share what I’m doing?
 * Yes, please feel free to share what you’re working on on your preferred social network using #glamwiki and invite your friends to join us remotely!


 * What can we photograph, and what can we release under a free license?


 * What sensitivities are there when dealing with artifacts and images of various categories of persons (such as members of ethnic groups, LBGTQ persons, persons with disabilities) that go beyond copyright and legal issues?
 * '''How do you persuade museum curatorial staff who value creating authoritative content that putting information about their collections (particularly sensitive information like biographical details of living or recently deceased persons) online in Wikipedia is not opening up the topic to vandalism or the perpetuation of erroneous information?

RSVP
Invite only or contact Andrew Lih

Yes
 * 1) User:Uncommon_fritillary - Diane Shaw
 * 2) COMM535 students (15)
 * 3) Fuzheado | Talk 18:29, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 4) Duckduckstop (talk)
 * 5) Djembayz (talk)
 * 6) User: HtMt_EA

Articles and content to work on

 * Articles related to the film-makers and persons profiled in the documentary The Legacy of Heart Mountain, which examines the Japanese American experience in a Wyoming prison camp during World War II (see the NMAH event page for Day of Remembrance. The film will be shown at NMAH on the anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 on Feb. 19, 1942, which led to the creation of internment camps for Japanese Americans, Italian Americans and German Americans). More information about the film is on the Content Media Group blog

Specific articles

 * Internment of Japanese Americans has a few names of associated persons in red needing articles, as well as "citation needed" and "clarification needed" notes. Sections could be added describing daily life in the camps, including sports (especially baseball) and the arts.
 * Propaganda_for_Japanese-American_internment - decent start, but very short. Could use a bigger media roundup of what newspapers of that era had printed.
 * Newsweek
 * Seattle area papers ,
 * "Heroic Editors in Short Supply During Japanese Internment" Newspaper Research Journal, 2002
 * Museum of the City of San Francisco archives
 * Heart Mountain Relocation Center - has dead links, use the external link checker to fix
 * More information on the Heart Mountain internment camp is on the Washington State Magazine website, the Densho Encyclopedia online, the WyoHistory.org site, and the Washington State University Libraries Digital Collections
 * Tuna Canyon Detention Station - seems to be the only one that is a red link (missing) in the main template Template:Japanese American internment camps
 * No Wikipedia page exists for the writer/producer of the Heart Mountain documentary, David Ono, and the producer/cameraman/editor Jeff MacIntyre [see http://www.heartmountainfilm.com/team/ for short biographies of both, and Ono's ABC7 bio]
 * No Wikipedia page exists for the Japanese American Nisei Congressional Gold Medal; see NMAH webpage.
 * Upload the medal image from Smithsonian here and reverse side, and make sure the copyright allows it.
 * For a similar topic with a Wikipedia article see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borinqueneers_Congressional_Gold_Medal )
 * The article for the Peruvian lyricist and composer Clotilde Arias could be expanded with information from the online exhibition Not Lost in Translation: The Life of Clotilde Arias
 * The article for the illustrator Crockett Johnson could be expanded with details from the NMAH online exhibition Mathematical Paintings of Crockett Johnson
 * Add more

Resources

 * Main webpage for the National Museum of American History
 * NMAH blog O Say Can You See?
 * NMAH Library book collection call number D769.8
 * the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture (to open in 2016)
 * Wikipedia GLAM/Smithsonian Institution to do list
 * Object groups from NMAH collections
 * NMAH Flickr photographs
 * Smithsonian Libraries NMAH Branch Flickr photographs
 * NMAH online exhibition Everybody: An Artifact History of Disability in America
 * Japanese American Internment Era Collection
 * A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution online exhibition about the WW2 detention camps
 * Women Mathematicians and NMAH Collections online exhibition
 * National Archives - Japanese Relocation and Internment During World War II
 * George and Frank C. Hirahara Photograph Collection from the Washington State University Libraries Digital Collections; although not in the public domain, textual information from the site could be used to enhance various articles
 * Japanese American Internment Collection from the Washington State University Libraries Digital Collections; although not in the public domain, textual information from the site could be used to enhance various articles
 * Add more

Websites, library catalogs, & databases

 * Flickr Commons, Smithsonian Institution - http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/
 * Smithsonian Institution Archives Collections Search - http://siarchives.si.edu/collections
 * Smithsonian Libraries catalog portal Tools for the Researcher
 * Smithsonian Libraries free databases and collections
 * Smithsonian Libraries article indexes and databases (some accessible only from terminals located in the library)
 * Smithsonian Collections Search Center
 * Add more

Help after the event

 * Teahouse, a friendly place to help new editors get started

About the NMAH
 Add more  - http://americanhistory.si.edu/

Results and outcomes

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Article creation

 * New articles
 * Japanese American Nisei Congressional Gold Medal
 * Tuna Canyon Detention Station
 * Jeff MacIntyre


 * Updated articles
 * Clotilde Arias (added references and biographical info, copyedited)
 * Internment of Japanese Americans (added information and a picture to the "Education in the camps" section)
 * David Ono (added information about the person and a picture of him)
 * Propaganda for Japanese-American internment (added information about propaganda printed in local Seattle newspapers)
 * Heart Mountain Relocation Center (added information about Life in Camp, including scouting info, and fixed/replaced/removed dead links)
 * Internment of Japanese Americans (added information on the Niihau Incident, included information on the pilot and his death)
 * Internment of Japanese Americans (added section entitled 'Sports in the Camps')
 * Images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons
 * Add more