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Smithsonian Libraries Meetup & Editathon 2013 is part of Wikipedia Loves Libraries (WLL) 2013, the third annual continent-wide campaign to bring Wikipedians, librarians, and archivists together with on-site events. Running this fall throughout October and November, WLL coincides with the celebration of Open Access Week and American Archives Month.

This event will include new editor training, an afternoon editathon, and an evening happy hour.

; When

: 1:00pm-5:00pm on Friday, October 25, 2013, with a group happy hour afterward

; Where

: The Victor Building, 750 9th Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20560

:The American Art/Portrait Gallery branch of the Smithsonian Libraries is on the 2nd floor. Photo ID and pre-registration for the event are required.

; Organizers

: 30px[http://wikimediadc.org/wiki/Home Wikimedia DC] & the Smithsonian Institution. Contact Diane Shaw at ShawD (at) si.edu with questions.

; Hashtag

: #WLL

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Focus

The editathon will focus on "American Artists of the World's Columbian Exposition" hi

With approximately 1200 American artists participating in the 1893 Fair in Chicago, it was the largest exhibition of American art ever assembled at the time. Many artists are well-known today—Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent—but many do not have such recognizable names, much less quality Wikipedia articles.

Please join us to mine library books, journals, curatorial files, Art & Artist Files, and all the online resources the Smithsonian Libraries can provide, to expand and improve information on great American artists at the Fair!

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Schedule

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align="center" |1:00 p.m.

| align="Left" |Meet and prepare to be escorted through security.

Please be prompt and don't forget to bring your photo ID & laptop!

| align="center" |Lobby of the Victor Building

750 9th ST NW

align="center" |1:10 - 1:30

| align="Left" |Coffee, welcome

| align="center" | AA/PG Library Reading Room

(2nd floor)

align="center" |1:30 - 1:45

| align="left" | New editor tutorial

[http://www.slideshare.net/sosarasays/getting-startedwikipediaoctober2013 View Tutorial Presentation on Slideshare]

| align="center" |AA/PG Library Reading Room

align="center" |1:45 - 5:00

| align="Left" |Editathon

| align="center" |AA/PG Library Reading Room

align="center" |5:00 onward

| align="Left" | Happy Hour

| align="center" |Capital City Brewery

1100 New York Ave NW

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FAQ

Do I have to register to attend, or can I just arrive on the day?

:Advance RSVP is required for non-Smithsonian staff. Due to the limited number of spaces and the advance security badge requirements, the only way to guarantee admission is to sign up. Space is limited to 20 non-staff Wikipedian participants.

Do I have to be a member of Wikimedia DC?

:No, this event is open to everyone.

What should I bring?

:*Photo ID

:*Laptop

Add your own questions here

Do I have to be an expert on the subject matter of the editathon?

:Absolutely not! There will be tons of resources and librarians to work with.

Will there be a barnstar?

:Reason 1 for "happy" in "happy hour" post editathon: barnstar!! * Yahoo! * wild cheering and applause *

Sign Up

Note: Since this event takes place in a secure, behind-the-scenes portion of the Smithsonian, real names of attendees are required in order to grant them security badges. Photo ID will be required for admission. If you don't want to reveal your name on the wiki, please email it to one of the organizers (listed above) so that they will be able to make the connection to (but not publish) your username.

=Attending (non-Smithsonian staff)=

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  1. cool, I can actually (probably) attend :) --Aude (talk) 18:05, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
  2. Definitely -- Laura Ann
  3. Almost Certainly! -- Molly Caitlin
  4. Looking forward to it! Flappable (talk) 15:04, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
  5. Harej (talk) 22:45, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
  6. Djembayz (talk) 08:25, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
  7. Fuzheado | Talk 02:55, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
  8. Geraldshields11 (talk) 00:01, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
  9. Slowking
  10. Dominic·t 14:42, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
  11. Diane Tepfer (added by Uncommon_Fritillary, per email reservation) Uncommon fritillary (talk) 18:07, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
  12. Sarahobender | talk
  13. Ox8oggle
  14. Laura W.
  15. Stacie M.
  16. Diane F.
  17. Craub (talk) 19:42, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
  18. Jackie S.
  19. Megen S.
  20. Jack D.
  21. econterms (talk) 21:40, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
  22. TaraInDC (talk)

=Waitlist=

(all RSVPs beyond 20 will be put on the waitlist)

  1. Hope to attend but hang here so I don't take a spot from someone more certain. DocTree (ʞlɐʇ·cont) Join WER 23:58, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
  2. I'll hang here with DocTree. Should know soon whether I can attend. I won't be able to come, unfortunately. Clarkefreak ∞ 23:20, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

=Smithsonian Staff=

  1. --Sarasays (talk) 20:10, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
  1. Uncommon fritillary (talk) 12:41, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
  2. --Bettinche (talk)
  3. Baasil Wilder
  4. Shannon Perich
  5. Doug Dunlop
  6. Carrie Smith, added by Uncommon fritillary (talk) 18:45, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
  7. Ryan Lintelman (talk)
  8. Anne Evenhaugen
  9. Jennifer Morris (Anacostia Museum), added by Uncommon fritillary (talk) 18:36, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
  10. Katie Wagner
  11. --Drastician (talk) 17:58, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

=Participating Remotely=

  1. Friend of Smokey the Bear
  2. Chandler's "shopped" Joel
  3. Carptrash

=Apologies=

  1. — madman 17:55, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

To Do List

Ethernet page for participants to keep track of articles being worked on: http://piratepad.net/WLL13

The following is in no particular order and certainly not exhaustive.

