Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/UNC BLT Apr2017

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The Sloane Art Library at UNC-Chapel Hill
When and Where
Date:Saturday, April 1, 2017
Time:12:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST
Address:Sloane Art Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hanes Art Center, 121 E Cameron Ave
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
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The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project will host an edit-a-thon at Sloane Art Library at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST on Saturday, April 1, 2017. Join us for a morning of social Wikipedia editing! A training session will be held at 12pm but help is available throughout the event. Drinks, snacks, and skills will be provided. BRING YOUR LAPTOP and feel free to bring a friend!

Event description edit

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project at Sloane Art Library at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives and works of visual artists from the African Diaspora living or working in the Chapel Hill area. Together we will create historical documents that respond to the urgent need for a reconstruction of the art historical record.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.

Sloane Art Library edit

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library provides collections, expertise, services, and facilities that are essential to achieving the University’s mission of research, teaching, learning, and public service for the campus community, state, nation, and world.

We aspire to be a leader among academic research libraries in meeting users’ evolving knowledge-creation and knowledge management needs. Building on a foundation of library excellence at the nation’s first public university, we will define and integrate new library roles, practices, partnerships, and technologies in achieving this vision.

Event details edit

  • Date: Saturday, April 1, 2017
  • Time: 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST
  • Location: Sloane Art Library
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Hanes Art Center, 121 E Cameron Ave
    Chapel Hill, NC 27514
  • Who should attend: Artists, historians, students, 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: 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 at least 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

  • LOOKING FOR ADMINS TO JOIN US IN PERSON OR REMOTELY...
  • 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.

RSVP edit

Please add your name below if you are planning to attend.

  1. Frankcjones (talk) 03:07, 8 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Fishantena (talk) 01:06, 1 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  3. BaldheadGrowler (talk) 17:20, 1 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Parallel.awhite (talk) 18:00, 1 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Heathart (talk) 17:23, 1 April 2017 (UTC) remotely[reply]
  6. BrillLyle

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 the Chapel Hill area and are under-represented on Wikipedia. Our master list can be found under our Tasks tab. Please add a name if you know a artist of the African Diaspora 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.

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

Wikidata task list edit

This list is automatically generated from data in Wikidata and is periodically updated by Listeriabot.
Edits made within the list area will be removed on the next update!

Article Gender Occupation Place of birth Residence
Acha Debela male teacher
painter
Ethiopia Addis Ababa
Durham
Baltimore
Columbus
African American Quilt Circle of Durham
Antonio Wise male artist
street artist
Beth Perry female visual artist
Beverly McIver female painter Greensboro
Carmen Neely female visual artist
Chandra Cox female visual artist
teacher
illustrator
North Carolina
Connie Floyd female visual artist
university teacher
Debi Drew female visual artist North Carolina
Endia Beal female photographer
director
video artist
North Carolina
Ernie Barnes male painter
American football player
Durham Durham
Los Angeles
Jim Lee male comics artist
publisher
blogger
writer
artist
cartoonist
visual artist
screenwriter
Seoul St. Louis
Seoul
John Hughley male visual artist
Juan Logan male artist
university teacher
Nashville Belmont
Kenneth J. Lewis Sr. male artist
Kenneth Rodgers male artist
art historian
Melvin Carver male arts administrator
visual artist
North Carolina
Minnie Evans female illustrator
gatekeeper
drawer
artist
painter
Pender County
Long Creek, North Carolina
Wilmington
Wrightsville Beach
Rodney Bennett male visual artist
comics artist
North Carolina
Sharon Towana Austin female painter
calligrapher
sculptor
poet
playwright
writer
Newark Newark
Mebane
Stacy Lynn Waddell female visual artist Washington, D.C.
Teka Selman female visual artist
curator
Detroit
Vandorn Hinnant male visual artist Durham
Greensboro
Walt Davis male innkeeper
mail carrier
waiter
visual artist
Henderson County
Bat Cave
Spartanburg
Bloomington
Walter Faribault Jr. male visual artist Hillsborough
William Paul Thomas male visual artist Chicago
End of auto-generated list.

Outcomes edit

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 Alphabetical by first letter
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Wikidata items improved
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Wikidata items created
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Wikimedia Commons images uploaded
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Community engagement
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Wikipedia editing resources edit

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External links edit