Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/Resources

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Safety

• First off, how to deal with online harassment in the Wiki world.
• We abide by the Wikimedia Friendly Space Policy in all of our events and workings.

Who writes Wiki?

You do!

Where do I start?

1. Wikipedia – 5 minute register for Wikipedia account
2. Wikipedia – 15 minute overview: 5 pillars, Conflict of Interest policies, self guided introduction, Intro with videos etc. (examples: COI #1, COI #2)
3. Wikipedia – 40 minute make one edit: add infobox, citation, etc.
4. Wikipedia – 2-3 hours: Write a page in your sandbox and get it proofed before publishing.

Evaluating an existing article

Click here for quality rating system and what makes a good Wiki article!

Teaching with Wikipedia

• WikiEDU Training guides and resources on how to integrate Wiki into a classroom!
• Teaching with Wikipedia resources

Editing Wikipedia resources

Evaluating Notability

• Artist biographies
• Wikiproject Contemporary art/Notability

Tutorials and how-tos

Editing Wikipedia brochure – click link (above) to open PDF

• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• Self guided introduction
• Art+Feminism's tutorial videos
• Wikipedia Tutorial
• Manual of Style - Typical Section Order and Names

Manual of Style: list of works

• Writing Better Articles
• Editing Wikipedia brochure
• Wikimedia Commons - getting images onto Wikipedia
• Infobox template

Uploading photos

• Black Lunch Table's guide to hosting a Photo Booth and asking artists for their photograph for Wikimedia Commons
• Publishing a photo when someone told you it was ok.
• Wiki Image Guide
• Where to find them.
• Dos and Donts
• Asking an artist for images.
• When there are no other options, if your attempts to contact are unmet, and no images exist as open license, and the subject has passed away, leaving no future possibility for new open photos, you may propose to upload one photo as an illustration to an article to Wikipedia directly instead of Commons.

Article evaluation

• Page curation and evaluation for experienced editors.
• What makes a "Good" article?
• Recent changes to Wikipedia.
• Content assessment

WikiLove

• What is WikiLove?
  • Templates to share, WikiLove templates

Archives and info about artists

African American Art

• Museum Blog

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

Online resources

• N.B. There is an IRC channel if online participants need help:

Wikipedia:IRC/wikipedia-en-help

• #wikipedia-en-help ^connect

External links

• BLT Wiki Onboarding Slideshow
• Black Lunch Table
• Black Lunch Table – Wikipedia meetup page