Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia/WikiSalon 2020-08-08

Philadelphia WikiSalon, August 8, 2020
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Zoom call link: Join the Zoom Meeting for WikiSalon If you are asked for an ID or password, use Meeting ID: 819-4956-6322 Password: 12345

Agenda for WikiSalon, August 8, 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.

If something is wrong on Wikipedia, you can help us fix it!

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

Please edit this section to add the line * ~~~~

Jim.henderson (talk) 18:56, 7 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Dorevabelfiore (talk) 15:50, 8 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Bob Burch Nolabob (talk) 15:58, 8 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 16:00, 8 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
MssLibrarian (talk) 16:02, 8 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
NMcNinney (talk) 16:08, 8 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Elysia (AR) (talk) 16:30, 8 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Special mentions

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

I have recently done extensive edits to the article about scientist and polymath Wilhelm Ostwald, although the article still needs more work. Nolabob (talk) 15:37, 8 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Demonstration

Demonstration to occur in real-time: Adding Finding Aids to Wikidata items

Link to Demonstration Video in Commons:

Wikisalon Wikidata Adding Finding Aids.webm Adding archival finding aids to Wikidata

Link to PDF tutorial in Commons: Wikidata Finding Aid PDF tutorial

Additional Videos:
- Video: A fun introduction to Wikidata, from the Library of Wales, 2020
- Video: An example of adding awards to Women in the Royal Society

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.

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

If you're interested in learning (or talking about) a particular project, let us know!
- Elysia Webb: Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life

What is the difference between Wikidata and Wikisource?

Wikidata is a database of structured data that stores and links information in a machine-readable way and can be used by computers to provide information and answer research queries.
Wikisource is a project for crowd-sourced editing and proofreading of online editions of previously-published out-of-copyright written works, which then become freely available to readers.
Wikibooks also provides books, but their books are collaboratively written by project volunteers, e.g. open-source textbooks and cookbooks. So someone who wanted to study a novel from 1920 might find the original text on Wikisource, but if they wanted to write a teacher's guide for it, must use Wikibooks.

More articles that need work

The following articles could use work: feel free to edit any that catch your interest. You can add your name after something to show that you are working on it, and add if you feel the article is sufficiently improved to be taken off next month's worklist. You can also suggest new ideas.

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.

Art and Feminism

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.

Isabella Tree

Isabella Tree is a British author and travel journalist. Her page may have conflict of interest issues and needs sourcing.

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.

NMcNinney (talk) 18:06, 8 August 2020 (UTC) is going to take a stab at this as my first project![reply]

NMcNinney (talk) 19:02, 13 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

it appears someone has been making edits and citations already

Sciences

Aron K. Barbey

Aron K. Barbey is an article with medical research, and as such needs much more scientifically valid references that a usual Wikipedia article. See Wikipedia:Why MEDRS? for more information about the standard required.

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.

Christiana Figueres

Christiana Figueres is a is a Costa Rican diplomat involved in developing the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The page needs to be rewritten in a more objective manner and properly sourced.

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.

Saul Hertz

Saul Hertz was an innovator in medical uses of radioactive iodine. His article needs a careful review for accuracy of claims, and solid sourcing.

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.

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.

Doreva is working on this one. Dorevabelfiore (talk) 22:03, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Jan Nolta

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

Ralph E. Oesper

Ralph E. Oesper was a chemist and historian of chemistry. The article about him needs 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]

Otto Schott

Chemist Otto Schott invented borosilicate glass. His article needs sourcing.

Susan Schneider

Susan Schneider writes about the philosophical nature of the mind and self, often in relation to artificial intelligence and cognitive science. The article about her needs critical review and checking of all statements and sourcing.

Elke U. Weber

Elke U. Weber is a Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University where she studies the ways in which we think about risk. Stubby article needs a little love.

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?

I look forward to the practice session next month, so that we can put into practice these excellent demonstrations that we've had the last few WikiSalons. I also particularly appreciated learning about permalinks today. Nolabob (talk) 21:26, 8 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you everyone!