Black Lunch Table x ART+FEMINISM Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon

March 10, 11 - 4PM, 6PM

Join Triangle alumni Heather Hart and The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project when they host Art+Feminism, a Wikipedia edit-a-thon focusing on important but underrepresented New York area women visual artists of the African Diaspora this Saturday, March 10th from 11-4PM at Triangle. 

A training session will be held at the beginning, but help is available throughout the event. Please bring your laptop and feel free to bring a friend! RSVP recommended.

We estimate that less than 20% of Wikipedia articles of important women have pictures. We will also join #VisibleWikiWomen movement–a photographer will be available throughout the day to shoot your portrait for the open source Wikimedia Commons that may be used for your future Wikipedia page! We will also host our first sketching table where you can draw an encyclopedic image of a woman artist that may be used open source on their Wikipedia page!

NOTE:

If you are a new editor, and want to create a new Wikipedia page with us, your account must be active for over 96 hours and you must have made at least 10 edits. (Don’t worry, you can still edit existing pages without this requirement) If you would like to create a brand new new page for Wikipedia on the 10th, we encourage you to create an account, watch this training video, and make some small edits this week.

If you require childcare, please contact us at heather@blacklunchtable.com by Wednesday, March 7, and let us know the first names and number of children requiring care, their ages, and what time you plan on attending

Art+Feminism is a campaign improving coverage of cis and transgender women, feminism and the arts on Wikipedia. From coffee shops and community centers to the largest museums and universities in the world, Art+Feminism is a do-it-yourself and do-it-with-others campaign teaching people of all gender identities and expressions to edit Wikipedia.

The Black Lunch Table (BLT), first staged in 2005, is an ongoing collaboration between visual artist and School of the Art Institute of Chicago professor Jina Valentine, and New York based public artist Heather Hart. The Wikipedia edit-a-thons BLT stages mobilize a collective authoring of a specific set of articles (those pertaining to the lives and works of black artists). Currently, 85% of Wikipedia editors are male and 77% of Wikipedia editors are white. BLT reserves space to encourage more editors of color, more women editors and a space for white male editors to focus on a subject that might otherwise slip through historical gaps.