Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/WikiConNA25

**Black Lunch Table Meetup: Building Community and Closing Gaps Together**
	Civic Hall
When and Where
Date:	October 19th, 2025
Time:	12:05 pm - 1:00 pm
Location:	Civic Hall - 124 E 14th St, New York, NY 10003, Floor 3, Room D

Event description

Facilitated by Black Lunch Table (BLT), this gathering at Wikiconference North America will serve as a space for community-building, peer connection, and shared reflection on the content and contributor gaps that persist across Wikimedia projects. We'll share updates from our work increasing coverage of Black artists on Wikipedia, including our traveling photo booth initiative, and introduce an emerging vision for WikiClub, a low-lift, interest-based editing model designed to support sustained engagement, peer learning, and cultural knowledge production. This meetup offers a space for informal conversation, joy, and strategy among Black editors and allies committed to making Wikipedia more representative and expansive.

Check out all of our BLT Portraits HERE Check out the BLT task list here.

Details

Date: October 19th, 2025
Time: 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm
Location: Civic Hall - 124 E 14th St, New York, NY 10003, Floor 3, Room D

About Wikiconference North America

WikiConference North America 2025 will take place in New York City on October 16–19, 2025. This year's theme is "Wiki World's Fair" to celebrate the city's 400th anniversary (adapted from NYC's previous Wikimania bid).

"Wiki World's Fair" celebrates the contributions of diverse voices and fosters cross-border partnerships. The theme seeks to fuel the Wikimedia movement’s growth, encouraging participants to reimagine how free knowledge can empower individuals, encourage cross-cultural collaboration, and transform societies worldwide.

About Black Lunch Table

Black Lunch Table (BLT) is a nonprofit and sixteen-year ongoing artist collaboration. Its primary aim has been the production of discursive sites, wherein cultural producers engage in dialogue on a variety of critical issues.

Black Lunch Table Wikimedians mobilize the creation and improvement of a specific set of Wikipedia articles that pertain to the lives and works of Black artists. In the field of mainstream contemporary art, Black artists are still marginalized within our field.

Wikipedia estimates that 77% of its editors are white and 91% men. Our work shifts this demographic and empowers people to write their own histories. Our sessions and events, including BLT Photobooth and edit-a-thons, equip new editors with the skills and resources to create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles and encourages existing editors to focus on filling Wikipedia knowledge gaps.