Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia/WikiSalon 2022-01-08

Philadelphia WikiSalon
When and Where
Next date	Saturday, January 8, 2022
Time	12:00 noon – 2.00 pm
Location	Zoom!
Repeats	The second Saturday of each month.

Philadelphia WikiSalon, January 8, 2022 This page archives a past event. Do not edit the contents of this page.

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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, January 8, 2022: This month will be a work session. Bring your questions or something you want to work on!

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.

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Attendees

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Demonstration

This month will feature a demonstration on Editing and Enhancing Wikidata Entries, with a special focus on entity and property data for Wikipedia:WikiProject Craft.

Link to Demonstration Video in Commons:

WikiSalon Wikidata Editing and Enhancing Entries.webm

Link to PDF tutorial in Commons:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiSalon_Wikidata_Editing_and_Enhancing_Entries.pdf

Resource Materials for Editing Wikidata Entries for WikiProject Craft
- WikiSalon WikiProject Craft - Key Statements: [1], Reference sheet of key statements you can edit or add to Wikidata entries for WikiProject Craft. (Helpful to print out)
- WikiSalon WikiProject Craft Worksheet January 2022 [2] Working spreadsheet for WikiSalon WikiProject Craft - Practice your Wikidata skills by helping to edit Wikidata pages for artists, crafters, art organizations and craft techniques. Feel free to edit Wikipedia articles as you wish.

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!

Projects

Women in Red's 2022 year-long initiative will focus on Climate
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Craft

Did You Know's

Christian Street Historic District, appeared January 1st, 2022, 5,293 view!
Mary Zicafoose

Articles (new and updated)

Images

Arline Fisch's Hat (From American Metal Work, 1976 which is PD!)
Neda Al-Hilali with an unidentified work (From Sculpture in Fiber which is PD!)
Virologist Isabel Merrick Morgan at the Polio Hall of Fame
Grave of boxer Joe Frazier at Ivy Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia
Letitia Ann Sage, first British woman balloonist, 1785
Leon C. Megginson (From 1947 college yearbook which is PD!)

Events

January 1, 2022 -- Happy Public Domain Day! Every January 1st, new books, movies and music enter the Public Domain in the United States. See 2022 in public domain and this article from the Duke University Law School Center for the Study of the Public Domain for more information.
January 15 to February 5, 2022 -- #1Lib1Ref - For the past 6 years, the Wikipedia Library and others have been promoting a yearly campaign to encourage librarians to help add citations to Wikipedia by asking each librarian to add a reference (or more). If this interests you, feel free to check it out here.
February 2022 -- Afrofuturist Period Room virtual edit-a-thon

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.

Are photos from “Find A Grave” free of copyright restrictions? I ask because it appears to be an important source of photographs for people of historical significance.

Resources: Find A Grave, Tin Eye, Possible license template: {{PD-old-assumed}}

Photos from Find a Grave are user/community supplied, so their copyright is not verified on upload. A modern photograph of a gravestone has a copyright that belongs to the photographer who took the picture. (This does not make the information on the gravestone copyrighted.) Copyright of old photograph depends on who took a photograph and when, whether that information is still known, and whether and when it was first published, if that has occurred.
I would recommend taking a look at the photo and trying to do a reverse image search (Tin Eye, Google Image Search) if the photo is not credited. You might be able to find another copy of the photo online, which might indeed reveal its copyright status. At the very least, you might get additional information from which to start a copyright search. Dorevabelfiore (talk) 03:54, 15 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
"For an anonymous work, a pseudonymous work, or a work made for hire, the copyright endures for a term of 95 years from the year of its first publication or a term of 120 years from the year of its creation, whichever expires first." If a photograph on Find A Grave was taken at least 120 years before the current year (e.g. 2021-120=1901), it may be in the public domain. As of 2021, if a photograph was clearly taken before 1901, you can't find identification of the photographer or their death-date, and you can't find a published copy of the photo in a book or magazine, or find a copy online that gives more metadata and copyright information, you may be able to release it using the Wikimedia Commons licensing template {{PD-old-assumed}} If someone later finds evidence that it is still in copyright, it may be taken down. Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 02:19, 13 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Can you say something about how the “short descriptions” tag is used? It’s at the top of many (but not all) Wikipedia articles.

The Short Description appears at the top of articles in the Desktop View if you have the *ShortDesc* helper set in the *Gadgets* section of your profile preferences. It also shows by default on mobile views of articles.
It is meant to be very short: less than 40 characters, so maybe 4-6 words that explains the scope of the article (e.g. "American textile artist" "woodworking technique" "Nobel prize-winning chemist"). Dorevabelfiore (talk)

It has been reported that many people around the world research Wikipedia using mobile and tablet devices. Is there a best practice for editors to follow to make their articles mobile-friendly?

There are best practices that come into play at a variety of levels, such as principles for Responsive web design. Wikipedia's user interface (UX) for mobile was designed separately and independently from the historical desktop version, as is described here.
Many of the layout conventions for both mobile and desktop are determined at the level of the implementation. For desktop, many options exist and it is possible to choose skins that alter the interface.
Wikipedia has its own particular content policies and writing style -- factual, neutral point of view etc. The lead should be a brief summary of content, and establish notability.
There are general writing best practices that are consistent with Wikipedia style -- the ABC's "Accuracy, brevity, clarity" are certainly things to strive for.
Accessibility can also be useful for thinking about how to write.

