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!

Time	Activity	Location
1:00 p.m.	Meet and prepare to be escorted through security. Please be prompt and don't forget to bring your photo ID & laptop!	Lobby of the Victor Building 750 9th ST NW
1:10 - 1:30	Coffee, welcome	AA/PG Library Reading Room (2nd floor)
1:30 - 1:45	New editor tutorial View Tutorial Presentation on Slideshare	AA/PG Library Reading Room
1:45 - 5:00	Editathon	AA/PG Library Reading Room
5:00 onward	Happy Hour	Capital City Brewery 1100 New York Ave NW

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 *

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)[edit]

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

Waitlist[edit]

(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)[reply]
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)[reply]

Smithsonian Staff[edit]

1. --Sarasays (talk) 20:10, 17 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

1. Uncommon fritillary (talk) 12:41, 21 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]
7. Ryan Lintelman (talk)
8. Anne Evenhaugen
9. Jennifer Morris (Anacostia Museum), added by Uncommon fritillary (talk) 18:36, 23 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
10. Katie Wagner
11. --Drastician (talk) 17:58, 25 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Participating Remotely[edit]

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

Apologies[edit]

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

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[edit]

• Expand (and/or move?) list of American Artists who showed at the World's Columbian Exposition using the NPG/SAAM print catalog, "Revisiting the White City" as a source.

Create new articles[edit]

• Selected American Artists who showed at the World's Columbian Exposition (no article):
  • Margaret Lesley Bush-Brown - [1]
  • Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson - [2], [3]
  • Roswell Stone Hill - [4]
  • Alice D. Kellogg - [5]
  • Aloys Loeher - [6]
  • Harriet Hyatt Mayor - draft page started at User:Sarasays/sandbox
  • C. Morgan McIlhenney - "C. Morgan McIlhenney". Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery. Retrieved 2013-10-26.
  • Anna Lea Merritt - [7], [8], [9], [10]
  • Harry Humphrey Moore - [11]
  • Peter Moran - ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}
  • Walter Launt Palmer - [12], [13]
  • Katherine T. Prescott - [14]
  • Amanda Brewster Sewell - [15], [16], [[17]]
  • Julian Russell Story - [18], [19], [20]

• Want to practice creating articles with the need to write new content from scratch? Wikipedia:WikiProject Dictionary of National Biography/Missing women - a quick and easy way to paste in existing biographies from Wikisource, including notable women without Wikipedia articles

Expand existing articles[edit]

• Selected American Artists who showed or worked at the World's Columbian Exposition (stubs/starts):
  • William Rudolf O'Donovan
  • Carol Brooks MacNeil
  • Helen Farnsworth Mears
  • Robert Crannell Minor
  • Mary Lawrence
  • Preston Powers
  • Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson - [21]1
  • Gari Melchers
  • Louis Moeller
  • Edward Moran
  • George Henry Smillie
  • Charles Webber
  • White Rabbits (sculptors)
  • Jean Pond Miner Coburn
  • World's Congress of Representative Women

Add images[edit]

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

Recommended source: Smithsonian Libraries contributed texts on the Internet Archive

Add infoboxes[edit]

• Template:Infobox artist
• Template:Infobox artwork
• Template:Infobox artifact, e.g. statue or mosaic

• Online Resources
  • Smithsonian Libraries' OneSearch
  • Smithsonian Collections Search Center
  • Smithsonian Libraries Bibliography: Revisiting the World’s Fairs and International Expositions
  • Smithsonian Libraries Blog
  • Archives of American Art website
  • PBS American Experience about 1893 World's Fair
  • ProQuest’s Historical Newspapers
  • Ask Art
  • Women at the World’s Fair page (not so scholarly, but some good links)
  • Internet Archive
  • Smithsonian Libraries' Galaxy of Images
  • National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC: Open Access Images
  • Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Image Collection
  • NYPL 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[edit]

• National Museum of American Art; National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) (1993). Revisiting the white city: American art at the 1893 World's Fair. Washington, D.C. : Hanover: National Museum of American Art and National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ; Distributed by the University Press of New England. pp. [ Your page numbers go here ]. ISBN 0937311014.

• William Rudolf O'Donovan added info box based on text of the article. Geraldshields11 (talk) 20:29, 25 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Carol Brooks MacNeil added info box based on text of the article. Geraldshields11 (talk) 20:29, 25 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Helen Farnsworth Mears added info box based on text of the article. Geraldshields11 (talk) 20:29, 25 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Robert Crannell Minor added info box based on text of the article. Geraldshields11 (talk) 20:29, 25 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• William Rudolf O'Donovan added to list of selected works, from SIRIS Art Inventories & Revisiting the White City Uncommon fritillary (talk) 20:35, 25 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Mary Lawrence added info box based on text of the article. Geraldshields11 (talk) 20:47, 25 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Preston Powers added info box based on text of the article. Geraldshields11 (talk) 20:47, 25 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• World's Columbian Exposition copy/edit of article by Geraldshields11 (talk) 20:55, 25 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Edward Moran article improved with sources and corrections by User:JackieSaav
• Added map to the World's Columbian Exposition article. -- econterms (talk) 19:56, 25 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Robert Koehler added citations from "Revisiting the white city" -- Djembayz (talk) 00:33, 26 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Added the better photographs from the editathon; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smithsonian_Libraries_Meetup_%26_Editathon_2013_01.JPG through https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smithsonian_Libraries_Meetup_%26_Editathon_2013_14.JPG to wiki Commons for free use. Geraldshields11 (talk) 01:26, 26 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Promoted Wikipedia on various social media.Geraldshields11 (talk) 01:26, 26 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Helen Farnsworth Mears (on Wikidata)
• Robert Crannell Minor (Wikidata)
• William Rudolf O'Donovan (Wikidata)
• White Rabbits (sculptors) added image

Articles created[edit]

• Walter Launt Palmer article created by User:Rickrod143
• Alice De Wolf Kellogg article created by User:Ryanlintelman
• Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson created by User:Craub
• Alice D. Kellogg created by User:Ryanlintelman
• Aloys Loeher created by User:Ital_gal
• Harriet Randolph Hyatt Mayor by User:Sarasays
• Anna Lea Merritt created by User:TaraInDC
• Walter Launt Palmer created by User:Rickrod143
• Amanda Brewster Sewell created by User:Moonlightbindery
• Julian Russell Story created by User:Oakbonesilver
• Jean Pond Miner Coburn by User:carptrash and User:Djembayz
• Alice Rideout by User:carptrash
• Wikidata items created for all the above new articles.

Video of the day[edit]

Video of the day's activities, created by Fuzheado - [22]