User:Verbistheword
About Veronica
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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[edit]
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[edit]
I may want to remember or reference these edits in the future. For a list of all my Wikipedia edits, see my contributions page.
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
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
Write better articles
- Writing about women
- Your first article
- 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
When good faith edits are reverted
- Relevant policy documents
- Relevant essays
- Regarding "In popular culture" sections
- 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[edit]
(Listed in reverse chronological order of thinking of them)
- 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
- Look at coverage of people and topics from Hidden Figures
- Learn more about this: Wikipedia:Request an account. How does this relate to the difficulty of creating multiple accounts on Wikipedia event days?
References[edit]
Subpages[edit]
- 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