This is an archive of past discussions with User:Mary Mark Ockerbloom. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page.
Netherlands report: New Years Reception; 550 years States General; Content donation University Museum; Wikipedians in Residence; OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey
On 5 March 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Jennie Patrick, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Jennie Patrick, a woman who was told she did not belong at the University in Berkeley in the 1970s, received the Outstanding Women in Science and Engineering Award in 1980? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jennie Patrick. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Hi. I am organizing an edit-a-thon on women in science at the University of Oklahoma on March 27th. I've noticed that you have already been active on several pages of interest, and wondered if you would have any advice for us in terms of women whose sites need improvement and resources on them. I am a lecturer in the History of Science Department, so I am interested in improving the entries on more historical figures, but for the event we are also trying to include recent and current women. I would appreciate any advice you might have and would be happy to have you as an online participant. Thanks, Kirwanfan (talk) 14:59, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
Kimberly Wright Cassidy is the new president of Bryn Mawr College. I have started a Draft Kimberly Wright Cassidy article. I suggest that someone should invite her to visit our event next week. This will give us an opportunity to get a photo unhampered by copyright restrictions, and we can get input from her on the article about her. I have made changes and improvements on all the previous Bryn Mawr presidents articles, especially the talk pages. What do you think of this invitation?--DThomsen8 (talk) 00:12, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for your extensive improvements to the article Arnold Orville Beckman. You make very extensive use of the book Arnold O. Beckman : one hundred years of excellence in your citations, which is not a problem. I also noticed in the hidden Wikisource that you foresightedly took the trouble to preserve the cited page numbers, which would greatly improve the usefulness of the cites. I would like to point out a technique used in Wikipedia to expose the page numbers, without triggering an absurdly large number of nearly-identical full citations. The abbreviated format is described at Template:Rp, which was designed specifically to handle this problem.
The hidden page refs could be converted to useful but non-distracting superscripted page numbers by using this template, and the conversion editing process would be relatively straightforward. I hope this information is helpful, and look forward to seeing your further work. Cheers! Reify-tech (talk) 16:50, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the great suggestion. I hadn't seen a way to add page numbers to a multiply-cited reference that didn't seem ugly, so I'm glad to find that there's a better way to do it. The conversion was pleasantly easy. Have a great day! Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 18:06, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
The article looks still better every time I see it. Also, you've been finding some great images that really show beautifully the abstract-sounding technical artifacts under discussion. If you find more useful images than can fit vertically alongside the text, you can set up a Template:Gallery. If needed, I can lend help with that. Keep up the good work! Reify-tech (talk) 18:27, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
Thank you very much for your fine efforts on Ada Hitchins, taking my very small start to class=C. You can see that I have done more work on the article and talk page. I removed the orphan tag, after adding two ==See also== entries to related articles. In both cases, she should be explicitly mentioned in the text. --DThomsen8 (talk) 13:53, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
I am creating an article on Otto Haas, co-founder of Rohm and Haas, and I will need images of him in WikiMedia Commons. Please have CHF contribute images of him. Feel free to send me more information about him. (I left this message for Jeff, but perhaps you can help me.)--DThomsen8 (talk) 14:20, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
... for having a GLAM Cafe meeting dedicated to Wiki Loves Pride and LGBT culture. We appreciate your support. If you need help creating a separate meetup page specific to this event, let me know! Thanks again. --Another Believer(Talk)15:45, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
Thanks! All help gratefully accepted: If you know someone in the local LGBT / Wiki community who is interested and could help with content and local community organization that would be terrific. (I will ask people I know, as well.) Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 16:37, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
Congratulations, and an ongoing invitation for you
Nice contributions to Vera Bogdanovskaia. Its great to see when an article magically gets better. Ms Bogdanovskaia seems to have been a hell of a lady. Id like to extend the credit for creating the article, but I'm worried that this will invalidate your approval. So have this well deserved barnstar for the moment. Victuallers (talk) 15:09, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
Mary Mark, can you please stop by the nomination and clarify precisely which hook or hooks you were approving? When there are multiple hooks, it's important to state which ones are valid and which ones do not meet the requirements. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:06, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
Very interesting talk at WikiConUSA today about CHF. I've been meaning to get involved with the WikiProject Philadelphia meetups and GLAM Café meetups, maybe I'll go to the one on June 10th! -Newyorkadam (talk) 20:04, 31 May 2014 (UTC)Newyorkadam
Hi Mary! I'm really looking forward to the GLAM Day Out. Thank you for scheduling a Wiki Loves Pride edit-a-thon as one of the days events. At WikiConference USA, we held a Un-conference session discussing the future of WikiLGBT and made plans to create a list of founding members and begin the process of applying for Usergroup status. We have already had more than the 3 person minimum to form a usergroup, but would also welcome your support were you interested in helping form this Usergroup. meta:Talk:Wikimedia LGBT/Portal#Sign on to be a Founding Member of a WikiLGBT Usergroup See you soon! OR drohowa (talk) 17:51, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
Mary, thank you for supporting this month's Wiki Loves Pride campaign. You went above and beyond with the event you hosted in Philadelphia. Also, thank you for adding the results of the event to the Wiki Loves Pride Results page. If you want to add a short blurb under the Philadelphia section towards the top, that would be wonderful, otherwise I can try to put a short report together from afar. Please know how much your assistance is appreciated. --Another Believer(Talk)19:44, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
Gleason
Thanks so much for helping on Jean Berko Gleason. It's been a real adventure as you can see. I still have a few corrections that I received from psycholinguists by email -- it takes a lot of concentration to integrate them, but I hope you'll be able to give the article a good readthrough when I'm done, which I hope will be in the next 24-48 hours. Article could also use a lot more wikilinking. EEng (talk) 06:31, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
Mexico report: Edit-a-thon of Museo Soumaya; simulthaneous edit-a-thon in Argentina, Mexico and Spain about Spanish Exile; new cultural partner of Wikimedia México
Netherlands report: Music edit-a-thon; Library workshops; Videos, maps and Japanese art donations; Wiki Loves Earth
Sweden report: Wiki Loves Monuments is being prepared for Sweden
Hello Mary Mark Ockerbloom/Archive 2! Thank you for your contributions to articles related to Women writers. I'd like to invite you to become a part of WikiProject Women writers, a WikiProject aimed at improving the quality of articles about women writers on Wikipedia.
