WikiSalon is skills-oriented, and monthly sessions alternate between demonstrations of new skills and work sessions to practice skills. Demonstrations are 5-10 minutes long (with an accompanying tutorial video and pdf) and target a specific skill related to Wikipedia, Wikidata, or Wikimedia Commons. Attendees share what they are working on, ask Questions, and get feedback and support.
Many of our regulars are librarians, archivists, professors or people interested in digital humanities and the sciences, but you don't need to be a scientist or librarian to attend or to work on the tasks or articles that we suggest. You can always work on topics that interest you.
Did you know .. that Rachel Brem discovered a tumor in her own breast while testing ultrasound equipment for her hospital? - 8,196 + 91 = 8,287 views, June 12/13, 2024
the Anne Hill linking problem : this could be an interesting OpenRefine problem for Wikidata: find an intersection of items people with the last name "Hill" (without a page?) and hills with a similar name (with page?)
Add questions that you have about Wikipedia or Wikipedia projects (Encyclopedia articles, Wikimedia Commons images, Wikidata) either here or in the Chat. Answers to previous questions can be found in our Question archive.
Just for fun: Have any of you participated in "The Core Contest"? It looks like an important activity but could be intense.
How should we go about using the pronunciation tag in Wikipedia articles? This seems like a tricky thing for those of us unfamiliar with linguistics, yet it is important in many circumstances.
I believe that there are "online IPA translators" that do this. Do any of you have experience with these?
We will create a demonstration for this topic, likely to be shown at the September 2024 Wikisalon. Dorevabelfiore (talk)
What is Meta-Wiki? How should we be using it, if we should be using it at all?
Is there a new quality assessment protocol? I've noticed lots of quality assessment banner shells being applied to the talk pages of articles on my watch list recently, evidently from bots.
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Let's return someday to the Anne Hill project, meaning to find wikilinks to Anne Hill and delink or fix those which treat it as an article about a person. Similarly there may be other articles of the form "-- Hill" to be fixed. -- econterms (talk) 00:53, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
You can use some of the following lists to identify articles to work on, or look at our suggested articles below. We note what needs to be done for each article.
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Sheila Minor had a 35-year-long career at various federal agencies and was responsible for assessing environmental impact statements. The article is a bit messy and doesn't follow Wikipedia style in formatting.
Ruth Miriam Siems invented Stove Top Stuffing, getting the crumb size just right so it would be neither hard nor soggy. This article needs more sources and expansion.
In the Corning Museum of Glass art and science meet as equals. The museum is absolutely stunning, but the Wikipedia page about it needs a bit of help -- and lots of citations.
The South Side Writers Group is an important part of the black renaissance and the Great Migration. Founded in part by Richard Wright, I discovered in my previous editing that this page is merely a "stub" and there is so much that can be said on the group! *NMcNinney (talk) 18:19, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I have been keeping my eyes open for books and articles on this group and have yet to find any. I will contine to keep my eye out for anything on the subject. NMcNinney (talk) 15:09, 8 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Have you tried JSTOR and also Google Scholar? A quick search showed lots of hits, but I don't know if they are suitable references or not. Another idea is to ask the staff at the Amistad Research Center if they can help. Nolabob (talk) 22:13, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Members of the American Craft Council College of Fellows are notable and some need pages! See the Show/Hide list of fellows at the bottom of the Wikipedia page for red names.