Looking for even MORE suggestions? Check out our growing WikiProject Smithsonian To-Do List!

=List-making=

  • Expand (and/or move?) list of American Artists who showed at the World's Columbian Exposition using the NPG/SAAM print catalog, "[http://books.google.com/books?id=vatPAAAAMAAJ&q=revisiting+the+white+city&dq=revisiting+the+white+city&hl=en&sa=X&ei=S9ZpUp-mH82LkAf3q4HIAQ&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA Revisiting the White City]" as a source.

=Create new articles=

| title = C. Morgan McIlhenney

| work = Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery

| accessdate = 2013-10-26

| url = http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artist/?id=3229

}}

  • Anna Lea Merritt - [http://www.nmwa.org/explore/artist-profiles/anna-lea-merritt], [https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Lea_Merritt], [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anna_Lea_Merritt-Love_locked_out.jpg], [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/376363/Anna-Lea-Merritt/]
  • Harry Humphrey Moore - [http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=humphrey+moore&role=&nation=&prev_page=1&subjectid=500023216]
  • Peter Moran - {{Cite episode

| title = Peter Moran Painting, ca. 1880

| series = Antiques Roadshow Archive

|network= PBS

| accessdate = 2013-10-27

| url = http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/archive/200703A44.html

}} {{Cite web

| title = Peter Moran

| work = Ask Art, the Artist's Bluebook

| accessdate = 2013-10-27

| url = http://www.askart.com/AskART/M/peter_moran/peter_moran.aspx

}} {{Cite web

| title = PETER MORAN (1841-1914)

| work = Spanierman Gallery LLC

| accessdate = 2013-10-27

| url = http://www.spanierman.com/Peter-Moran/bio/top/biography

}} {{Cite web

| title = Peter Moran - The Noonday Rest

| work = Art of the Print

| accessdate = 2013-10-27

| url = http://www.artoftheprint.com/artistpages/moran_peter_thenoondayrest.htm

}} {{Cite web

| title = Peter Moran - Wild Boars in the Forest of Fontainebleau

| work = Art of the Print

| accessdate = 2013-10-27

| url = http://www.artoftheprint.com/artistpages/moran_peter_wild_boars.htm

}} {{Cite book

| publisher = Creo Press ; Distributed by The Philadelphia Sketch Club

| isbn = 9780978977955

| last = Wright

| first = David Gilmore

| title = Domestic and wild: Peter Moran's images of America

| location = Baltimore, Md. : Philadelphia, Pa

| date = 2010

}}

=Expand existing articles=

=Add images=

  • Learn how to add freely licensed images to the Wikimedia commons so that they can be used to illustrate your Wikipedia articles.

Recommended source: [http://archive.org/browse.php?field=subject&mediatype=texts&collection=smithsonian Smithsonian Libraries contributed texts on the Internet Archive]

=Add infoboxes=

Research Sources

  • Online Resources
  • Smithsonian Libraries' [https://library.si.edu/research OneSearch]
  • [http://www.collections.si.edu/search/index.htm Smithsonian Collections Search Center]
  • [http://www.sil.si.edu/silpublications/Worlds-Fairs/index.cfm Smithsonian Libraries Bibliography: Revisiting the World’s Fairs and International Expositions]
  • [http://blog.library.si.edu/ Smithsonian Libraries Blog]
  • [http://www.aaa.si.edu Archives of American Art website]
  • [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/chicago/peopleevents/e_court.html PBS American Experience about 1893 World's Fair]
  • [http://search.proquest.com ProQuest’s Historical Newspapers]
  • [http://www.askart.com Ask Art]
  • [http://arcadiasystems.org/academia/cassatt4c.html Women at the World’s Fair page] (not so scholarly, but some good links)
  • [https://archive.org/details/texts Internet Archive]
  • Smithsonian Libraries' [http://www.sil.si.edu/imagegalaxy/ Galaxy of Images]
  • National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC: [https://images.nga.gov/en/page/show_home_page.html Open Access Images]
  • Library of Congress [http://www.loc.gov/pictures/ Prints & Photographs Image Collection]
  • NYPL [http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm Open Access Digital Gallery]
  • Other Resources
  • Random books on the table
  • Art & Artist Files (just ask staff to pull one for you!)
  • Curatorial Files from “Revisiting the White City”
  • Ask a Smithsonian Librarian!

= Book citations to copy and paste =

  • {{Cite book

| publisher = National Museum of American Art and National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ; Distributed by the University Press of New England

| isbn = 0937311014

|author=National Museum of American Art

|author2=National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)

| title = Revisiting the white city: American art at the 1893 World's Fair

| location = Washington, D.C. : Hanover

| pages = [ Your page numbers go here ]

| date = 1993

}}

Results

= Articles created =

= Video of the day =

Video of the day's activities, created by Fuzheado - [http://vimeo.com/78005986]

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