Wikipedia:Meetup/Toronto/Black Arts History Reading Group (January 11, 2017)

Event details

 * Date: Wednesday, January 11, 2017
 * Time: 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm (Tutorial from 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm)
 * Venue: Co-hosted by the Black Arts/History Reading Group at the Art Gallery of Ontario Seminar Room 1, 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.
 * 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) 18:27, 11 January 2017 (UTC) volunteer ask me anything
 * Kimboslice212 (talk) 22:20, 11 January 2017 (UTC)kimboslice212
 * GomesAlvarenga (talk) 22:30, 11 January 2017 (UTC)GomesAlvarenga
 * Mduvekot (talk) 22:45, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Eeloren (talk) 22:49, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Archimarie (talk) 22:57, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Yaniya Lee (talk) 22:59, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Gloria Swain (talk) 23:00, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
 * 66.199.38.98 (talk) 23:00, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Sugar Dandy (talk) 23:00, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Kezza9000 (talk) 23:02, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Chroniclesdiaspora (talk) 23:07, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Orphanplant (talk) 23:12, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Narrowrooms (talk) 23:18, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
 * PetroseTesfai (talk) 23:20, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Rosecapp (talk) 23:24, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
 * LaLeen (talk) 00:12, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Kmoss77 (talk) 00:24, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Reference-List (talk) 00:52, 12 January 2017 (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. To use, just add   at the top of the article you are working on.
 * 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
 * | CBC Arts
 * Toronto Public Library Academic OneFile & JSTOR

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.

During the event, please add next to a topic to avoid editing conflicts (this will display as ).


 * Lillian Allen
 * Draft:Karen Miranda Augustine
 * Deanna Bowen
 * June Clark (artist)
 * Michèle Pearson Clarke see Michele Clarke
 * Stan Douglas
 * Pamela Edmonds
 * Jabari “Elicser” Elliot
 * Michael Fernandes (artist)
 * Dominique Fontaine
 * Beverly Glenn-Copeland
 * Jérôme Havre
 * Dana Inkster
 * Michelle Jacques (curator)
 * Roland Jean
 * Anique Jordan
 * Jessica Karuhanga
 * Zun Lee
 * Valerie Mason-John
 * Roger McTair
 * Melinda Mollineaux
 * Abdi Osman
 * Claire Prieto
 * Dionne Simpson
 * Kara Springer
 * Denyse Thomasos
 * Fatimah Tuggar
 * Camille Turner
 * Jan Wade (artist)
 * Syrus Marcus Ware
 * Tim Whiten
 * Natalie Wood (artist)

Articles created or in progress

 * Draft:Karen Miranda Augustine
 * Grace Channer
 * Draft:June Clark (artist)
 * Jay Douglas (reggae)
 * Jérôme Havre
 * Kara Springer
 * Stacey Tyrell
 * Syrus Marcus Ware

Articles improved



 * Dana Inkster