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When and Where
Next dateSaturday, November 8, 2025
Time12:00 noon – 2.00 pm (Philadelphia EDT/EST)
LocationZoom!
RepeatsThe second Saturday of each month. Click on the Zoom link. If you are asked for an ID or password, use

Meeting ID: 819-4956-6322

Password: 12345

Philadelphia WikiSalon, November 8, 2025 on Zoom

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WikiSalon is skills-oriented, and monthly sessions alternate between demonstrations of new skills and work sessions to practice skills. Demonstrations are 5-10 minutes long (with an accompanying tutorial video and pdf) and target a specific skill related to Wikipedia, Wikidata, or Wikimedia Commons. Attendees share what they are working on, ask Questions, and get feedback and support.

Many of our regulars are librarians, archivists, professors or people interested in digital humanities and the sciences, but you don't need to be a scientist or librarian to attend or to work on the tasks or articles that we suggest. You can always work on topics that interest you.

Attendees

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List your name by adding the following line. * ~~~~

Demonstration

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We will welcome guest speaker Minh Nguyen to discuss OpenStreetMap and how it is used on Wikipedia.


For previous demonstrations and other resources, see:

Special mentions

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If you want to talk about something that you're working on, or you've created a new article or had a "Did You Know" featured lately, add that here!

Articles (new and updated)

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Images

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  • Thousand Bloom Chrysanthemum, Longwood Gardens, 2025
    Thousand Bloom Chrysanthemum, Longwood Gardens, 2025
  • Half trellis showing interior
    Half trellis showing interior
  • Closeup of half trellis
    Closeup of half trellis
  • Closeup of blooms
    Closeup of blooms
  • Karekare Falls near Auckland, New Zealand
    Karekare Falls near Auckland, New Zealand
  • Coal Stoker on the TSS Earnslaw, a 1912 steamship
    Coal Stoker on the TSS Earnslaw, a 1912 steamship
  • Starboard side of the Allankay, a patrol ship of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
    Starboard side of the Allankay, a patrol ship of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

Events

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Event listings

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Projects

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Resources

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  • meta:Wikimedia Foundation/Legal/Community Resilience and Sustainability/Human Rights/Digital Security Resources
  • Publications about disinformation
  • Linden, Sander van der; McIntyre, Lee (6 May 2025). "How to Address Misinformation Without Censorship". TIME.
  • ISA Tool for events, to add structured data to files on Commons

Questions

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Add questions that you have about Wikipedia or Wikipedia projects (Encyclopedia articles, Wikimedia Commons images, Wikidata) either here or in the Chat. Answers to previous questions can be found in our Question archive.

  • Have any of you been involved in an "edit war"? If so, how did you handle it? I ask because a seemingly reputable Wikipedian made substantial edits to an article I previously heavily edited, and the changes seem inappropriate to me.
  • What to do in Wikidata when a business (for me it's mostly restaurants and theaters) or other institution with a location goes out of business or is demolished or otherwise becomes defunct? Jim.henderson (talk) 18:27, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'd be interested in a comparison and contrast between Flickr Commons and the Wikimedia Commons.

Suggested topics

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If you are interested in hearing about a particular project, or can talk about one, sign here to let us know!

  • Let's return someday to the Anne Hill project, meaning to find wikilinks to Anne Hill and delink or fix those which treat it as an article about a person. Similarly there may be other articles of the form "-- Hill" to be fixed. -- econterms (talk) 00:53, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    this could be an interesting OpenRefine problem for Wikidata: find an intersection of items people with the last name "Hill" (without a page?) and hills with a similar name (with page?)
  • User:Superhampster can present on WikiPortraits. November would have worked but is booked. Later maybe? -- econterms (talk) 22:54, 12 September 2025 (UTC) -- Possibly January -- date to be confirmed by Doreva Belfiore[reply]

Work to do!

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You can use some of the following lists to identify articles to work on, or look at our suggested articles below. We note what needs to be done for each article. Please add your signature with 4 tildes ~~~~ under any article that you work on. Thank you!

Finding articles that need work

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Wrap Up: thanks and praise

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What did you work on today?

References mentioned

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