Wikipedia:GLAM/YMT/Luminaries-editathon

Wikipedia Edit-a-thon York's nineteenth and early twentieth century luminaries and their work:

The Hospitium of St Mary's Abbey, York - our venue! Basic information Come and join York Museums Trust for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon about some of York's key figures of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Help celebrate their lives and work and improve their recognition by editing Wikipedia articles using the resources and expertise provided by York Museums Trust. When is it? 10:00am - 5:00pm Sunday 16 March 2014 Where is it? The Hospitium, York Museum Gardens (Google Map link) Who should come? All are welcome! Resources on the topics and Wikipedia training will be available to all. This is a chance for experienced Wikipedians, York's history-experts and those new to both to all learn from one another. What does it cost? It's absolutely free! How to sign up? Sign up! Wikipedians can add their details below What should I bring? If you can bring a wifi-enabled laptop (with the charger!) that would be great. Please get in touch if you need to borrow a laptop: patrick.hadleyymt.org.uk or tweet to @PatHadley What about food and drink!? We'll providing tea, coffee and water throughout the day. Unfortunately we cannot provide lunch, you're welcome to bring your own or go off and explore nearby. There will be a designated pub for food, drink and merriment afterwards! Can I tweet? Please do! We'll be using #YorkWiki I have other questions! If you need more information about the event please contact: patrick.hadleyymt.org.uk or tweet to @PatHadley Post event report here. How to sign up Yorkshire Philosophical Society members learning to edit Wikipedia Everyone Sign up! Check out the Extra events running on Saturday 15 March. Sign up by emailing patrick.hadleyymt.org.uk New to Wikipedia? New editors are very welcome at this event and there will be training provided throughout the morning by friendly, experienced Wikipedians. Before coming along, you may find the following interesting: 10 things you did not know about Wikipedia 10 things you did not know about images on Wikipedia It would also be brilliant if you could sign yourself up for a Wikipedia account: Create an account! Already know your [[ from your }}? Below are lists for Wikipedians to identify themselves and their interests ahead of time. Please also sign up to individuals whose work or life is of interest in the Suggestions for editing section. Facilitators PatHadley (talk) 10:54, 22 January 2014 (UTC) -York Museums Trust Wikipedian-in-Residence. Organising the day! Drinking all the coffee. Participants Likely, but not guaranteed. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:18, 13 February 2014 (UTC) Per my message on the talk page I'm also likely to come. Will confirm nearer the time. Samwalton9 (talk) 23:29, 16 February 2014 (UTC) I'll be coming though won't arrive until 11am at the earliest due to train times. Samwalton9 (talk) 15:52, 11 March 2014 (UTC) Remote Participants I won't be able to make the day, but this did draw my attention to the dreadful state of some of the York area pages. I intend to work on some of them, and have already done some work to Rowntree's and T. Cooke & Sons. Farrtj (talk) 18:10, 16 February 2014 (UTC) On the day The Hospitium has two levels. Both have plenty of space and projectors/screens etc. Approximate timetable Upstairs Downstairs 10:00 Welcome and housekeeping 10:20 Introduction to Wikipedia Edit-a-thon targeting and plans 11:30 Coffee break 11:50 My first edit Open edit-a-thon 13:30 Lunch break (Cafes and sandwiches around Museum Street) 14:30 Curator talks (see below) Open edit-a-thon 15:30 Open edit-a-thon Open edit-a-thon (Fresh coffee available) 17:00 End End 17:15 We will be decamping to Harker's for a chat. Booze and food optional! Curator talks Andrew Woods - Numismatics - Hoards! Stuart Ogilvy - Natural History - Tempest Anderson Laura Turner - Fine Art - Highlights from York's Public Domain art M Faye Prior - Social History - John Kirk, J.B. Morrell, Rachel Rostas: A whistlestop tour Adam Parker - Archaeology - Flint Jack Suggestions for editing The day is themed around the lives and work of York's notables during this period. Many of these have links to the collections now held by York Museums Trust. Expert curators will be on hand with material related to these topic areas. Other suggestions are welcome (particularly notable women!) and we will try and be as flexible as possible with other requests on the day but cannot guarantee the provision of other materials. YMT related articles, categories, templates and so on Image Name Key YMT Site/Collection Status Relevant pages on Wikipedia/Media on Commons Resources across the web Resources at YMT Local photo opportunities Users interested in this article William Etty York Art Gallery Reasonable start-class article. Some obvious errors - including links to wrong pages. Nothing on the saving of the walls. Royal Academy School, History of York, Victorian Art / Category:William Etty Several in the article's external links section. BBC Your Paintings. Very visible on google! YMT Collections pages: 1, 2, 3. Statue well photographed but there is also the grave at St Olave's. Tempest Anderson Yorkshire Museum stub-class article. Plenty of under-used references Vulcanology, Archaeology, Geology/History of geology, Yorkshire Philosophical Society / commons:Category:Images from the Tempest Anderson Collection By the time the edit-a-thon takes place this should contain several hundred, recently made hi-resolution scans. See the references already on the article or project sub-pages Tempest Anderson is a specialist sub-project of the residency with pages here: GLAM/YMT/Tempest Anderson. In addition, images of the Tempest Anderson Hall during construction are available. Tempest Anderson's house was in Stonegate. Check with YPS members about a plaque. Albert Joseph Moore York Art Gallery Reasonable article though it lacks structure and needs better interwiki links. Needs an expert to link into the movement's and styles to which Moore belonged. Royal Academy, History of York, Victorian Art / Category:Albert Joseph Moore A small