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MetFashion
Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

When and Where
Date	September 7, 2019
Time	12:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Address	Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education The Met (81st Street entrance) 1000 Fifth Avenue
City, State	New York City, New York 10028

The MetFashion Wikipedia Edit-a-thon NYC will be held Saturday September 7, 2019 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

This is in part a follow-up to our recent Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-thon, and will follow a similar format. We plan to expand this edit-a-thon, however, with a larger academic/student participation.

Please bring your own laptop to this event if you can, it's much better for Wikipedia editing than mobile.

We will be partially coordinating with the international Wiki Loves Fashion campaign.

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The event focused on Wikipedia:WikiProject Fashion topics for basic clothing types that can be illustrated by the Met collection, and also past Costume Institute exhibitions.

It's the last weekend for Camp: Notes on Fashion, and we will have an intro talk to the exhibit by a guest from the Costume Institute, and participants will then be able to visit it on their own. Galleries will be open this evening until 9 p.m.

Academic participants are also encouraged to fill this out form and share it with colleagues: edu.met.wikithon.org

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  Walking dress
• 
  Morning dress
• 
  Motoring coat

• Girdle - Split "Undergarment" section out into a separate article. (See talk page.) Article split to: Girdle and Girdle (undergarment) Infonet4all (talk) 19:13, 23 September 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Wikidata: girdle (Q676245) and girdle (Q28839480)
• Townley Frocks - Wikidata: Townley Frocks (Q67139923) - where Claire McCardell pioneered womenswear
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/1950s-designer-claire-mccardell-might-teach-us-about-what-wear-180955520/
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2018/12/12/feature/the-designer-who-radically-suggested-that-women-should-wear-whats-comfortable/?noredirect=on
• The Fashion Calendar
• Fashion illustration
• Fashion journalism and Modern Fashion Journalism - combine and improve

Visualizing collections

As structured metadata, Wikidata allows for sophisticated visualizations of connections in its knowledge graph. They are technically quite easy: you just need to use your imagination and research some of the connections. Afterwareds, Wikidata Query does all the hard work. Here's an example of a Wikidata knowledge graph showing the connections among museums, painters, fashion and ultimately, Rita Hayworth.

Click to see the knowledge graph live, draggable and reconfigurable.

You can make your own by editing the Wikidata SPARQL query, and providing a list of your own Wikidata items (Q numbers).

Complete more items

Help fill in missing data for the most frequently referred to designers in The Met collection, using TABernacle.

• The Met - Costume Institute items in Wikidata
• Designers - Help fill in Library of Congress authority file IDs by using their database.

Tools

• Cradle tool: a forms-based way to create Wikidata items for fashion designers
• Vizquery: a very easy to use tool to query Wikidata. Try an example to see all fashion exhibitions.

Wikipedia fashion glossary and images

Search Costume Institute Met CC0 on Wikimedia Commons

New Wikidata items created

• House of Doucet (Q67186371), Doucet family (Q67186030), Antoine Doucet (Q67186286), Mathilde Doucet (Q67186305), Édouard Doucet (Q67186251), Antoine Doucet (Q67186286), using Met reference and others - PKM (talk) 20:00, 7 September 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

New Wikidata tools created

• New Cradle form for creating a fashion house - PKM (talk) 20:00, 7 September 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Remote attendees

• PKM (talk) 17:36, 1 August 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Arkirkland (talk) 12:50, 4 September 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Possible attendees

• epicgenius (talk) 22:24, 1 September 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 03:13, 4 September 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 16:07, 4 September 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Artatra (talk) 22:20, 4 September 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Likely attendees

• Pharos (talk) 15:41, 1 August 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Librarianhelen (talk) 16:45, 1 August 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Dilettante Army (talk) 17:29, 1 August 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• DrX (talk) 21:30, 1 August 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Bren831 (talk) 03:10, 8 August 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• ilovepiday (talk) 14:33, 13 August 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Francophile124 (talk) 14:00, 26 August 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• NettieLibrarian (talk) 17:46, 26 August 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Mozucat (talk) 18:25, 27 August 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Windblown29 (talk) 19:57, 28 August 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Nhighberg (talk) 22:38, 28 August 2019 (UTC

• DGG ( talk ) 06:15, 4 September 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Fuzheado | Talk 16:02, 3 September 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Jim.henderson (talk) 23:11, 3 September 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Phelanm (talk) 02:40, 4 September 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Scottandrewhutchins (talk) 03:00, 4 September 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• 216.165.95.143 (talk) 16:31, 4 September 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Bagelpigeon (talk) 20:35, 4 September 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• SuzQ! (talk) 11:45, 5 September 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• 2604:2000:6A00:5D00:CDF6:9230:7669:95A9 (talk) 18:15, 5 September 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Nudgol (talk) 02:25, 6 September 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Spiro sperat (talk) 17:13, 6 September 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• DionelThen (talk) 03:16, 7 September 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Elisabetta17 (talk) 14:45, 9 September 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Elizabeth Inserra