Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/LA photodrive21

Event description
The Black Lunch Table (BLT) will host an online Wikimedia Commons photo drive that focuses on important but underrepresented Black visual artists, curators, and art workers on November 6th-12th 2021. The participant with the most uploads can win $150! As part of their residency at Automata Arts, regional proxy Kearra Amaya Gopee will host daily open hours from 3-4PM PST where new editors can get help with getting acquainted with Wikimedia Commons. No specialized knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons editing experience required. The event is free and open to all.

Wikicommons Photos
Photographs and images are an important part of Wiki. If you are interested in uploading images use the below resources to learn how and make sure you have the right licensing for all images uploaded.
 * |Wiki Image Guide
 * Where to find them.
 * Dos and Donts
 * Asking an artist for images.

Details and Agenda
Date: Saturday, November 6th-12th, 2021

Time: Assistance is available from 3PM-4PM PST daily for the contest's duration. Images can be uploaded at any time.

Open Hours: Online from 3-4PM PST here. Who should attend: Artists, historians, students, photographers, teachers, writers, journalists, curators, the curious...

What to Bring: All your photographs from over the years as long as you have the rights to them!

Goals: Create a user account (if new to Wikimedia Commons) and upload eligible images.


 * Resources and How-to's

Uploading images to Wikimedia Commons: A Step-by-step Guide

 * 1) Make a Wikimedia Commons account. If you already have a Wikipedia account, you should be able to use it on Wikimedia Commons as well.
 * 2) Once logged in, be sure to hit the Sign In button on the top of this page so we know that you're a participant.
 * 3) On Wikimedia Commons, select Upload File in the menu to the page's right.
 * 4) Use the flow chart that appears to be sure that your image can be used on Wikimedia Commons!
 * 5) Upload your images; fill out the basic, required information and most importantly, be sure to add Black Lunch Table as one of the categories.
 * 6) Publish!
 * 7) Send us an email at contest[@]blacklunchtable.com so we can verify the eligibility of your submissions.

Rules and requirements

 * 1) You must be the owner of the image and must be willing to relinquish your rights to it. On Wikipedia, all media must be open-source;
 * 2) All photos participating in the competition should be self-taken and self-uploaded;
 * 3) Eligible uploads are only possible during the contest's duration. Extraordinary cases will be evaluated individually;
 * 4) Include as many categories as possible per image; the category Black Lunch Table must be included;
 * 5) The default license is Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 (CC-BY-SA 4.0);
 * 6) Participants should have their e-mail enabled on Wikimedia Commons (or the platform they uploaded their photos to) to be eligible for prizes;

Image requirements
There hasn't been any general technical requirements for images. All self-taken and self-uploaded photos that fulfill the other basic rules (see above) and fit in the Wikimedia Commons scope are accepted into the contest, as the main goal of the drive has been to collect as many pictures usable for Wikipedia use as possible.

Examples of suitable images
They do not have to be as polished as these are--do not be daunted.

About Black Lunch Table
Black Lunch Table (BLT)is a nonprofit organization and sixteen-year ongoing artist collaboration. BLT’s primary aim has been the production of discursive sites, wherein cultural producers engage in dialogue on a variety of critical issues.

Black Lunch Table Wikimedians mobilize the creation and improvement of a specific set of Wikipedia articles that pertain to the lives and works of Black artists. In the field of mainstream contemporary art, Black artists are still marginalized within our field.

Wikipedia estimates that 77% of their editors are white and 91% of their editors are men. Our work shifts this demographic and empowers people to write their own history. Our sessions and events, including BLT Photobooth and edit-a-thons, equip new editors with the skills and resources to create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles and encourages existing editors to focus on Wikipedia knowledge gaps.

About Automata
Automata is an artist-run Los Angeles non-profit  performance gallery, dedicated to the creation, incubation, and presentation of experimental puppet theater, experimental film and music, installation, and contemporary art practices centered on ideas of artifice and performing objects. Automata stands at the fulcrum points between objects and performance, artifacts and ephemera, magic and mechanics, artifice and interface.

Automata is dedicated to nurturing the development of new work engaged in cutting-edge practices, and in conversation with our contemporary technology of simulation and mimicry, while embracing the aura of the handmade and hand-operated. Automata has a particular interest in intimate viewing situations, where artists and audiences can see each other and interact. We invite the audience to stay and socialize after each event, and to speak with the artists and each other. We have a strong interest in the ways that community is created and supported through making and attending art and performance.

About Kearra Amaya Gopee
Kearra Amaya Gopee is an anti-disciplinary visual artist from Carapichaima, Kairi (the larger of the twin island nation known as Trinidad and Tobago), living and working on Tongva land (Los Angeles, CA).

Articles and Artists to edit
Feel free to browse the tasklist for the names of artists who may need photos of themselves uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.

Black Lunch Table's task list is made up of Black visual artists who are under-represented on Wikipedia. We welcome additions to our list so long as they are within our scope. We encourage editors to suggest artists who do not have a page or whose page is a stub over adding an artist who already has a substantial page and presence. Please always defer to Wikipedia's NOTABILTY guidelines for new pages.

BLT's Main Task List