User:Wikipersistence/sandbox2

This sandbox is for How-to-Edit demos for the Wiki* Art Edit!

How-To-Edit Demo Area
This demonstration area provides a model paragraph that you can use for practicing editing article text and adding citations. You can make any edits on this page! This is a safe space for practicing.

The model paragraph below has been extracted from the Wikipedia article "1:54", about a contemporary art fair held annually in London. The 1:54 article has been rated a "Good Article" on Wikipedia, which means that it meets certain criteria for quality, as assessed by a volunteer reviewer.

Use the "Working Paragraph for Editing" section below for practicing the editing suggestions listed there, such as: simple copy edits, adding hyperlinks, and adding citations. All of these are great ways to improve Wikipedia articles.

Practicing in this sandbox is meant to help you figure out how to use the Visual Editor, so that you feel comfortable to Be Bold, and make edits in Wikipedia articles you want to work on.

* * Example Paragraph from a Model Article * *
1:54 is a contemporary African art fair held annually in London, beginning in 2013. [source 1] As of 2015, 1:54 is the only art fair dedicated to contemporary African art in the primary art market.  [source 2 ]  Its name refers to the 54 countries that compose the African continent, [source 1] expressed as a ratio ("one continent: 54 countries").  [source 3]  Moroccan curator Touria El Glaoui, daughter of the artist Hassan El Glaoui, organized the fair to improve the representation of contemporary African art in worldwide art exhibitions. [source 1][source 4] Representation of non-Western countries in the contemporary art world has lagged behind that of other countries.[4][5] Representation of African countries, in particular, improved alongside the continent's economic growth. [source 4] El Glaoui said that the continent did not have a single art scene, and that there was great diversity between African nations. Accordingly, as in the fair's title, 1:54 tries to preserve rather than homogenize the differences between each country's histories and cultures.[source 6] In starting the fair, its founder was supported and advised by the British Council, the Francophonie, and partners ArtReview, Beaux Art magazine, and Art.sy. For each edition, the 1:54 organizers ask themselves "what is necessary, what can be achieved, how [to] do something different". [source 6] The fair's organizers choose exhibitors based on proposal submissions and the firms' reputation and plans. Travel visa issues have also affected whether invitees ultimately attend. [source 6]

sources from the above paragraph:


 * 1) https://web.archive.org/web/20160304193053/http://www.okayafrica.com/culture-2/art/154-contemporary-african-art-fair-london/
 * 2)  https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-understanding-contemporary-african-art-s-hard-won-rise-to-the-art-world-main-stage 
 * 3)  https://news.artnet.com/market/154-contemporary-african-art-fair-299080 
 * 4) (financial times article - paywall) Jaggi, Maya (March 27, 2015). "Africa's economic revival boosts art prices". Financial Times
 * 5) https://web.archive.org/web/20170512113954/http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1158985/new-kid-on-the-block-154-contemporary-art-fairs-worthy-frieze
 * 6) https://web.archive.org/web/20160831214051/http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1158037/interview-touria-el-glaoui-founder-154-contemporary-african

* * Working Paragraph for Editing * * - practice editing and inserting citations here!
1:54 is a contemporary African art fair held annually in London, beginning in 2013. As of 2015, 1:54 is the only art fair dedicated to contemporary African art in the primary art market. Its name refers to the 54 countries that compose the African continent, expressed as a ratio ("one continent: 54 countries"). Moroccan curator Touria El Glaoui, daughter of the artist Hassan El Glaoui, organized the fair to improve the representation of contemporary African art in worldwide art exhibitions. Representation of non-Western countries in the contemporary art world has lagged behind that of other countries. Representation of African countries, in particular, improved alongside the continent's economic growth. El Glaoui said that the continent did not have a single art scene, and that there was great diversity between African nations. Accordingly, as in the fair's title, 1:54 tries to preserve rather than homogenize the differences between each country's histories and cultures. In starting the fair, its founder was supported and advised by the British Council, the Francophonie, and partners ArtReview, Beaux Art magazine, and Art.sy. For each edition, the 1:54 organizers ask themselves "what is necessary, what can be achieved, how [to] do something different". The fair's organizers choose exhibitors based on proposal submissions and the firms' reputation and plans. Travel visa issues have also affected whether invitees ultimately attend.

Suggestions for Things to Try Out:

 * 1) Make some basic copy edits - streamline a sentence so it's clearer! Correct grammar that could use tidying up. Or try out some formatting -- for example, break up a paragraph into separate sections.
 * 2) Add a hyperlink for important concepts -- either internal (Wikipedia) or to an external site.
 * 3) in the "working paragraph", the hyperlinks have been removed. Check which words were hyperlinked in the model paragraph, and practice adding wiki-links for them in the working version.
 * 4) Determine statements that need a source, and add a citation.
 * 5) Practice adding in citations for source 2 and 3, where they belong in the "working paragraph".
 * 6) Click "Publish changes...." and learn how to write an Edit Summary! :-)

Then What?
Finding Things to Edit :

Citation Hunt Tool
 * to view autosuggestions for categories, start typing a topic in the search box

Art + Feminism Task List
 * "orphan" articles and "citation problem" articles are both great places to start

Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Black Artists Matter Suggested Article Work List
 * list of artists with potential sources for each one!

Chapel Hill Art and Feminism 2019 Example citations
 * click the 'Articles' tab to see list

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