Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/VABF 2020



The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project will host a virtual edit-a-thon during the Vancouver Art Book Fair. Participants will learn how to add and edit Wikipedia articles! A training session will be held at the beginning, but help is available throughout the event.

Event description
The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project at https://vancouverartbookfair.com will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives and works of Black artists and also those who work in book arts and publishing. Together we will create & update texts 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 virtual edit-a-thon.

About The Black Lunch Table
The Black Lunch Table (BLT), an official Wikimedia Movement Affiliate, 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 14 year existence, 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.

More about BLT here.

About the Vancouver Art Book Fair
The VABF is a multi-day celebration of artists’ publishing featuring over one hundred local, national and international publishers, as well as a diverse line-up of programs, performances, and artists’ projects.

Featured exhibitors produce everything from books, magazines, zines, and printed ephemera to digital, performative, or other experimental forms of publication.

VABF is Canada’s first art book fair and the longest-running international art book fair in the country.

VABF

Event details

 * Date: Saturday, October 17th, 2020
 * Time: 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm EST
 * Location: ONLINE bit.ly/blacklunchtablemeet
 * Who should attend: Artists, historians, students, photographers, 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: Your laptop and a friend!
 * 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 a 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

Uploading photos

 * |Wiki Image Guide
 * Where to find them.
 * Dos and Donts
 * Asking an artist for images.

Suggest additional articles to edit
Although our project focuses on visual artists of the African Diaspora, you are welcomed to edit whatever you want. Please add an article below that you think we should focus on. These articles are suggested, be sure they qualify according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidelines before you create a new page. Thanks!

Black Book Artists
This event-specific list focuses on important Book artists of the African Diaspora who are un/der-represented on Wikipedia. Please add a name if you know someone appropriate who needs a page or needs editing. This also lists artists or affiliated publishers presenting at the VABF in 2020.
 * Aay Preston-Myint
 * Work / Play
 * Homie House Press
 * Jamiyla Lowe
 * Kameelah Janan Rasheed
 * Jonah Elijah Jackson
 * Jamiyla Lowe
 * Neta Bomani

Black Visual Artists of Canada
This event-specific list focuses on important Black Canadian-based/born/affiliated visual artists who are un/der-represented on Wikipedia. Please add a name if you know someone appropriate who needs a page or needs editing.

You can suggest artists here who fit our scope but are missing from our table below:

Suggested articles to edit
'These articles are suggested, be sure they qualify'' according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidlines before you create a new page. Thanks!'''

Attendees

 * 74.96.95.50 (talk) 02:33, 15 October 2020 (UTC)


 * 74.96.95.50 (talk) 02:34, 15 October 2020 (UTC)