number of Moore's works are already digitised and on AdLib. Some of these already exist on Commons in lower quality or with poor meta-data Walter Sickert York Art Gallery B-Class article, no mention of York connection Five of Sickert's works digitized. Not PD (died 1942). Copyright not clear. Thomas Cooke (machinist) York Castle Museum Decent basic article. Good links to still-used telescopes (good international scope!). Little on other works, microscopes or other images. History of the telescope, History section on Optical microscope YMT holds examples of many key instruments. Digital photos of these may be available. Other scanned images (some from the Borthwick Archives but PD) may be available - including a better version of the portrait at left. Joseph Rowntree (philanthropist) York Castle Museum Decent outline though little on chocolate making The rest of the family and related organisations. History of chocolate, Images of chocolate-making material, packaging and advertising. NONE Mary Ellen Best York Art Gallery No article Victorian Art Artworldwide Biography NONE George Yeld Yorkshire Museum No Article A little in the Alpine Journal records. A poem read at Oxford . Images in the Tempest Anderson collection Thomas George Bonney Yorkshire Museum Basic article with no mention of York connection History of geology Some linked from the article. More may be on archive.org? Unclear NONE John Kirk (archaeologist) York Castle Museum Very basic stub York Castle Museum - Kirk was the founder. Images of Kirk and original archive material. NONE John Bowes Morrell York Castle Museum Basic article. Little on Morrell's work as a historian Images. Possibly archive material NONE Walter Harvey-Brook Yorkshire Museum No article Page on Your paintings Short informal biography - not referenced. Harvey-Brook was an antiquarian and important for work on medieval carvings. NONE Oxley Grabham Yorkshire Museum No article Images and archival material. Grabham was Curator of Archaeology and wrote a book on pots and pottery. NONE Robert Bielby Cook Yorkshire Museum No article British Numismatics Society report including a quote from Cook's will Cook donated the core of the numismatic collection in the 1920s. Many images of coins associated with him. James Backhouse/James Backhouse (botanist)/Thomas Backhouse Yorkshire Museum Confusing stubs James Backhouse of York (1794–1869): missionary, traveller and botanist by Peter Davis The Backhouses collected and taxidermied/preserved many of the Natural history specimens. NONE William Reed (geologist) Yorkshire Museum No article Painting by George Henry Walton on Your Paintings (also held by YMT). Newsletter of the Geological Curators group 1979. Images of fossils including important ichthyosaurs James Atkinson (surgeon) Yorkshire Museum Poor appropriation of Dictionary of National Biography entry Laurence Sterne Biographical accounts and images with incomplete referencing. Portait by Etty. NONE Edward Allen (taxidermist) Yorkshire Museum NONE Catherine Cappe York Castle Museum Newcome Cappe (husband) Anne Lister York Castle Museum Alice Smith York Castle Museum The Daily Liam (eclectic York blog) Edward Simpson (forger) Yorkshire Museum John Phillips (geologist) Yorkshire Museum NONE William Dallas Yorkshire Museum NONE Sir Charles Strickland, 8th Baronet Yorkshire Museum NONE Henry Robinson (scientist) Yorkshire Museum NONE William Bean (geologist) Yorkshire Museum Charles Wellbeloved Yorkshire Museum NONE Joseph Halfpenny (1748-1811) York Art Gallery Created! Thanks to Charles Matthews for doing this in advance! Commons category, WikiSource DNB entry, National Portrait Gallery Lots of images of Halfpenny's sketches and works on paper. NONE William James Boddy (1832-1911) York Art Gallery No article Lots of Boddy's works and related archival material. NONE Henry Cave (1779-1836) York Art Gallery No article Lots of Cave's works and related archival material. NONE Patrick Hall (artist) (1906-1992) York Art Gallery No article - a little on the late side. Images not PD One PD image created for the Uk govt Obituary Lots of Cave's works and related archival material. Snowden Slights Yorkshire Museum No article. Not strictly a York luminary but photos of Slights' hunting exploits have been recently uploaded by the trust. Category:Images from The Sydney Harold Smith Collection Recently uploaded photos (more to come!). Slights biography. NONE Thomas Rowlandson York Art Gallery Decent article but connection to York unclear commons:Category:Thomas Rowlandson Some scanned images and archival material NONE Rachel Rostas York Castle Museum No article Unique archival material on this important architect Resources This user contributes content related to York Museums Trust through their GLAMwiki partnership Editors who are contributing to material related to York Museums Trust and it's collections can add this Userbox to their UserPage: {{User:PatHadley/UserBox/YMT}} Add {{WikiProject York Museums Trust}} to article talk pages to tag them as relevant to this GLAMwiki partnership. This article was edited as part of an edit-a-thon Add {{subst:Wikipedia:GLAM/YMT/Luminaries-editathon/Talkpage template}} to article talk pages to tag them as having being edited during this event. Extra events - Saturday 15th March Bonus events available for attendees. Please sign up fast as these will go quickly! Free tickets for visitors York Museums Trust is generously providing 30 free dual-entry tickets to the Yorkshire Museum and York Castle Museum for Saturday 15th March. Please sign up for these by emailing patrick.hadleyymt.org.uk. You will be able to collect your tickets on Saturday morning from the Yorkshire Museum main entrance. ===*CANCELLED* Yorkshire Museum tours and back-stage-pass sessions *CANCELLED*=== THIS HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO LACK OF DEMAND Andrew Woods (curator of numismatics) will be running two tours for 15 people each around the Yorkshire Museum and demonstrating some important coins, medals and tokens related to York and Yorkshire 1800-1950. This is a unique opportunity! Meet at the Yorkshire Museum main entrance. Tour 1 - 3:00pm Tour 2 - 4:00pm Please sign up for these by emailing patrick.hadleyymt.org.uk