:Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Cleveland Park Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

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Cleveland Park Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

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With the help of experienced Wikipedians, attendees will learn to edit Wikipedia and improve articles on historic sites, people, and institutions in and around Cleveland Park.

Laptops are required. Please bring your own. Wikimedia has two laptops to loan. Reserve one by emailing info@wikimediadc.org.

Lunch will be provided.

When

: Saturday, November 10, 2018 11AM-2PM

Where

: Cleveland Park Library

: 3310 Connecticut Avenue, NW

:Washington, DC 20008

Register

:Registration has closed. For more upcoming events visit [https://wikimediadc.org/wiki/Upcoming_events Wikimedia DC's Events Calendar]

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Presentation

Wikimedia Projects

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Wikipedia Policies

Quick Editing Tips

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Tools and Other Resources

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  • [https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews Track Wikipedia Page Views]
  • [https://stats.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Statistics]
  • [https://wikiedu.org Wiki Education Foundation]
  • [https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/training/students Wiki Ed Foundation's online training modules]
  • [https://archive.org/ Internet Archive Wayback Machine]

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Suggested Work List

= Work list in multiple formats =

  • [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PWKVcnDou-yQeJYRYmW0bFI8ZPtI9D6mN38vx7M-Ibo/edit#gid=0 Wiki List Tool] on Google Spreadsheets, showing ORES scores and Wikidata information
  • [https://tools.wmflabs.org/tabernacle/?#/tab/manual/Q5132200%0AQ6802142%0AQ7368159%0AQ7721760%0AQ15275804%0AQ7581148%0AQ16902385%0AQ4680863%0AQ7586738%0AQ668710%0AQ6971287%0AQ7586750%0AQ7971982%0AQ1043283%0AQ4703783%0AQ8006794%0AQ868551%0AQ7151504%0AQ7648385%0AQ7959007/Len%3BDen%3BP31%3BP18 Tabernacle tool], to edit Wikidata metadata

= Table =

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:Main page needs fleshing out and has some outdated information.

  • https://planning.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/op/publication/attachments/Cleveland%20Park%20HD%20nom.pdf
  • Kathryn S. Smith, ed., Washington at Home (2nd ed.)—Carin will bring her copy

Paul K. Williams and Kelton C. Higgins, Cleveland Park (Images of America)

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:Needs additional citations and contains some oddities.

|2=McLean Gardens

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HISTORIC SITES and BUILDINGS

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:Article is a stub with some major errors and omissions. It needs a photo.

  • https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/AssetDetail?assetID=bee3bc7d-49ac-4503-aff5-d0e473f55e8b
  • Louise Mann-Kenney, Rosedale: The Eighteenth Century Country Estate of General Uriah Forrest—Carin will bring a copy
  • Kim Prothro Williams, Lost Farms and Estates of Washington, DC

|2=Rosedale (Washington, D.C.)

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  • https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/AssetDetail?assetID=10907d29-6d2b-4117-8c40-f4b6ca60718d

|2=Tregaron/The Causeway

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|2=John Eaton Elementary School}}

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:Needs inline citations to reliable sources (per tag on page). Parts of article read like subjective boosterism for the management company.

:Recent landmark nomination

  • https://www.nps.gov/nr/feature/places/pdfs/16000028.pdf

|2=Sedgwick Gardens

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:Might be improved with reference to Kim Prothro Williams, Lost Farms and Estates of Washington, DC.

|2=Springland

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:“Multiple issues.” Links need updating

|2=Uptown Theater

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INSTITUTIONS

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  • https://www.jhsgw.org
  • Martin Garfinkle, The Jewish Community of Washington, DC—copy in CP Library

|2=Adas Israel Congregation

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:Currently a stub; needs secondary sources.

|2=St. Albans Church

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:Sections on architecture and burials currently flagged as needing citations.

  • Frederick Quinn, A House of Prayer for All People

|2=Washington National Cathedral

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:Needs citations for what is there now. Has no information at all on the school’s history.

  • Mary Kay Lewis, Polished Corners: A History of The National Cathedral School for Girls—Carin will bring a copy

|2=National Cathedral School

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:Needs citations for what is there now. Has no information at all on the school’s history. There is a history of the school published fairly recently.

|2=St. Albans School

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:Article needs a lot of work.

|2=Washington International School

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:Flagged as needing more citations.

  • https://siarchives.si.edu/history/national-zoological-park
  • More on history of buildings and design—consult John Thomann

|2=National Zoological Park (United States)

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:Article contains no information about its earlier identtiy (Tenallytown Pike, Rockville Pike, etc.) except in Georgetown, and no discussion of its streetcars. These names show up in a lot of Civil War histories, so there’d be some use in expanding the article.

|2=Wisconsin Avenue

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PEOPLE

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:Flagged as needing citations.

  • https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/arts/design/william-christenberry-dead.html
  • https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-william-christenberry-15884

|2=William Christenberry

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:There are some minor inaccuracies in the references to Rosedale in this article, and no cross-references to the Rosedale article. :Update/correct this after improving the Rosedale article. (See Rosedale sources.)

|2=Uriah Forrest

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  • List of houses in Cleveland Park could be expanded (CP NR nomination + HistoryQuest DC)

|2=Paul J. Pelz

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:“Multiple issues” (living person)

|2=Susan Shreve

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:Needs citations

|2=Waddy Butler Wood

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=Additional sources:=

  • G. Martin Moeller, AIA Guide to the Architecture of Washington, DC (2012 edition)—Carin has this on Kindle.

Kim Prothro Williams, Lost Farms and Estates of Washington, DC—Carin will bring a copy.

Outcomes

  • Edited all the Wikidata items for these and included descriptions and aliases for all. -- Fuzheado | Talk 13:12, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

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