Wikipedia:Meetup/Minneapolis/African American Artists/Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia)

Kick off African American History Month with a lively Wikipedia editing session. Please join Mia's Library Affinity Group's campaign to improve coverage and increase visibility of African American visual artists in Wikipedia.

Event information

 * Event Title: African American Artists Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
 * Date: Saturday, January 28, 2017
 * Time: noon — 4:00 p.m. CST
 * Location: Minneapolis Institute of Art, Target Wing Atrium, Friends Community Room & Library, 2400 Third Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404.
 * Hosts: Meg Black, Susan Jacobsen, Janice Lurie, and Mia Wikipedia
 * Edit-A-Thon Team Members: Kay Beaudrie, Katie Hill. And a special thank you to our Wikipedia mentor, McGhiever.

Details
Please bring a laptop with you as we will only have a limited number available for use.

No Wikipedia experience necessary; training session at 12:30 p.m. for newcomers on the day of the event. Library resources will be on hand for researching artists in the museum's collection. We will also be providing light refreshments and will be presenting a specially designed award cookie for those attendees that add content during the Wikipedia Edit-a-thon.

Register
Free, tickets required. To register, call 612-870-6323 or reserve online. As this is our second Wikipedia event, we will also need experienced Wikipedians to assist others who are new at editing. Please email Meg Black at mblack@artsmia.org or Janice Lurie at jlurie@artsmia.org if you would be willing to help or let us know on the day of the event or on the Participants section below.

If you haven't edited in Wikipedia before, we will help you register for an account. Mia's library is open Tuesday-Friday 11:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. and its staff is available for providing assistance in setting up a Wikipedia personal account and for research in preparation for editing Wikipedia. You can search our library's collection online through our catalog Mia Library Catalog. We also have numerous subscription research databases on art that you can access while in the library.

Participants
And if you already have a Wikipedia account, please add your Wikipedia username to this section (signatures are created by saving four tildes [~] in a row, add your username and talk page by using three tildes):

JLLurie (talk) 16:58, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Shaded0 (talk) 06:28, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Paul2520 (talk) 02:34, 15 December 2016 (UTC) - I've never attended a Wikipedia meetup before, but have contributed for a couple of years. I'm happy to help new editors in whatever ways I can.

Mgblck (talk) 18:38, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

Jonathunder (talk) — Possibly.

Joejyoung (talk) 19:55, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

RachelWex (User talk:RachelWex) Weather permitting I will be there in person...otherwise we will need to discuss remote participation possibilities.

Fllydbyns (talk) 16:11, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

KyBdr (talk) 20:52, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

Smbooker (talk) 19:57, 26 January 2017 (UTC) — I am a Wiki editing novice, but I've messed with WordPress and some other web page editing in the past.

Sherickfran (talk) 22:29, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

Haun0011 (talk)

Benjaminmettey (talk) 14:42, 27 January 2017 (UTC) - This is my first time attending a Wiki meetup, but am looking forward to it!

Mtesterman (talk) 16:14, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

Rlarsonbender (talk)

Tanitani05 (talk) 18:05, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

DET (talk) 18:26, 28 January 2017 (UTC)davidevanthomas

Cstockmann (talk) 18:08, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Tenthrowamy (talk) 18:18, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Clquinn (talk) 18:20, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Kconnair (talk) 18:22, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Rjbuck (talk) 18:24, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Jcawes (talk) 18:29, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Terasaface (talk) 19:04, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Marylee wiki (talk) 21:31, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

List of articles
Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits, expansion, or new entries during the edit-a-thon, but you are welcome to work on anything you like. These names are drawn from African American artists represented in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Names of artists appearing in red need to have articles created in Wikipedia.

Research resources

 * Mia Library Catalog
 * HistoryMakers

Wikipedia resources

 * Help:Introduction
 * VisualEditor/User guide


 * Tutorial/Wrap-up and more info
 * GLAM Beginner's Guide
 * Citation guide
 * Art on Commons
 * Simplified ruleset
 * Biographies of living persons

Results
After the Wikipedia edit-a-thon, share results of your work here




 * New articles
 * Frank E. Cummings III by paul2520
 * Gwendolyn Ann Magee by Craftlibrarian
 * Reginald Sanders by User:Lauren H
 * John E. Dowell Jr. by paul2520
 * Mary Lee Bendolph by User:jcawes
 * Mitchell Squire by User:kdub911
 * William Howard by User:cstockman
 * Frank J. Brown by User:Frances
 * James Cooper (artist) by User:jjanemarshall
 * A Choice of Weapons by User:Marylee wiki
 * John Woodrow Wilson by User:Cancerdreamer
 * 306 Group by Smbooker
 * Russell T. Gordon by User:Clquinn
 * Alvin Baltrop by User:RachelWex


 * Improved articles
 * Willie Cole
 * Charles Gaines
 * Carrie Mae Weems
 * Mequitta Ahuja
 * Charles Wilbert White
 * Richard Hunt
 * John Biggers
 * Lois Mailou Jones
 * Frank E. Cummings III
 * Reginald Sanders
 * Kara Walker
 * Julie Mehretu
 * Nick Cave
 * Benny Andrews
 * Elizabeth Catlett
 * Benny Andrews
 * Henry Bannarn
 * Romare Bearden
 * Roy DeCarava
 * Beauford Delaney
 * William Edmondson
 * Sam Gilliam
 * Russell T. Gordon
 * Sedrick Huckaby
 * Clementine Hunter
 * Gwendolyn Knight
 * Jacob Lawrence
 * Glenn Ligon
 * Gordon Parks
 * Carl Robert Pope
 * Martin Puryear
 * James Van Der Zee
 * Betye Saar
 * Lorna Simpson
 * Renee Stout
 * Bob Thompson
 * Kerry James Marshall
 * Teju Cole
 * Fred Wilson
 * Lorna Simpson
 * Rocky Moore