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Philadelphia WikiSalon
When and Where
Next dateSaturday, April 10, 2021
Time12:00 noon – 2.00 pm
LocationZoom!
RepeatsThe second Saturday of each month

Philadelphia WikiSalon, April 10, 2021 This page archives a past event. Do not edit the contents of this page.

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Agenda for WikiSalon, April 10, 2021: This month we'll demonstrate adding infobox templates to Wikipedia pages.

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[edit]

Special mentions[edit]

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!

Demonstration[edit]

This month we'll demonstrate adding infobox templates to Wikipedia pages.

  • Link to Demonstration Video in Commons: Wikipedia Infoboxes and Wikidata
  • Link to PDF tutorial in Commons:

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

Questions[edit]

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 often use archived newspaper articles to research my Wikipedia projects. Is there a newspaper database that you'd recommend (and hopefully is low cost?)[edit]

We had a very active discussion of this question at the February WikiSalon! Here is a list of suggestions for finding sources.

  • The Online Books Page Serials list: links to free-to-use public domain serials, by title. They are using Wikidata to map copyright renewals for serials. This decision tree walks through the steps in determining if something is out of copyright. If you want to release images from a serial, you should check both the first issue renewed for the serial and whether there were any additional image renewals, which could be registered separately.

These projects are trying to build out information about newspapers on Wikipedia, and may have useful information or people who know about a particular newspaper.

Are there other open-source or freely available sources that you would recommend for images, magazines, journals, ebooks, or other materials?[edit]

Yes there are! Here are some sources that Wikipedians might find useful:

  • The Online Books Page - Curated links to public domain and other freely available items from across the internet, including many of the following sites.
  • Digital Public Library of America
  • Internet Archive
  • Internet Archive Scholar - For open full-text scholarly content - NEW and still under development March, 2021
  • Hathi Trust - Some content is public domain and freely accessible. Other content is only available with single-sign-on from a member university, such as UPENN, Temple University, Penn State University, etc.
  • Google Books - Some content is freely accessible. In some cases, you can find enough information in previews to make citations.
  • Library of Congress Digital Collections
  • PA POWER Library Resources
    • Books, Movies and More --> Interlibrary loan catalog for the State of Pennsylvania, see your local library for loan details
    • PA Photos and Documents ---> Historical primary source documents - photos, maps, correspondence, journals, newspapers
    • E-resources ---> Licensed journals, newspapers and e-books - Requires PA library card or e-card for access

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

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 - Jim Henderson volunteers to talk about Wikivoyage
  • Wiki Loves Monuments - ask Kevin Pyravi, Superhamster?
  • WikiQuotes - ?
  • Wiki newspapers -- Pete Forsyth?
  • Project, speaker ~~~~

A discussion of infoboxes at an upcoming WikiSalon would be useful, I think[edit]

Particularly useful might be a discussion of templates for infoboxes, where to position them in articles, and how to tailor them. Nolabob (talk) 21:58, 12 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Per request, we are creating a demo for this topic for this WikiSalon. Dorevabelfiore (talk) 02:13, 31 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Work To Do![edit]

Interlanguage Link Templates[edit]

You can watch a Demonstration.

  • Go to this list of Women scientists by nationality or a similar list and look at the subcategories of nationalities. Click through to find articles of interest. Open the article and look for red links (or unlinked names) and search for the red-linked text on Wikidata or google to see if there are Wikipedia articles in English or other languages. Add ills as needed.
  • Go to almost any list of foreign-language writers (c.f. List of Spanish women writers) and click on an article. Look for red links and search for the red-linked text on Wikidata or google to see if there are Wikipedia articles in English or other languages. Add ills as needed.
  • Example: {{ill | La sonrisa vertical |ca| Premi La Sonrisa Vertical |es| Premio La sonrisa vertical}}
  • Example: {{ill |Andityas Soares de Moura |WD=Q98276700}}

Library Resources Templates[edit]

You can watch a Demonstration.

  • Consult this list of women science writers and add a library resources box to their page. Use the author namestring (e.g. Faye Flam) to look up the appropriate viaf ID (e.g. VIAF ID: 6861455) on viaf and fill it in.
    • Example: {{Library resources box|by=yes|viaf=62289315}}
  • Many of the editions at A Celebration of Women Writers were created before there were Library Resources Templates. Since we already know there are online books by these authors, you can search Wikipedia for articles about these authors and add {{Library resources box|by=yes |onlinebooksby=yes|lcheading= |viaf= }} to the bibliography or external links section. Use the author's namestring (e.g. Adami, J. George (John George), 1862-1926) to look up the appropriate viaf ID (e.g. VIAF ID: 62289315) on viaf and fill it in.
    • Example: {{Library resources box|by=yes |onlinebooksby=yes|viaf=6861455}}

Adding Archival Finding Aids to Wikidata[edit]

You can watch a Demonstration.

The finding aids in these lists have already been added to the external links section of relevant Wikipedia articles, where such articles exist.

Wikidata Example Indicating the Archives at property and reference setup

Editing Articles[edit]

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[edit]

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

Women Scientists[edit]

Calutron Girls[edit]
Calutron Girls

The Calutron Girls were recruited by the Tennessee Eastman Company to monitor equipment for the isolation of uranium as part of the Manhattan Project. Barely a stub at present, needs expansion.

