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About Veronica

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Greater St. Louis Area.

Hi, I'm Veronica Erb. I am a researcher and information architect at NPR. Previously, I have worked at EightShapes and at AED, which is now a part of FHI 360.

Events

I occasionally organize and attend edit-a-thons. An edit-a-thon is when Wikimedians and people new to Wikipedia get together to edit Wikipedia, usually on a specific topic. I have participated in the following events:

• Organizer, Rare Disease Day edit party, February 2019
• Attendee, Music Library Association edit party, February 2019
• Attendee, Wikipedia Day in St. Louis, January 2019
• Attendee, Wikipedia:Meetup/St. Louis/17, October 2018
• Volunteer, 2016 St. Louis Wiknic, July 2016
• Organizer, Rare Disease Day Edit-a-thons in St. Louis, MO and Washington, DC, February 2016
• Co-organizer, Black History Month First Edit at NPR, February 2016
• Co-organizer, Hispanic Heritage First Edit at NPR, October 2015
• Participant, Wiki Loves Pride DC 2015 at the National Museum of American History, June 2015
• Participant, Women in STEM Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon at the DC Public Library, March 2015
• Organizer, first edit event for NPR's Black History Month celebrations, 28 Feb 2015
• Co-organizer, My First Wikipedia Edit: DC Neighborhoods with Wikimedia DC and the DC Public Library, November 2014
• Remote participant, Ada Lovelace Edit-a-thon 2013: Brown and Brussels, October 2013

Contributions

I may want to remember or reference these edits in the future. They are listed in reverse chronological order. For a list of all my Wikipedia edits, see my contributions page.

• William Jones (anthropologist): Adding citations and tidying to more standard structure. Inspired to get back on WP after learning that more regular editing will enable access to The Wikipedia Library with databases including Newspapers.com
• Veronica Chambers: Started adding citations after I looked her up wondering why her name seemed familiar when I got the jump rope book (it's because she edited Meaning of Michelle)
• Flounder house: First article created by me. Inspired by a clipping shown to me by a family member.
• Marni Nixon: Swapped in infobox of her profession, after learning about her death from Vox Sentences.
• Mary Bowser: Added verified information and documented unsubstantiated claims in their own section. Edits in honor of 4th of July 2016.
• Sara Josephine Baker: Replaced 9 of 11 "citation needed" notices with appropriate citations, among other text improvements, in honor of Pride 2016. (Diff)
• Amyloidosis: Added community support to Treatment in memorial of Peggy Girshman, a newsroom dynamo at NPR.
• Osteogenesis imperfecta: Added community support to Treatment in honor of Gaelynn Lea, the 2016 Tiny Desk Contest winner.
• Cri du chat: Added citations in honor of a family member.
• Atira: Added citations and information about items named for and mentioning her. For Thanksgiving 2015.
• Inspired DES to create a new template with a Teahouse question
• Cucumis_metuliferus: Specified where in Africa it originates.
• Eslanda Goode Robeson: Added seven sources, more information about her accomplishments, and more common order and title of list sections.
• Ella Baker, Madam C. J. Walker, Ida B. Wells, William H. Carney, Henriette DeLille: Citations, primarily
• Bill Pickett: Citations and information about the Legends of the West stamps.
• Sarah Andrews (author): Tidying and adding citations
• ENIAC: Overhauled article structure to be more scannable, and made edits along the way.
• Neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., Massachusetts Heights, Anacostia, Capitol View (Washington, D.C.): Various small edits
• Dana Ulery: Citation improvements, initial infobox, initial publications list

Other fun milestones

• Moved first article—Flounder house—into the main namespace! 20:45, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
• Reached Novato! Yesterday, I think. 03:26, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
• The first (project) page that I've made: Wikilinks needed by Wikiproject (based off of the Orphaned articles list). 01:59, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
• Awarded the 2015 Distinguished Service Award from Wikimedia DC
• Voted in a Wikipedia election for the first time, for ArbComm. 22:07, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Help for editing Wikipedia

Find articles

• What Links Here
• Orphaned articles by WikiProject
• Wikilinks needed by WikiProject
• WikiProject Directory by WikiProject X
• Wikipedia edits by hashtag
• Black Lunch Table's Lists of Articles

Protecting articles

• Semi-protection
• Pending changes

Write better articles

• Writing about women
• Your first article
  • So you made a userspace draft
• Medical Wikipedia: Article sections for diseases, disorders, syndromes

Understand Wikipedians

• Conflicting Wikipedia philosophies on MetaWiki

Communicate with Wikipedians

• Template:Done and all its related visual markers for use on Talk Pages
• Archiving talk pages
• About user pages
  • User page design center

When good faith edits are reverted

• Relevant policy documents
  • Edit warring
  • Assume good faith
• Relevant essays
  • Reverting
  • Revert only when necessary
• Regarding "In popular culture" sections
  • WikiProject Popular Culture
  • "In popular culture" content
• Advice out in the world (not in Wikimedia space)
  • Top ten reasons why your Wikipedia edits get reverted, post by a Wikimedia in Residence at the Physiological Society

To Do

(Listed in reverse chronological order of thinking of them)

• Sources to clarify William Jones death
  • Ruination and the William Jones Affair
  • An Ilongot Murder Mystery (review of a documentary about it)
  • The Ilongots (Chapter 1) of Cambridge press book Knowledge and Passion
  • And a book called Indigenous {Visions} that I ordered through interlibrary loan
• Check and add redirects for Resources for Infant Educarers, including "RIE" and "RIE method" ?
• Consider writing an article about native people in MIssouri or St. Louis. Example existing articles:
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_tribes_in_Massachusetts
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_Floridahttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_California?searchToken=bpqyg1hpxne8qa2ucuzzm95fk
• Add citations to Veronica Chambers article (possible articles to use)
• Look at Multiple system atrophy article for edits to make
• Consider revising the structure of Relaxation (psychology); it currently (13:36, 11 March 2019 (UTC)) has redundant sections.
• ENIAC, which was in this version before these edits
  • Look at this: http://ds.haverford.edu/bitbybit/bit-by-bit-contents/chapter-four/4-9-eniacs-hydrogen-bomb-calculations/
  • Possibly, mention the advent of the software engineer in the lead section, naming Kathleen Antonelli, Jean Bartik, Betty Holberton, Marlyn Meltzer, Frances Spence, Ruth Teitelbaum
• Look at: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Volunteers
• Consider making barnstars for Wikimedia DC's awards
• Add info to
  • Elizabeth Wright Ingraham
• Look at coverage of people and topics from Hidden Figures
  • Mary Jackson (engineer)
  • Dorothy Vaughan
  • Katherine Johnson
  • Mercury-Atlas 6
  • John Glenn#NASA career
  • Resource: http://margotleeshetterly.com/hidden-figures-nasas-african-american-computers/
• Learn more about this: Wikipedia:Request an account. How does this relate to the difficulty of creating multiple accounts on Wikipedia event days?

Subpages

• Meetup how-to: Notes on resources and potential processes for hosting meetups and the organization around them
• Friends: Wikipedians I've met on- and offline.
• Done: Archive of things that have been to-done.
• Charles E. LeGrand: My grandfather. Creating this subpage to help me learn about him through Wikimedia.
• Dyslexia archive of todos, sitemap, and papers to read
• Interacting with Wikimedians: Listing ways to get to know and thank other Wikimedians
• Sources For Veronica Chambers: To do and sources for Veronica Chambers article