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The Chemical Heritage Foundation will be hosting a Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, June 20, 2013. This event is part of the Chemical Heritage Foundation's GLAM Initiative, in cooperation with WikiProject GLAM and the Wikipedian in Residence program.
The Chemical Heritage Foundation, 315 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA

If you have a favorite chemist, alchemist, or scientist help to write him or her into Wikipedian history! The Chemical Heritage Foundation is hosting a Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, June 20, 2013, as part of its GLAM initiative. Use the hashtag #GlamCHF on Twitter for this event.

Event Details

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Members of the CHF community and guests will have an opportunity to work on Wikipedia pages of interest to them, particularly those in the areas of the history of science, chemistry, and women in science. Activities may include editing pages, creating new pages, and adding images and metadata, with a focus on CHF’s collection of women scientists. Active Wikipedians and novices are welcome. Coaching will be provided. Please bring your own laptop.

WHAT: Creating and expanding existing Wikipedia pages about the history of science, particularly chemistry, and the role of women in science, drawing on materials and resources provided by the Chemical Heritage Foundation.

WHO: Open to CHF, Wikipedian visitors, and online Wikipedian participants. The museum tour is limited to 10 non-CHF participants; please RSVP before Wednesday, 19 June 2013 to reserve a space. If you do not have any experience editing Wikipedia, please be aware that this Edit-a-Thon will build upon the "What is Wikipedia" and "Wikipedia 101" talks given at CHF and PhillyDH, rather than repeating the information presented there.

WHEN: Thursday, June 20, 2013, 12:00 P.M.-4:00 P.M. E.D.T. (see the schedule below.) Snacks and drinks will be provided.

  • 12:00-1.00 Visitors Tour of the museum, rare book room, and archives (meet in main lobby)
  • 1.00-1.20 Orientation to the Edit-a-Thon and the target resources (Franklin Room)
  • 1.20-3.00 Editing (CHF staff and Visitors)
  • 3.00-4.00 Optional time; people may leave, others continue to edit, chat, or visit the museum until it closes at 4.00 p.m.

WHERE: Chemical Heritage Foundation 315 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2702 Tel: 215.925.2222. See Directions. The nearest subway stop is at 2nd and Market; the nearest Metro stop is Market East Station.

WHY: By increasing the number of pages on Wikipedia about chemistry, the history of chemistry, and the role of women in chemistry, this event can help to close the Wikipedia Gender Gap, and increase Wikipedia's scientific content. The Chemical Heritage Foundation has great resources in these areas, many of which are available online.

OTHER: Please bring your laptop or ipad. A limited number of ipads may be available for use by those who cannot bring their own computer to the event.

IMPORTANT: Please RSVP by adding your name to the list below AND emailing mockerbloom@chemheritage.org before Wednesday, 19 June 2013 because space is limited. If you are unable to attend, you can leave your name to receive information about possible future events.

HASHTAG: #GlamCHF People are welcome to participate online at any time, not just during the on-site event.

Participants

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We would love to include Wikipedians as guest coaches for the edit-a-thon, and to promote this event online under the hashtag #GlamCHF so that others can participate remotely. If you would like to participate, please email me at mockerbloom@chemheritage.org or edit this page to add yourself as a participant.

Searching for Chemical Heritage Foundation Resources

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Possible Topics

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See Brainstorming Topics for a more extensive list of ideas and possible topics suitable for the edit-a-thon.

Feel free to jump right in, edit some of these pages, and use the hashtag #GlamCHF or edit this page to let us know what you're doing.

indicates that work was done on an article: it does not mean that all the suggested work for that article was completed.

Women chemists

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CHF has a strong interest in women in science. More than forty women are featured in the Women in Chemistry oral history project, one of several Oral History Projects at CHF. Eight women are also featured in the Catalyst Series of videos of women in chemistry. WHYY used that material to create an hour-long program which is viewable on Vimeo.

Chemists

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The Oral History Program collects the stories of notable figures in chemistry and related fields, with over 425 oral histories that deal with various aspects of science, of scientists, and of scientific practices. Search oral histories, or the Chemical Heritage Foundation website as a whole, for articles on specific people.

History of Science

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CHF has information about many topics relating to the history of science. These were favorites in our brainstorming sessions.

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  • Chemical Heritage Foundation should not be edited by CHF employees -- it could use a section outlining the history of the organization and its leaders. Currently, only founder Arnold Thackray is mentioned; the current head, Thomas R. Tritton, is to be succeeded in August by German chemist Carsten Reinhardt, author of Chemical Sciences in the 20th Century: Bridging Boundaries. See announcement. It would also be desirable to add images representative of the work of the various departments (see the image uploads from CHF) and to improve the article's reference style. The Philadelphia Inquirer gave us a nice review last year.

More Women Scientists

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More ideas can be found at List of female Nobel laureates, List of female scientists before the 21st century, List of Women in Technology International Hall of Fame inductees, the She Blinded Me With Science Edit-a-thon, Ada Lovelace Day 2012, and the Harvard Women's History Edit-A-Thon page.

Possible Images

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Images can be shared on Wikimedia Commons if 1) They are in the public domain in all countries, or 2) CHF holds their copyright and grants permission for their use. Follow this link to Upload Image Files.

Images from CHF's collections

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Images from CHF's website should not be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons or Wikipedia unless their copyright status has been confirmed with someone at CHF. If you see an image on one of our pages that you would like to see on Wikimedia Commons, contact us, to see if it can be released. Please help us to ensure due diligence and good quality content. A number of images have been put online at Wikimedia Commons.

  • Other Images requested:
    • a picture of the library at the Chemical Heritage Foundation
    • a picture of Anna J. Harrison (checking copyright status)

Images from CHF's flickr collections

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Selected image sets already released on CHF's Flickr account could be moved to Wikimedia Commons for use in articles. Check the license on the image to see if it is under a shareable (CC-BY) license before moving. I would suggesting working with sets that involve books and objects, rather than people and events, since people attending events may have signed photograph release forms specific to that event. Flickr images may be lower resolution than the original images in the archives.

Specific Outcomes

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Some people edited more than one article; some people acted primarily as coaches.

New Articles

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5 new artices were created:

Edited Articles

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At least 17 artices were edited. The following list does not include articles in which the major change was addition of images or videos.

Images Added to Articles

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Videos added to articles

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New Image Requests

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  • a picture of the library at the Chemical Heritage Foundation
  • a picture of Anna J. Harrison (referred to image archivist to check copyright status)

Images added to Wikimedia Commons

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Following the Edit-a-thon

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  • Check Storify to see tweets and photos from this event.

Thank You!

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Thank you for your participation in the Chemical Heritage Foundation Edit-A-Thon , June 20 2013!
We appreciate your help, and hope to work with you at many more fun edit-a-thon events!
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