user:sarasays

=About Me =

I am a GLAM enthusiast & do my best to facilitate connections between archives, library, and museum staff and Wikipedians and Wikimedians. While I like to edit articles about art and artists, notable women, and local US landmarks, these days you are more likely to find my volunteerism taking the form of advocacy, speaking, and participating on the board of Wikimedia District of Columbia.

==Presentations & Publications==

  • Wikipedia-related presentations, 2012 to present, are online at [http://www.slideshare.net/sosarasays http://www.slideshare.net/sosarasays]
  • November 12, 2012 - Wikimedia Blog - [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/11/12/bring-on-the-chicks-with-glasses-why-wiki-loves-libraries-glam-wiki-can-help-address-the-wikipedia-gender-gap/ Bring on the Chicks with Glasses!: Why Wiki Loves Libraries & GLAM-Wiki can help address the Wikipedia gender gap]

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= Conflict of Interest Statement =

I, User:sarasays, am an employee of the Smithsonian Institution, a cultural institution per WP:GLAM. I accept the editing conditions specified at that page. I will not make any edits that would not be beneficial to the goals of Wikipedia.

My main edits tend to consist of the following activities:

  • Creating or enhancing existing biographies of notable American artists or art world figures based on both published and original primary source materials.
  • Creating or enhancing existing biographies of other notable scholars, researchers, and cultural figures, especially those from under-represented populations.
  • Adding authoritative references, citations, and images to improve the quality of existing articles of all types.
  • Updating project pages related to GLAM and to the Smithsonian

I will modify my editing behavior based on problems cited by other editors or if my editing conflicts with other Wikipedia guidelines. I ask that other editors do not hesitate to contact me, via my user talk page, if I appear to be going against this declaration. --Sarasays (talk) 18:22, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

= Projects on my radar =

=Links I like=

  • [http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Tools_%26_Requests GLAM tools]
  • [http://linkypedia.info/websites/54/ Linkypedia - Archives of American Art]
  • [http://stats.grok.se/ Wikipedia article traffic stats (pageviews)]

=To Do List=

  • Keep enhancing artist biographies from the [http://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/table.fcgi?project=Archives_of_American_Art-related List of Archives of American Art-related articles]
  • Add biographical sources - see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:BLP_articles_lacking_sources Category:BLP articles lacking sources]

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style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid #4d4d4d; padding: 15px; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Serif;" | A late thank-you for going to bat for Viola Shelly Shantz! --Digitaleffie (talk) 19:28, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

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style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | For great Oct 12th presentation of how to edit with easy fun graphics. CarolMooreDC 02:16, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

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style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Thank you for creating University of Maryland Libraries!Zigzig20s (talk) 08:52, 12 November 2017 (UTC)