Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia/2013 September 27 ThatCamp

Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon at ThatCamp Philly Remote Participants Welcome
	As part of ThatCamp Philly 2013, the Chemical Heritage Foundation will be hosting a Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, September 27, 2013. This event is part of the Chemical Heritage Foundation's GLAM Initiative, in cooperation with WikiProject GLAM and the Wikipedian in Residence program.

The Chemical Heritage Foundation, 315 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA

Registration now open for ThatCamp Philly 2013

There will be a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at ThatCamp Philly, 2013, which is being held at the Chemical Heritage Foundation. ThatCamp Philly Registration is now open (the event is free).

WHEN: The following Wikipedia-related sessions will be held on Friday, September 27:

• 11:00-12:45 E.D.T. – Wikipedia 101: (before lunch) CHF’s Wikipedian in Residence, Mary Mark Ockerbloom, will demystify Wikipedia culture and talk about how Wikipedia works and why contributing knowledge there is relevant to cultural institutions. Bring a laptop! Mary will also walk through creating an account, searching, editing pages, and creating new pages. If you have a computer, you will be able to create a username and password, make your first edit, and practice editing in your sandbox. Whether you have hopes of becoming a respected Wikipedian or simply want to understand how to use the service more effectively, this is a critical primer.

• 12:45-2:00 E.D.T. – Find your own lunch and/or tour the Chemical Heritage Foundation

• 2:00-3:45 E.D.T. – Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: (after lunch) ThatCamp attendees and Wikipedians will have an opportunity to work on Wikipedia pages of interest to them. Activities may include editing pages, creating new pages, and adding images and metadata. Coaching will be provided. Bring your laptop, notes or images that you want to add to an existing Wikipedia article, or a first draft for a new Wikipedia article. If adding information, you'll need citations for your sources. If adding images, please bring information about their provenance (who took them, where, when, of what) so that we can confirm their copyright status. We will also provide a list of articles that need work, for those who want to practice their editing skills. Help to write Wikipedia history!

WHERE: Chemical Heritage Foundation 315 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2702 Tel: 215.925.2222. See Directions. The nearest subway stop is at 2nd and Market; the nearest Metro stop is Market East Station.

Participants

We would love to include Wikipedians as guest coaches for the edit-a-thon, and to promote this event online under the hashtag #ThatCampPhilly. If you would like to participate, please email me at celebration.women@gmail.com or edit this page to add yourself as a participant.

I will attend in person (Wikipedians)

• Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 00:08, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
• DThomsen8 (talk) 00:58, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
• I will be there Friday and Saturday. Sunday at 10am I got a ticket to visit the Barnes Foundation. Others are welcome to join me there Sunday morning if you get your ticket in advance. Blue Rasberry (talk) 18:21, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
  • I highly recommend seeing the Rodin Museum, near the Barnes. Small but fabulous. Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 21:55, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
• Ocaasi ^{t | c} 13:58, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

I will attend in person (CHF staff & ThatCamp attendees)

• AH UDelLib (talk) 16:59, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
• Early estimates: 50 of 150 possible attendees responded so far. Of those, 10 plan to attend the Wikipedia 101 session, and 6 plan to attend the edit-a-thon.

I will attend online (Wikipedian) using the hashtag #ThatCampPhilly

• Penny Richards (talk) 16:50, 18 September 2013 (UTC)Penny Richards
• BrillLyle (talk) 19:13, 18 September 2013 (UTC) Will try to attend online and offer help
• Marianne Weldon (Collections Manager of Art and Artifacts, Bryn Mawr College) (cannot attend in person due to illness, sends regrets)
• Wadewitz (talk) 19:45, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
• SarahStierch (talk) 16:47, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
• OR drohowa (talk) 18:30, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
• czar ♔ 17:33, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

I would like information about future events

• Ocaasi ^{t | c} 13:58, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
• ike9898
• I missed the edit-a-thon last time because it coincided with my exam at college. I am unlikely to turn up this time too. Please keep me updated about future events so that I can participate in events while I am free enough. Regards -- Netha (talk) 13:38, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

Content for the Edit-a-thon

For this event, you are welcome to bring any content that you want to work on. If you don't bring content of your own, we have a list of resources about women and chemistry from the Chemical Heritage Foundation's collections. Get an early start on next month's Ada Lovelace Day by developing resources about women in science, chemistry and the history of science.

Sensing Change

The artists in the recent Sensing Change exhibit at CHF worked with scientific data and scientists to create environmentally focused works. See Sensing Change for links to related videos and other resources:

• Art: Vaughn Bell, Village Green; Diane Burko, Waters: Glacier and Bucks, 2007−2011; Roderick Coover, Estuary/Toxi∙City; Katie Holten, Uprooted; Stacy Levy, Calendar of Rain; Eve Mosher, HighWaterLine; Andrea Polli, Particle Falls; Fernanda Viégas and Martin M. Wattenberg's Wind Map
• Science: Ronald C. Cohen, Kenneth J. Davis, Peter DeCarlo, Jose-Luis Jimenez, Murray V. Johnston III, Deb A. Niemeier, A. R. Ravishankara, Pieter Tans; Atmospheric Oral History interviews and videos
• Instruments: e.g. Munsell color system, Munsell Color Charts and lots more!

Women chemists

CHF has a strong interest in women in science. More than forty women are featured in the Women in Chemistry oral history project, one of several Oral History Projects at CHF. Articles marked need photographs.

