Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/UNC BLT Apr2017

**Black Lunch Table @ UNC**
	The Sloane Art Library at UNC-Chapel Hill
When and Where
Date:	Saturday, April 1, 2017
Time:	12:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST
Address:	Sloane Art Library; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Hanes Art Center, 121 E Cameron Ave; Chapel Hill, NC 27514;

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The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project will host an edit-a-thon at Sloane Art Library at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST on Saturday, April 1, 2017. Join us for a morning of social Wikipedia editing! A training session will be held at 12pm but help is available throughout the event. Drinks, snacks, and skills will be provided. BRING YOUR LAPTOP and feel free to bring a friend!

Event description

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project at Sloane Art Library at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives and works of visual artists from the African Diaspora living or working in the Chapel Hill area. Together we will create historical documents that respond to the urgent need for a reconstruction of the art historical record.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 a library resources and a list of suggested artists, cultural creators, and institutions on hand.

History of The Black Lunch Table

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 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.

Sloane Art Library

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library provides collections, expertise, services, and facilities that are essential to achieving the University’s mission of research, teaching, learning, and public service for the campus community, state, nation, and world.

We aspire to be a leader among academic research libraries in meeting users’ evolving knowledge-creation and knowledge management needs. Building on a foundation of library excellence at the nation’s first public university, we will define and integrate new library roles, practices, partnerships, and technologies in achieving this vision.

Event details

Date: Saturday, April 1, 2017
Time: 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST
Location: Sloane Art Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hanes Art Center, 121 E Cameron Ave
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Who should attend: Artists, historians, students, teachers, writers, journalists, curators, visitors, the curious...
- 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)
What to Bring: A Laptop!. Tablets are more difficult.
Hashtag: #BlackLunchTable
Etherpad: BlackLunchTable - live doc to keep track of what we are all working on
Training: Black Lunch Table Wikipedia Presentation

Agenda

Presentation / overview
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 at least one edit to a Wikipedia page
For more information about ongoing scheduled meetups see Black Lunch Table Meetup page

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Attendees

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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.

RSVP

Please add your name below if you are planning to attend.

Frankcjones (talk) 03:07, 8 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Fishantena (talk) 01:06, 1 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
BaldheadGrowler (talk) 17:20, 1 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Parallel.awhite (talk) 18:00, 1 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Heathart (talk) 17:23, 1 April 2017 (UTC) remotely[reply]
BrillLyle

Possible articles to edit

Suggested artist pages for revision and/or creation! This event-specific list focuses on important visual artists/art workers/collectors of the African Diaspora who have some connection to the Chapel Hill area and are under-represented on Wikipedia. Our master list can be found under our Tasks tab. Please add a name if you know a artist of the African Diaspora note who needs a page or needs editing. Please do not add an artist who has a substantial page. We are trying to create new pages and beef up under-represented ones.

These articles are suggested, be sure they qualify according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidlines before you create a new page. Thanks!

see also Black Lunch Table – Task list
see also List of African-American visual artists
see also Category:Artists from North Carolina

Wikidata task list

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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	Gender	Occupation	Place of birth	Residence
Acha Debela	male	teacher painter	Ethiopia	Addis Ababa Durham Baltimore Columbus
African American Quilt Circle of Durham
Antonio Wise	male	artist street artist
Beth Perry	female	visual artist
Beverly McIver	female	painter portraitist teacher professor	Greensboro
Carmen Neely	female	visual artist
Chandra Cox	female	visual artist teacher illustrator		North Carolina
Connie Floyd	female	visual artist university teacher
Debi Drew	female	visual artist		North Carolina
Endia Beal	female	photographer director video artist		North Carolina
Ernie Barnes	male	painter American football player	Durham	Durham Los Angeles
John Hughley	male	visual artist
Juan Logan	male	artist university teacher	Nashville	Belmont
Kenneth J. Lewis Sr.	male	artist
Kenneth Rodgers	male	artist art historian
Melvin Carver	male	arts administrator visual artist		North Carolina
Minnie Evans	female	illustrator gatekeeper drawer artist painter	Pender County Long Creek	Wilmington Wrightsville Beach
Rodney Bennett	male	visual artist comics artist		North Carolina
Sharon Towana Austin	female	painter calligrapher sculptor poet playwright writer	Newark	Newark Mebane
Stacy Lynn Waddell	female	visual artist	Washington, D.C.
Teka Selman	female	visual artist curator	Detroit
Vandorn Hinnant	male	visual artist		Durham Greensboro
Walt Davis	male	innkeeper mail carrier waiter visual artist		Henderson County Bat Cave Spartanburg Bloomington
Walter Faribault Jr.	male	visual artist	Hillsborough
William Paul Thomas	male	visual artist	Chicago

End of auto-generated list.

Outcomes

Outcomes ---> click [show] at right to view
Alphabetical by first letter Pages improved Pages created Wikidata items improved Wikidata items created Wikimedia Commons images uploaded Event pictures uploaded Community engagement

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External links

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Black Lunch Table – Wikipedia meetup page

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