Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia/WikiSalon 2020-07-11

Philadelphia WikiSalon, July 11, 2020  ''This page archives a past event. Do not edit the contents of this page.''

Zoom call link: Join the Zoom Meeting for WikiSalon If you are asked for an ID or password, use Meeting ID: 819-4956-6322 Password: 12345

Agenda for WikiSalon, July 11, 2020: Feel free to add to sections of the following proposed agenda before and during the meeting. We will archive each agenda after the event.

If something is wrong on Wikipedia, you can help us fix it!

Expectations
''If you are new to Wikipedia, we hope you will create an account and make at least one edit during this session. If you have experience already, we hope you will share what you're doing or learn something new. Let us know in the Chat or during introductions what your goals are.''

Attendees
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 * Dorevabelfiore (talk) 15:25, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 16:00, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Pharos (talk) 16:00, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Jim.henderson (talk) 16:13, 11 July 2020 (UTC) Silly me I didn't see this page earier
 * Bob Burch Nolabob (talk) 16:15, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Secundus Zephyrus (talk) 16:12, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Bogytroy (talk) 16:14, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * MssLibrarian (talk) 16:18, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * DrX (talk) 17:56, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

Special mentions
If you've created a new article lately, or had a "Did You Know" featured, add that too!
 * Caroline Dutcher Sterling Choate (NEW) - Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 03:40, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I continue to improve the Wilhelm Ostwald article and have added a passage to the William C. Edenborn article concerning his vast estate which was contested in the courts for many years. A lawyer friend of mine helped me with the legal research needed for that passage. I'd appreciate any opinions on whether the legal citations in that passage are consistent with Wikipedia's guidelines for formatting references. Nolabob (talk) 21:27, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I had my very first "Did You Know" featured: the article Deafula, which is a 1975 horror film, and the first ASL film ever made. - Secundus Zephyrus (talk) 16:39, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Button accept.png Antonia Maury has been improved. Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 14:47, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

Demonstration

 * Demonstration to occur in real-time: Adding Finding Aids to Wikipedia articles


 * Link to Demonstration Video in Commons:


 * Link to PDF tutorial in Commons:


 *  Demonstration archive
 * What other demonstrations would you be interested in seeing?

Questions
''Add questions that you have about Wikipedia or Wikipedia projects (Encyclopedia articles, Wikimedia Commons images, Wikidata) either here or in the Chat. Also feel free to suggest resources in response, and discuss during WikiSalon.''

0. '''You mentioned at the beginning about the possibility of uploading things from archives to Wikipedia Commons. How would we know which things we have permission to add there?'''
 * Public domain images (Anything published before 1925 is public domain in the United States; there are additional rules that get more complicated)
 * Images whose license allows for commercial use AND reuse
 * An example search on google for releaseable items for cheese, the key test in the search is "Labeled for reuse with modification"


 * Reproductions of public domain works cannot be recopyrighted. See Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp. However, derivative works which significantly change and adapt public domain images can be copyrighted.

1. '''“Information about how to find public domain jpeg files ... would be of help to some of my students.”'''
 * Finding Public Domain & Creative Commons Media, Harvard Law School Library
 * Example Google Search on "cheese" for reusable items

2. '''“Information about how to ... get permission to use a non-public-domain jpeg would be of help to some of my students.”'''
 * The creator of a work must agree to release an image under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International or another acceptable license. They will need to go through this online release generator and also send an email with an id generated from the form to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org, to give permission.

3. "I'd appreciate having an on-going discussion of Wikipedia's sister projects during the WikiSalon meetings."
 * Last month, we had an excellent discussion of WikiData. Most of us probably also use Wikimedia Commons. But the Wikipedia has many other sister projects for which I'd like to learn more. Nolabob (talk) 21:32, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Video: A fun introduction to Wikidata, from the Library of Wales, 2020
 * Video: An example of adding awards to Women in the Royal Society
 * Official Wikimedia sister projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation
 * WikiProjects, over a thousand informal focus groups within Wikipedia
 * see WikiProject Council/Directory
 * e.g. WikiProject Women in Red
 * e.g. WikiProject_Medicine
 * Formally defined organizations more independent of Wikipedia
 * Wiki Project Med Foundation, founded 2012, not sure of current status
 * Wiki Education, founded 2013
 * Art+Feminism, on tumblr founded 2014
 * AfroCROWD founded 2015

4. "In general, what level of sophistication of the audience should Wikipedia articles aim for?"
 * Should it be like World Book Encyclopedia or Britannica Encyclopedia or something higher or something lower? Nolabob (talk) 15:17, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * This may depend in part on the article. Ideally the goal is to communicate clearly to someone who may have little knowledge of the topic, someone at an entry level.
 * Science communication can be particularly challenging (also math). The Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University teaches science communication.
 * Medical articles require a higher level of sourcing (MEDRS), based on scientific publications rather than popular science or news sources, to ensure that they can be relied on for accurate information.

Request collaboration
Add articles that you want help with here.
 * Raquel Salas Rivera - There are interesting questions here of gender definition for non-binary individuals that might be interesting and informative to discuss. Thanks. Dorevabelfiore (talk) 22:21, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

More articles that need work
The following articles could use work: feel free to edit any that catch your interest. You can add your name after something to show that you are working on it, and add if you feel the article is sufficiently improved to be taken off next month's worklist. You can also suggest new ideas.

