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Next date | Saturday, April 13, 2024 |
Time | 12:00 noon – 2.00 pm (Philadelphia EDT/EST) |
Location | Zoom! |
Repeats | The second Saturday of each month. Click on the
Zoom link. If you are asked for an ID or password, use
Meeting ID: 819-4956-6322 Password: 12345 |
Philadelphia WikiSalon, April 13, 2024 on Zoom
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If something is wrong on Wikipedia, you can report it and help us fix it!
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.
List your name by adding the following line. * ~~~~
There will not be a demonstration this month. For previous demonstrations, see:
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!
You can release your own photos on Wikimedia Commoms if they are not of a copyrighted work.
You can release images that were published in the United States between 1929 and 1977, inclusive, if that publication did not contain a copyright notice. Art exhibition catalogs like American Metal Work, 1976, often did not claim copyright and are sometimes the only usable source for images of an artist or their work. [1]
You can release images of works created in the United States up to or including 1928, or if they were published from 1929 to 1963 and failed to properly renew their copyright. (Renewal gets tricky.)
For anyone interested in downloading images, early Popular Mechanics published a truly astounding array of public domain photographs, including how to build a Malay Tiger Trap and photos from air shows. [2]
I've worked on these two and would benefit from support to improve them and/or work up the courage to put them in mainspace. -- econterms / Peter M
Add questions that you have about Wikipedia or Wikipedia projects (Encyclopedia articles, Wikimedia Commons images, Wikidata) either here or in the Chat. Answers to previous questions can be found in our Question archive.
If you are interested in hearing about a particular project, or can talk about one, sign here to let us know!
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. Please add your signature with 4 tildes ~~~~ under any article that you work on. Thank you!
Gas lighting needs reorganization and citations to make it comprehensible.
Sheila Minor had a 35-year-long career at various federal agencies and was responsible for assessing environmental impact statements. The article is a bit messy and doesn't follow Wikipedia style in formatting.
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.
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.
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)
What did you work on today?
No copyright statement in original publication.