Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle/UWRCWikiLab

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Allen Library, location of the Research Commons, University of Washington. Photo by Joe Mabel

Wikipedia Lab at the UW Research Commons

When:	Weekly on Mondays, starting 10/5/2015 through 11/30/2015, 4:30pm-6:30pm
Who:	UW students, faculty, and staff; Seattle community members
Where:	UW Research Commons, room Green A
Focus:	Women and the Sciences and Pacific Northwest, weekly focuses

Wikipedia Lab at the UW Libraries Research Commons brings together local Wikipedia experts with University of Washington subject specialists and UW community members to learn about editing Wikipedia. Come contribute vital, local, and corrective content to the world's largest online encyclopedia. Come as you are with questions, ideas, or content knowledge to share!

The Wikipedia Lab will run weekly, every Monday, during fall quarter. The Lab has two thematic focuses: Women in the Sciences and the Pacific Northwest. Each week will feature a special collections librarian content specialist and Wikipedian editors.

Sponsored by the UW Libraries & Cascadia Wikimedians User Group

Weekly Schedule

Date	Theme	Focus	Presenters	Wikipedians	Starting points
10/5/2015	WikipediaLab: Women and the Sciences	Women and Economics	Librarian: Jessica Jerritt	Monika Sengul-Jones, Pine, Peaceray	#Women and Economics
10/12/2015	WikipediaLab: Women and the Sciences	Women and Astronomy	Librarian: Anya Bartelmann (Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics Librarian)	Brianhe, Benjamin Mako Hill, Peaceray	#Women and Astronomy
10/19/2015	WikipediaLab: Women and the Sciences	Women and Health Sciences	TBA	Pine, Peaceray	#Women and Health Sciences
10/26/2015	WikipediaLab: Women and the Sciences	Women and Technology	CrystalRose Hudelson (Guest speaker on women in aviation)	Monika Sengul-Jones, Peaceray	#Women and Technology
11/2/2015	WikipediaLab: Pacific Northwest	Hawks & Huskies: Northwest Sports	Hannah Palin, UW Film Archives Specialist	Pine, Peaceray, SounderBruce	#Northwest Sports
11/9/2015	WikipediaLab: Pacific Northwest	Native Americans in the Northwest	TBA	Pine, Peaceray, SounderBruce	#Native Americans in the Northwest
11/16/2015	WikipediaLab: Pacific Northwest	The Port of Seattle as a Site of Labor	Librarian: Conor Casey (Labor Archivist, Director) User: LaborArchWA	Pine, Peaceray, SounderBruce	#Port of Seattle
11/23/2015	WikipediaLab: Pacific Northwest	Water, Ecology & Sustainability	Librarians: Maureen Nolan and Louise Richards	Pine, Peaceray, SounderBruce	#Ecology and sustainability
11/30/2015	WikipediaLab: Pacific Northwest	Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: Economy of the Pacific Northwest	TBA	Monika Sengul-Jones, Pine, Peaceray, SounderBruce	#PNW economy

Suggested starting points

Note: Articles created or developed at the lab can be tagged on their talkpage with {{UWRCWikiLab 8}}

Women and Economics

• Category:Women economists

Women and Astronomy

Further information: Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle/UWRCWikiLab/Women astronomers

• List of women astronomers
• http://women.nasa.gov - Women at NASA
• http://wia2009.gsfc.nasa.gov - Women in Astronomy 2009 (NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center)

Women and Health Sciences

• Women in medicine

Women and Technology

• Lisa Brummel
• Julie Larson-Green
• Tami Reller

Northwest Sports

• Category:Sports in Washington (state)
• List of motorcycle rallies in the Pacific Northwest
• Sports in Seattle

Native Americans in the Northwest

• List of Indian reservations in Washington
• Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast
• Coast Salish peoples

Port of Seattle

• Central Waterfront, Seattle
• Coast Guard District 13
• Port of Seattle

Ecology and sustainability

• Brightwater sewage treatment plant
• Climate change in Washington
• Elwha Ecosystem Restoration
• Environmental issues in Puget Sound
• King County Metro § History
• Link Light Rail
• Washington State Department of Ecology

