Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/African American Artists 2016



We will get together to improve content related to African American artists. Beginners are welcome! Wikipedia training will be provided. And follow our event on Twitter with the hashtag #AAArt and #GLAMwiki!

Hosted at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), and organized by SAAM and Wikimedia DC.

Which articles are you working on? Let us know on OUR ETHERPAD

When
NOTE: the museum does not open to the public until 11:30 a.m. Those wishing to gain access for the 10:30 a.m. behind-the-scenes tour MUST RSVP in advance, and arrive promptly at 10:00. If the tour has already departed, latecomers may have to wait until 11:30 a.m. to enter.
 * Saturday, February 20, 2016 at SAAM
 * 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. EDT

What to bring

 * A laptop (tablets can work, but the editing experience is much easier with a keyboard)
 * Any research resources you would like to refer to.
 * You're welcome to bring your camera and take pictures!

Where

 * MacMillan Education Center in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, located at 8th and G Streets NW, Washington, DC 20004 (the building that is shared with the National Portrait Gallery).
 * WMATA Metrorail stops:
 * Gallery Place/Chinatown (green/yellow/red lines): from the 9th & G entrance, the Museum is right outside
 * Metro Center (red/orange/blue/silver lines): use 11th & G exit, walk two blocks east on G, and the Museum will be on your right.
 * Bus: Take the DC Circulator or any of the following WMATA bus lines to the Museum: 42, 64, 70, 74, 80, D6, P6, S2, S4, X2
 * See also: WMATA trip planner (mobile version)
 * If arriving after the museum opens at 11:30 a.m., ask information desk or the security officers to direct you to the MacMillan Education Center. It is at the west end of the building, closer to the F Street entrance, near the hallway with the "Experience America" and Folk Art galleries.

Sign up!
This event is open to up to 45 in-person participants, and an unlimited number of remote participants, of all Wikipedia experience levels, from beginner to expert. Due to tour and room capacity, prior registration is required. To register, please write your username below, or send an email to linthicumr [at] si.edu.

I'll be there in person!

 * 1) LinthicumRyanR (talk)
 * 2) Duckduckstop (talk)
 * 3) Kirill Lokshin (talk)
 * 4) Uncommon fritillary (talk)
 * 5) Sarasays (talk)
 * 6) bollmanr (talk)
 * 7) econterms (talk)
 * 8) Walter (talk)
 * 9) Baranlau (talk)

I'll be attending virtually!

 * Circa73 (talk) 16:13, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

Regrets
(Add your name here.) If you can't make it in person or even remotely, you can still help by sharing the info with your friends and colleagues, and/or helping flesh out the To-do list!
 * your name here

Articles
Feel free to add your own!

Harlem Renaissance artists
Below is a table of articles on Harlem Renaissance artists showing which articles need added or updated.

The information was taken from this 2012 Smithsonian exhibition checklist PDF and entered and evaluated by American University students at this edit-a-thon the same week.

Column 3 is the assessment showed by hand (talk page), and Column 4 is the output of the Rev score Objective_Revision_Evaluation_Service. Using the sortable table below, attendees at the edit-a-thon can quickly identify missing articles, and find the lowest rated ones that need the most work.

Notable African American Artists
RED links have no entries! Links to reliable sources for citations have been provided, when possible.
 * Nelson A. Primus
 * Harvey Cropper
 * Willie Cole
 * Bill Hutson
 * Clifford Jackson
 * Sam Middleton
 * Haywood Bill Rivers
 * Ricardo Francis
 * Katie S. Mallory
 * Che Baraka
 * M. Scott Johnson
 * Joe Overstreet,
 * Sam Middleton
 * Stanley Whitney
 * Richard Wyatt, Jr.
 * Richard Yarde
 * Jeff Sonhouse
 * Emmett Wigglesworth
 * Ellsworth Ausby
 * Dindga McCannon
 * Derrick Adams
 * Ulysses David
 * Walter Ellison
 * Trenton Doyle Hancock
 * David Huffman(artist)
 * Raymond Steth
 * Gilda Snowden
 * William Simpson
 * Charles Sebree
 * Charles Sallee
 * Lezley Saar
 * Sandra Rowe
 * Rose Piper
 * Herbert Singleton
 * Jacob Getlar Smith
 * C. W. F. Dare Company
 * Scipio Moorhead
 * Maudelle Bass Weston
 * William Artis
 * G. W. Hobbs
 * Julien Hudson

Resources

 * Recent presentation slides about Wikipedia
 * General Wikipedia resources:
 * Help:Cheatsheet
 * Policies and guidelines
 * Help:Getting started
 * Your first article
 * WikiProject African diaspora/Visual arts

Outcomes

 * Xaver Bayer - new bio using translator tool
 * Charles Sebree - NEW article!!
 * Bob Thompson (painter) - add fair use image
 * James Van Der Zee - Expanded. Added artwork image to Commons, and included it in artist article.
 * Ellis Wilson - add fair use image
 * Felrath Hines - copyedits, added infobox; fair use image
 * Joseph Delaney (artist) - expanded, more links, better footnotes
 * David Huffman (artist) - created page
 * Frederick J. Brown add fair use image
 * Herbert Gentry add fair use image
 * Horace_Pippin add fair use image
 * Hughie Lee-Smith add fair use image
 * Richard Yarde - added his methods and inspirations for water colors
 * List of African-American visual artists - added Yarde
 * Weusi Artist Collective - new article
 * James A. Porter add infobox
 * Sargent Claude Johnson - fixed typos, cleaned up citations, edited for style
 * Trenton Doyle Hancock - added exhibitions and awards, references
 * Che Baraka - created page
 * Ricardo Francis - created page
 * Sam Middleton - extended bio and works of art