Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia/WikiSalon 2021-03-13

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Agenda for WikiSalon, March 13, 2021: March's Philadelphia WikiSalon will work on  editing Wikipedia articles and on celebrating Women's History Month.

WikiSalon is skills-oriented, and monthly sessions alternate between demonstrations of new skills and work sessions to practice skills.  Demonstrations are 5-10 minutes long (with an accompanying tutorial video and pdf) and target a specific skill related to Wikipedia, Wikidata, or Wikimedia Commons. Attendees share what they are working on, ask Questions, and get feedback and support. Many of our regulars are librarians, archivists, professors or people interested in digital humanities and the sciences, but you don't need to be a scientist or librarian to attend or to work on the tasks or articles that we suggest. You can always work on topics that interest you.

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Attendees

 * Bob Burch. Nolabob (talk) 17:03, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
 * MssLibrarian (talk) 17:05, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Doreva Dorevabelfiore (talk) 17:20, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 17:21, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
 * econterms (talk) 17:21, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
 * DrKathyShaginaw (talk) 17:23, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Roslyn ArtLover113 (talk) 17:23, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

Special mentions
If you want to talk about something that you're working on, or you've created a new article or had a "Did You Know" featured lately, add that here!
 * Articles ready to "graduate": Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey and Evelyn J. Fields.
 * New: African American scientists and technicians on the Manhattan Project
 * New: Schwegmann Brothers Giant Supermarkets. Nolabob (talk) 22:00, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Significant upgrades to the article on science historian Ralph E. Oesper. I also created a new Commons category and a WikiData article. Nolabob (talk) 22:00, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm working on Draft:Patricia S. Hu, director of the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics, and would welcome assistance. -- econterms

Demonstration

 *  Demonstration archive

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.''

I often use archived newspaper articles to research my Wikipedia projects. Is there a newspaper database that you'd recommend (and hopefully is low cost?)
We had a very active discussion of this question at the February WikiSalon! Here is a list of suggestions for finding sources.


 * The Online Books Page Serials list: links to free-to-use public domain serials, by title. They are using Wikidata to map copyright renewals for serials. This decision tree walks through the steps in determining if something is out of copyright. If you want to release images from a serial, you should check both the first issue renewed for the serial and whether there were any image renewals, which could be registered separately.


 * The Wikipedia Library Card Platform can help Wikipedia editors get access to resources that would otherwise require payment, including:
 * Ancestry.com
 * WP:Newspapers.com


 * Historic American Newspapers, between 1777-1963, from the Library of Congress

These projects are trying to build out information about newspapers on Wikipedia, and may have useful information or people who know about a particular newspaper.
 * News On Wiki
 * WikiProject Newspapers
 * WikiProject Newspapers/Black owned newspapers

I'd appreciate having an on-going discussion of Wikipedia's sister projects during the WikiSalon meetings.
Suggested topics for future sessions: If you are interested in hearing about a particular project, or can talk about one, sign here to let us know!


 * WikiVoyage - Jim Henderson volunteers to talk about Wikivoyage
 * Wiki Loves Monuments - ask Kevin Pyravi, Superhamster?
 * WikiQuotes - ?
 * Wiki newspapers -- Pete Forsyth?
 * Project, speaker ~

A discussion of infoboxes at an upcoming WikiSalon would be useful, I think

 * Particularly useful might be a discussion of templates for infoboxes, where to position them in articles, and how to tailor them. Nolabob (talk) 21:58, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

Task 1 : Add Presidents of the Ecological Society of America to Wikidata

 * Use this list of Presidents of the Ecological Society of America to create or expand Wikidata items about people and indicate that they were presidents of this national association. The list of presidents includes links to articles from the society's journal that also could be used as sources to expand Wikidata or Wikipedia.
 * Example: Victor Ernest Shelford

Task 2 : Interlanguage Link Templates
You can watch a Demonstration.


 * Go to this list of Women scientists by nationality or a similar list and look at the subcategories of nationalities. Click through to find articles of interest. Open the article and look for red links (or unlinked names) and search for the red-linked text on Wikidata or google to see if there are Wikipedia articles in English or other languages. Add ills as needed.
 * Go to almost any list of foreign-language writers (c.f. List of Spanish women writers) and click on an article. Look for red links and search for the red-linked text on Wikidata or google to see if there are Wikipedia articles in English or other languages. Add ills as needed.
 * Example: La sonrisa vertical
 * Example: Andityas Soares de Moura

Task 3 : Library Resources Templates
You can watch a Demonstration.


