Wikipedia:Meetups/UK/Disordered and Reconsidered Edit-a-thon

Event information
If you have a laptop please bring it with you! If you do not have a laptop please there are computers you can use but please let us know in advance. We will be using the 198 gallery's wireless internet but you can use your own wireless internet if you prefer.
 * Date: 6 August 2016
 * Time: 10am – 4pm
 * Location: 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, 198 Railton Road, London SE24 0JT
 * Hosts: 198 Contemporary Arts and Learninging / agency for agency

About the event
This event will focus on creating new Wikipedia pages about artists that have worked with 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning and expanding the ones we already have. We will provide the training that will show you how to do this using materials currently on display in the 198% disordered and reconsidered exhibition at 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning or your own resources.

Point of contact: Eartha78 (talk)

Agenda

 * 10:00 – 10:30: Coffee and set up
 * 10:30 – 11:00: Wikipedia training
 * 11:00 – 14:00: Live Wikipedia editing (break for lunch)
 * 14:00 – 14:30: Repeat of Wikipedia training
 * 14:30 – 16:00: Live Wikipedia editing, wrap-up and feedback

About the venue
198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, founded in 1989, is a visual arts space which has helped to nurture the careers of emerging artists, particularly those from culturally diverse backgrounds.

Initially 198 focused on the need to provide a platform for Afro-Caribbean artists as part of the Black Arts Movement and, more recently, on projects by artists whose work investigates emerging cultural identities.

Access
This event is wheelchair accessible. Please tell us in advance if you need to have a hearing loop available.

Participants - Sign Up Here!

 * Sign up at! Eventbrite here (no charge!)

Don't worry! If you haven't edited Wikipedia before and don't have a Wikipedia User Name yet, we will help you on the day of the event! And remember to have fun!

Prior to the event: Example: Copy these symbols    into a new bullet below and Wikipedia will automatically add your user name and talk page
 * 1) Do you have a Wikipedia User Name?
 * No? Create a Wikipedia account
 * Yes? Go to Step #2
 * 1) Please also add your Wikipedia username to the section below (signatures are created by saving four tildes [~] in a row).

Attendees

 * 1) Eartha78 (talk) 15:39, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 2) Leutha (talk) 10:42, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 3) BritishNative101 (talk) 10:36, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 4) LaXicanaSabe (talk) 10:39, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 5) mainlyzulu102
 * 6) Miss.bayode (talk) 10:48, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 7) Kwaku BBM (talk) 10:49, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

List of articles to edit
Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon, but you are welcome to work on anything you like. '''Please note: This is a crowdsourced list. You can help us by adding to it!'''

To create:


 * Larry Achiampong
 * Everald Brown
 * Gary Stewart
 * Teri Bullen
 * Ben Jones
 * Raksha Patel
 * Black Arts Movement UK
 * Taslim Martin
 * Joy Gregory
 * Barbara Walker

To improve:


 * Pearl Alcock
 * Brixton Artists Collective
 * Delaine Le Bas
 * Eugene Palmer
 * Pitika Ntuli
 * Railton Road

Articles improved

 * International Decade for People of African Descent
 * Railton Road

Articles created

 * Joy Gregory

Resources for editing

 * Iniva digital archive
 * 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning Archives
 * Diaspora Artists

Tools and guidelines

 * Determining Notability of Creative Professionals
 * Manual of Style - Visual arts
 * Manual of Style - Biographies
 * Manual of Style - Identity
 * Writing about women
 * Gender neutral language