Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/EOB/Unforgetting 14

Join us for an LGBTQ+ Edit-a-thon at Cuties Coffee on Monday, July 30!

Wikimedia LGBT outreach logo Meetup with online magazine East of Borneo for a Wikipedia training workshop and edit-a-thon to build a better online history of Southern California art. This next meetup in the Unforgetting L.A. series is presented in partnership with Dirty Looks: On Location 2018 and will focus on the history of Los Angeles's queer cinema and spaces. As always, beginners are welcome and encouraged to attend! We'll provide training for new editors at 7pm sharp. If you can't attend this one, join the Wikimedians of Los Angeles User Group to be notified about future meetups. What: #WikiLovesPride Edit-a-thon at Cuties Coffee When: Monday, July 30 from 7–10pm. Training session begins at 7pm sharp! Where: Cuties Coffee, 710 North Heliotrope Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90029 Suggested Focus: LA's queer cinema and spaces What to bring: Your laptop, power adapter, and any reference materials you'd like to work from or share Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/188911388432292/ Website: eastofborneo.org/unforgetting Twitter: @unforgettingLA ♦ @eastofborneo

Background

2015 Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at LACMA, co-organized by East of Borneo and the Women's Center for Creative Work

June 2014 meetup at 356 S. Mission

Main page: Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/EOB

Unforgetting LA is a series of Wikipedia edit-a-thons started in July 2013 by the online art magazine East of Borneo. We meet throughout the year at local museums and art spaces to train new editors and build a better online history of art in Southern California. Previous hosts include the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Getty Research Institute, LACMA, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the California African American Museum, the Hammer Museum, and the MAK Center for Art and Architecture.

RSVP

• StaceyEOB (talk) 22:56, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
• Asteres (talk) 02:44, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

To-Do

Here are a few suggested articles to create or improve during this 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:

• Tosh Carrillo
• Brontez Purnell
• Blue Max Motorcycle Club
• Mundo Meza
• Robert "Cyclona" Legorreta
• Gerardo Velasquez
• Studs Theatre
• Circus of Books

To improve:

• Laura Aguilar
• Catherine Opie
• Fred Halsted
• Tom of Finland
• Carlos Almaraz
• Gronk (artist)
• Larry Townsend
• Walter Plunkett
• Bob Mizer
• Ghada Amer
• Gengoroh Tagame
• Judy Baca
• No Skin Off My Ass, 1993
• Tongues Untied, 1989
• Marlon Riggs
• My Hustler, 1965
• Ed Mock
• Bruce LaBruce
• Rick Castro
• Vaginal Davis
• The Dark Side of Tomorrow, 1970
• Myra Breckenridge, 1970

Click here for a Google doc with links to online essays, etc. you can cite.

Outcomes

For a full list of project outcomes to date: Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/EOB#Outcomes

Resources

• Notability Guidelines for Artists & Creative Professionals
• Notability Guidelines for Organizations
• Conflict of Interest policy
• Image Use Policy
• Article Naming & Disambiguation