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When and Where
Next dateSaturday, April 12, 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, April 12, 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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There will be no demonstration this month. For previous demonstrations and other resources, see:

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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  • United States Patent held by President Abraham Lincoln
    United States Patent held by President Abraham Lincoln

Simple English Wikipedia discussion

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  • [1] - old version of article about Barosaurus refers to a specimen Barosaurus skeleton ROM 3670
  • We discussed. Discussion concluded with interesting and helpful thought that the notability criteria on en.wp and Simple English are nominally the same, but the audiences for these platforms are different which could largely explain the differences in which article topics they welcome or at least tolerate. Simple English could be useful for children, non-native speakers of English, and people with lower literacy levels in English. Many of us agreed that Simple English Wikipedia is very useful for presenting easy-to-read and understand articles, especially in areas of mathematics and science.

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?
    • Vital Articles seems to be a human-curated list of high-impact articles, divided into 5 quota-defined levels of vital international significance. It takes into account topical coverage, notability, international scope and popularity (as measured by number of pageviews). Vital articles are listed on talk pages, along with importance scale ratings from WikiProjects. However, we could see not automatic coding or transcluding that directly translates importance ratings to Vital Article levels.
  • 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.
  • What to do in Wikidata when a business (for me it's mostly restaurants and theaters) or other institution with a location goes out of business or is demolished or otherwise becomes defunct? Jim.henderson (talk) 18:27, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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)
    • We are going to look into this for a future guest speaker. (Doreva) Dorevabelfiore (talk) 02:41, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
      • Peter (econterms) will be talking to Ming Nguyen who is a great contributor on both OSM and Wikimedia projects, who might be a good potential guest speaker for us. Jim Henderson (jim.henderson) knowns Ming from NY meetings, and will put in a good word for us also.
  • 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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