 * Consult this list of women science writers and add a library resources box to their page. Use the author namestring (e.g. Faye Flam) to look up the appropriate viaf ID (e.g. VIAF ID: 6861455) on viaf and fill it in.
 * Example:
 * Many of the editions at A Celebration of Women Writers were created before there were Library Resources Templates. Since we already know there are online books by these authors, you can search Wikipedia for articles about these authors and add to the bibliography or external links section. Use the author's namestring (e.g. Adami, J. George (John George), 1862-1926) to look up the appropriate viaf ID (e.g. VIAF ID: 62289315) on viaf and fill it in.
 * Example:

Task 4 : Adding Archival Finding Aids to Wikidata
You can watch a Demonstration.

The finding aids in these lists have already been added to the external links section of relevant Wikipedia articles, where such articles exist.
 * You can add finding aids from the Spreadsheet of American Civil Rights and Abolitionist History Finding Aids hosted via PACSCL to Wikidata and update the list to show what you have done.
 * You can add finding aids from the Spreadsheet of William Way LGBT Center Archives Finding Aids hosted via PACSCL to Wikidata and update the list to show what you have done.


 * Example: Barbara Gittings Wikidata Entry - Archives at property

Task 5 : Editing Articles
You can use some of the following lists to identify articles to work on, or look at our suggested articles below. We note what needs to be done for each article.

Finding articles that need work

 * Women in Red's Articles
 * Women in Red's Drafts needing improvement
 * ArtAndFeminism's articles by Task
 * Category:Women scientists
 * Category:Women scientists articles needing infoboxes
 * Category:Women's history stubs
 * List of climate scientists
 * Women and climate from December 2020's WikiConference session
 * Women in Red is focusing on Climate and environment  in January
 * Category:Scientist stubs and Category:Science stubs

''Please add your signature with 4 tildes ~ under any article that you work on. Thank you!

Calutron Girls
The Calutron Girls were recruited by the Tennessee Eastman Company to monitor equipment for the isolation of uranium as part of the Manhattan Project. Barely a stub at present, needs expansion.

Lochie Jo Allen
Among other things, Lochie Jo Allen was a pioneer in the scientific publication and inclusion of women in fisheries. Needs expansion.

Florence Merriam Bailey
Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey was an American ornithologist and nature writer. This article needs additional sourcing. Doreva has some scans for you to reference if you need.

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.

Verona Conway
Verona Conway is a behavioral ecologist. Her article could use some formatting and more sources.

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)

Rosemary Gillespie
Rosemary Gillespie is an evolutionary biologist. The page about her needs sources.


 * I will start working on this one - I look forward to learning more about her! NMcNinney (talk) 16:14, 10 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Question for the experts: This photo contains Gillespie, and it's from the The Plant Press: A QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER FROM THE BOTANY DEPT (NMNH) AND THE U.S. NATIONAL HERBARIUM. Is this considered public domain/US government work as it came from the NMNH/US National Herbarium and it was taken by one of their staff members? SI webpages terms of use states that anything they post that is not marked as CC0 is copyrighted. Any thoughts? Thanks! Dorevabelfiore (talk) 16:48, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

Hazel Henderson
Hazel Henderson is an author, television producer, and environmental activist who focuses on ethical markets. Her page needs more inline citations. Doreva has at least one source that she can share. (Dorevabelfiore (talk) 03:49, 8 December 2020 (UTC))

Virginia H. Holsinger
Virginia Holsinger was a food scientist who helped develop Lactaid and Beano. Needs sources.
 * Flickr has a CC-BY-2.0 photo of Beano that could be uploaded to Commons to illustrate this article. Dorevabelfiore (talk)

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.

Laura Huenneke
Laura Huenneke, president of the Ecological Society of America. Needs expansion and sourcing.

Isobel Wylie Hutchison
Isobel Wylie Hutchison was an early arctic explorer, botanist and painter! Her page is fairly long but needs a good read-through and lots more citations.

Amelia Laskey
Amelia Laskey was an American amateur naturalist and ornithologist. Her article is sparse and could use some expansion and increased sourcing. Doreva has some scans to share.

Ann Haven Morgan
Ann Haven Morgan was an American zoologist and ecologist. Her article could use some expansion and sourcing. Doreva has some scans to share.

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

Agnes Pockels
Agnes Pockels (1862–1935) was a pioneer in the study of surface tension. Her page needs a good read-through and the addition of sources.

Althea Rosina Sherman
Althea Sherman was an educator, illustrator and ornithologist. She created the Chimney Swifts' Tower to study the lifecycle of chimney swifts. Her article could use some love and additional sources. Doreva has scans to share.

Ruth Miriam Siems
Ruth Miriam Siems invented Stove Top Stuffing, getting the crumb size just right so it would be neither hard nor soggy. This article needs more sources and expansion.

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.

