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BLT at Booth Library hosted by Tarble Art Center, EIU
Eastern Illinois University editathon
When and Where
Date:Monday, September 13, 2016
Time:11:00 am - 1:00 pm CST
Address:Booth Library 600 Lincoln Avenue, Charleston, IL
BLT editathon in Charleston, IL

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project will host an edit-a-thon at Eastern Illinois University Booth Library from 11:00 am - 1:00 pm CST on Monday, September 13, 2016. Join us for a lunchtime of social Wikipedia editing! Drinks, snacks, and skills will be provided. Feel free to bring a friend!

Event description edit

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project at Booth Library hosted by Tarble Art Center will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives and works of visual artists from the African Diaspora. Together we will create historical documents that respond to the urgent need for a reconstruction of the art historical record.

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. We will have a library resources and a list of suggested artists, cultural creators, and institutions on hand.

History of The Black Lunch Table edit

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) is an ongoing collaboration between artists Jina Valentine (Fishantena (talk)) and Heather Hart (Heathart (talk)) which intends to fill holes in the documentation of contemporary art history. In its 10 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.

Tarble Art Center edit

The mission of the Tarble Arts Center is to engender appreciation for and involvement in the arts, especially the visual arts, as a major arts resource for the people of east-central Illinois and Eastern Illinois University through the presentation of temporary exhibitions and community-based educational and outreach activities. As a division of the College of Arts & Humanities, the Tarble Arts Center has a mandate to collect, preserve, exhibit, and interpret the university’s permanent collection of art, and to support the educational mission of the university.

Event details edit

  • Date: Tuesday, Sept 13, 2016.

This was the second session in a two-part series of editathon events.

  • Time: 11:00am - 1:00pm CST-- Come when you can, stay as long as you would like!
  • Location: e-classroom (4 th Flr)
  • Who should attend: Artists, historians, students, teachers, writers, journalists, curators, visitors...
    • 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: A Laptop!. Tablets are more difficult.
  • Hashtag: #BlackLunchTable
  • Etherpad: BlackLunchTable - live doc to keep track of what we are all working on
  • Training: Black Lunch Table Wikipedia Presentation

Agenda edit

  • 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 one edit to a Wikipedia page
  • For more information about ongoing scheduled meetups see Black Lunch Table Meetup page
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Attendees edit

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  • If you are able, please also add your Wikipedia username to the appropriate section below (signatures are created by saving four tildes [~] in a row).
  • If you haven't edited Wikipedia before, we will help you register for a new Wikipedia editing account on the day of.

Confirmed edit

  1. ----Heathart (talk) 20:18, 9 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  2. --Fishantena (talk) 17:51, 13 September 2016 (UTC)Numbered list item[reply]
  3. ----IdleEditor13 (talk) 17:37, 13 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  4. ----Sagespencer13 (talk) 17:38, 13 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  5. ----Tiedyepaul (talk) 17:39, 13 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  6. ----Megansculpt21 (talk) 17:41, 13 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  7. ----SYNX543 (talk) 17:43, 13 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  8. ----Ccwharram (talk) 17:48, 13 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  9. ----Jpcorry93 (talk)
  10. ----gmbrown74 (talk)
  11. ----Carnivore2326 (talk)
  12. ----mmm1113 (talk)
  13. ----Kttabel (talk)
  14. ----aalvarado20 (talk)
  15. ----sjs1997 (talk)
  16. ----rileyjoseph21 (talk)
  17. ----angelobound (talk)
  18. ----wunderpa (talk)

Tentative edit

Remote edit

Possible articles to edit edit

Suggested artist pages for revision and/or creation! This event-specific list focuses on important visual artists/art workers/collectors of the African Diaspora who have some connection to Charlotte and are under-represented on Wikipedia. Our master list can be found under our Tasks tab. Please add a name if you know a Black artist of note who needs a page or needs editing. Please do not add an artist who has a substantial page. We are trying to create new pages and beef up under-represented ones. But be sure they qualify according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidlines. Thanks!

See also: Wikipedia:Meetup/Black_Lunch_Table/Lists_of_Articles
See also: List of African-American visual artists
See also: Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/AfroCrowd/Lists of Articles
See also: Wikipedia:Meetup/WikiArte/MoMA 2015 § Stubs! Categories! Images!
See also: Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Tasks


List of articles improved edit

  1. Angela M. Rivers - in sandbox
  2. Dr. Charles Smith - in sandbox
  3. Xenobia Bailey
  4. Patrick Earl Hammie

List of articles added edit

  1. Tumelo Mosaka


Wikipedia editing resources edit

N.B. Also located on the Resources page referenced above under Editor Resources

  • Images and photos:
Introduction and Guide 1: Getting Started! – Why Edit Wikipedia?, Using the WikiD Guides and Getting Started.
Guide 2: Selecting and Researching a Topic/Subject – Choosing a Subject, References and Sources and Images.
Guide 3: Writing an Entry – Tone and Style, Content and Structure, Building an Argument, Precedents and Article Titles.
Guide 4: Navigating the Wikipedia Interface – Editing Interfaces, Creating a New Article, Editing Existing Pages and Disambiguation
Guide 5: Troubleshooting – Deleted Pages, Flagged Pages and Talk Pages

Tools and templates edit

  • N.B. There is an IRC channel if online participants need help:
Wikipedia:IRC/wikipedia-en-help

External links edit

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Black Lunch Table Project.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2016-09 Black Lunch Table at EIU Charleston Illinois.


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