Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Oak Spring Garden Foundation Edit-a-thon

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Oak Spring Garden Foundation Edit-a-thon




 * As one of the web’s most visited reference sites, Wikipedia serves as a starting point for many individuals to learn about botany, gardening, landscape architecture and art history. Wikipedia is an openly editable resource, meaning that you can improve the quality and accuracy of Wikipedia entries. During this training, attendees will learn the basics of how to edit Wikipedia articles and practice their skills with experienced Wikipedians.

when


 * Friday, June 30, 2017 11AM-2PM

where


 * Oak Spring Garden Foundation
 * 1776 Loughborough Lane
 * Upperville, VA 20184

Worklists
Special Requests

Artists with minimal profiles or stubs (A stub is an article deemed too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject) • Barbara Regina Dietzsch (German Wikipedia)

• Dr. Caleb Hillier Parry

• Johanna Helena Herolt

• Margaret Stones

• Eliza Smith

• Mary Lawrance

• Jean Marie Morel

• Harriette Wilson

• Priscilla Susan Bury

• Mary Elizabeth Rosenberg

• Mary Roberts

• Sarah Lee

• Elizabeth Twining

• Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps

• Phoebe Lankester

• Clara Maria Pope

• Mary Gregory

• Jean-Francois Barriere

•  Margaret Ursula Brown Mee

• Margaret Wharton

Additional Artists • Elizabeth Blackwell

• Annie Allnutt Baroness Brassey

• Giambattista della Porta (Male)

• Marie-Antoine Careme (Male)

• Elizabeth Washington Gamble Wirt

•  Catherine Grace Frances Moody Gore

• Louisa Anne Meredith

• Augusta Innes Withers

• Arabella Elizabeth Roupell

•  Fanny Parkes Parlby

• Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper

• Charlotte Mary Yonge

• Elizabeth Keckley

• Berthe Hoola van Nooten

•  Isabella Mary Mayson Beeton

• Isabella Lucy Bird

•  Jeanne-Louise-Henriette Genet Campan

• Evelyn Cecil (birth name Alicia Amherst)

• Gertrude Jekyll

• Jane Loudon

Botanists, Taxonomists and Plants Collectors (This list was complied by the New York Botanical Garden for use during their 2016 and 2017 Plants and People edit-a-thons) • Isabella Abbott (reference 1)

• Annie Montague Alexander (reference 1)

• Agnes Arber

• Coe Finch Austin

• Mary Elizabeth Banning (reference 1, reference 2)

• Jeanne Baret

• Alma Joslyn Whiffen-Barksdale (reference 1, reference 2, reference 3)

• Margaret Elizabeth Barr-Bigelow (reference 1)

• Eugene P. Bicknell

• Louisa Bolus (reference 1)

• Mary Bowerman (reference 1

• Emma Lucy Braun (reference 1)

• Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (reference 1)

• Nathaniel Lord Britton

• Gertrude Simmons Burlingham (reference 1, reference 2)

• George W. Clinton

• Jane Colden

• William Dudley

• Franklin S. Earle

• Alice Eastwood (reference 1)

• Katherine Esau

• William C. Ferguson

• Helen Margaret Gilkey (reference 1)

• Emily Lovira Gregory

• Roy Halling

• Inez M. Haring (reference 1)

• Carolyn Wilson Harris

• Thistle Harris

• Homer Doliver House

• Shiu-Ying Hu (reference 1)

• Ellen Hutchins (reference 1, reference 2, reference 3)

• Sandra Knapp (reference 1)

• Matilda Knowles

• William Leggett

• Irene Manton (reference 1)

• Elizabeth McClintock reference 1, reference 2, reference 3)

• Margaret Mead

• Ynes Mexia (reference 1)

• Harold N. Moldenke

• George V. Nash

• Marianne North

• William Alphonso Murrill

• Charles Horton Peck

• Francis W. Pennell

• Susanne Renner (reference 1)

• Clark Thomas Rogerson

• Henry Parker Sartwell

• Sydney Mary Thompson

• Anna Schchian

• Effie A. Southworth

• John Torrey

• Lucien M. Underwood

• Anna Murray Vail (reference 1)

• Mary Ward

• Percy Wilson

Articles of interest
 * Botanical illustration

Articles by Category (Each category contains multiple articles)
 * Category:Botany
 * Category:Botanists
 * Category:Horticulture and gardening
 * Category:Plants
 * Category:Plant taxonomy
 * Category:Landscape design
 * Category:Landscape architecture
 * Category:Virginia
 * Category:Art history
 * Category:Architecture

Stubs to expand (A stub is an article deemed too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject)
 * Virginia

Related Wiki Projects
 * Women in Red:Botany

Artists with no Wiki page • Maigne Barriere

• Lydia Byam

• Lady Frances Howard

• Nancy Barnum

• Mary Bothwell Home Drummond

• Mary Eales

• Dame Ann Hamilton

• Sarah Matilda Parry

• Dorothea Eliza Smith

• Lise Cloquet

• Henrietta Maria Moriarty

• Sophia Reeve

• Margaret Lace Roscoe

• Countess Magdalena Morska

• Mary M. Griffin

• Isabella Gifford

• Helen R. Searle

• Jane E. Giraud

• Louise Pignot Leneveux

• Caroline Nourse

• Rebecca Nourse Bennet

• Sophina Gordon

• Elizabeth Wharton

Basics on editing Wikipedia

 * Five pillars and Core content policies
 * General notability guideline
 * Advice for scientists editing Wikipedia
 * Your first article
 * Help:Getting started
 * Cheatsheet for Wiki markup
 * Wiki Ed Foundation's online training modules
 * WikiProject Botany is a portal for collaborating in Wikipedia around botany subjects

Sources to cite

 * Oak Spring Garden Library
 * Smithsonian Libraries Botany & Horticulture Library
 * Smithsonian Gardens Research Page
 * Archives of American Gardens
 * Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Department of Botany-Includes references, tools and publication by botany staff, etc.
 * Taxonomic Literature (TL-2), Taxonomic Literature: A selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types (Stafleu et al.)
 * The Encyclopedia of Life
 * Biodiversity Heritage Library (with digitized copies of books, mostly pre-1923)

Articles improved

 * Elizabeth Blackwell (illustrator)
 * Anna Brassey
 * Giambattista della Porta ‎
 * Johanna Helena Herolt
 * Anna Maria Hussey
 * Sarah Bowdich Lee
 * Margaret Mee
 * Jacques le Moyne ‎
 * Albertus Seba
 * Margaret Stones
 * Elizabeth Twining
 * Harriette Wilson

Attendees

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 * Ariel Cetrone (WMDC) (talk) 15:07, 30 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Zfloehle (talk) 15:07, 30 June 2017 (UTC)


 * MargueriteMH2 (talk) 15:07, 30 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Phytanthrope (talk) 15:30, 30 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Didieraceae (talk) 15:31, 30 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Kachesj0 (talk) 15:31, 30 June 2017 (UTC)


 * holn0 (talk) 15:31, 30 June 2017 (UTC)