Wikipedia:Meetup/Toronto/Artists of colour does not exist

Event details

 * Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2016
 * Time: 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm (Tutorial from 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm)
 * Venue: Hosted by SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre) at the Art Gallery of Ontario Library & Archives, 317 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario CANADA M5T 1G4
 * Cost: Free
 * Participants: No Wikipedia editing experience necessary; as needed throughout the event, tutoring will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers.
 * RSVP here - participation is limited to 18 people
 * 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.

Confirmed attendees

 * Artchivist1 (talk) 22:16, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * A.P. Mals (talk) 22:18, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Sriracha2 (talk) 22:18, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Krishna balakrishnan (talk) 22:19, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Monalisaali (talk) 22:19, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Gosharma (talk) 22:19, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Wikingbiam (talk) 22:20, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * KeisaCat (talk) 22:21, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * DaniloDeluxo (talk) 22:22, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Edgewalker872 (talk) 22:39, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Nicholas.fournie (talk) 23:16, 5 April 2016 (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

Templates

 * Place at the top of a new article to protect it from undue speedy deletion: Template:New_page
 * Place next to a name on the list of artists to avoid editing conflicts: Template:inprogress
 * Wikipedia Infobox template Template:Infobox person
 * Wikipedia artist Infobox template Template:Infobox_artist
 * Simple Bio Template
 * Artist Biography Template
 * Biographies of living persons

Research resources

 * The AGO Library & Archives' online catalogue

Articles to work on with files at AGO
Alpha by last name. 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. Clicking on red links will open a draft article template.


 * 1) Rebecca Belmore
 * 2) Sarindar Dhaliwal
 * 3) Jamelie Hassan
 * 4) Ali Kazimi
 * 5) Erica Lord
 * 1) Jamelie Hassan
 * 2) Ali Kazimi
 * 3) Erica Lord
 * 1) Ali Kazimi
 * 2) Erica Lord
 * 1) Erica Lord
 * 1) Erica Lord

Articles to work on with secondary sources
Alpha by last name. 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. Clicking on red links will open a draft article template.


 * 1) LAL (band)
 * 1) LAL (band)
 * 1) LAL (band)
 * 1) LAL (band)
 * 1) LAL (band)

Articles created or in progress

 * 1) Jayce Salloum "in sandbox" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Monalisaali/sandbox#Jayce_Salloum *Monalisaali (talk) 23:59, 5 April 2016 (UTC)


 * 1) Shelly, Bahl "draft" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Shelly_Bahl?veswitched=1&veaction=edit&oldid=713801125 *sriracha2

Articles improved

 * 1) Brendan Fernandes