Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/REAL SYMPOSIUM 2019

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) Wikimedia edit-a-thon at 2019 REAL Symposium will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to visual artists of the African Diaspora. Together we will create historical documents that respond to the urgent need for a reconstruction of the art historical record.

A photographer will be on hand to take images for Wiki Commons!

All are invited, with no specialized knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia editing experience required. A brief overview of the basics of Wikipedia editing will be given at the start of the edit-a-thon.

[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Black_Lunch_Table The Black Lunch Table (BLT)], an official Wikimedia Movement Affiliate, is an ongoing collaboration between artists Jina Valentine ({{User0|Fishantena}}) and Heather Hart ({{User0|Heathart}}) which intends to fill holes in the documentation of contemporary art history. In its 13 year existence, the BLT has taken a variety of forms relating to this most recent iteration, in the form of the Wikipedia edit-a-thon. BLT’s aim is the production of discursive sites (at literal and metaphorical lunch tables), wherein cultural producers of color engage in critical dialogue on topics directly affecting our communities. They endeavor to create spaces, online and off, mirroring the activity and creativity present in sites where Blackness and Art are performed.

[http://www.theblacklunchtable.com More about BLT here.]

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Nashville, like many other large metropolitan cities, has begun the process that Grantmakers in the Arts has identified as the most pressing issue in arts leadership in the United States: building racial equity in our cultural institutions and arts organizations, so creative and cultural expression can become a form of civic engagement for all.

Since 2015, Vanderbilt University’s Curb Center for Art, Enterprise & Pubic Policy has partnered with the Metro Arts/Nashville’s Office of Arts & Culture (REAL) Program to develop insight into how institutional practices around arts programming, artists development, and funding and hiring processes can advance racial equity in our community.

Curb Center and Metro Arts believes it is time to broaden the conversation through a national symposium, convening arts policy leaders, arts administrators, cultural equity organizations, individual artists, and grantmakers to discuss challenges and share best practices as we work to build more equitable practices into arts institutions at all levels.

[https://2019realsymposium.com/ Info on the symposium is here.]

• Date: Saturday, March 23, 2019
• Time: 11:00 am – 3:00 pm CDT
• Location: Vanderbilt University
  Student Life Center
  310 25th Ave South
• Who should attend: Artists, historians, students, photographers, librarians, archivists, teachers, writers, journalists, curators, visitors, the curious...
• Experienced or new Wikipedians (We will provide assistance with Wikipedia formatting and syntax)
• Amateur historians or research pros (We will have a selection of resources available for your use)
• What to Bring: Your laptop and a friend!
• Hashtag: [https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackLunchTable #BlackLunchTable] #realsymposium
• Etherpad: [https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/BlackLunchTable-Mar BlackLunchTable] - live doc to keep track of what we are all working on
• Training: [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1L1TAfoQAgnbOiXL7TQt75jzZrxe3S2igBax-0nNZ7sk/edit?usp=sharing/ Black Lunch Table Wikipedia Presentation]

• Presentation / overview
• Editing time
• Goals: Create user account (if new to Wikipedia), create user page with at least one sentence, sign up for editathon on this Wikipedia Meetup page, make at least one edit to a Wikipedia page
• For more information about ongoing scheduled meetups see Black Lunch Table Meetup page

• [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Public_Art/Image_guide|Wiki Image Guide]
• [https://whoseknowledge.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/How-to-find-free-images.pdf Where to find them.]
• [https://whoseknowledge.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Adding-images-to-Wikimedia-Commons-and-Wikipedia_-dos-and-donts.pdf Dos and Donts]
• [https://whoseknowledge.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/How-to-Ask-for-Image-Donations.pdf Asking an artist for images.]

Although our project focuses on visual artists of the African Diaspora, you are welcomed to edit whatever you want. Please add an article below that you think we should focus on. These articles are suggested, be sure they qualify according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidlines before you create a new page. Thanks!

These articles are suggested, be sure they qualify according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidlines before you create a new page. Thanks!

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• Maria Magdalena Campos Pons
• Wesley Clark (artist)
• Alicia Henry
• Carl Robert Pope
• Althea Murphy-Price
• Kerry G. Johnson
• Bessie Harvey
• Michael McBride (artist)
• Greg Ridley (artist)
• David Driskell
• Beauford Delaney
• Joseph Delaney (artist)
• William Edmondson
• James Threalkill
• Samuel Dunson
• Vannoy Streeter
• Simon Jackson (artist)
• Ted Jones (artist)
• Barbara Bullock
• George Hunt (artist)
• Sammie Nicely
• Lester Merriweather
• Lonnie Holley
• Walter Hood
• Thornton Dial
• McKissack & McKissack
• Norf Art Collective
• Marlos E'van
• Hiram Van Gordon
• James Miles (artist)

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• Akinola Lasekan
• William Johnson (artist)
• Clara Ngu
• Ben Enwonwu
• Claude Clark
• Malvin Gray Johnson
• Gerard Sekoto
• Arthur Leroy Bairnsfather
• Ibrahim El-Salahi
• Albert Alexander Smith
• James A. Porter
• Romare Bearden
• Betsy Graves Reyneau
• George O. Talabi
• Selby Mvusi
• Sam Middleton
• Alma Thomas
• James Lesesne Wells
• Alexander Boghosian

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• Add an Infobox!
• Adding images!

1. [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Copyright_rules_by_subject_matter#Art_.28copies_of.29 Rules on Visual Art, Murals, Graffiti and Sculpture are different!]
2. [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard Follow instructions to upload your images here...]

• Create or update Wikidata!

: Wikidata is central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikisource, and others.

1. Go to [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page Wikidata]
2. Read Wikidata's [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Introduction Introduction]!
3. Search for the person or subject
4. If none exists, you can 'Create a new item'
5. Look at another similar item to follow format... for example human female instead of female animal.
6. To add a field, click 'Add Statement'

File:2016-08-05-AuthorityControl.pdf

• Create or update Authority Control!

: Update Wikidata using Virtual International Authority File (VIAF.org)

1. Go to [https://viaf.org/ VIAF.org]
2. Search for person (last name, first name)
3. At bottom of page, where it says History of VIAF, expand section. See [https://viaf.org/viaf/111607089/#Herzog,_Werner,_1942-.... Werner Herzog example]
4. Add each listed Authority to [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page Wikidata] if its info is not already populated in Wikidata
5. Add {{Authority control}} after External links section above Categories
6. Refresh Wikipedia page

• Click here for many more editing resources

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• [http://www.theblacklunchtable.com/ The Black Lunch Table]
• Black Lunch Table – Wikipedia meetup page

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