Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia/WikiSalon 2021-11-13

Philadelphia WikiSalon, November 13, 2021 ''This page archives a past event. Do not edit the contents of this page.''

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Agenda for WikiSalon, November 13, 2021: This month will be a work session. Bring your questions or something you want to work on!

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
List your name by adding the following line. * ~
 * Dorevabelfiore (talk) 16:03, 13 November 2021 (UTC). - Doreva
 * NMcNinney (talk) 16:48, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Bob Burch
 * ArtLover113 (talk) 17:05, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
 * DrKathyShaginaw (talk) 17:10, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk)

Demonstration
There will be no demonstration this month.


 *  Demonstration archive

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!

Projects

 * See the Signpost for an article about WikiProject Craft: Is writing Wikipedia like making a quilt?, by Mary Mark Ockerbloom, Dilettante Army and Pharos, September 26, 2021

Articles (new and updated)

 * Virginia H. Holsinger
 * Isabel Morgan
 * Agnes Pockels
 * Slip casting
 * Rosemary Gillespie (biologist)
 * Richard Wright (author)
 * Mary Virginia Orna - color chemist and historian/archaeologist
 * Mary Belle Allen - demonstrated the action of chloroplasts in photosynthesis
 * John Duffy - medical historian
 * Thanksgiving dinner - Updated with photographs from various people last year as part of the WikiSalon's project to upload our own photographs to Commons

Events

 * Fall 2021 #CiteNLM Edit-a-thon - hosted by the National Library of Medicine - running the entire month of November, 2021.
 * Participation information link
 * PACSCL Wikidata Edit-a-thon- African American and LGBTQIA History - Thursday, 18 November 2021, 2:00-4:00pm EST hosted by Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL)
 * Registration link
 * KC Black History Edit-a-thon - hosted by the Kansas City Public Library and the CST
 * Registration link
 * Flyer to share

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.''


 * Are photos from “Find A Grave” free of copyright restrictions? I ask because it appears to be an important source of photographs for people of historical significance.
 * Photos from Find a Grave are user/community supplied, so their copyright is not verified on upload. I would recommend taking a look at the photo and trying to do a reverse image search (Tin Eye, Google Image Search) if the photo is not credited. You might be able to find another copy of the photo online, which might indeed reveal its copyright status. At the very least, you might get additional information from which to start a copyright search. Dorevabelfiore (talk) 03:54, 15 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Can you say something about how the “short descriptions” tag is used? It’s at the top of many (but not all) Wikipedia articles.
 * The Short Description appears at the top of articles in the Desktop View if you have the *ShortDesc* helper set in the *Gadgets* section of your profile preferences. It also shows by default on mobile views of articles. It is meant to be a very short description that explains the scope of the article. Dorevabelfiore (talk)


 * It has been reported that many people around the world research Wikipedia using mobile and tablet devices. Is there a best practice for editors to follow to make their articles mobile-friendly?

Answers to previous questions can be found here:
 * Question archive

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 - User:Jim.henderson ?
 * Wiki Loves Monuments - Kevin Payravi, User:SuperHamster?
 * WikiQuotes - ?
 * Wiki newspapers -- Pete Forsyth?
 * Wikisource, Jim Hayes?
 * Project, speaker ~

Infoboxes
You can watch a Demonstration.
 * Add infoboxes to articles that need them or add more information to Wikidata to fill infoboxes that build on Wikidata. You can find articles in need of help at this Category. The articles are listed with links to their talk page; Click on the talk page link and then on "Article".

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

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:

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

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!

Mária Telkes
Mária Telkes was an early innovator in engineering solar heating for homes, known as the "Sun Queen". The cited Distillations article could be used for fact-checking and further expansion.

Isabel Morgan
Isabel Morgan did work on influenza, pneumonia, eastern equine encephalomyelitis, Streptococcus infections and made a critical breakthrough on polio. The cited Distillations article could be used for fact-checking and further expansion.

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.

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)

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)
 * Done! The photo is now in the Commons. I've also added it to the Wikipedia article about Beano and will soon begin work on the Holsinger article. Thanks for identifying the photograph. Nolabob (talk) 20:45, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

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.

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.

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. Dorevabelfiore (talk) 17:56, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

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.
 * Doreva is researching Ruth Siems and stuffing! Dorevabelfiore (talk) 03:54, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

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))

Ceilometer
Ceilometers use visible light or invisible lasers to observe the cloud base. The article needs inline citations.

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)

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)

Slip casting
Slip casting is a ceramic forming technique whose article needs citations.

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

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.

Corning Museum of Glass
In the Corning Museum of Glass art and science meet as equals. The museum is absolutely stunning, but the Wikipedia page about it needs a bit of help -- and lots of citations.

Provincetown Art Association and Museum
Provincetown Art Association and Museum needs citations and could use better images, possibly including this portrait of an art student.

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)

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. workin on this - I remember reading this memoir in college. I look forward to helping rewrite to article!
 * NMcNinney (talk)

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).
 * Doreva is working on this one. Dorevabelfiore (talk) 13:51, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

Winfred Rembert
Winfred Rembert barely escaped lynching at age 21, and spent time in prison. After his release, he became a renowned artist, creating colorful images of the South by carving and dyeing leather. He died recently; his Wikipedia page could use a little love.

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!
 * NMcNinney (talk) 16:20, 10 April 2021 (UTC) continuing to work on this - learning a lot about the USA Communist Party in the 1930s and 40s.

The Southside Writers' Group
south side writers group is an important part of the black renaissance and the Great Migration. Founded in part by Richard Wright, I discovered in my previous editing that this page is merely a "stub" and there is so much that can be said on the group! *NMcNinney (talk) 18:19, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

Wrap Up: Thanks and praise
What did you work on today?

Thank you everyone!