Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/UNC BLT Apr2017

Sign up via Outreach Dashboard The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project will host an edit-a-thon at Sloane Art Library at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST on Saturday, April 1, 2017. Join us for a morning of social Wikipedia editing! A training session will be held at 12pm but help is available throughout the event. Drinks, snacks, and skills will be provided. BRING YOUR LAPTOP and feel free to bring a friend!

Event description
The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project at Sloane Art Library at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives and works of visual artists from the African Diaspora living or working in the Chapel Hill area. Together we will create historical documents that respond to the urgent need for a reconstruction of the art historical record.

All are invited, with no specialized knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia editing experience required. A brief overview of the basics of Wikipedia editing will be given at the start of the edit-a-thon. We will have a library resources and a list of suggested artists, cultural creators, and institutions on hand.

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.

Sloane Art Library
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library provides collections, expertise, services, and facilities that are essential to achieving the University’s mission of research, teaching, learning, and public service for the campus community, state, nation, and world.

We aspire to be a leader among academic research libraries in meeting users’ evolving knowledge-creation and knowledge management needs. Building on a foundation of library excellence at the nation’s first public university, we will define and integrate new library roles, practices, partnerships, and technologies in achieving this vision.

Event details

 * Date: Saturday, April 1, 2017
 * Time: 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST
 * Location: Sloane Art Library University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Hanes Art Center, 121 E Cameron Ave Chapel Hill, NC 27514
 * Who should attend: Artists, historians, students, teachers, writers, journalists, curators, visitors, the curious...
 * Experienced or new Wikipedians (We will provide assistance with Wikipedia formatting and syntax)
 * Amateur historians or research pros (We will have a selection of resources available for your use)
 * What to Bring:  A Laptop! . Tablets are more difficult.
 * Hashtag: #BlackLunchTable
 * Etherpad: BlackLunchTable - live doc to keep track of what we are all working on
 * Training: Black Lunch Table Wikipedia Presentation

Agenda

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

Attendees

 * LOOKING FOR ADMINS TO JOIN US IN PERSON OR REMOTELY...
 * 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).
 * If you haven't edited Wikipedia before, we will help you register for a new Wikipedia editing account on the day of.

RSVP
Please add your name below if you are planning to attend.
 * 1) Frankcjones (talk) 03:07, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 2) Fishantena (talk) 01:06, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
 * 3) BaldheadGrowler (talk) 17:20, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
 * 4) Parallel.awhite (talk) 18:00, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
 * 5) Heathart (talk) 17:23, 1 April 2017 (UTC) remotely
 * 6) BrillLyle

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 the Chapel Hill area and are under-represented on Wikipedia. Our master list can be found under our Tasks tab. Please add a name if you know a artist of the African Diaspora 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.

'These articles are suggested, be sure they qualify'' according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidlines before you create a new page. Thanks!'''
 * see also Black Lunch Table – Task list
 * see also List of African-American visual artists
 * see also Category:Artists from North Carolina


 * African American Quilt Circle of Durham
 * Sharon Towana Austin
 * Ernie Barnes
 * Endia Beal
 * Rodney Bennett (artist)
 * Melvin Carver
 * Chandra Cox
 * Walt Davis (artist)
 * Acha Debela
 * Debi Drew
 * Minnie Evans
 * Walter Faribault Jr.
 * Connie Floyd
 * Andre Leon Grey
 * Vandorn Hinnant
 * John Hughley
 * Jim Lee
 * Juan Logan
 * Kenneth J. Lewis Sr.
 * Beverly McIver
 * Carmen Neely
 * Beth Perry
 * Kenneth Rodgers
 * Teka Selman
 * William Paul Thomas
 * Stacy Lynn Waddell
 * Antonio Wise

Wikipedia editing resources
Click here for editing resources.