You can also find articles to work on at these projects: Women in Red's Articles and Drafts needing improvement; ArtAndFeminism's Tasks (outdated but many articles still need work); Category:Women scientists; Category:Women scientists articles needing infoboxes; Category:Women's history stubs; Category:Scientist stubs and Category:Science stubs.

Barbara Chase-Riboud
Barbara Chase-Riboud is an African-American visual artist, sculptor (The Malcolm X Steles), novelist (Sally Hemings: A Novel), and poet. There's a lot of unsourced information on the page about her, and a long list of further readings that are potential sources.

Iole de Freitas
Iole de Freitas is a Brazilian sculptor, engraver, and installation artist. The page about her has quite a lot of information but desperately needs sources. There do seem to be online sources available, but most are in Spanish. This could be a good candidate for testing the interlanguage links as demonstrated in the session.

Maria Martinez
Maria Martinez was a Native American artist who was known internationally for her pottery. There's a lot of unsourced information on her page, and a lot of quotations need to be checked against their sources if anyone has access to print copies.

Ealy Mays
Ealy Mays is an  African-American artist based in Paris. The article about him has a lot of information and some good sources but lots of paragraphs need citations.

Ada "Bricktop" Smith
Ada "Bricktop" Smith was an American dancer, jazz singer, and vaudevillian, who owned the nightclub Chez Bricktop in Paris. Lots of interesting material and possible sources, but it needs a good cleaning up and solid citations (as so many do...)

Sylvia Snowden
Sylvia Snowden is an African American abstract painter. The page about is written too much like a resume; it lists a lot of possible resources but doesn't say much. Searching google with the "Books" option suggests quite a few published sources that mention her.

Isabella Tree
Isabella Tree is a British author and travel journalist. Her page may have conflict of interest issues and needs sourcing.

Richard Wright
American author Richard Wright (author) has an extensive article but it is missing a lot of citations. Plenty of material is available, someone just needs to do some searching for sources.

Aron K. Barbey
Aron K. Barbey is an article with medical research, and as such needs much more scientifically valid references that a usual Wikipedia article. See Why MEDRS? for more information about the standard required.

Margarita Colmenares
Margarita Colmenares is an American environmental engineer and activist and the first woman to serve as President of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, More could be said about her and her work using the sources currently cited on the Wikipedia page. Newer sources would also be helpful.

Christiana Figueres
Christiana Figueres is a is a Costa Rican diplomat involved in developing the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The page needs to be rewritten in a more objective manner and properly sourced.

Michela Gallagher
Michela Gallagher is another article required sourcing at a MEDRS level.

William A. Haseltine
William A. Haseltine is an HIV/AIDS and human genome researcher. The page about him is extensive but needs inline citations to support the information given. Medical information needs medically-credible sources, not just anything.

Saul Hertz
Saul Hertz was an innovator in medical uses of radioactive iodine. His article needs a careful review for accuracy of claims, and solid sourcing.

Nancy Hopkins
Nancy Hopkins is a molecular biologist at MIT who has worked on gene expression, viruses, and zebrafish. The article has a lot of unsourced sections and there are materials available.

Antonia Maury
Antonia Maury was an American astronomer who published an important early catalog of stellar spectra, and one of the Harvard Computers, a group of female astronomers and Human Computers at the Harvard College Observatory. The Wikipedia article about her could be expanded and sourced by adding additional citations from the list of "Further reading" at the end of the article.
 * Button accept.png Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 02:38, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Ynes Mexia
Mexican-American botanist Ynes Mexia collected at least 145,000 plant specimens during her career, 500 of which were new species. Most were from Mexico, Peru, and Colombia. Her Wikipedia article needs a lot of help, both organizationally and due to copyright issues. You can see possible copyright violations needing rephrasing at this Copyvio detection report.
 * Doreva is working on this one. Dorevabelfiore (talk) 22:03, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

Jan Nolta
Jan Nolta works on stem cell-related regenerative medicine. The page about her needs a careful review and better sourcing.

Ralph E. Oesper
Ralph E. Oesper was a chemist and historian of chemistry. The article about him needs sourcing.

Wilhelm Ostwald
Chemist and rare earth scientist Wilhelm Ostwald received a Nobel Prize in 1909, but the Wikipedia page for him is sadly neglected. It could use a thorough review and additional inline citations.
 * Bob Burch working on this one. Nolabob (talk) 16:13, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

Otto Schott
Chemist Otto Schott invented borosilicate glass. His article needs sourcing.

Susan Schneider
Susan Schneider writes about the philosophical nature of the mind and self, often in relation to artificial intelligence and cognitive science. The article about her needs critical review and checking of all statements and sourcing.

Elke U. Weber
Elke U. Weber is a Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University where she studies the ways in which we think about risk. Stubby article needs a little love.

Evelyn J. Fields
Evelyn J. Fields was a hydrographer and a leader in NOAA and with the NOAA Corps. Her page is not cited well and her accomplishments need clarification and to be listed in chronological order.
 * Will be working on this one Drlauraguertin (talk) 17:08, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

Thanks and praise
What did you work on today?

Thank you everyone!