Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/2016 Living Room Salon





The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project will host a living room edit-a-thon from 3:00 - 7:00 pm EST on Friday, December 23, 2016. Join us remotely for an afternoon of Wikipedia editing!

Event description
The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives and works of visual artists from the African Diaspora. Together we will create historical documents that respond to the urgent need for a reconstruction of the art historical record, our historical record as a whole.

History of The Black Lunch Table
The Black Lunch Table (BLT) is an ongoing collaboration between artists Jina Valentine and Heather Hart  which intends to fill holes in the documentation of contemporary art history. In its 10 year existence, the BLT has taken a variety of forms relating to this most recent iteration, in the form of the Wikipedia edit-a-thon. BLT’s aim is the production of discursive sites (at literal and metaphorical lunch tables), wherein cultural producers of color engage in critical dialogue on topics directly affecting our communities. They endeavor to create spaces, online and off, mirroring the activity and creativity present in sites where Blackness and Art are performed.

Event details

 * Date: Friday, December 23, 2016
 * Time: 3:00 – 7:00 pm EST
 * Location: REMOTE
 * Who should attend: Artists, activists, politicians, historians, students, teachers, writers, journalists, curators, visitors, the curious...
 * Amateur historians or research pros
 * Hashtag: #BlackLunchTable
 * Etherpad: BlackLunchTable - live doc to keep track of what we are all working on
 * Training: Black Lunch Table Wikipedia Presentation
 * RSVP: Please register by clicking the button on the top of the page!

Agenda

 * Editing time!
 * Goals: Create user account (if new to Wikipedia), create user page with at least one sentence, sign in for editathon on this Wikipedia Meetup page, make one edit to a Wikipedia page, advanced users to create some new pages!
 * For more information about ongoing scheduled meetups see Black Lunch Table Meetup page

Possible articles to edit
Suggested artist pages for revision and/or creation! This event-specific list focuses on important visual artists/art workers/collectors of the African Diaspora who have some connection to New York and are under-represented on Wikipedia. Our master list can be found under our Tasks tab. Please add a name if you know a Black artist of note who needs a page or needs editing. Please do not add an artist who has a substantial page. We are trying to create new pages and beef up under-represented ones. But be sure they qualify according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidelines. Thanks!

*CLICK HERE FOR A LIST OF ARTICLES FOR EDITS/CREATION

Task list
✅ Please check with a WikiFacilitator before starting new pages

Articles improved

 * 1) Heather Hart --

Articles created

 * Sandboxes
 * 1) Kambui Olujimi --
 * 2) Zachary Fabri --

Wikipedia editing resources
N.B. Also located on the Resources page referenced above under Editor Resources
 * Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
 * Five Pillars of Wikipedia (philosophical guidelines and best practices for Wikipedia editing)
 * Tutorial
 * How to Edit a Page
 * Wiki Markup Quick Reference (PDF version of printed handout)
 * Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger (applicable to any biography)
 * Article Development
 * Your First Article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
 * Manual of Style
 * Citation templates
 * | Citation guide
 * | Adding Photos
 * Infobox templates
 * Bookshelf (additional "getting started" resources)
 * Formatting shortcuts:
 * Text Formatting
 * Section Headers, Indents, and Lists
 * Links


 * Images and photos:
 * Uploading Images -- tutorial, general overview
 * Image Use Policy -- rights, licenses, is it okay to use the image
 * Picture Tutorial -- technical details of getting image uploaded and displaying in a way that looks good


 * wikiD Guides for Wikipedia Editing:
 * Introduction and Guide 1: Getting Started! – Why Edit Wikipedia?, Using the WikiD Guides and Getting Started.
 * Guide 2: Selecting and Researching a Topic/Subject – Choosing a Subject, References and Sources and Images.
 * Guide 3: Writing an Entry – Tone and Style, Content and Structure, Building an Argument, Precedents and Article Titles.
 * Guide 4: Navigating the Wikipedia Interface – Editing Interfaces, Creating a New Article, Editing Existing Pages and Disambiguation
 * Guide 5: Troubleshooting – Deleted Pages, Flagged Pages and Talk Pages

Tools and templates

 * Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
 * Infobox template - person
 * Biographies of living persons
 * Writing an article
 * About the Sandbox
 * Determining Notability of Creative Professionals
 * Conflict of Interest in Wikipedia Editing
 * Verifying Reliable Sources


 * N.B. There is an IRC channel if online participants need help:
 * IRC/wikipedia-en-help

Attendees

 * If you are able, please also add your Wikipedia username to the appropriate section below (signatures are created by saving four tildes [~] in a row).

Remote

 * 1) BrillLyle (talk) 16:04, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

Confirmed

 * 1) Heathart (talk) 21:34, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 2) Dilot204 (talk) 21:34, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 3) Chloebass (talk) 21:34, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 4) Rosedalestreet (talk) 21:36, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 5) GroverBlue (talk) 21:37, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 6) Whiteboyapples (talk) 21:53, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 7) SidneyP (talk) 22:26, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 8) SilkaV (talk) 23:16, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 9) Longshotking (talk) 23:28, 23 December 2016 (UTC)