Wikipedia:Meetup/Toronto/Artist-Run Centres (January 10, 2018)

Event details

 * Date: Wednesday, January 10, 2018
 * Time: 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm (Tutorial from 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm)
 * Venue: Art Gallery of Ontario Library & Archives, 317 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario CANADA M5T 1G4
 * Cost: Free
 * Participants: No Wikipedia editing experience or specialized art knowledge necessary; as needed throughout the event, tutoring will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers.
 * Please sign in with your username below! If you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia, you might try this training module which will help explain a lot of things, including how to add your signature.
 * What to Bring: Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords if possible.

Confirmed Attendees

 * Mduvekot (talk) 18:23, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
 * the artchivist  (talk)  18:39, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Seazzy (talk) 23:04, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
 * IsisWisdom (talk) 23:18, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Angielittlefield (talk) 23:21, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Tryinsomeart (talk) 23:21, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Nasus222 (talk) 23:23, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Glen.lowry (talk) 23:24, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
 * carolchu89 (talk) 23:29, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
 * ALConnelly (talk) 23:29, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
 * ArtresearcherToronto (talk) 01:56, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

Tools and templates
The following are some templates and tools that you may want to use to help you create or improve the articles you are working on.

Tools

 * Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
 * Writing an article
 * About the Sandbox
 * Introductory Training Lesson Plan
 * Advanced Training Lesson Plan
 * Upload Wizard for images, video and sound files - File_Upload_Wizard
 * Wikipedia Teahouse
 * Dispute Resolution
 * Etiquette
 * Staying cool when the editing gets hot

Templates

 * Place at the top of a new article to protect it from undue speedy deletion: Template:New_page
 * Place next to an item on the list of suggested topics to avoid editing conflicts: Template:inprogress
 * Simple template for artist-run centre page: User:Artchivist1/sandbox/ARC_template

Research resources

 * The AGO Library & Archives' online catalogue

Articles to work on
This is a suggested list of topics to work on. You are welcome to write on other topics too, and please feel free to add to this list. Links in blue are existing articles which can be improved and/or expanded. Links in red are articles that do not yet exist and can be created.


 * A Space
 * Art Metropole
 * Canadian artist-run centres
 * Gallery 44
 * Gallery TPW
 * Mercer Union
 * SAVAC
 * Trinity Square Video
 * Vtape
 * Women's Art Resource Centre (WARC)

Results/outcomes
Before you leave the event, please add the titles of any articles you worked on - or created! - to help organizers keep track of outcomes. Knowing about your work will also help us to support any new pages that receive scrutiny from other editors.

Articles improved

 * Canadian artist-run centres
 * Mercer Union