Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/strategy salon 2019

Black Lunch Table will host a Strategy Salon considering Wikimedia Foundation's Global Movement Strategy from 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm CST on Tuesday, August 13, 2019 at Hyde Park Art Center.

Event description
This evening is one of a series of salons the Wikimedia Foundation is supporting as part of their Global Free Knowledge Initiative. Not familiar with Wikimedia 2030? Wikimedia (much more than Wikipedia alone) sees itself as becoming essential in shaping the infrastructure of the free knowledge ecosystem. BLT’s participation is an opportunity to foster knowledge and resource equity and encourage the creation of a more democratically authored and sourced encyclopedia.

As a social movement, Wikimedia is focusing its efforts on the knowledge and communities that have been left out by structures of power and privilege. While Wikimedia welcomes people from every background to build strong and diverse communities, we need partnerships and collaborations to break down the social, political, and technical barriers preventing people from accessing and contributing to free knowledge. Find out more here.

About The Black Lunch Table
The Black Lunch Table (BLT) is an ongoing collaboration founded by artists Jina Valentine (Fishantena (talk)) and Heather Hart (Heathart (talk)) which intends to fill holes in the documentation of contemporary art history. Since 2005 the BLT has taken a variety of forms relating to this most recent iteration, in the form of the Wikimedia project.

Our project creates a space to encourage people of color and women to join the Wikimedia movement while also asking white male editors to focus on gaps in coverage on Wikimedia. We mobilize the creation and improvement of a specific set of Wikimedia documents that pertain to the lives and works of Black artists. At each edit-a-thon we provide a list of suggested artists to add or edit, with particular focus on Black artists who have worked within or are local to the host institution’s community and are currently under-documented on Wikipedia.

Event details

 * Date: Tuesday, August 13, 2019
 * Time: 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm CST
 * Location: Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 S. Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615

Agenda

 * Project BLT/Overview
 * Objective of the Strategy Salon
 * Diversity
 * Revenue Streams
 * Breakout Groups
 * Reflection/Surveys

Salon Report
Black Lunch Table Strategy Salon Final Report