PNW economy

• Economy of Washington (state)
• Hollywood North
• List of companies based in Seattle
• Pacific Northwest Economic Region

Proposed articles to edit

Women and Economics

• Juliet Schor - stubby article, needs major expansion

Women and Astronomy

• Emily Levesque

Northwest Sports

• List of rodeos § Washington - 7/8 redlinks
• Draft:Seattle–Portland rivalry

Native Americans in the Northwest

• Draft:Fawn Sharp
• Duwamish Head petroglyphs
• Redmond Town Center archaeological site - recently discovered oldest stone implements in Western Washington
• Tulalip

The Port of Seattle as a Site of Labor

• 1934 West Coast waterfront strike: very little on Seattle in current article

PNW economy

• Draft:Coupeville grain wharf
• Draft:Evergreen Point Floating Bridge replacement
• Schwabacher's Wharf currently just a redirect to Schwabacher Brothers
• Draft:Kirkland Cannery Building

FYI: Other articles that we might attend to in this edithon are Transportation in Seattle and Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement tunnel, which are two of the three Top-importance Seattle articles that are start class, and Alaskan Way Viaduct and Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, which are two of the dozen High-importance Seattle articles that are start class, according to this Seattle Start-class article list from Wikipedia Release Version Tools. See the WP:WPUSA quality assessment and WikiProject article quality grading scheme for more info.

Other

• University of Washington Libraries § Libraries and units
• Draft:List of crossings of the Puyallup River

Proposed articles to add

Women and Astronomy

• Draft:Ana Larson
• Sarah T. Stewart-Mukhopadhyay - Uruy Prize 2009

Native Americans in the Northwest

• Naches Trail (currently redir.)
  • sources: City of Bonney Lake history

Ecology and sustainability

• Washington State coal train controversy (Gateway Pacific Terminal is a redirect to one paragraph)
  • sources: Crosscut, Seattle Times, Bellingham Herald, Yes! magazine, Sierra Club, KBTC, Coal Train Facts, Sightline Institute, KUOW
• Cycling in Seattle (see Cycling in Portland, Oregon for inspiration)

Women and Technology

• Eve Riskin
  • Anna Bogdanowicz (8 March 2010), "Looking at the Gender Gap: Members offer advice on how to close the gender gap in engineering", The Institute, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  • Kathy Pretz (7 February 2014), "IEEE Fellows Champion the Cause of Women Engineers: These three work to increase the number of women engineers", The Institute, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  • Katherine Long (October 14, 2013), "UW female professors building a culture for engineering", The Seattle Times

PNW economy

• Commercial fishing in Washington (state) (cf. Commercial fishing in Alaska)
• Tree farming in Washington (state) The first Tree farm was created near Montesano. About 21% of Washington's total area is private timberland.
• Draft:Seattle Department of Transportation
• Olympia Knitting Mills (NRHP listed)

Editing Resources

Art+Feminism Video tutorials

• Art + Feminism Beginner Training Video Part 1- Making Simple edits on Wikipedia
• Art + Feminism Beginner Training Video Part 2 - Using your sandbox and adding citations
• Art + Feminism Beginner Training Video Part 3 - Best practices and Wikipedia policies
• Art + Feminism Advanced FAQ: Adding Images to Wikimedia Commons
• Art + Feminism Advanced FAQ: Creating New Pages on Wikipedia
• Art + Feminism Advanced FAQ: Talk Pages on Wikipedia
• Art + Feminism Advanced FAQ: Wikipedia Notability Guidelines
• Art + Feminism Advanced FAQ: Adding Infoboxes to Wikipedia Articles
• Art + Feminism Advanced FAQ: Advanced FAQ: Adding Images to Wikipedia Articles

Femtechnet video featuring Wikipedian Adrianne Wadewitz - one hour

RSVP

Probably attending

• Brianhe (talk) – to Oct 12 event at least and as many others as possible
• Shameran81 (talk) 23:33, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
• Peaceray (talk) — Assume I will attend each session, unless I specify otherwise.
• SounderBruce – November sessions

Maybe attending

• I'll make as many of these as I can. - Jmabel | Talk 16:01, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

Probably not attending