Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia/WikiSalon 2022-10-08

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Agenda for WikiSalon, October 8, 2022: This month will feature a demonstration on Searching Wikidata with SPARQL Queries. 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. * ~ 
 * Jim.henderson (talk) 19:48, 4 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Dorevabelfiore (talk) 22:52, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
 * econterms (talk) 00:01, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 15:50, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Bob Burch

Demonstration
This month will feature a demonstration on Searching Wikidata with SPARQL Queries.
 * Link to Demonstration Video in Commons:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiSalon_Searching_Wikidata_With_SPARQL_Queries.pdf
 * Link to PDF tutorial in Commons:


 *  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!

Resources

 * The Perfect Article

Jobs

 * Wikipedian In Residence (WIR) at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami, Florida

Did You Know's

 * GA from WikiProject Women in Green/Meetup/2, Developing Good articles for women and the environment -- Calutron Girls

Articles (new and updated)

 * Lory Schaff, leader in adult literacy education
 * Biomimicry Institute, cleanup

Events

 * Wikipedia NYC Events: Birds of NYC photo contest
 * Smithsonian Events
 * Wikimedia DC Events

Projects

 * Women in Red 2022 initiative: Women and Climate
 * WikiProject_Craft
 * Whose Knowledge? #VisibleWikiWomen2022 - Add images and write articles to increase women's visibility

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''.


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


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

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

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

Arantxa Colchero
Arantxa Colchero is a Mexican economist who specializes in public health issues and policy. This stub merits some expansion.

Nina Floy Bracelin
Nina Floy Bracelin was an American botanist who worked with Ynes Mexia and Alice Eastwood, but who often did not get credited for her contributions. This stub could be expanded.

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.

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.

Margaret Rudkin
Margaret Rudkin was the founder of Pepperidge Farm and the first woman to serve on the Board of Directors of the Campbell Soup Company. Her article could use some expansion and review, finer grained sourcing, and additional sources as possible.
 * The Remarkable Life of Margaret Rudkin

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)

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)
 * Per discussion at the February 2022 WikiSalon, I've started working on this one. While this has the makings of a high quality article, there's a long way to go. Assistance or further suggestions would be more than welcome. Nolabob (talk) 13:05, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

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.
 * 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)

Monnette Sudler
Monnette Sudler was a Philadelphia-based Jazz musician. She had a long career of collaborations, and her page could use some expansion and citations.

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)

Joseph Hart (Artist)
Doreva found Joseph Hart's biography in her Wikipedia travels. It's an example of a "list dump" that could definitely use sourcing and expansion. Hart is a printmaker from Brooklyn, NY. It could be an interesting challenge to flesh out.

Suggested articles

 * John Vickers (abolitionist) awas a Philadelphia-area abolitionist, active in the underground railroad. For comparable articles, see Bartholomew Fussell and Elijah F. Pennypacker.
 * Victoria Donohoe, art critic and historian
 * Dorothy Grafly, art critic, editor and feature writer
 * Olga Lander was a soviet-era Russian photographer. She has pages in other language Wikipedias, including Russian, French and German, but not in English Wikipedia. There is a commons category for her with at least 4 examples of her work.
 * 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!