If you would like to participate, please visit the WikiProject Women writers page for more information. Feel free to sign your name under "Members". I look forward to your involvement!
Thanks for your work on the Patricia Aufderheide article. It was an easy call for me to undo the BLPPROD since there now are plenty of references. EdJohnston (talk) 22:34, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
Not sure if you've run into this news, but User:Pigsonthewing will be serving as WiR at the Royal Society of Chemistry. I'll suggest that you and he discuss possible joint projects, or at least how not to get in each other's way.
Does this look ok? The building is surrounded by other buildings and trees so I thought a picture with the name would be good. --Erp (talk) 13:23, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
Ralph Landau bldg at Stanford University, housing the Economics Department. Built circa 1994
Hi Mary Mark,
Greetings! My name is María, I am community liaison of Learning & Evaluation team at Wikimedia Foundation. A few weeks ago, we launched Round II of Data Collection, an initiative that started last year and seeks to collect data of all Wikimedia programs, all over the world. We want to be able to build a bird's eye view of programs, and for that, we need program and project leaders help. I write to you know regarding the editathon you coordinated at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, on Sept 27, 2013, in Philadelphia. I mined some data you published on the event page, but I still have some questions. Could you please get back to me about this on my talk page? Thanks for your time! MCruz (WMF) (talk) 16:15, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi Mary Mark Ockerbloom, we are laying plans for the 2015 Art+Feminism editathon. As part of this process we have written two linked PEG and IEG grants. We have given extensive community notice, but haven’t generated substantial feedback. As one of the Satellite Event organizers we would really like your feedback, comments and questions, and if you support the grants, your endorsement of one or both of them. Additionally, we have confirmed International Women's Day, March 8th 2015 as the date of the international editathon. We hope you will be able to participate, as an organizer, facilitator, or participant. On behalf of my co-organizers. --Theredproject (talk) 21:19, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
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Can you help me with an ad for the GLAM Cafe, emphasizing Wikipedians, for entry Friday morning in the University Review/Center city Review?--DThomsen8 (talk) 01:34, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
Do you have another photo of George Whitesides. perhaps a tighter shot? I've put in 3 external videos in his article and it needs a headerimage. I couldn't find anything super great on soft robots, however. If you come across anything like that please let me know. Smallbones(smalltalk)16:38, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
The Mary Wollstonecraft Award is awarded to contributors who have helped improve the coverage of women writers and their work on Wikipedia through content contributions, outreach, community changes and related actions. In particular, thank you for your efforts with the WikiProject Women writers start-up; your ideas and contributions are much appreciated. --Rosiestep (talk) 23:10, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
Belgium report: Workshops for collection holders across Europe; Founding event of Wikimedia Belgium; Wiki Loves Monuments in Belgium & Luxembourg; Plantin-Moretus Museum; Edit-a-thon at faculty library in Ghent University; Image donation UGentMemorie; Upcoming activities
France report: Wiki Loves Monuments; mass upload; Musée de Bretagne
for a good source to document that Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's Fountain of El Dorado ended up in Lima, Peru ? The best I can do is talk about its "deteriorating condition" while still in California. It is an interesting work, I have several good descriptions of it from that time (1915ish) so might do a short stub on it. But I wish to settle the Peru Connection (sounds like the New Jason Bourne book) before trying it. So any ideas are welcome, Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 17:06, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
I did just find this in the Archives of American Art, "Three Figure Fountain (Replica of Whitney Fountain, Lima, Peru), 1922-1924" which is good enough for me to figure whoever the reference is by got his or her Whitney fountains mixed up. I'm going to cut & paste it to the talk page. Carptrash (talk) 18:35, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions with User:Mary Mark Ockerbloom. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page.
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