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BLT at Weeksville Heritage Center, Brooklyn
Weeksville Heritage Center
When and Where
Date:Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Time:6:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST
Address:158 Buffalo Ave
Brooklyn, NY
BLT editathon at Weeksville in Brooklyn, NY
BLT editathon at Weeksville in Brooklyn, NY
BLT editathon at Weeksville in Brooklyn, NY
BLT editathon group photo at Weeksville in Brooklyn, NY

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project will host an edit-a-thon at Weeksville Heritage Center from 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST on Wednesday, November 16, 2016 as part of the 2016 BRIC Biennial. Join us for an evening of social Wikipedia editing! Drinks, snacks, and skills will be provided. BRING YOUR LAPTOP and feel free to bring a friend!

Event description edit

As part of the 2016 BRIC Biennial, The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project at Weeksville Heritage Center 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 Bedford-Stuyvesant or Crown Heights neighborhoods of Brooklyn. Together we will create historical documents that respond to the urgent need for a reconstruction of the art historical record.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.

Weeksville Heritage Center edit

Weeksville Heritage Center, Brooklyn’s largest African-American cultural institution, is a multidisciplinary museum dedicated to preserving the history of the 19th century African American community of Weeksville, Brooklyn - one of America’s first free black communities. Using a contemporary lens, we activate this unique history through the presentation of innovative, vanguard and experimental programs. Weeksville advances its mission through history, preservation, visual and performing arts, ecology and the built environment.

Event details edit

  • Date: Wednesday, Nov 16, 2016.
  • Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm EST-- Come when you can, stay as long as you would like!
  • Location: 158 Buffalo Ave, Brooklyn, NY
  • 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
  • Facebook:

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) 18:41, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Fishantena (talk)
  3. BrillLyle (talk) 18:13, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Pharos (talk) 16:21, 15 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Stacydash (talk) 00:09, 17 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Gjone1 (talk) 00:12, 17 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  7. WilliamJacksonCharles (talk) 00:13, 17 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Jkbklynhome (talk) 00:14, 17 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Jeremyb (talk) 00:51, 17 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Shanluan (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. Elizabeth Axtman -- Shanluan (talk)
  2. Heather Hart -- Jeremyb-phone (talk), WilliamJacksonCharles (talk)
  3. Jamel Shabazz -- Jkbklynhome (talk), Jeremyb-phone (talk)
  4. June Jordan -- Pharos (talk)
  5. Otto Neals -- Pharos (talk)
  6. Willie Little -- WilliamJacksonCharles (talk)

List of articles added edit

Wikidata items improved edit

  1. Carl E. Hazlewood (Q24204495) -- Jkbklynhome (talk)
  2. Elizabeth Chambers (Q27868409) -- BrillLyle (talk)
  3. Jamel Shabazz (Q16204661) -- Jkbklynhome (talk)
  4. Simone Leigh (Q16200002) -- Jkbklynhome (talk)

Wikimedia Commons images added edit

  1. Black Lunch Table at Weeksville.jpg -- Heathart (talk)
  2. Black Lunch Table at Weeksville 1.jpg -- Heathart (talk)
  3. Black Lunch Table at Weeksville 2.jpg -- Heathart (talk)
  4. Black Lunch Table at Weeksville 3.jpg -- Heathart (talk)
  5. Black Lunch Table at Weeksville Editathon 2016 01.jpg -- BrillLyle (talk)
  6. Black Lunch Table at Weeksville Editathon 2016 02.jpg -- BrillLyle (talk)
  7. Black Lunch Table at Weeksville Editathon 2016 03.jpg -- BrillLyle (talk)
  8. Black Lunch Table at Weeksville Editathon 2016 04.jpg -- BrillLyle (talk)
  9. Black Lunch Table at Weeksville Editathon 2016 05.jpg -- BrillLyle (talk)
  10. Black Lunch Table at Weeksville Editathon 2016 06.jpg -- BrillLyle (talk)

Gallery edit

  • Group shot
    Group shot
  • Editors talking
    Editors talking
  • Wikipedians who are librarians editing Authority Control on Wikidata!
    Wikipedians who are librarians editing Authority Control on Wikidata!
  • Resarching sources
    Resarching sources
  • Early setup - view from outside
    Early setup - view from outside
  • Black Lunch Table signage
    Black Lunch Table signage
  • Heather and Sherry from AfroCROWD
    Heather and Sherry from AfroCROWD
  • Collaborating and learning
    Collaborating and learning
  • There was great food and drink!
    There was great food and drink!
  • Editing is fun!
    Editing is fun!

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 2016-11 Black Lunch Table at Weeksville.


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