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Black Lunch Table
Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

When and Where
Date:	Monday, July 13th, 2015
Time:	6:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
Address:	4 West 54th Street New York, NY

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project hosted its second edit-a-thon on Monday, July 13, 2015, from 6:00 pm - 8:00 p.m. Join us, the Museum of Modern Art staff, and folks from the local community in the museum's library for an evening of social Wikipedia editing.

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project at The Museum of Modern Art will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives and works of Black artists. Together we will create historical documents that respond to the urgent need for a reconstruction of the art historical record.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 library resources and a list of suggested topics on hand.

• May 17, 2015: Black Lunch Table editathon @ Studio Museum in Harlem -- first BLT editathon
• June 24, 2015: Wiki Loves Pride @ MoMA -- the first of a monthly series on different themes
• July 13, 2015: Black Lunch Table editathon @ MoMA (today's event) -- the second of a monthly series on different themes

History of The Black Lunch Table

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) is an ongoing collaboration between artists Jina Valentine (Fishantena (talk)) and Heather Hart (HartValentine (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.

MoMA

Since 1929, The Museum of Modern Art has been a catalyst for conversation around art of the past and the present, the established and the experimental.

• Date: Monday, July 13, 2015
• Time: 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Come when you can, stay as long as you would like!
• Location: MoMA Library, located on the 6th floor of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Education and Research Building at the Museum of Modern Art, 4 West 54 Street

• Please note that this entrance is 1 block north of the main 53rd Street entrance, closer to 5th Avenue

• Subway: or to Fifth Avenue / 53rd Street
• Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, M7, M10, M20, M50, M104 buses
• Who should attend: Artists, historians, students, teachers, 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; we will also pull related materials from the MoMA Archives)
• RSVP: EventBrite
• What to Bring: A laptop. We will help you access the museum's wireless network
• Hashtag: #BlackLunchTables
• Etherpad: BlackLunchTable2015-July - live doc to keep track of what we are all working on

• AfroCROWD MOMA / Black Lunch Table - presentation / overview by Aliceba (talk)

• AfroCROWD Presentation

• 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

Please remember to RSVP via Eventbrite to get on the list to attend in person. Signing up on wiki below is a bonus!

• 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

• Tonya Jones
• Sherry Antoine -- Shanluan (talk)
• Heather Hart -- HartValentine (talk)
• Jina Valentine -- Fishantena (talk)
• Pharos (talk) 20:33, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Linda Fletcher
• Aliceba (talk) 23:36, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Ja'nell Nequeva Ajani
• Vaughn88 (talk) 18:07, 9 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Jim.henderson (talk) 18:16, 9 July 2015 (UTC) ooh, I'll be seeing Tonya again![reply]
• Lwilcken (Lwilcken) 18:57, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• DGG ( talk ) 00:07, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Dilettante Army (talk) 10:24, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Rumayor1 (talk) 22:08, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Hbrockington (talk) 22:15, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Booksnbeats (talk) 22:54, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Harold 0296 (talk) 23:05, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Dcush629 (talk) 23:24, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Dannylow5 (talk) 22:44, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Mbarshington (talk) 22:39, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Luvlygeenius1276 (talk) 22:58, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• spjnyc (talk) 19:08, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Roadrunner28 (talk) 23:11, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Meganrw (talk) 23:33, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Baileyjsmith23 (talk) 23:40, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Sarabod99 (talk) 23:57, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tentative

• Megs (talk) 17:57, 29 June 2015 (UTC) (likely)[reply]
• BrillLyle (talk)
• Lange.lea (talk) 16:52, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Regrets

• kosboot (talk) 20:33, 13 July 2015 (UTC) - Gotta work tonight.[reply]

Suggested artist pages for revision and/or creation! Please add a name if you know a Black artist of note who needs a page.

