Work with students, curators, Wikipedia editors and newbies to improve articles related to American art. This is the first edit-a-thon for the class "Wikipedia and Public Knowledge" class [1] and the general public is invited.

Tuesday, February 11th, 2014

2:00pm - 5:00pm

Students from Wikipedia & Public Knowledge (COMM 535), American University (professor Andrew Lih User:Fuzheado)

Wikimedia DC Community and the general public

Laptop computer

Smithsonian American Art Museum, McMillan Education Center

(1st Floor, east end of the building, near F Street entrance)

9th & F Street NW, Washington, DC

Etherpad notes: http://notes.wikimediadc.org/p/AAM-editathon-2014

Time	Activity	Location
2:00 - 2:30	Meet & set up	McMillan Education Center (1st floor)
2:30 - 3:00	Tour	Luce Foundation Center (3rd floor)
3:00 - 5:00	Editing	McMillan Education Center (1st floor) Introduction - Bridget Callahan, head of the Luce Center Tasks Guests: Dominic McDevitt-Parks, US National Archives and Records Administration Mark Christal and Holly Stewart from National Museum of the American Indian Liz Cheng and Courtney O'Callaghan, chief digital officer, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Wrapup

QUESTIONS? Contact snyders (@) si.edu or check out WikiProject Smithsonian

1. Fuzheado | Talk 21:45, 3 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
2. Callahanb (talk) 18:06, 4 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
3. 19 students from American University class
4. Mark Christal and Holly Stewart from NMAI
5. Dena Levitz, American University MAME
6. Mackenzie Hill, American University Mlhill23
7. Bailey Edelstein, American University Bailey614
8. Duckduckstop (talk) 18:46, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
9. chandler wiland
10. Courtney O'Callaghan and Liz Cheng from Freer | Sackler

1. Geraldshields11 (talk) 23:22, 5 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Women artists need your help! See "To Do" list from a prior meetup: Women in the Arts - To Do List
• User:Gobonobo/Gender Gap red list "To Do" list addressing gender gap

• Nancy Grossman - needs infobox, [2]
• John Valentine Haidt - orphan, needs expansion and wikilinks - [3]
• Ferdinand Pettrich - stub, needs expansion and citations - [4]
• Paul Cadmus - bio needs expansion - mostly just list of works - [5]
• José Campeche - needs better citations, stylistic cleanup, [6], [7]
• Arline Fisch - needs cleanup, expansion
• John William "Uncle Jack" Dey - orphan
• Beverly Pepper - needs additional sources, more information in info box [8]
• Bessie Callender - orphan [9]
• Will Barnet - needs infobox [10]

• Robert Sperry - Sperry, Robert H. , b. 1927 d. 1998 Ceramicist, Active in Seattle, Wash. [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16]
• Nicholas Herrera - [17], [18], [19]
• Bruce Moore - [20], a.k.a. E. Bruce Moore
• John R. Grabach - [21], [22], [23]
• Natalie Smith Henry - [24], [25]
• Felipe Archuleta - [26] Miamiller (talk) 03:06, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Romaine Brooks

Can help you save time!

• NY Times reference generator
• Google Books reference generator
• DOI reference generator (for journals)

• Smithsonian Libraries Tools for the Researcher - links to resources, both free and subscription only
• Smithsonian Collections Search Center - database of Smithsonian collection holdings
• Archives of American Art collection descriptions, oral history interviews, & Journal articles: use the search box at aaa.si.edu

The template for artist infoboxes is here: Template:Infobox artist

• Template:US-artist-stub
• American artist stub templates

• Natalie Smith Henry, Ctufarolo (talk) 16:44, 13 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Felipe Archuleta - [27] Miamiller (talk) 03:06, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Will Barnet, added infobox, by Geraldshields11 (talk) 21:10, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Bessie Callender , no longer an orphan and removed tag, by Geraldshields11 (talk) 21:15, 11 February 2014 (UTC), added information about early career in painting and sculpting and added field to information box, by CMSnow14 (talk)[reply]
• Beverly Pepper, added cite and removed tag, by Geraldshields11 (talk) 21:28, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• José Campeche, reordered cites, Geraldshields11 (talk) 21:33, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Paul Cadmus expanded biography- education & early career, 11 February 2014
• Nancy Grossman completed infobox, expanded biography and added citation, Llljoyce (talk) 20:50, 16 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Pamela Shields created page/ added citations- not a lot of info on her though. Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie added educational info/ links to universities/added citation Hufsakamal (talk) 17:15, 16 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Felipe Archuleta created page, added references, picture of his exhibit at the American Art museum, added background information. Miamiller (talk) 03:10, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• John William "Uncle Jack" Dey, no longer an orphan and removed tag, by C meindl (talk) 04:05, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Bessie Callender, no longer an orphan (linked to from Wichita, Kansas page), added dates in bio, added citations by ArielEBarry (talk) 19:38, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Uploaded photos using the Wikimedia commons app. Contribution page can be seen here by Bailey614 (talk)
• Joseph Mozier added photo of II Penseroso sculpture, by Mlhill23 (talk)Mlhill23Mlhill23 (talk)
• Elaine de Kooning added photo of Merce Cunningham, by Mlhill23 (talk)Mlhill23Mlhill23 (talk)
• Laura Wheeler Waring added photo of Marian Anderson, by Mlhill23 (talk)Mlhill23Mlhill23 (talk)
• Louis Briel added photo of Arthur Ashe, by Mlhill23 (talk)Mlhill23Mlhill23 (talk)
• José Campeche added sources, a gallery, and list of Campeche's artwork housed in the American Art Museum, Merimoocoww (talk)
• Arline Fisch added birthdate to information box and information about schooling, by CMSnow14 (talk)
• Arline Fisch added info box, added reflist, added citations, fixed references, added links to page in other articles BillOldham (talk) 01:33, 18 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Arline Fisch, added info box, by wl3517a (talk)