Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia/WikiSalon 2020-06-13

Philadelphia WikiSalon, June 13, 2020
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Agenda for WikiSalon, June 13, 2020: Feel free to add to sections of the following proposed agenda before and during the meeting. We will archive each agenda after the event.

Expectations

If you are new to Wikipedia, we hope you will create an account and make at least one edit during this session. If you have experience already, we hope you will share what you're doing or learn something new. Let us know in the Chat or during introductions what your goals are.

Attendees

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Dorevabelfiore (talk) 15:42, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 15:52, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Drlauraguertin (talk) 16:02, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Bob Burch Nolabob (talk) 16:03, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Caroline Surman Cms2274 (talk) 16:12, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Special mentions

If you've created a new article lately, or had a "Did You Know" featured, add that too!

Demonstration

Demonstration to occur in real-time: Using interlanguage links in Wikipedia

Link to Demonstration Video in Commons:

Wikisalon Wikipedia Interlanguage Links Final.webm

Link to PDF tutorial in Commons:[1]

Demonstration archive
What other demonstrations would you be interested in seeing?

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.

1. Can I create a new article on Wikipedia using an article from another language Wikipedia?
- Yes! Starting with a Wikipedia article in another language can be very useful in creating a new article. Because Wikipedia requires everything on it to be released under a copyright license that allows reuse, there are no copyright issues. An existing article can give you a nice overview of what is known about the person. Be aware that requirements for sourcing may be very different on different language Wikipedias. English Wikipedia will require you to cite sources for all information; the other Wikipedia article is not a citeable source. Be sure to verify all your information; some very strange errors can creep in during translation. Check all names. By the time you go through the entire article, verifying, citing, and expanding, your final article may look very different from the article you started with!
  - Dexter Award ==> {{Interlanguage link multi|William Arthur Smeaton|de}} ==> Google translate ==> William Arthur Smeaton

2. What is the "Did you know" item referred to in the "Special mentions" section of this agenda?
- "Did You Know" (DYK) is a section on the main page of English Wikipedia. Twice daily, it lists several facts from new (or recently expanded) Wikipedia pages, one of which is accompanied by an image. For example, on 19 March 2020, the DYKs included "Did you know... that Jan Yager's artwork American Ruff (pictured) is made from discarded crack-cocaine vials and caps?" Hundreds or thousands of readers may click through to read each DYK article. To appear as a DYK, an article must meet several criteria, be nominated, and go through a review process. You can see more about this, including proposed DYKs under review, at Template talk:Did you know.

3. How are Article Ratings determined? Should we as Wikipedians be concerned about ratings of articles we've written or edited? How do we solicit a re-evaluation of an article we've written or edited?
- Everybody is concerned about the quality of the articles they write and there are many ways that quality is assessed on Wikipedia. As long as the article is good enough to avoid deletion and you are satisfied with the quality, don't worry too much. A page is always a moving target, so a rating may not accurately reflect what you are seeing on the page.
- Ratings of article quality, like many things on Wikipedia, tend to be community based. Featured quality and good quality articles go through an extensive community review process. Some WikiProjects may have their own standards for rating articles, e.g. Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/Assessment. Ratings supplied by different Wikiprojects may legitimately differ. At the end of the day, someone makes a judgement call and assigns a value to the page.
- Rating an article properly is a lot of work, so please be patient when requesting a rating. Generally all you need to do to get an article re-rated is to remove the rating on the article's talk page, leave a short note there and in the Wikiproject's talk page. Then wait six months.
- If you want a ballpark assessment, ORES software uses artificial intelligence to predict the rating an editor would give an article. It's fairly consistent, but can't detect some issues that a human will spot.
- A quick example: James M. Baxter as of this comment has a permanent ID of 961281489. To get the permanent ID, go to the article, click "permanent ID" in the left hand column and the number appears at the end of the URL. Then open https://ores.wikimedia.org/ui/, enter "enwiki", "article quality", put the permanent ID number in the big box and click "Give me results". Immediately scroll down, and ORES tells you that it predicts that an editor has a 63.5% chance of rating the article as "Start" but only 11.8% chance of rating it "C". For more information, see ORES.

4. “Information about how to find public domain jpeg files ... would be of help to some of my students.”
- Finding Public Domain & Creative Commons Media, Harvard Law School Library

5. “Information about how to ... get permission to use a non-public-domain jpeg would be of help to some of my students.”
- The creator of a work must agree to release an image under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International or another acceptable license. They will need to go through this online release generator and also send an email with an id generated from the form to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org, to give permission.

