Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia/WikiSalon 2024-04-13

Philadelphia WikiSalon, April 13, 2024 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
List your name by adding the following line. * ~
 * Dorevabelfiore (talk) 01:44, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 15:53, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Bob Burch
 * Dbiunno (talk) 15:57, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
 * econterms (talk) 16:06, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Demonstration
There will not be a demonstration this month. For previous demonstrations, see:


 *  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!

Articles (new and updated)

 * Robert H. Socolow, environmental scientist

Images
You can release your own photos on Wikimedia Commoms if they are not of a copyrighted work.

For anyone interested in downloading images, early Popular Mechanics published a truly astounding array of public domain photographs, including how to build a Malay Tiger Trap and photos from air shows.

Wikimedia Project and Tool Updates

 * GLAM/Newsletter/March 2024/Contents/WMF GLAM report:
 * Free OpenRefine course
 * GLAM CSI – Contributor Study Initiative with Andrew Lih


 * Just for fun: Have any of you played the game Wikiracing? If so, was it good?
 * I Made a Graph of Wikipedia... This Is What I Found - This video has some interesting information on Wikipedia's connectivity and communities that is relevant to this game, and fun to watch.


 * Agenda item: New draft report on a North American coalition ("hub") of user groups:   -- econterms invites input for next weeks Wikimedia Summit of WMF affiliates; and on Movement Charter

Events

 * Earth Day (April 22), in NYC (April 23, 2024), on Commons, May 1 – July 31, 2024
 * International Museum Day (May 18) and other activities throughout May on the theme of "Museums for Education and Research."
 * Wikipedia NYC Events
 * Wikimedia DC Events (no new events)
 * Smithsonian Events (no new events)

Group editing suggestion
I've worked on these two and would benefit from support to improve them and/or work up the courage to put them in mainspace. -- econterms / Peter M
 * Draft:Victor J. Evans
 * Moore College of Art & Design
 * the Anne Hill linking problem

Projects

 * WikiProject_Craft
 * WikiProject Women scientists (check Afd and Draft listings)
 * 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''.


 * How should we go about using the pronunciation tag in Wikipedia articles? This seems like a tricky thing for those of us unfamiliar with linguistics, yet it is important in many circumstances.
 * I believe that there are "online IPA translators" that do this. Do any of you have experience with these?


 * What is Meta-Wiki? How should we be using it, if we should be using it at all?
 * Is there a new quality assessment protocol? I've noticed lots of quality assessment banner shells being applied to the talk pages of articles on my watch list recently, evidently from bots.
 * Yes, I believe this is the WP:PIQA.   Dorevabelfiore (talk) 05:12, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Suggested topics
If you are interested in hearing about a particular project, or can talk about one, sign here to let us know!
 * Let's return someday to the Anne Hill project, meaning to find wikilinks to Anne Hill and delink or fix those which treat it as an article about a person. Similarly there may be other articles of the form "-- Hill" to be fixed.  -- econterms (talk) 00:53, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

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
 * Category:Scientist stubs and Category:Science stubs

Gas lighting
Gas lighting needs reorganization and citations to make it comprehensible.

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)

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)


 * Have you tried JSTOR and also Google Scholar? A quick search showed lots of hits, but I don't know if they are suitable references or not. Another idea is to ask the staff at the Amistad Research Center if they can help. Nolabob (talk) 22:13, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

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?