Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/EOB/Unforgetting 9

Join us for the next Unforgetting L.A. edit-a-thon at the Women's Center for Creative Work on Sunday, August 9!

Women's Center for Creative Work Who writes the history of art in Los Angeles? You do! Meetup with online magazine East of Borneo for a Wikipedia training workshop and edit-a-thon to build a better online history of Southern California art. This next meetup in the Unforgetting L.A. series will take place at the Women's Center for Creative Work. As always, beginners welcome! We'll provide training for new editors with orientations offered every hour on the hour. What: Unforgetting L.A. #9 When: Sunday, August 9 from Noon–4pm. Where: Women's Center for Creative Work, 2425 Glover Place, Los Angeles, CA 90031 (Frogtown) Suggested Focus: Women in the arts What to bring: Your laptop, power adapter, and any reference materials you'd like to work from or share. Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1030154257025549/ Website: eastofborneo.org/unforgetting Twitter: @unforgettingLA ♦ @eastofborneo

Background

June 2014 meetup at 356 S. Mission

Main page: Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/EOB

Unforgetting LA is a series of Wikipedia edit-a-thons started in July 2013 by the online art magazine East of Borneo. We meet throughout the year at local museums and art spaces to train new editors and build a better online history of art in Southern California. Previous hosts include the Getty Research Institute, LACMA, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the California African American Museum, and the MAK Center for Art and Architecture.

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To-Do

Here are a few suggested articles to create or improve during this edit-a-thon, but you are welcome to work on anything you like.
Please note: This is a crowdsourced list. You can help us by adding to it!

To create:

• Eileen Abdul-Rashid (or Abdulrashid)[1]p. 24[2][3][4]
• Lynn Aldrich[5]
• Rachel Allen (architect)
• Tina Allen[6][7][8][9]
• Rhea Anastas
• Kathryn Andrews[10]
• Florence Millner Arnold[11][12][13][14][15][16][17]
• Taylor Barrett [18] [19] [20]
• Phoebe Beasley[21][22][23][24]
• Julie Becker[25]
• Cindy Bernard[26]
• Ginny Bishton[27]
• Gloria Bohanon Obit on last pageher work, Roots, ca. 1970 heremention as assoc. dean of LACC[28][29][30][31]Best source so far (OAC)[32][33][34][35][36][37][38]
• Jennifer Bornstein[39]
• Linda Frye Burnham[40][41][42]
• Carp (art organization)[43][44]
• Karen Carson[45]
• Nathaly Charria [46]
• Chicago Women's Graphics Collective [47]
• Yvonne Cole Meo
• Claire Copley Gallery[48]
• Craftswoman House
• Corazon del Sol
• Mari Eastman
• June Edmonds
• Kirsten Everberg[49]
• Lauri Firstenberg[50]
• Jessica Fleischmann
• Eve Fowler
• Victoria Franklin
• Jacqueline Frazier
• Magdalena Suarez Frimkess and Michael Frimkess
• Ming Fung
• Francesca Gabbiani[51]
• Jill Giegerich
• Samara Golden[52][53]
• Hannah Greely
• Katie Grinnan[54]
• Virginia Holt
• Pearl C. Hsiung [55]
• Margaret Honda[56]
• Josine Ianco-Starrels[57]
• Leslie Ito
• Suzanne Jackson[58]
• Kellie Jones
• Mary Hunt Kahlenberg[59]
• Julie Lazar
• Margo Leavin[60]
• Jenny Lens [61]
• Jane Livingston[62][63]
• Elsa Longhauser[64][65][66]
• Bronwyn Lundberg [67] [68] [69] [70]
• Manitoba Museum of Finds Art
• Kristine Mays
• Barbara McCoullough[71][72][73]
• Nicole Miller (artist)
• A. Moret Editor-in-Chief, Installation Magazine. [74] [75] [76]
• Amitis Motevalli[77]
• Rosaline Myles
• Steffie Nelson
• Margaret Nielsen[78]
• Tira Palmquist[79][80][81][82]
• Ann Philbin[83]
• Patti Podesta
• Redling Fine Art
• Shaun Regen[84]
• Jennifer Reeder
• Beverly Robinson (1945-2002)[85]
• Alma Ruiz
• Lezley Saar[86]
• Janet Sarbanes
• Kim Schoenstadt
• Toni Scott
• Maureen Selwood, animator, filmmaker, Guggenheim and Macdowell fellow
• Susan Silton[87][88]
• Carol Stakenas
• Alexandra Stepanoff [89]
• Coleen Sterritt[90]
• The Current Sea, A Net Art Team. [91] [92] [93] [94]
• Eleanor Tufts[95]
• Catherine G. Wagley
• Mariana Razo Wardwell [96]
• Megan Williams (artist)
• Sarah Zucker [97] [98] [99]

To improve:

• Andrea Bowers
• Cornelia Butler
• Barbara Kasten
• Maggie Nelson

For more pages to improve, see our full list of articles created at previous Unforgetting L.A. meetups: Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/EOB#Outcomes

Outcomes

For a full list of project outcomes to date: Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/EOB#Outcomes

• Claire Copley Gallery
• Redling Fine Art
• Margo Leavin Gallery
• Jennifer Reeder
• Elizabeth Eaton Burton
• Los Angeles Free Music Society (improved)
• Connie Butler (improved)
• East of Borneo (improved)

Resources

Citing sources video tutorial -- part one

Citing sources video tutorial -- part two

Please start here:

• Unforgetting L.A.: Getting Started (step-by-step instructions + links)
  
  

When in doubt:

• Notability Guidelines for Artists & Creative Professionals
• Notability Guidelines for Organizations
• Conflict of Interest policy
• Image Use Policy
• Article Naming & Disambiguation
  
  

Additional Tutorials:

• Basic tutorial
• More detailed tutorial
• Wikipedia Adventure - a silly but easy and effective tutorial!
• Citing sources video tutorials (about two minutes each, very helpful) ------------>