Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/Weeksville



The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project will host an edit-a-thon at Weeksville Heritage Center from 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST on Wednesday, November 16, 2016 as part of the 2016 BRIC Biennial. Join us for an evening of social Wikipedia editing! Drinks, snacks, and skills will be provided. BRING YOUR LAPTOP and feel free to bring a friend!

Event description
As part of the 2016 BRIC Biennial, The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project at Weeksville Heritage Center 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 Bedford-Stuyvesant or Crown Heights neighborhoods of Brooklyn. Together we will create historical documents that respond to the urgent need for a reconstruction of the art historical record.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.

Weeksville Heritage Center
Weeksville Heritage Center, Brooklyn’s largest African-American cultural institution, is a multidisciplinary museum dedicated to preserving the history of the 19th century African American community of Weeksville, Brooklyn - one of America’s first free black communities. Using a contemporary lens, we activate this unique history through the presentation of innovative, vanguard and experimental programs. Weeksville advances its mission through history, preservation, visual and performing arts, ecology and the built environment.

Event details

 * Date: Wednesday, Nov 16, 2016.
 * Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm EST-- Come when you can, stay as long as you would like!
 * Location: 158 Buffalo Ave, Brooklyn, NY
 * 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
 * Facebook: Facebook logo.png

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 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.

Confirmed

 * 1) Heathart (talk) 18:41, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 2) Fishantena (talk)
 * 3) BrillLyle (talk) 18:13, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 4) Pharos (talk) 16:21, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
 * 5) Stacydash (talk) 00:09, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
 * 6) Gjone1 (talk) 00:12, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
 * 7) WilliamJacksonCharles (talk) 00:13, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
 * 8) Jkbklynhome (talk) 00:14, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
 * 9) Jeremyb (talk) 00:51, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
 * 10) Shanluan (talk)

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 Charlotte 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 guidlines. Thanks!


 * Kwesi Abbensetts
 * Niv Acosta
 * Derrick Adams
 * Ola Ronke Akinmowo
 * Jonathan Allen
 * Salome Asega
 * Elizabeth Axtman
 * Kumasi J. Barnett
 * Chloe Bass
 * Kimberly Beacot
 * Aisha Tandiwe Bell
 * Mildred Beltre
 * Monstah Black
 * Nina Buxenbaum
 * Taha Clayton
 * Brandon Coley Cox
 * Elizabeth Colomba
 * Aisha Cousins
 * Adama Delphine Fawundu
 * Stephanie Dinkins
 * Oasa DuVerney
 * Ayana Evans
 * Zachary Fabri
 * Russell Frederick
 * Aaron Gilbert
 * Naima Green
 * Akintola Hanif
 * Ilana Harris-Babou
 * Heather Hart
 * Carl E. Hazlewood
 * Tahir Hemphill
 * Hayat Hyatt
 * Duron Jackson
 * Kameelah Janan Rasheed
 * Steffani Jemison
 * Olalekan Jeyifous
 * Rasu Jilani
 * Sean M. Johnson
 * June Jordan
 * Chandra Kiran
 * Yashua Klos
 * Simone Leigh
 * Jamal T. Lewis
 * Taja Lindley
 * Shantell Martin
 * Jasmine Murrell
 * Wangechi Mutu
 * Terence Nance
 * Malik Nashad Sharpe
 * Otto Neals
 * Kambui Olujimi
 * Nkiruka J. Oparah
 * Michael Paul Britto
 * Nickola Pottinger
 * Kenya (Robinson)
 * Kendra J. Ross
 * Ruddy Roye
 * Jacolby Satterwhite
 * Jamel Shabazz
 * sol'sax
 * Stan Squirewell
 * Adaku Utah
 * Jessica Vaughn
 * William Villalongo
 * Kiyan Williams
 * Nia Witherspoon
 * Tracey Worley
 * Ezra Wube

List of articles improved

 * 1) Elizabeth Axtman --
 * 2) Heather Hart -- ,
 * 3) Jamel Shabazz -- ,
 * 4) June Jordan --
 * 5) Otto Neals --
 * 6) Willie Little --

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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