Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia/WikiSalon 2022-02-12

Philadelphia WikiSalon, February 12, 2022 ''This page archives a past event. Do not edit the contents of this page.''

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Agenda for WikiSalon, February 12, 2022: 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. * ~
 * Doreva (talk) 16:44, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Bob Burch
 * Chrysanthemum123 (talk) 17:04, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
 * econterms (talk) 17:19, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 17:35, 12 February 2022 (UTC)

Demonstration
There will be no demonstration this month. You are welcome to review last month's demonstration on Editing and Enhancing Wikidata Entries, with a special focus on entity and property data for WikiProject Craft, in our  Demonstration archive. We will work further on this dataset this month.

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

 * Women in Red's 2022 year-long initiative will focus on  Climate
 * WikiProject_Craft

Did You Know's

 * Mary Zicafoose, 6,013 views

Articles (new and updated)

 * Ornament (magazine)
 * Robert W. Tebbs
 * International Congress of Entomology (possible images of entomologists)

Events

 * February 2022 -- Afrofuturist Period Room   virtual edit-a-thon
 * Kansas City Public Library Events
 * Wikimedia DC Events
 * Smithsonian Events

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. Answers to previous questions can be found in our Question archive''.


 * Regarding sister projects, I'd be interested in learning how to use the "sister links" tag in Wikipedia articles, for example:


 * Another question: How do you use and when do you use the "Add a Note" feature on Wikimedia Commons.


 * I'd appreciate having an on-going discussion of Wikipedia's sister projects during the WikiSalon meetings.


 * I'd be interested in a short refresher on how to use the WikiLibrary. It's an important topic and seems non-intuitive, at least to me. (Maybe a cheat sheet would be a useful thing.)

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!


 * 1) Wikivoyage - User:Jim.henderson ?
 * 2) Wiki Loves Monuments - Kevin Payravi, User:SuperHamster?
 * 3) WikiQuotes - ?
 * 4) Wiki newspapers -- Pete Forsyth?
 * 5) Wikisource, Jim Hayes?
 * 6) Project, speaker ~

Work To Do!
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!

Sheila Minor
Sheila Minor had a 35-year-long career at various federal agencies and was responsible for assessing environmental impact statements. The article is a bit messy and doesn't follow Wikipedia style in formatting.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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))
 * Bob Burch is working on this one. Nolabob (talk) 14:35, 8 February 2022 (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)

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)

Edgar Anderson
The American botanist Edgar Anderson has a stubby article that could use some expansion and citation, and perhaps a public domain image might be found.

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.
 * Doreva is working on this. Unfortunately the Ebony Magazine from 1958 is in copyright. But there are other sources to add! Dorevabelfiore (talk) 16:52, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

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)

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)

Ginny Ruffner
Ginny Ruffner has some sources, but the article says almost nothing about her actual work as a glass artist.

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.

The Southside Writers' Group
The 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)

Suggested articles

 * John Vickers (abolitionist) and Elijah Pennypacker were Philadelphia-area abolitionists, active in the underground railroad. For a comparable article, see Bartholomew Fussell.
 * Victoria Donohoe, art critic and historian
 * Dorothy Grafly, art critic, editor and feature writer
 * Members of the American Craft Council College of Fellows are notable and some need pages! See the Show/Hide list of fellows at the bottom of the Wikipedia page for red names.

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

Thank you everyone!