Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/meetup Pratt 2023

Event description
Join Black Lunch Table (BLT) for a series of offerings surrounding their organizing efforts that focuses on important but underrepresented Black visual artists, curators, and art workers on Friday, February 24th, 2023 as part of Pratt Institute's Anti-Racism Symposium.

Details and Agenda
Date: February 24th, 2023 Presentation: 10:45 AM-11:45 AM Location: Library Learning Lab A presentation on Wiki basics, an introduction to the Wikimedia Community, and how to update and edit articles will be held at the beginning of the session for the Pratt community. Photo Booth: 11:00 AM-2:00 PM Location: Student Union The presentation will be followed by a BLT Photo Booth by Ally Caple for the Pratt community. Edit-a-thon: 12:00 PM-4:00 PM Location: Library Learning Lab No specialized knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia editing experience is required. Help will be available throughout the event. This event is open to the general public. Please register ahead of time. 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: - 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 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 the Pratt Institute Anti-Racism Symposium
The Pratt Institute Anti-Racism Symposium is a daylong conference advancing dialogues on anti-racism while uplifting school and departmental art and design leaders. The Anti-Racism Symposium will be hosted by the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and the conference will open with a grounding welcome address, followed by a series of workshops, and end with a closing address.

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 NOTABILTY guidelines for new pages. Google resources

BLT's Main Task List

Suggestions of artists associated with Pratt Institute
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!

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

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