User:Verbistheword

About Veronica

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Greater St. Louis Area.

Hi, I'm Veronica Erb. I am a researcher and information architect at NPR. Previously, I have worked at EightShapes and at AED, which is now a part of FHI 360.

Events

I occasionally organize and attend edit-a-thons. An edit-a-thon is when Wikimedians and people new to Wikipedia get together to edit Wikipedia, usually on a specific topic. I have participated in the following events:

Organizer, Rare Disease Day edit party, February 2019
Attendee, Music Library Association edit party, February 2019
Attendee, Wikipedia Day in St. Louis, January 2019
Attendee, Wikipedia:Meetup/St. Louis/17, October 2018
Volunteer, 2016 St. Louis Wiknic, July 2016
Organizer, Rare Disease Day Edit-a-thons in St. Louis, MO and Washington, DC, February 2016
Co-organizer, Black History Month First Edit at NPR, February 2016
Co-organizer, Hispanic Heritage First Edit at NPR, October 2015
Participant, Wiki Loves Pride DC 2015 at the National Museum of American History, June 2015
Participant, Women in STEM Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon at the DC Public Library, March 2015
Organizer, first edit event for NPR's Black History Month celebrations, 28 Feb 2015
Co-organizer, My First Wikipedia Edit: DC Neighborhoods with Wikimedia DC and the DC Public Library, November 2014
Remote participant, Ada Lovelace Edit-a-thon 2013: Brown and Brussels, October 2013

Contributions

I may want to remember or reference these edits in the future. They are listed in reverse chronological order. For a list of all my Wikipedia edits, see my contributions page.

William Jones (anthropologist): Adding citations and tidying to more standard structure. Inspired to get back on WP after learning that more regular editing will enable access to The Wikipedia Library with databases including Newspapers.com
Veronica Chambers: Started adding citations after I looked her up wondering why her name seemed familiar when I got the jump rope book (it's because she edited Meaning of Michelle)
Flounder house: First article created by me. Inspired by a clipping shown to me by a family member.
Marni Nixon: Swapped in infobox of her profession, after learning about her death from Vox Sentences.
Mary Bowser: Added verified information and documented unsubstantiated claims in their own section. Edits in honor of 4th of July 2016.
Sara Josephine Baker: Replaced 9 of 11 "citation needed" notices with appropriate citations, among other text improvements, in honor of Pride 2016. (Diff)
Amyloidosis: Added community support to Treatment in memorial of Peggy Girshman, a newsroom dynamo at NPR.
Osteogenesis imperfecta: Added community support to Treatment in honor of Gaelynn Lea, the 2016 Tiny Desk Contest winner.
Cri du chat: Added citations in honor of a family member.
Atira: Added citations and information about items named for and mentioning her. For Thanksgiving 2015.
Inspired DES to create a new template with a Teahouse question
Cucumis_metuliferus: Specified where in Africa it originates.
Eslanda Goode Robeson: Added seven sources, more information about her accomplishments, and more common order and title of list sections.
Ella Baker, Madam C. J. Walker, Ida B. Wells, William H. Carney, Henriette DeLille: Citations, primarily
Bill Pickett: Citations and information about the Legends of the West stamps.
Sarah Andrews (author): Tidying and adding citations
ENIAC: Overhauled article structure to be more scannable, and made edits along the way.
Neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., Massachusetts Heights, Anacostia, Capitol View (Washington, D.C.): Various small edits
Dana Ulery: Citation improvements, initial infobox, initial publications list

Other fun milestones

Moved first article—Flounder house—into the main namespace! 20:45, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
Reached Novato! Yesterday, I think. 03:26, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
The first (project) page that I've made: Wikilinks needed by Wikiproject (based off of the Orphaned articles list). 01:59, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
Awarded the 2015 Distinguished Service Award from Wikimedia DC
Voted in a Wikipedia election for the first time, for ArbComm. 22:07, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Help for editing Wikipedia

Find articles

Protecting articles

Write better articles

Understand Wikipedians

Conflicting Wikipedia philosophies on MetaWiki

Communicate with Wikipedians

Template:Done and all its related visual markers for use on Talk Pages
Archiving talk pages
About user pages
- User page design center

When good faith edits are reverted

Relevant policy documents
- Edit warring
- Assume good faith
Relevant essays
- Reverting
- Revert only when necessary
Regarding "In popular culture" sections
- WikiProject Popular Culture
- "In popular culture" content
Advice out in the world (not in Wikimedia space)
- Top ten reasons why your Wikipedia edits get reverted, post by a Wikimedia in Residence at the Physiological Society

To Do

(Listed in reverse chronological order of thinking of them)

Coldwater Creek
Sources to clarify William Jones death
- Ruination and the William Jones Affair
- An Ilongot Murder Mystery (review of a documentary about it)
- The Ilongots (Chapter 1) of Cambridge press book Knowledge and Passion
- And a book called Indigenous {Visions} that I ordered through interlibrary loan
Check and add redirects for Resources for Infant Educarers, including "RIE" and "RIE method" ?
Consider writing an article about native people in MIssouri or St. Louis. Example existing articles:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_tribes_in_Massachusetts
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_Florida https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_California?searchToken=bpqyg1hpxne8qa2ucuzzm95fk
Add citations to Veronica Chambers article (possible articles to use)
Look at Multiple system atrophy article for edits to make
Consider revising the structure of Relaxation (psychology); it currently (13:36, 11 March 2019 (UTC)) has redundant sections.
ENIAC, which was in this version before these edits
- Look at this: http://ds.haverford.edu/bitbybit/bit-by-bit-contents/chapter-four/4-9-eniacs-hydrogen-bomb-calculations/
- Possibly, mention the advent of the software engineer in the lead section, naming Kathleen Antonelli, Jean Bartik, Betty Holberton, Marlyn Meltzer, Frances Spence, Ruth Teitelbaum
Look at: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Volunteers
Consider making barnstars for Wikimedia DC's awards
Add info to
- Elizabeth Wright Ingraham
Look at coverage of people and topics from Hidden Figures
Learn more about this: Wikipedia:Request an account. How does this relate to the difficulty of creating multiple accounts on Wikipedia event days?

References

Subpages

Meetup how-to: Notes on resources and potential processes for hosting meetups and the organization around them
Friends: Wikipedians I've met on- and offline.
Done: Archive of things that have been to-done.
Charles E. LeGrand: My grandfather. Creating this subpage to help me learn about him through Wikimedia.
Dyslexia archive of todos, sitemap, and papers to read
Interacting with Wikimedians: Listing ways to get to know and thank other Wikimedians
Sources For Veronica Chambers: To do and sources for Veronica Chambers article

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