African American Art

• Contemporary Art
• Performance Art
• Museum Blog

AfroCROWD

• AfroCROWD - Wikipedia Meetup Page
• AfroCROWD presentation - includes links

MoMA

• MoMA Library
  • DADABASE - online catalog
  • MoMA/Franklin Furnace Artist Book Collection
  • Political Art Documentation and Distribution (PAD/D) Archive
  • The Library Council
  • Library and Museum Archives Exhibitions
  • MoMA Press Release Archives 1929–97
  • MoMA Press Release Archives 1996–Present
  • Survey of Archives of Latino and Latin American Art
  • Latin American Bibliography
• MoMA Collection
• MoMA Archives

MoMA external link templates

• GLAM external link templates
  • MoMA artist - template for MoMA artists
  • MoMA object - template for MoMA objects

LibGuides

• History of Art: African-American Art @ University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
• History of Art: Women in the Arts @ University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Exhibits and collections

• African American History Month - Exhibits & Collections @ Library of Congress -- massive list of resources

News resources

• National & International News/Media Resources @ Howard University

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

• Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
• Five Pillars of Wikipedia (philosophical guidelines and best practices for Wikipedia editing)
• Tutorial
• How to Edit a Page
• Wiki Markup Quick Reference (PDF version of printed handout)
• Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger (applicable to any biography)
• Article Development
• Your First Article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
• Manual of Style
• Citation templates
• Citation guide
• Adding Photos
• Infobox templates
• Bookshelf (additional "getting started" resources)
• Formatting shortcuts:

• Text Formatting
• Section Headers, Indents, and Lists
• Links

• Images and photos:

• Uploading Images -- tutorial, general overview
• Image Use Policy -- rights, licenses, is it okay to use the image
• Picture Tutorial -- technical details of getting image uploaded and displaying in a way that looks good

Tools and templates

• Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
• Infobox template - person
• Biographies of living persons
• Writing an article
• About the Sandbox
• Determining Notability of Creative Professionals
• Conflict of Interest in Wikipedia Editing
• Verifying Reliable Sources

List of new articles created

alpha by last name

• Bill Gaskins -- Mbarshington (talk)
• Felrath Hines -- Hbrockington (talk)
• John Edward West Thompson -- Shanluan (talk)

List of articles improved

alpha by last name

• Derrick Adams (sandbox) -- Dannylow5 (talk)
• Terry Adkins -- Spjnyc (talk)
• Frisner Augustin -- Lwilcken (talk)
• Sonya Clark -- Roadrunner28 (talk)
• Theaster Gates -- Dilettante Army (talk)
• Sam Gilliam -- Margotellen (talk)
• Barkley Hendricks -- Hawthorn1970 (talk)
• Hector Hyppolite -- Luvlygeenius1276 (talk)
• Francisco Alvarado Juárez in Spanish Wikipedia -- Rumayor1 (talk)
• Isaac Julien -- Booksnbeats (talk)
• Lorraine O'Grady -- AsahiNYC (talk)
• Georg Olden -- MBarshington (talk)
• taisha paggett -- Harold 0296 (talk)
• Ebony Patterson -- Dilettante Army (talk)
• Florence Rice -- Adjoajo (talk)
• Shinique Smith -- AsahiNYC (talk)
• Jack Whitten -- Spjnyc (talk)

See Black Lunch Table editathon @ Studio Museum in Harlem

List of new articles created

alpha by last name

• Koyo Kouoh -- Ayanajackson (talk), Mozucat (talk)
• Demetrius Oliver -- Watershrimp (talk), Everymorning (talk)

List of articles improved

alpha by last name

• Terry Adkins -- Ganderson75 (talk)
• Robert Blackburn -- Brettfromboundless (talk)
• Tahir Hemphill -- Mozucat (talk), Everymorning (talk), Tahirhemp (talk)
• Ayana V. Jackson -- Nijmorris (talk), Mozucat (talk)
• André Juste -- Aliceba (talk)
• Jacob Lawrence -- Ssunne (talk)
• Norman Lewis -- Ssunne (talk)
• Augusta Savage -- Ssunne (talk)
• Hank Willis Thomas -- Stello01 (talk), Mozucat (talk)

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