Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/MENA

Event information

 * Date: Saturday, April 30, 2016
 * Time: Presentation: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm, Edit-a-thon: 2:30pm - 6:00pm
 * Location: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue (88th Street), New York City, New York 10128 40.78286°N, -73.95917°W
 * Guests should enter using the 88th Street entrance via the ramp at 88th Street and Fifth Avenue
 * Directions: here
 * Subway:
 * to IRT Lexington Avenue Line – 86th St. (exit at 86th Street – Lexington)
 * Walk west on 86th Street, turn right at Fifth Avenue and proceed north to 89th Street
 * Bus: buses
 * Cost: Free
 * Registration: To register, please sign up via one of the following avenues:
 * 1) Add your Wikipedia username to the below
 * 2) Sign up via guggenheim.org/calendar
 * Participants: The event is open to anyone who wishes to help expand the content related to women in architecture. No Wikipedia editing experience necessary. As needed throughout the event, tutoring will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers.
 * What to bring: Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords. Light snacks and drinks will be provided.
 * Hashtag: Remember to add the following hashtags in your edit summary so we can track our progress.
 * #guggathon
 * You'll be able to watch and listen to our efforts through Listen to Wikipedia. Just be sure to add the hashtags #guggathon and #MENAwiki in the filter for a custom audio and visual symphony of our collective edits.
 * Quick Guide: Check out WikiD's Quick Guide for Wikipedia editing


 * Etherpad link

Public programming
Presentations will be held in the Peter B. Lewis Theater of The Sackler Center for Arts Education @ Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (map of building)


 * 1:00 pm until 2:30pm, Peter B. Lewis Theater: The Built, Unbuilt, and Unbuildable
 * Troy Conrad Therrien, Curator of Architecture and Digital Initiatives, moderates a conversation between Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator Sara Raza and exhibition artists Ala Younis and Ahmed Mater to explore cultural heritage and legacy in the making of the modern Middle East, and the role of built and unbuilt systems in the shaping of global cultural practices. This panel talk is hosted by the Guggenheim Wikipedia Initiative and will be followed by a Wikipedia edit-a-thon to augment related content related to contemporary artists from the Middle East and North Africa.


 * 2:30 pm until 6:00 pm, Wikipedia editing
 * Wikipedia editing will follow beginning at 2:30 pm until 6 pm.
 * New and experienced editors are welcome. The event will include a training session for participants who are new to Wikipedia and Wikipedia specialists will be on hand to provide basic instruction and editing support.

Resources

 * First things first – create a Wikipedia Userpage ("Create Account" in top right corner of any Wikipedia page).
 * 2014 Guggenheim Meetup Guide
 * Linked resource for beginning editors
 * Institutional Partnerships with Wikipedia / Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums, Wikipedia Info Booklet
 * This guide has directions on the various Wikipedia projects, and includes a guide for beginners, guides to Wikipedia markup, adding references, and other tasks

Wikipedia basics

 * Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
 * Five Pillars of Wikipedia (philosophical guidelines and best practices for Wikipedia editing)
 * Tutorial
 * How to Edit a Page
 * Wiki Markup Quick Reference (PDF version of printed handout)
 * Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger (applicable to any biography)
 * Article Development
 * Your First Article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
 * Manual of Style
 * Citation templates
 * Infobox templates
 * Bookshelf (additional "getting started" resources)
 * Art+Feminism – Video training
 * Art+Feminism – Training Lesson Plan
 * WikiD Guides to Wikipedia Editing

Template
 * Template:Guggenheim Museum
 * An example:
 * displays
 * displays
 * displays

See also: Selections from the Guggenheim Collection

Priority artists from the Guggenheim collection

 * Lida Abdul
 * Abbas Akhavan
 * - Guggenheim page, Website: ; Exhibition Catalogs                , News Articles
 * Ori Gersht
 * Mariam Ghani
 * Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
 * Rokni Haerizadeh
 * Susan Hefuna
 * Iman Issa (developed with Guggenheim intern program)
 * Emily Jacir
 * Gülsün Karamustafa
 * Mohammed Kazem
 * Ahmed Mater
 * Ala Younis
 * Mohammed Kazem
 * Ahmed Mater
 * Ala Younis
 * Ala Younis
 * Ala Younis

200+ names from print encyclopedia

 * WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Art of the Middle East (200+ names)

In other language Wikipedias

 * List of female artists from the MENA region from Wikidata (Incomplete -useful for Iran and Egypt)

Research and source materials

 * Guggenheim Library Catalog
 * Search: Architecture
 * Guggenheim Library & Archives
 * Architecture-related materials – open stacks

Printed materials

 * See ♦ for online resources
 * Monographs
 * also at Internet Archive ♦
 * also at Internet Archive ♦
 * also at Internet Archive ♦
 * also at Internet Archive ♦
 * also at Internet Archive ♦


 * Hugo Boss Prize


 * Exhibition catalogs


 * Periodicals

Online resources

 * Arab Media & Society
 * Association for Modern + Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran + Turkey (AMCAA)
 * UbuWeb + Bidoun
 * Modern Art Iraq Archive
 * Sharjah Art Foundation

Outcomes
Please add the articles you've worked on so contributions resulting from this initiative can be documented

Articles improved
Alphabetical by first letter
 * 1) Ahmed Mater --
 * 2) Ala Younis -- ,
 * 3) Bagan --
 * 4) Gülsün Karamustafa -- ,
 * 5) Hussain Sharif --
 * 6) Joana Hadjithomas --
 * 7) Khalil Joreige --
 * 8) Mohammed Kazem --
 * 9) Susan Hefuna --

Articles created
Alphabetical by first letter
 * 1) Ali Cherri --
 * 2) Nazar Yahya --
 * eo:Ali bey Huseynzade -- (Ali bey Huseynzade in Esperanto)

Drafts
Alphabetical by first letter
 * 1) Draft:Kader Attia --
 * 2) Draft:Nadia Kaabi-Linke --

Sign up
''Please add your name. If you are registered, type four tildes. You can also sign up at meetup.com.''

Remote participants

 * 1)  czar  00:26, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
 * 2) BrillLyle (talk) 17:24, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

NYC participants

 * 1) Pharos (talk) 18:59, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 2) Minoub (talk) 05:25, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
 * 3) Kingme918 (talk) 17:55, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
 * 4) Mlynch345 (talk) 16:09, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * 5) Nwhysel (talk) 15:11, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
 * 6)  ɱ  (talk · vbm  · coi) 20:16, 22 April 2016 (UTC) (probably)
 * 7) Jim.henderson (talk) 13:49, 25 April 2016 (UTC) Must leave early
 * 8) Abugel (talk) 18:43, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
 * 9) Mezzino88 (talk) 18:47, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
 * 10) BoLandsman (talk) 18:50, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
 * 11) Hannah Silverman (talk) 18:51, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
 * 12) 198.179.70.210 (talk) 18:54, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
 * 13) Zegeer (talk) 18:55, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
 * 14) Busypencil (talk) 19:06, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
 * 15) NewEnglandDoug (talk) 19:18, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
 * 16) DEBwiki (talk) 19:21, 30 April 2016 (UTC)