Hazel Wolf
Hazel Wolf was an American/Canadian environmental activist. Her article is a stub that needs sourcing and some expansion. Some sources are listed on the Talk page. Doreva also has at least one print source for a citation that she can share with anyone. (Dorevabelfiore (talk) 03:39, 8 December 2020 (UTC))

Joan Luedders Wolfe
Joan Luedders Wolfe was an American environmental activist. Her article is a stub that needs sourcing and some expansion. Doreva has at least one print source for a citation that she can share with anyone. (Dorevabelfiore (talk) 03:39, 8 December 2020 (UTC))

Gas lighting
Gas lighting desperately needs more inline citation of sources to confirm that what it says is true!
 * This is certainly an important topic, and it has 44 references as is. But many statements are unsupported by references.  Perhaps it would be worth discussing how to handle this article. Nolabob (talk) 00:14, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
 * This is certainly an important topic, and it has 44 references as is. But many statements are unsupported by references.  Perhaps it would be worth discussing how to handle this article. Nolabob (talk) 00:14, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

Film preservation
Film preservation is a long complicated article which started out with little sourcing. I've worked on the first four sections so far, and found that careful fact checking is needed: some statements appear to be incorrect. Lots more work needs to be done. Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 14:59, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm up for the challenge. This is a great and worthy topic for archivists. Dorevabelfiore (talk) 00:54, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

F. Stuart Chapin III
The article for F. Stuart Chapin III needs some careful sourcing and detangling- from related generations. He is an Alaskan ecologist; his grandfather F. Stuart Chapin was a sociologist, and I believe his father was F. Stuart Chapin Jr. (1916–2016), a social scientist and urban planner.

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.

William and Lawrence Knox
William Jacob Knox Jr. and his brother Lawrence H. Knox were African American chemists who worked on the Manhattan Project. Their pages need some careful reading and reorganization. (I hear the voice of a high-school student when I read William's.)

Walter Lear
Walter Lear. medical doctor and health activist. Lots of archives with info, but almost no text in the article so far.

Ralph E. Oesper
Ralph E. Oesper was a chemist and historian of chemistry. The article about him needs sourcing.
 * I have completed editing of this article. A critical review by one of you would be good. Also, any thoughts on an image or photograph we might use in the article? Nolabob (talk) 20:35, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Image has been added. Perhaps we should consider this article to be complete, at least for the time being. Nolabob (talk) 00:10, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

Ellen Schulz Quillin
The botanist and museum director Ellen Schulz Quillin already has a decent article, but more sources are available to expand it. While no images are obvious to use, there may be some public domain images to be found with research.

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.

Anita Cornwell
Anita Cornwell wrote the first collection of essays by an African-American lesbian. Her article needs inline sources and expansion.

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.
 * Commons has some photos of de Freitas' works that could be categorized and used for a gallery on this page. Dorevabelfiore (talk) 23:10, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

Klaus Grutzka
Industrial artist Klaus Grutzka spent much of his working life in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The page about him has no sourcing. He may have a PACSCL entry (see below).
 * Finding aid to archival collections containing Grutzka's works Dorevabelfiore (talk) 23:13, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I think Grutzka is an excellent subject and a good article to upgrade. Since he was an artist, the article would greatly benefit from having images of his artwork. Do any of you know of any Grutzka artwork that is in the public domain and free of copyright restrictions? Nolabob (talk) 12:27, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Bob, I don't. However, the National Iron and Steel Heritage Museum has his entire personal collection, as the artist passed away in 2011. I would contact them to see if there is anything that might be able to be released as Creative Commons. Even if they won't release the artwork, maybe they could release a personal picture of the artist, since he is now deceased. Much would depend on the terms of the deed of gift. They might have some restrictions of "educational use/fair use only" or the like, which would be prohibitive for Commons. Good luck! Dorevabelfiore (talk) 01:05, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Website link
 * Exhibit Link
 * I sent the museum a note today, following your suggestion. Awaiting response. Fingers crossed. Nolabob (talk) 20:40, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

Harriet Jacobs
Harriet Jacobs wrote an influential account of slavery after her escape. Formerly a B-class article, this has been tagged as having inappropriate tone; it needs a thoughtful read-through for possible tone and bias. Then we can take off the flags.

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.

Joseﬁna Plá
Joseﬁna Plá had an amazingly diverse and influential career as an artist and writer in Paraguay. A fraction of her life is represented on the Wikipedia page, which needs expansion and citations. Watch out for errors: whoever wrote it initially equated "artist" (she was) and "painter" (she wasn't).

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.


 * NMcNinney (talk) 18:06, 8 August 2020 (UTC) is going to take a stab at this as my first project!

Wrap Up: Thanks and praise
Poll link

What did you work on today?
 * During today's WikiSalon, I created a WikiData item on defunct Pennsylvania garden and landscaping center Waterloo Gardens, Inc. (it's not yet complete). Nolabob (talk) 18:43, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Patricia S. Hu was also worked on and released!

Thank you everyone!