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Ohio Wikimedians User Group: April 2019 newsletter
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General Updates
To facilitate casual conversations between members, we now have a Facebook group! If you're on Facebook, feel free to request to join.
Kevin has prepared a 2019 Activities Rapid Grant to support our user group's activities through the end of the year. This includes funding for edit-a-thons, Wikipedia Connection activities at Ohio State, and other potential events. Please give it a review, and provide endorsements at the bottom and/or comments on the talk page. If you would like to plan an activity or can think of something that could be funded that isn't already included, please bring it up! The goal is to have the grant submitted for review early in the week.
Our membership list has been revamped and supports the addition of new details (such as name, picture, location, and titles). Members are welcome to update their entry if they wish (all details are optional).
Movement Strategy
Sam (PonyToast) and Maria (Rimmel.Edits) have signed up to serve as our Organized Groups Strategy Liaisons; through December, Strategy Liaisons will act as a conduit for ideas, questions, and updates between the Movement Strategy and organized groups such as our own. Thank you to both members for taking this on!
The Wikimedia Summit 2019 just came to a conclusion. Maria Rimmel (Rimmel.Edits) served as our representative this year, following her work at the Ohio State University and WikiConference North America. This year's event had a heavy focus on the Movement Strategy Process and its Working Groups. Maria will be providing updates and outcomes of the conference on the user group talkpage soon - keep an eye out!
Upcoming and Ongoing Events
This May is the election for two Affiliate-Selected Board Seats for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. The Ohio Wikimedians User Group will be eligible to cast one vote. Be on the lookout for updates on how we will decide our vote.
Two edit-a-thons are being hosted for Ohio State Department of Spanish and Portuguese students this month. One edit-a-thon is focusing on improving Wikipedia's coverage of female and under-representated language scientists, and the other on Latinx studies.
Recent Events
WikiConference North America 2018 (Oct 18-21) at the Ohio State University was a great success! Over 200 attendees (including those representing over 15 Wikimedia affiliates and 25 academic institutions) attended the 70+ sessions we had. A big thanks goes to all the event's organizers, volunteers (including those from Ohio Wikimedians), sponsors, and session hosts. View the full report (work in progress) for more details and outcomes. You can also check out the photos on the Commons.
"By doing an event like this, we can show people that you can edit; your contributions are valid; your contributions are valued. Beyond valued: necessary," Dalesio said.
Alden Library at Ohio University also independently hosted an Art+Feminism edit-a-thon on March 22. Check out the event page for more details. Outcomes included editing 27 articles, including the creation of a new one.
"We will be encouraging participants to use our collections to create and strengthen articles, and Library volunteers will be available help them do this effectively. In doing so, we hope to encourage participants to move beyond the role of information consumer, and to consider how they can enrich the information landscape—and maybe leave the internet a better place than they found it," Jennings stated.
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"Chronological entries are most suitable for bibliographies on topics with a long history of literature on the topic. Chronological entries allow the user to see a progression on works on the topic over time. Alphabetical listings are suitable for shorter bibliographies and those where the difference between the earliest and latest publication dates is not great."
"This page is an essay on style. It contains the advice and/or opinions of one or more WikiProjects on how to format and present article content within their area of interest."
I don't recognize this essay as Wikipedia policy. I also have never encountered any bibliography sections ordered in chronological order, only alphabetical order. Mitchumch (talk) 21:09, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
Sorry!
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At the end of March (sorry for the delay in responding!), you asked for "a link to a discussion for the formerly deleted article Chicago race riot of 1919". If you're asking about a discussion debate, there was none; rather, the article was deleted for procedural reasons. Specifically, we found that we needed to remove all articles which were sourced principally to the works of Jay Robert Nash. DS (talk) 22:54, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
Well, the milestones are incorrect. Deleted for procedural reasons involving unreliable sources and potential litigation (link to the Signpost entry); restored after problematic content removed. DS (talk) 23:15, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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Ohio Wikimedians User Group: September 2019 newsletter
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General Updates
WikiProject Cleveland Museum of Art — Kevin (SuperHamster) and Maria (Rimmel.Edits) have been collaborating with Neal Stimler and the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) to launch WikiProject Cleveland Museum of Art on the English Wikipedia! Back in January, the CMA announced its conversion into an Open Access institution—and part of this initiative included the upload of thousands of photos and Wikidata items on CMA artworks. This WikiProject has been created to improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the CMA, such as artworks and artists featured in the Museum's collections, while being able to leverage the great resources that have been released into the public domain. If you'd like to join in, please sign up to be a member here. We have an expanding list of articles to create here.