"Make it easier for users to see and hear content including separating foreground from background." Accessibility guidelines often include suggestions like breaking up long paragraphs into shorter conceptually-related units, making sentences shorter and simpler, and using section headings to identify subtopics within a page.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines: WCAG 2.0 and Understanding WCAG 2.0. See for example this discussion of reading level, readability, and decoding.
WCAG 3.0 is under development.
What Are the Four Major Categories of Accessibility? PRINCIPLES: perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust.
Make Your Web Content More Readable: Tips and Tricks for More Effective Web Pages

Pages evolve over time. Even if they are well organized to begin with, they may not end up that way. It is useful to ask yourself what someone coming to a page might be looking for, and whether they will find it. Major reorganizations are challenging, but sometimes they are needed. It can help to rework a page in stages.

What tools can be useful in reviewing an article (your own or others)?

Earwig's Copyvio Detector is a very useful tool for checking for copyright violations: Paste in an article title and press "Submit". Higher numbers may indicate use of quotations, long titles, or long names of organizations or awards, all of which are fine. The "Compare" buttons will show you what is the same in the Wikipedia article and a given source. I use this as a final step to check my new articles for cut-and-pastes or rephrasings that are still a bit too close for comfort. Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 03:19, 13 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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

Regarding sister projects, I'd be interested in learning how to use the "sister links" tag in Wikipedia articles, for example: {{sisterlinks|auto=1|d=Q169943|wikt=y|n=y}}

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!

Wikivoyage - User:Jim.henderson ?
Wiki Loves Monuments - Kevin Payravi, User:SuperHamster?
WikiQuotes - ?
Wiki newspapers -- Pete Forsyth?
Wikisource, Jim Hayes?
Project, speaker ~~~~

Answers to previous questions can be found here:

Question archive

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.

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

Please add your signature with 4 tildes ~~~~ under any article that you work on. Thank you!

Women Scientists

Mária Telkes

Mária Telkes was an early innovator in engineering solar heating for homes, known as the "Sun Queen". The cited Distillations article could be used for fact-checking and further expansion.

Isobel Wylie Hutchison

Isobel Wylie Hutchison was an early arctic explorer, botanist and painter! Her page is fairly long but needs a good read-through and lots more citations.

Ellen Schulz Quillin

The botanist and museum director Ellen Schulz Quillin already has a decent article, but more sources are available to expand it. While no images are obvious to use, there may be some public domain images to be found with research.

Althea Rosina Sherman

Althea Sherman was an educator, illustrator and ornithologist. She created the Chimney Swifts' Tower to study the lifecycle of chimney swifts. Her article could use some love and additional sources. Doreva has scans to share. Dorevabelfiore (talk) 17:56, 3 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

Joan Luedders Wolfe

Joan Luedders Wolfe was an American environmental activist. Her article is a stub that needs sourcing and some expansion. Doreva has at least one print source for a citation that she can share with anyone. (Dorevabelfiore (talk) 03:39, 8 December 2020 (UTC))[reply]

More Science

Ceilometer

Y Ceilometers use visible light or invisible lasers to observe the cloud base. The article needs inline citations.

Film preservation

Film preservation is a long complicated article which started out with little sourcing. I've worked on the first four sections so far, and found that careful fact checking is needed: some statements appear to be incorrect. Lots more work needs to be done. Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 14:59, 6 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm up for the challenge. This is a great and worthy topic for archivists. Dorevabelfiore (talk) 00:54, 16 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Gas lighting

Gas lighting desperately needs more inline citation of sources to confirm that what it says is true!

This is certainly an important topic, and it has 44 references as is. But many statements are unsupported by references. Perhaps it would be worth discussing how to handle this article. Nolabob (talk) 00:14, 13 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Walter Lear

Y Walter Lear. medical doctor and health activist. Lots of archives with info, but almost no text in the article so far.

Edgar Anderson

The American botanist Edgar Anderson has a stubby article that could use some expansion and citation, and perhaps a public domain image might be found.

Women Artists and Writers

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.

Doreva is working on this. Unfortunately the Ebony Magazine from 1958 is in copyright. But there are other sources to add! Dorevabelfiore (talk) 16:52, 11 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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.

Commons has some photos of de Freitas' works that could be categorized and used for a gallery on this page. Dorevabelfiore (talk) 23:10, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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.

NMcNinney (talk)

workin on this - I remember reading this memoir in college. I look forward to helping rewrite to article!

Maria Martinez

Y 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.

Joseﬁna Plá

Joseﬁna Plá had an amazingly diverse and influential career as an artist and writer in Paraguay. A fraction of her life is represented on the Wikipedia page, which needs expansion and citations. Watch out for errors: whoever wrote it initially equated "artist" (she was) and "painter" (she wasn't).

Doreva is working on this one. Dorevabelfiore (talk) 13:51, 8 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ginny Ruffner

Ginny Ruffner has some sources, but the article says almost nothing about her actual work as a glass artist.

More Artists and Writers

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.

Provincetown Art Association and Museum

Provincetown Art Association and Museum needs citations and could use better images, possibly including this portrait of an art student.

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)[reply]

Wrap Up: Thanks and praise

What did you work on today?

Thank you everyone!