Wikipedia:Meetup/Toronto/Wikipedia Wednesday Recap (June 6, 2018)

Wikipedia Wednesday: Recap

When and Where
Date	Wednesday, June 6, 2018
Time	5:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tutorial from 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Address	Art Gallery of Ontario E.P. Taylor Library & Archives 317 Dundas Street West Toronto, Ontario CANADA M5T 1G4

Event details

• Date: Wednesday, June 6, 2018
• Time: 5:30 pm – 9:00 pm (Tutorial from 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm)
• Venue: Art Gallery of Ontario E.P. Taylor Library & Archives, 317 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario CANADA M5T 1G4
• Cost: Free
• Participants: No Wikipedia editing experience necessary; as needed throughout the event, tutoring will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers.
• Please sign in with your username below! If you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia, you might try this training module which will help explain a lot of things, including how to add your signature.
• What to Bring: Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords.

Confirmed attendees

Sign in below by entering four tildes (~~~~), which will display as your Wikipedia signature and time stamp

• the artchivist (talk) 13:39, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
• --Wiki2cats (talk) 22:19, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

Tools and templates

The following are some templates and tools that you may want to use to help you create or improve the articles you are working on.

Tools

• Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
• Writing an article
• About the Sandbox
• Introductory Training Lesson Plan
• Advanced Training Lesson Plan
• Upload Wizard for images, video and sound files - File_Upload_Wizard
• Wikipedia Teahouse
• Dispute Resolution
•  Etiquette
•  Staying cool when the editing gets hot
• Notability guidelines for creative professionals

Templates

• Place at the top of a new article to protect it from undue speedy deletion: Template:New_page
• Place next to a name on the list of artists to avoid editing conflicts: Template:inprogress
• Wikipedia Infobox template Template:Infobox person
• Wikipedia artist Infobox template Template:Infobox_artist
• Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons

Research resources

• The AGO Library & Archives' online catalogue

Articles to work on

This is a brief list of suggested list of topics to work on. You are welcome to write on other topics too, and please feel free to add to this list. Links in blue are existing articles which can be improved and/or expanded. Links in red are articles that do not yet exist and can be created.

• Vtape needs an infobox. Article could be expanded.
• Draft:Wendy Geller needs additional work. AGO library has a file and one exhibition catalogue, and some additional e-resources (will need to look in both Canadian and US media for coverage). This topic has a history on Wikipedia (see evidence of prior speedy deletion for an earlier attempt at an article - more robust citations will be vital to avoid a similar outcome)
• Women's Art Resource Centre. Starting an artist-run centre article can be a challenge but the library has a full run of Matriart and there are a number of e-resources.
• Susan McEachern is an "orphan" article with no other articles linking to it
• Busejé Bailey - artist file and books in AGO library; lots of e-resources; also see Sandra Brewster's letter/essay on pp 134-135 of Theaster Gates: How to Build a House Museum.

Topic lists from past events this season

• Wikipedia:Meetup/Toronto/Performance_Art_and_Experimental_Film_(October_4,_2017)#Articles_to_work_on
• Wikipedia:Meetup/Toronto/Artist-Run_Centres_(January_10,_2018)#Articles_to_work_on
• Wikipedia:Meetup/Toronto/ArtAndFeminism#Articles_to_work_on This is an ongoing, crowd-sourced list. Please feel free to add names to it.

Results/outcomes