Mailing list live! — We now have admin access to the previously-deprecated Wikimedia-US-OH mailing list. All members are encouraged to subscribe here. Anyone who would like to communicate to subscribed members can email wikimedia-us-oh@lists.wikimedia.org.
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Movement Strategy
The Movement Strategy Working Groups have created their recommendations, located here. Community input will be accepted until September 15, so if you would like to provide feedback, be sure to do so in the next couple weeks.
Upcoming and Ongoing Events
Wiki Loves Monuments is back in the United States for 2019. Through the end of September, upload your photos of registered historical sites to the Commons to help document our history and illustrate Wikipedia - and have a shot at winning the national contest. If you're interested in participating, a guide to finding historic sites in Ohio is available here.
In April, two edit-a-thons were hosted at the Ohio State University:
The Female and Under-represented Language Scientists edit-a-thon, hosted by the Hispanic Linguistic Colloquium in collaboration with the Buckeye Language Network (BLN) Student Association. The goal of the event was to improve articles on under-represented language scientists. 11 editors contributed 50+ edits that consisted of 1.54k words across 24 articles, including one new article.
The Spanish & Portuguese Edit-A-Thon, hosted by students from the Spanish and Portuguese department (Dona pipoca and Caesarologia, with support from SuperHamster). The edit-a-thon focused on expanding coverage of Spanish and Portuguese topics on the English Wikipedia, primarily by translating articles from Spanish/Portuguese to English. In doing so, attendees sharpened their Spanish/Portuguese skills, gained experience editing Wikipedia, and learned about new topics. 23 editors contributed 180+ edits that consisted of 15.8k words across 70 articles, including four new articles.
Wikimania 2019 took place in Stockholm this year, with several Ohio Wikimedians attending. If you're interested in some of the sessions, many of them were recorded and are available on the Commons here.
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Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!
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Hello,
Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.
I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!
From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.
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Joyous Season
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I wish that you may have a very Happy Holiday! Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Hogmanay, Festivus or your hemisphere's Solstice, this is a special time of year for almost everyone! May the New Year provide you joy and fulfillment! Thanks for everything you do here. I look forward to continuing to improve our coverage of the civil rights movement with you! — Coffee // have a ☕️ // beans // 10:31, 25 December 2019 (UTC)
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Ohio Wikimedians User Group: January 2020 newsletter
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Upcoming and Ongoing Events
Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access Anniversary Campaign — January 23rd (today!) is the one-year anniversary of the Cleveland Museum of Art's Open Access program. To celebrate, we are hosting an editing campaign (with postcard souvenirs!) from now through February 9. Help expand and create articles related to the Cleveland Museum of Art (including artists and artworks featured in their collection), and receive a postcard from the Museum. If you'd like to participate, check out the task list and sign up on the event page.
Recent Events
In December, the Cincinnati Art Museum hosted an Art+Feminism edit-a-thon. The museum was an excellent place to have an edit-a-thon, with a café and staff who were helpful in setting up and ensuring there were enough tables, outlets, and plenty of resource materials available. There was a related exhibit, Women Breaking Boundaries, that was of interest to attendees. In total, 9 people attended.
Movement Strategy
The Movement Strategy document, with 13 recommendations, has been released and is located here. You may utilize each recommendation's respective talk page to leave any feedback you might have.
Between February and March 2020, the recommendations will be finalized, incorporating final feedback. By the end of March 2020, the recommendations are slated to be approved by the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees.
Kevin (SuperHamster) will be attending Wikimedia Summit 2020 on behalf of the Ohio Wikimedians. This year's Summit will be focusing on discussing the implementation of the finalized Movement Strategy recommendations. Please get in touch with Kevin if you have ideas and suggestions that you would like conveyed.
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I hope this message finds you well and in good health during these trying times. Below is a list of some online activities that you may be interested in participating in.
The Wiki Global Check In has started! This initiative is gathering check-ins from Wikimedians all around the world, and asks for a photo that captures something related to life in your context or part of the world during the pandemic.
WALRUS (Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States) is now hosting virtual meetings twice a month on Monday evenings. This is a place to discuss anything Wikimedia, as well as a place for Wikimedians to come together and mutually support each other. The next virtual meeting should be on Memorial Day, May 25th. You can sign up for the Wikimediaus-l mailing list to stay up to date on all WALRUS happenings and to receive meeting invites.
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Movement Strategy
The finalized Movement Strategy Recommendations have been published! This is a clarified and refined version of the recommendations that were released in January.
The Wikimedia Summit 2020 that was to occur in April was canceled, and Wikimedia Deutschland will not be hosting a virtual replacement. In its stead, Ryan Merkley, members of the movement strategy core team, and external consultants are exploring options to move the contents of the conference into a series of virtual events.
