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When and Where
Next dateSaturday, March 8, 2025
Time12:00 noon – 2.00 pm (Philadelphia EDT/EST)
LocationZoom!
RepeatsThe 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, March 8, 2025 on Zoom This page archives a past event. Do not edit the contents of this page.

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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.

Attendees

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Demonstration

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This month we will have a demonstration about the use of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) on Wikidata.

  • Link to Demonstration Video in Commons:
  • Link to PDF tutorial in Commons:

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

See our list of demonstrations and resources.

Special mentions

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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!

Did You Know's

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Articles (new and updated)

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Images

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  • Nives Dolšak in 2007 (extract from Flickr)
    Nives Dolšak in 2007 (extract from Flickr)

Possible interest

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  • Possible discussion: what could a FEATURE look like "to assess the recency of the sources cited (in terms of when they were written, not when they were added) to see how up-to-date it is."
  • Bartov, Asaf (17 January 2025). "Defending our wikis against weaponized generative AI - WMCEEM 2024 Istanbul". Youtube.
  • Gethen, Pax Ahimsa (Feb 11, 2025). "On Trans Issues, Wikipedia is a Bulwark Against Disinformation". Assigned Media.

Events

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Editing/Events

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Conferences

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Event listings

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Projects

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Resources

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Questions

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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.

  • How do the Wikipedia's "Vital Articles" differ from the Wikipedia's "importance" scale?
  • Have any of you been involved in an "edit war"? If so, how did you handle it? I ask because a seemingly reputable Wikipedian made substantial edits to an article I previously heavily edited, and the changes seem inappropriate to me.

Suggested topics

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If you are interested in hearing about a particular project, or can talk about one, sign here to let us know!

  • Would a tutorial on OpenStreetMap and its use in Wikipedia be a good topic? (Bob Burch)
  • Let's return someday to the Anne Hill project, meaning to find wikilinks to Anne Hill and delink or fix those which treat it as an article about a person. Similarly there may be other articles of the form "-- Hill" to be fixed. -- econterms (talk) 00:53, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    this could be an interesting OpenRefine problem for Wikidata: find an intersection of items people with the last name "Hill" (without a page?) and hills with a similar name (with page?)

Work To Do!

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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!

Finding articles that need work

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Suggestions

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Temple Grandin

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Temple Grandin was recently flagged as needing citations and additional secondary sources.

Gas lighting

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Gas lighting needs reorganization and citations to make it comprehensible.

Sheila Minor

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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

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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.

Corning Museum of Glass

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Glass pumpkins

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 Southside Writers' Group

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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]

I have been keeping my eyes open for books and articles on this group and have yet to find any. I will contine to keep my eye out for anything on the subject. NMcNinney (talk) 15:09, 8 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Have you tried JSTOR and also Google Scholar? A quick search showed lots of hits, but I don't know if they are suitable references or not. Another idea is to ask the staff at the Amistad Research Center if they can help. Nolabob (talk) 22:13, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Suggested articles

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Wrap Up: Thanks and praise

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What did you work on today?

References mentioned

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