Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/AmericanArt COMM535
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American Art Editathon, February 11, 2014
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Work with students, curators, Wikipedia editors and newbies to improve articles related to American art. This is the first edit-a-thon for the class "Wikipedia and Public Knowledge" class [1] and the general public is invited.
When
[edit]- Tuesday, February 11th, 2014
- 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Who
[edit]- Students from Wikipedia & Public Knowledge (COMM 535), American University (professor Andrew Lih User:Fuzheado)
- Wikimedia DC Community and the general public
What to bring
[edit]- Laptop computer
Where
[edit]- Smithsonian American Art Museum, McMillan Education Center
- (1st Floor, east end of the building, near F Street entrance)
- 9th & F Street NW, Washington, DC
- Etherpad notes: http://notes.wikimediadc.org/p/AAM-editathon-2014
| Time | Activity | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 2:00 - 2:30 | Meet & set up | McMillan Education Center (1st floor) |
| 2:30 - 3:00 | Tour | Luce Foundation Center (3rd floor) |
| 3:00 - 5:00 | Editing | McMillan Education Center (1st floor)
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QUESTIONS? Contact snyders (@) si.edu or check out WikiProject Smithsonian
RSVP
[edit]Attendees
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- Fuzheado | Talk 21:45, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
- Callahanb (talk) 18:06, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
- 19 students from American University class
- Mark Christal and Holly Stewart from NMAI
- Dena Levitz, American University MAME
- Mackenzie Hill, American University Mlhill23
- Bailey Edelstein, American University Bailey614
- Duckduckstop (talk) 18:46, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
- chandler wiland
- Courtney O'Callaghan and Liz Cheng from Freer | Sackler
Maybe
[edit]List of articles we will be working on
[edit]Women Artists
[edit]- Women artists need your help! See "To Do" list from a prior meetup: Women in the Arts - To Do List
- User:Gobonobo/Gender Gap red list "To Do" list addressing gender gap
Additional articles that needs fixes or expansion
[edit]- Nancy Grossman - needs infobox, [2]
- John Valentine Haidt - orphan, needs expansion and wikilinks - [3]
- Ferdinand Pettrich - stub, needs expansion and citations - [4]
- Paul Cadmus - bio needs expansion - mostly just list of works - [5]
- José Campeche - needs better citations, stylistic cleanup, [6], [7]
- Arline Fisch - needs cleanup, expansion
- John William "Uncle Jack" Dey - orphan
- Beverly Pepper - needs additional sources, more information in info box [8]
- Bessie Callender - orphan [9]
- Will Barnet - needs infobox [10]
Additional articles to be created
[edit]- Robert Sperry - Sperry, Robert H. , b. 1927 d. 1998 Ceramicist, Active in Seattle, Wash. [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16]
- Nicholas Herrera - [17], [18], [19]
- Bruce Moore - [20], a.k.a. E. Bruce Moore
- John R. Grabach - [21], [22], [23]
- Natalie Smith Henry - [24], [25]
- Felipe Archuleta - [26] Miamiller (talk) 03:06, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
Research resources
[edit]Excellent examples
[edit]Reference generators
[edit]Can help you save time!
- NY Times reference generator
- Google Books reference generator
- DOI reference generator (for journals)
Smithsonian databases and websites
[edit]- Smithsonian Libraries Tools for the Researcher - links to resources, both free and subscription only
- Smithsonian Collections Search Center - database of Smithsonian collection holdings
- Archives of American Art collection descriptions, oral history interviews, & Journal articles: use the search box at aaa.si.edu
Artist infoboxes
[edit]The template for artist infoboxes is here: Template:Infobox artist
Artist stub templates
[edit]Results / Outcomes
[edit]Articles created
[edit]- Natalie Smith Henry, Ctufarolo (talk) 16:44, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
- Felipe Archuleta - [27] Miamiller (talk) 03:06, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
Articles improved
[edit]- Will Barnet, added infobox, by Geraldshields11 (talk) 21:10, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
- Bessie Callender , no longer an orphan and removed tag, by Geraldshields11 (talk) 21:15, 11 February 2014 (UTC), added information about early career in painting and sculpting and added field to information box, by CMSnow14 (talk)
- Beverly Pepper, added cite and removed tag, by Geraldshields11 (talk) 21:28, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
- José Campeche, reordered cites, Geraldshields11 (talk) 21:33, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
- Paul Cadmus expanded biography- education & early career, 11 February 2014
- Nancy Grossman completed infobox, expanded biography and added citation, Llljoyce (talk) 20:50, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
- Pamela Shields created page/ added citations- not a lot of info on her though. Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie added educational info/ links to universities/added citation Hufsakamal (talk) 17:15, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
- Felipe Archuleta created page, added references, picture of his exhibit at the American Art museum, added background information. Miamiller (talk) 03:10, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
- John William "Uncle Jack" Dey, no longer an orphan and removed tag, by C meindl (talk) 04:05, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
- Bessie Callender, no longer an orphan (linked to from Wichita, Kansas page), added dates in bio, added citations by ArielEBarry (talk) 19:38, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
- Uploaded photos using the Wikimedia commons app. Contribution page can be seen here by Bailey614 (talk)
- Joseph Mozier added photo of II Penseroso sculpture, by Mlhill23 (talk)Mlhill23Mlhill23 (talk)
- Elaine de Kooning added photo of Merce Cunningham, by Mlhill23 (talk)Mlhill23Mlhill23 (talk)
- Laura Wheeler Waring added photo of Marian Anderson, by Mlhill23 (talk)Mlhill23Mlhill23 (talk)
- Louis Briel added photo of Arthur Ashe, by Mlhill23 (talk)Mlhill23Mlhill23 (talk)
- José Campeche added sources, a gallery, and list of Campeche's artwork housed in the American Art Museum, Merimoocoww (talk)
- Arline Fisch added birthdate to information box and information about schooling, by CMSnow14 (talk)
- Arline Fisch added info box, added reflist, added citations, fixed references, added links to page in other articles BillOldham (talk) 01:33, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
- Arline Fisch, added info box, by wl3517a (talk)