• Oral histories at CHF could be added to existing Wikipedia articles for:
  • Helen M. Berman, at CHF, needs references
  • Helen Murray Free, at CHF
  • Isabella Karle, at CHF
  • Reatha King, at CHF
  • Donna Nelson, at CHF

• Articles could be created for:
  • Gloria Long Anderson, African American Chemist, Oral History at CHF, Info, Book
  • Margot Becke-Goehring, inorganic chemist, Cologne, German Wikipedia -- any translators of German who could create an English version? Mention
  • Jeannette E. Brown, African American Chemist, at CHF, Historian
  • Kathryn Hach-Darrow, Video & links CHF, Recipient of the Pittcon Heritage Award (2003)
  • Madeleine M. Jouillé, Oral History
  • Antoinette Rodez Schiesler, African American Chemist and subject of children's book, Book, Gravesite, Obituary

• Articles could be edited for:
  • Jacqueline Barton, links at CHF, Ullyot Public Affairs Lecturer (2002) (improve citations)
  • Elizabeth Blackburn, 2012 AIC medal recipient at CHF
  • Uma Chowdhry, needs rewriting (too much like a resume; indicate significance at beginning)
  • Gertrude B. Elion, FRS, biochemist, Nobel, at CHF, at CHF
  • Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, at CHF
  • Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, NAS, computational chemist, Illinois. Her webpage, Appointment to Illinois, Research at Penn State
  • Paula Hammond, needs expansion
  • Judith Howard, FRS crystallographer, Durham. [1], needs better sources
  • Clara Immerwahr, at CHF committed suicide after her husband Fritz Haber CHF invented poison gas. -- page needs discussion of her work! and better sources
  • Mary Ellen Jones (chemist), stub NAP, ASBMB, Book
  • Rebecca Lancefield, stub, Nomenclature, PDF
  • Jane Marcet, educator, wrote science books (including chemistry) for women CHF
  • Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Information from Podcast could be cited -- general tone & quality of article could be reviewed, needs copyright cleared image
  • Helen Muir, FRS, biochemist Who Was Who ODNB, NIH, Obituary, Needs expansion -- one line!
  • Eva Philbin, chemist UCD -- orphan
  • Sarah Ratner, Biography PDF, needs copyright cleared image
  • Maxine Singer, Ullyot Public Affairs Lecturer (1992) -- needs inline citations
  • Lydia Pasternak Slater, biochemist, translator and poet -- ODNB, article, Obituary
  • Susan Solomon, at CHF
  • Joan S. Valentine, NAS, biochemist, UCLA. [[2]], needs expansion

• Longer articles needing work
  • Mildred Cohn, 1913 - 2009 -- could use more discussion of her scientific work; also photographs of her with people like Gerty Cori and Harold Urey; add Award Named for Her
  • Rosemary Murray, 1913 - 2004 -- could use more discussion of her scientific work; ODNB
  • Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758 - 1836, also known as Madame Lavoisier, wife of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier was a chemist -- her article needs work
  • Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, at CHF

• Photographs are also needed for:
  • Marie Maynard Daly, first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in Chemistry, Historian
  • Stephanie Kwolek
  • Anna J. Harrison, request for copyright cleared image
  • Mary Jo Nye, historian of science
  • Donald Othmer and his wife Mildred Topp Othmer

More ideas can be found at List of female Nobel laureates, List of female scientists before the 21st century, List of Women in Technology International Hall of Fame inductees, the She Blinded Me With Science Edit-a-thon, Ada Lovelace Day 2012, and the Harvard Women's History Edit-A-Thon page.

Starting Points: Chemical Heritage Foundation Resources Online

• Chemical Heritage Foundation Website
• Oral Histories
• Women in Chemistry
• The Catalyst Series (Videos), Women in Chemistry
• Othmer Library Catalog (for metadata)
• Wikimedia Commons: Images from the Chemical Heritage Foundation
• Chemical Heritage on Flickr
• Chemical Heritage Videos on Youtube

Outcomes

Seventeen people attended the Wikipedia 101 Workshop session. At least nine new Wikipedia accounts were created. Eight people attended the afternoon edit-a-thon in person. Two new editors created new articles, using materials from the Othmer library at CHF. Three people are known to have participated remotely, two of them creating new articles. New article Gloria Long Anderson has been suggested for a DYK.

New articles created

• Antoinette Rodez Schiesler created today. (talk) 17:00, 27 September 2013 (UTC)Penny Richards
• Gloria Long Anderson created and submitted for WP:DYK. czar ♔ 19:08, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
• Geraldine Claudette Darden
• Beebe Steven Lynk

Articles in sandbox

• Ada Hitchins

Articles improved

• Reatha King
• William Standish Knowles
• Joshua Lederberg
• Phillip Allen Sharp
• Vaughn Bell
• Diane Burko

Finding Photos for Release

• Vaughn Bell, Village Green -- temporary links added, will arrange to release CHF's flickr photos on Commons Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 05:13, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
• Diane Burko, Waters: Glacier and Bucks, 2007−2011 -- temporary links added, will arrange to release CHF's flickr photos on Commons
• Roderick Coover, Estuary/Toxi∙City on Flickr
• Eve Mosher, HighWaterLine on Flickr

Event Photos

• Check Storify to see tweets and photos from the September 27, 2013 Edit-a-thon.

• Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, September 27, 2013, THATCampPhilly
• 
  Mary Mark Ockerbloom, Wikipedia 101 Workshop
• 
  Evan McGonagill, Lane Rasberry, and Dave Thomsen
• 
  Jeff Guin
• 
  My First Page by Tracy Jentzsch

• For photos of this event see commons:Category:Chemical_Heritage_Society_2013_09_meetup_Philadelphia

Thank you for your participation in the ThatCampPhilly 2013 Edit-A-Thon, September 27, 2013, at the Chemical Heritage Foundation. We hope to work with you at more fun edit-a-thon events!