Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/UofWM openaccess2020

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Black Lunch Table
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When and Where
Date:Sunday, October 25, 2020
Time:Noon EST
Address:bit.ly/WIKIBLT
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Event description[edit]

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) will host an *online* edit-a-thon with University of Wisconsin-Madison on October 25, 2020, at Noon EST. We will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives and works of Black visual artists. A brief overview of the basics of Wikipedia editing will be given at the start of the edit-a-thon. We will have resources and a list of suggested artists, cultural creators, and institutions on hand. All are invited, with no specialized knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia editing experience required.

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 15 year existence, BLT has taken a variety of forms relating to this most recent iteration, in the form of the Wikipedia edit-a-thon. BLT creates a space to encourage people of color and women to join the Wikimedia movement while also asking white male editors to focus on gaps in coverage on Wikimedia. 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.

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Want to know even more about BLT? Watch THIS short intro video!

About University of Wisconsin-Madison Open Access Week[edit]

International Open Access Week 2020, October 19 – 25, is a global event promoting access to knowledge, highlighting Open activities, and promoting actions that will help make more scholarly and educational materials freely available to teachers, learners, researchers, and the public.

Open Access refers to:

Scholarly work – articles, books, research data, multimedia, etc.which are freely available online, which often has few or no restrictions on reuse. By removing financial and legal barriers, Open Access enables teachers, scholars, and learners to find academic information and to use that information to make new discoveries, create new works, and advance human knowledge.

The concepts of Open Educational Resources, Open Data, Open Source Software, and Open Research Practices share this core idea that Open means “free to use + permission to modify, share, or reuse,” and allows more people to benefit from more information than ever before

University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries
U of W-M Open Educational Resources

Event details and Agenda[edit]

 Date: October 25th, 2020
 Time: Noon EST
 Location: *online* bit.ly/WIKIBLT

Event Agenda:

-Create a user account (if new to Wikipedia)
-Create user page with at least one sentence
-Signin to Wikipedia edit-a-thon meetup page
-Make at least one edit to a Wikipedia page
Who should attend: Artists, historians, students, photographers, teachers, writers, journalists, curators, visitors, the curious...
What to Bring: Your laptop and a friend! 
Hashtag: #BlackLunchTable
Etherpad: BlackLunchTable - live doc to keep track of what we are all working on

Possible articles to edit[edit]

Our project focuses on visual artists of the African Diaspora, this event will specifically target articles about artists associated with Wisconsin and University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Suggested Artists[edit]

Suggested artist pages for revision and/or creation! Please add a name if you know an artist who needs a page or needs editing and is missing from our task list. Please make sure suggestions “qualify” according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidelines. Thanks!

Jasmine Mans
Zhalarina H. Sanders
Danez Smith



Wisconsin and U of Wisconsin-Madison affiliated artists[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 birthplace place of death residence educated at employer collection
Beth Perry Austin Peay State University
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Donna Bruton Wisconsin Portsmouth Yale University
Michigan State University
Rhode Island School of Design
Freida High Wasikhongo Tesfagiorgis University of Wisconsin–Madison
University of Chicago
Northern Illinois University
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Lafayette Cruise Wisconsin Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Northwestern University
Rhode Island School of Design
LeRoy Woodson California Paris école Pascal
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Florida A&M University
Studio Museum in Harlem
Leslie Smith III Silver Spring Milwaukee Yale University
Maryland Institute College of Art
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Lev Mills Florida Florida A&M University
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Slade School of Fine Art
Museum of Modern Art
Studio Museum in Harlem
Moyo Okediji Lagos University of Wisconsin–Madison
Obafemi Awolowo University
University of Benin
Ackland Art Museum
Sonya Clark Washington, D.C. Richmond Cranbrook Academy of Art
Art Institute of Chicago
Amherst College
Sidwell Friends School
Amherst College
Virginia Commonwealth University
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Nasher Museum of Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum
End of auto-generated list.

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  1. --Knl22 (talk) 14:28, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  2. --Brujabrarian (talk) 16:48, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  3. --Meocat72 (talk) 16:49, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  4. --JohnDouglasWalker (talk) 16:51, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  5. --Jjwpr (talk) 16:52, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  6. --Cityoflakesgirl1 (talk) 16:53, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]