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Your suggested article title Freedom (American newspaper)
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In regards to the title of what is presently titled Draft:Freedom (Robeson magazine): I would accept Freedom (American newspaper), because it is certainly preferable to Freedom (Robeson magazine). However, I am unenthusiastic about this proposed article title.
In further advocacy of the title that I propose, Freedom (African–American newspaper) (although I see that Wikipedia and many other sources are now omitting the hyphenated designation in favor of African American with no hyphen), I note that the article African-American newspapers refers to "the first African-American periodical called Freedom's Journal" in its lead paragraph. The article whose title we are discussing took its name from the name of that periodical (as the article itself notes). The lead of the article on Freedon's Journal states: "Freedom's Journal was the first African-American owned and operated newspaper published in the United States." That is, it gives further emphasis to "African-American."
I think that Freedom (American newspaper) hedges these associations, which would be an unfortunate result of giving the article that title. I think it is more specific and more accurate to use the title that I propose, Freedom (African–American newspaper) (or Freedom (African American newspaper), in keeping with evolving standards). Under either name, I look forward to this newspaper's inclusion in the article List of African-American newspapers and media outlets, which is presently unaware of it.
I understand your rationale for Freedom (American newspaper), and it makes sense. So I will be happy to accept it. Can you make the change? I've already the PAGENAME. (And here's the link, if that makes it more convenient: Draft:Freedom (Robeson magazine). Also, thank you for your prompt response to my concerns. Larry Koenigsberg (talk) 19:56, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
Birmingham in the civil rights movement
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Would it be possible for you to create a stub or start article for Birmingham that could provide an overview of people, organizations, events, or local places that were pertinent to the civil rights movement in Birmingham. Please see Template:CRM in Alabama. I've been adding existing and need to be written articles into the template. I will eventually create a separate sidebar for Birmingham. If you want to add anything to the template or want to create stubs or start articles for anything else connected to the civil rights movement in Birmingham, then that would be appreciated. Mitchumch (talk) 22:34, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
I'm interested in seeing Wikipedia better cover the topic of Birmingham in the civil rights movement, but I'm focused on my efforts to document the area on Bhamwiki. If it helps, all of the content on Bhamwiki is published under a license compatible with Wikipedia, so if you want to borrow from the work I and others have done there, it should be fairly easy to do so. Bhamwiki:Civil Rights Movement is probably a good place to start. I expect we'll have some improvements to the Fred Shuttlesworth entry soon as my wife has been reading the Manis biography. --Dystopos (talk) 20:39, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
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STOP removing this term for no reason when it is a legitimate term that is used appropriately. Even worse, you then lie about it by leaving a deceptive edit summary claiming that you "replaced" a term. If you continue this disruptive editing, you could lose your editing privileges.Sundayclose (talk) 23:07, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
Apologies, as I was unaware of the discussion. Although I disagree with your edit, I will not go against consensus. A word of advice, however: Make your edit summaries clearer. I think you should link the discussion, but at a minimum you should explain why you are removing the term. Thanks for the information. Sundayclose (talk) 23:33, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
Here again, we are talking about a guideline, not a policy. And even in the discussion the consensus is not overwhelming. It depends on what is being sourced. If it was a highly technical matter, probably not. But for something pertaining to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, it's acceptable. Feel free to replace it with a better source. Sundayclose (talk) 01:04, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
Sundayclose I presented you with a community consensus of the reliability of History.com from a Wikipedia noticeboard. Around 32 users stated their position on that noticeboard question. Around three users stated History.com was reliable. Your position that History.com is a reliable source belongs to a tiny minority.
History.com is neither a scholarly (secondary) source nor a news organization per Wikipedia:SOURCETYPES.
It is an unreasonable expectation to think that I will ignore guidelines produce by community consensus AND a Wikipedia noticeboard discussion surrounding the reliability of History.com. Your position does not have support from community consensus. Mitchumch (talk) 02:44, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
Sundayclose I have an alternative suggestion. Remove the statement and place it on the talk page. You or some other editor finds a reliable source that supports that claim. If no claim is found, then it stays on the talk page. Mitchumch (talk) 12:36, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
I rewrote the last sentence of the paragraph using a different source. I assume you would consider the U.S. Senate a reliable source. The paragraph needs such a strong statement to highlight the profound impact of the act that is described later in the article. Feel free to tweak the wording, but if you disagree with any of this, this certainly is a matter that you should discuss on the article's talk page so that frequent editors of the article can be aware. Sundayclose (talk) 16:39, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
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