Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/ArtFem NY 2019



The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project will be at  MoMA  on March 2nd 10-6 and  Kickstarter  March 3rd 11-5!

MoMA will host our photo booth with photographers, Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, Andrea Cauthen and Kay Hickman will be taking free portraits for Wikipedia in our Black Lunch Table photo booth!

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 13 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.

Wikipedia editing resources

 * Etherpad for today!
 * Add an Infobox!
 * Create or update Wikidata!
 * Wikidata is central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikisource, and others.


 * 1) Go to  Wikidata
 * 2) Read Wikidata's Introduction!
 * 3) Search for the person or subject
 * 4) If none exists, you can 'Create a new item'
 * 5) Look at another similar item to follow format... for example human female instead of female animal.
 * 6) To add a field, click 'Add Statement'
 * Create or update Authority Control!
 * Update Wikidata using Virtual International Authority File (VIAF.org)


 * 1) Go to VIAF.org
 * 2) Search for person (last name, first name)
 * 3) At bottom of page, where it says History of VIAF, expand section. See Werner Herzog example
 * 4) Add each listed Authority to Wikidata if its info is not already populated in Wikidata
 * 5) Add  after External links section above Categories
 * 6) Refresh Wikipedia page
 * Click here for many more editing resources

Uploading photos

 * Adding images!
 * 1) Rules on Visual Art, Murals, Graffiti and Sculpture are different!
 * 2) Follow instructions to upload your images here...
 * Publishing a photo when someone told you it was ok.
 * |Wiki Image Guide
 * Where to find them.
 * Dos and Donts
 * Asking an artist for images.