Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia/WikiSalon 2023-08-12

Philadelphia WikiSalon, August 12, 2023 on Zoom

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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.

Attendees
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 * Jim.henderson (talk) 17:44, 6 August 2023 (UTC) I'm failing to understand how to put references in WD; my specific case is here but I'm confident my ignorance goes much further.
 * Doreva
 * Dbiunno (talk) 16:09, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 16:12, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
 * econterms (talk) 16:51, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

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!

Group Review

 * Wikidata: Herbert Couper Wilson

Memoriam

 * Obituary David Thomsen (Dthomsen8) and Ingo Koll (Kipala), The Signpost

Events

 * Wikimania Singapore : 16–19 August 2023
 * Wikipedia NYC Events:  Great North American Wiknic NYC, August 27, 2023
 * September WikiSalon - Tool demonstration + Wikimania recap (September 9)
 * Newark -- Possible event for October
 * Philadelphia -- Possible in person event for October WikiSalon (October 14)
 * WikiConference North America, Toronto, Ontario, Canada — 9-12 November 2023
 * Smithsonian Events
 * Wikimedia DC Events

Projects

 * Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Contest 2023
 * Grants:Project/MSIG/Researching a North American Hub
 * WikiProject_Craft
 * WikiProject Women scientists (check Afd and Draft listings)
 * Women in Red initiative: Women in Peace and Diplomacy
 * WikiProject Skepticism

Questions
''Add questions that you have about Wikipedia or Wikipedia projects (Encyclopedia articles, Wikimedia Commons images, Wikidata) either here or in the Chat. Answers to previous questions can be found in our Question archive''.

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!


 * Have any of you done DYK reviews? If so, what has been your experience? Is there a template to follow?

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

Artificial reef
Artificial reef can be improved.

Bambooworking
Bambooworking can be improved.

Hildegard Peplau
Hildegard Peplau needs more sourcing, mostly in terms of her work.

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.

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)

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. working on this - I remember reading this memoir in college. I look forward to helping rewrite to article!
 * NMcNinney (talk)
 * NMcNinney (talk) 15:12, 8 July 2023 (UTC) I feel like this will be a good article to slide back in on...

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.

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)


 * I have been keeping my eyes open for books and articles on this group and have yet to find any. I will contine to keep my eye out for anything on the subject. NMcNinney (talk) 15:09, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

Gas lighting
Gas lighting needs serious scientific and historical improvement and likely some reorganization.

Suggested articles

 * John Vickers (abolitionist) was a Philadelphia-area abolitionist, active in the underground railroad. For articles on similar subjects, 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?


 * NMcNinney (talk) 15:10, 8 July 2023 (UTC) I have been out of wiki editing for a few years. Now that my life is back under control I hope to pick back up.

Thank you everyone!