6. “What is the difference between the different projects? And what is the easiest for someone who is still learning to become a Wikipedian?”
- I gave a talk about this to PACSCL (Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries) on April 30, 2020. You can find the video recording of the talk along with slides and handouts here. Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 16:09, 4 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Request collaboration

Add articles that you want help with here.

For teaching purposes in general: New editors at the meeting - do you see only the visual editor, the edit source button, or both when you go to edit a page? Thanks! Dorevabelfiore (talk) 22:21, 9 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Raquel Salas Rivera - There are interesting questions here of gender definition for non-binary individuals that might be interesting and informative to discuss. Thanks. Dorevabelfiore (talk) 22:21, 9 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Atom Scientists”, Ebony magazine, 1949

Lloyd Quarterman, African american chemist, can anyone find "Atom Scientists: Ten Negro Scientists at Argonne Lab Help in Race to Harness Atomic Materials”, Ebony magazine, September 1949, pp. 26-28. SUCCESS! Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 18:10, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Blanche Lawrence
Cynthia Hall
Ella Tyree
Harold Evans
Herschel Wallace
Lloyd Quarterman
Phillip Sellars
Robert Pairs
Sylvanus Tyler
Virgil Trice

More articles that need work

The following articles could use work: feel free to edit any that catch your interest.

You can also find articles to work on at these projects: Women in Red's Articles and Drafts needing improvement; ArtAndFeminism's Tasks (outdated but many articles still need work); Category:Women scientists; Category:Women scientists articles needing infoboxes; Category:Women's history stubs; Category:Scientist stubs and Category:Science stubs.

Arts

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.

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.

Maria Martinez

Maria Martinez was a Native American artist who was known internationally for her pottery. There's a lot of unsourced information on her page, and a lot of quotations need to be checked against their sources if anyone has access to print copies.

Ealy Mays

Ealy Mays is an African-American artist based in Paris. The article about him has a lot of information and some good sources but lots of paragraphs need citations.

Ada "Bricktop" Smith

Ada "Bricktop" Smith was an American dancer, jazz singer, and vaudevillian, who owned the nightclub Chez Bricktop in Paris. Lots of interesting material and possible sources, but it needs a good cleaning up and solid citations (as so many do...)

Sylvia Snowden

Sylvia Snowden is an African American abstract painter. The page about is written too much like a resume; it lists a lot of possible resources but doesn't say much. Searching google with the "Books" option suggests quite a few published sources that mention her.

Richard Wright

American author Richard Wright (author) has an extensive article but it is missing a lot of citations. Plenty of material is available, someone just needs to do some searching for sources.

Sciences

Margarita Colmenares

Margarita Colmenares is an American environmental engineer and activist and the first woman to serve as President of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, More could be said about her and her work using the sources currently cited on the Wikipedia page. Newer sources would also be helpful.

William A. Haseltine

William A. Haseltine is an HIV/AIDS and human genome researcher. The page about him is extensive but needs inline citations to support the information given. Medical information needs medically-credible sources, not just anything.

Nancy Hopkins

Nancy Hopkins is a molecular biologist at MIT who has worked on gene expression, viruses, and zebrafish. The article has a lot of unsourced sections and there are materials available.

Antonia Maury

Antonia Maury was an American astronomer who published an important early catalog of stellar spectra, and one of the Harvard Computers, a group of female astronomers and Human Computers at the Harvard College Observatory. The Wikipedia article about her could be expanded and sourced by adding additional citations from the list of "Further reading" at the end of the article.

Ynes Mexia

Mexican-American botanist Ynes Mexia collected at least 145,000 plant specimens during her career, 500 of which were new species. Most were from Mexico, Peru, and Colombia. Her Wikipedia article needs a lot of help, both organizationally and due to copyright issues. You can see possible copyright violations needing rephrasing at this Copyvio detection report.

Jan Nolta

Jan Nolta works on stem cell-related regenerative medicine. The page about her needs a careful review and better sourcing.

Wilhelm Ostwald

Chemist and rare earth scientist Wilhelm Ostwald received a Nobel Prize in 1909, but the Wikipedia page for him is sadly neglected. It could use a thorough review and additional inline citations.

Bob Burch working on this one. Nolabob (talk) 16:13, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Evelyn J. Fields

Evelyn J. Fields was a hydrographer and a leader in NOAA and with the NOAA Corps. Her page is not cited well and her accomplishments need clarification and to be listed in chronological order.

Will be working on this one Drlauraguertin (talk) 17:08, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks and praise

What did you work on today?

Thank you everyone!