Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/meetup Indiana 2023

Event description
The Black Lunch Table (BLT) will host an edit-a-thon and photo booth that focuses on important but underrepresented Black visual artists, curators, and art workers on Saturday, October 21st, 2023. This event is being held in conjunction with the exhibition Unmasked: The Anti-Lynching Exhibits of 1935 and Community Remembrance in Indiana.

An overview of Wiki basics, an introduction to the Wikimedia Community, and how to update and edit articles will be held at the beginning of the session. No specialized knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia editing experience required and help will be available throughout the event. The event is free and open to all.

Details and Agenda
Editathon Date: Saturday, October 21st, 2023 Time: 2-5pm EST Location: IUPUI Arts & Humanities Institute, 755 W Michigan Street, University Library, 4115 S Indianapolis, Indiana 46202 Who should attend: Artists, historians, students, photographers, teachers, writers, journalists, curators, the curious... What to Bring: Your laptop and a friend! Agenda: * Introduction * Presentation /Wiki Overview * Editing time / Questions * Goals: Create a user account (if new to Wikipedia), create user page with at least one sentence, sign up for edit-a-thon on this Wikipedia Meetup page, make at least one edit to a Wikipedia page * BLT Wiki onboarding presentation * Etherpad:BlackLunchTable - Keep track of live editing during our session * Resources and How-to's

About Black Lunch Table
Black Lunch Table (BLT) is a nonprofit organization and eighteen-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 IUPUI Arts & Humanities Institute (IAHI)
Established in 2012, the IUPUI Arts & Humanities Institute (IAHI) supports research and creative activity across the IUPUI campus; serves as a campus liaison to the central Indiana community; and fosters ongoing partnerships and ventures that advance arts and humanities endeavors at IUPUI and in Indianapolis.

The IAHI showcases and promotes the major intellectual and scholarly contributions that IUPUI faculty members from across the disciplines are making in the arts and humanities, serving individual faculty members, groups, and interdisciplinary teams through grant programs, workshops, symposia, and research collaborations.

As an urban-based institute, the IAHI works closely with the Indianapolis community, connecting local institutions and residents with IUPUI. Working with Indianapolis’ diverse publics to create engaging new programming and forums for dialogue, creativity, and experiment, the IAHI also facilitates experiential and service learning opportunities for faculty-led student teamsin academic programs across campus.

The IAHI is a collaboration between the IUPUI Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, the School of Liberal Arts, the Herron School of Art and Design, the IUPUI Library, the School of Informatics and Computing, the School of Engineering and Technology, The School of Science, and the School of Medicine.

Articles and Artists to edit
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 NOTABILITY guidelines for new pages. Google resources

Suggestions of artists associated with Indiana
Please suggest specific artists who are notable Black artists who need their article created or whose existing article needs improvement. Be sure they qualify according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidelines, thanks!


 * Ida B. Wells
 * Thomas Moss
 * Elizabeth Moss
 * Hale Woodruff
 * James Cameron
 * Elizabeth Catlett
 * Kerry James Marshall
 * Flossie Bailey
 * William Mosby
 * Allan Freelon
 * Samuel Brown
 * E. Simms Campbell
 * William Jennings
 * Walter Quirt
 * Bettye Saar
 * Marion, Indiana
 * Lynching of George Ward
 * Lynching of George Tompkins
 * Lynching in Posey County, Indiana
 * LaShawnda Crowe Storm
 * Gary Gee
 * Malina Simone Jeffers
 * Rebecca Robinson (artist)
 * Michelle Woods

Wikicommons Photos
Photographs and images are an important part of Wiki as well. 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.

Attendees
Outreach Dashboard

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