Margarita Colmenares[edit]

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.

Verona Conway[edit]

Verona Conway is a behavioral ecologist. Her article could use some formatting and more sources.

Rosemary Gillespie[edit]

Rosemary Gillespie is an evolutionary biologist. The page about her needs sources.

I will start working on this one - I look forward to learning more about her! NMcNinney (talk) 16:14, 10 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Hazel Henderson[edit]

Hazel Henderson is an author, television producer, and environmental activist who focuses on ethical markets. Her page needs more inline citations. Doreva has at least one source that she can share. (Dorevabelfiore (talk) 03:49, 8 December 2020 (UTC))[reply]

Virginia H. Holsinger[edit]

Virginia Holsinger was a food scientist who helped develop Lactaid and Beano. Needs sources.

Nancy Hopkins[edit]
Nancy Hopkins
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.

Laura Huenneke[edit]

Laura Huenneke, president of the Ecological Society of America. Needs expansion and sourcing.

Isobel Wylie Hutchison[edit]

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.

Amelia Laskey[edit]

Amelia Laskey was an American amateur naturalist and ornithologist. Her article is sparse and could use some expansion and increased sourcing. Doreva has some scans to share.

Ann Haven Morgan[edit]

Ann Haven Morgan was an American zoologist and ecologist. Her article could use some expansion and sourcing. Doreva has some scans to share.

Jan Nolta[edit]

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

Agnes Pockels[edit]

Agnes Pockels (1862–1935) was a pioneer in the study of surface tension. Her page needs a good read-through and the addition of sources.

Althea Rosina Sherman[edit]

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.

Ruth Miriam Siems[edit]

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.

Elke U. Weber[edit]
Elke U. Weber
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.

Hazel Wolf[edit]

Hazel Wolf was an American/Canadian environmental activist. Her article is a stub that needs sourcing and some expansion. Some sources are listed on the Talk page. Doreva also has at least one print source for a citation that she can share with anyone. (Dorevabelfiore (talk) 03:39, 8 December 2020 (UTC))[reply]

Joan Luedders Wolfe[edit]

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[edit]

Bahia mangroves[edit]

Bahia mangroves has a little text but no inline sourcing.

Gas lighting[edit]

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]
Film preservation[edit]

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]
F. Stuart Chapin III[edit]

The article for F. Stuart Chapin III needs some careful sourcing and detangling- from related generations. He is an Alaskan ecologist; his grandfather F. Stuart Chapin was a sociologist, and I believe his father was F. Stuart Chapin Jr. (1916–2016), a social scientist and urban planner.

William A. Haseltine[edit]

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.

William and Lawrence Knox[edit]

William Jacob Knox Jr. and his brother Lawrence H. Knox were African American chemists who worked on the Manhattan Project. Their pages need some careful reading and reorganization. (I hear the voice of a high-school student when I read William's.)

Walter Lear[edit]

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

Ellen Schulz Quillin[edit]

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.

Visual Artists and Writers[edit]

Barbara Chase-Riboud[edit]
Malcolm X Complete by Barbara Chase-Riboud
Malcolm X Complete by 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.

Anita Cornwell[edit]

Anita Cornwell wrote the first collection of essays by an African-American lesbian. Her article needs inline sources and expansion.

Iole de Freitas[edit]

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.

Klaus Grutzka[edit]

checkY Industrial artist Klaus Grutzka spent much of his working life in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The page about him has no sourcing. He may have a PACSCL entry (see below).

  • Finding aid to archival collections containing Grutzka's works Dorevabelfiore (talk) 23:13, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think Grutzka is an excellent subject and a good article to upgrade. Since he was an artist, the article would greatly benefit from having images of his artwork. Do any of you know of any Grutzka artwork that is in the public domain and free of copyright restrictions? Nolabob (talk) 12:27, 11 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    • Bob, I don't. However, the National Iron and Steel Heritage Museum has his entire personal collection, as the artist passed away in 2011. I would contact them to see if there is anything that might be able to be released as Creative Commons. Even if they won't release the artwork, maybe they could release a personal picture of the artist, since he is now deceased. Much would depend on the terms of the deed of gift. They might have some restrictions of "educational use/fair use only" or the like, which would be prohibitive for Commons. Good luck! Dorevabelfiore (talk) 01:05, 16 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Harriet Jacobs[edit]

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.

Maria Martinez[edit]
Pot by Maria Martinez
Pot by 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[edit]
Death of an American Boom Town by 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.

Josefina Plá[edit]

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).

Winfred Rembert[edit]

Winfred Rembert barely escaped lynching at age 21, and spent time in prison. After his release, he became a renowned artist, creating colorful images of the South by carving and dyeing leather. He died recently; his Wikipedia page could use a little love.

Ada "Bricktop" Smith[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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

Richard Wright[edit]
Richard Wright
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) 16:20, 10 April 2021 (UTC) continuing to work on this - learning a lot about the USA Communist Party in the 1930s and 40s.[reply]

Wrap Up: Thanks and praise[edit]

Poll link

What did you work on today?

During today's WikiSalon, I created a WikiData item on defunct Pennsylvania garden and landscaping center Waterloo Gardens, Inc. (it's not yet complete). Nolabob (talk) 18:43, 13 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you everyone!

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